Next to Normal
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| Music | Tom Kitt |
| Lyrics | Brian Yorkey |
| Book | Brian Yorkey |
| Productions | 2008 Off-Broadway 2008 Virginia 2009 Broadway 2010 US Tour Various regional and international productions 2012 Montréal 2012 Buenos Aires 2013 St. Louis, MO 2015 Caracas, Venezuela 2015 Novara, Italy 2015 Fürth, Germany 2015 Berlin, Germany 2015 Perth, Australia 2015 Ghent, Belgium 2016 Lisbon, Portugal, 2016 Santa Cruz, CA, 2016 Lock Haven, PA, 2017 Williamstown, NJ |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
Next to Normal (styled as next to normal) is a rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. Its story concerns a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that her illness and the attempts to alleviate it have on her family. The musical also addresses such issues as grieving a loss, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and the underbelly of suburban life.
Next to Normal received several workshop performances before it debuted Off-Broadway in 2008, winning the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding Score and receiving nominations for Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Actress (Alice Ripley) and Outstanding Score. After an Off-Broadway run, the show then played at the Arena Stage in its temporary venue in Crystal City, VA (just outside Washington, DC) from November 2008 to January 2009.
The musical opened on Broadway in April 2009. It was nominated for eleven 2009 Tony Awards and won three, Best Original Score, Best Orchestration and Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Alice Ripley. It also won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming just the eighth musical in history to receive the honor. The previous musical to win the Pulitzer was Rent, in 1996, which was also directed by Michael Greif. In awarding the prize to Kitt and Yorkey, the Pulitzer Board called the show "a powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands the scope of subject matter for musicals."
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