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Next to Normal is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.
It would be unfortunate if Yorkey allowed his disdain for Kitt to miss the opening night of Next to Normal. Hopefully he gets to catch it in the west end or for its inevitable broadway transfer.
Feb 28, 2024 · Newcomer Jack Ofrecio completes the cast as Natalie’s boyfriend Henry. Who wrote Next to Normal? The writers are Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (lyrics). Aside from Next to Normal, the duo have collaborated on If/Then (2014, starring Idina Menzel), Freaky Friday (2016), and The Visitor (2021).
- Julia Rank
Next to Normal is the story of Diana Goodman and her family. Traumatized by the death of her infant son from an undiagnosed intestinal obstruction, Diana has lived with bipolar depressive disorder and delusional episodes for the past seventeen years.
Feb 14, 2008 · The cast is rounded out by Adam Chanler-Berat, who plays Henry, Natalie’s devoted boyfriend; and Asa Somers, who portrays two of Diana’s ultimately clueless doctors.
Jan 31, 2020 · “Next to Normal,” which Kitt and Yorkey worked on for a decade, is instead a drilling down into the ordeal of one anguished individual and the migratory damage of her disease on her loved...
Freaky Friday is a musical with music by Tom Kitt, lyrics by Brian Yorkey, and a book by Bridget Carpenter. It is based on the 1972 novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers and its 1976, 1995, and 2003 film adaptations.
