Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Music by Tom Kitt
Directed by Michael Greif
Musical Staging by Sergio Trujillo
Lighting: Kevin Adams, Costumes: Jeff Mashie, Sound: Brian Ronan
"No show on Broadway right now makes as direct a grab for the heart -- or wrings it as thoroughly -- as Next to Normal does. This brave, breathtaking musical ... 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. [...] Even the outsize, fractured projections of a house and (later) a face -- bring to mind the comic-strip pointillism of Roy Lichtenstein -- on Mark Wendland's tiered industrial set -- feel newly appropriate. This show is less about connecting the dots than about life as a state of fragmentation -- Ben Brantly, New York Times
