Next to Normal
by Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

"No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heart--or wrings it as thoroughly--as "Next to Normal" does.

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[It] focuses squarely on the pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives.

Next to Normal does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical.

Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts.”

—Ben Brantley, The New York Times.