Next To Normal

“Next to Normal” is the story of Diana Goodman and her family. Traumatized by the death of her newborn son, Diana has lived with bipolar depressive disorder and delusional episodes for 17 years. The disease has affected everyone in her life and has almost torn her family apart on several occasions.
Tom Kitt's pop-rock score deals with strong subjects such as family, suicide, drugs, our relationship with mental illnesses as well as the ethics of the psychiatric world. An overwhelming musical.

Find the performance of Cast Original at the Tony Awards in 2009:

General information

Style : Tragedy
Theme : Family, Illness, Lie, United States, Love
year of creation : 2008

Music

Composer :Tom Kitt
Lyricist : Brian Yorkey
Librettist : Brian Yorkey
famous songs : "Just Another Day" "Everything Else" - "More... And More... And More" "The Cavalry" "Who's Crazy"/ "My Psychopharmacologist and I" "Perfect For You" "I Miss the Mountains" "It's Gonna Be Good" "He's Not Here" "You Don't Know" "I Am the One" "Superboy and the Invisible Girl" "Open Your Eyes" "I'm Alive" "Make Up Your Mind"/" Catch Me I'm Falling" "A Good Step" "I Dreamed a Dance" "There's a World" "In the Light" "ECT" "I've Been" "Didn't I See This Movie?" "A Light in the Dark" "Feeling Electric" "Growing Up Unstable" "Song of Forgetting" "Hey" "Seconds and Years" "Getting Better" "Better Than Before" "Aftershocks" "You Don't Know" "How Could I Ever Forget?" "Why Stay?"/ "A Promise" "The Break" "Everything" "So Anyway "Finale (Let There Be Light)"
Famous performers : Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, Brian d'Arcy James, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Berat, Asa Somers, Marin Mazzie.

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Awards

Appointments and Awards : The musical won 3 Tony Awards, 3 Helen Hayes Awards, 1 Outer Critics Circle Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Number of performances : 733
anecdotes : The musical received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama although it was not nominated for it, which created quite a controversy on Broadway.