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Next to Normal has Broadway buzzing! This emotional and highly charged musical is getting massive praise from every angle. 

Rolling Stone says it’s, “the best musical of the season by a mile, an emotional powerhouse with a fire in its soul and a wicked wit that burns just as fiercely.”  And that we should “Polish up a Tony for Ripley who is simply magnificent as a woman who can’t find her way home from the maps provided by drugs, hypnosis and electroshock therapy doled out by her doctors.” 

NY1′s Roma Torre says, ” the superlative cast is led bt Alice Ripley, who delivers a knockout performance as Diana.  She breathes so much life into this tortured soul, we are instantly won over.  She delivers a kind of hyper-naturalism that seems to transcend acting.”

Melissa Rose Bernardo of  Entertainment Weekly says, “It’s a tough sell: a rock musical about mental illness…But composer Tom Kitt and lyricist-librettist Brian Yorkey chose to devote two hours and 20 minutes (and nearly 40 songs) to this generally unappealing subject; the result, in Next to Normal, is incongruously, sometimes agonizingly beautiful.”

Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News states that “‘Next to Normal’ covers a challenging subject, no question. That it’s hopeful and uplifting, not depressing, is more than a triumph – it’s next to wondrous.”

There you have it folks, Next to Normal is officially a hit! Make sure to pick up a copy of the cd (we are now shipping out orders!) and enjoy this musical yourself. Happy viewing!

Kate the intern