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Next to Normal is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life and is ideal for community theatres, as well as colleges and regional theatre companies. This deeply moving piece of theatre provides a wonderful opportunity for performers to explore dramatic material and showcase vocal talents with an energetic pop/rock score. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family's story with love, sympathy and heart. Queens 'Bohemian Rhapsody' a powerful priceless six-minute suite of opera rock about a young man whos killed someone, sold his soul to Devil and wants to know if Scaramouche can do the Fandango - remains one of Queens most popular work and is placed on lists of the greatest songs of all time.

And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling manic depression for 16 years.

Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Musical Score and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, Next to Normal was also chosen as "one of the year's ten best shows" by critics around the country, including The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and The New York Times.ĭad's an architect Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. The planetboom Band exists to champion the mandate of PlanetshakersEmpowering Generations to Win Generations. Next to Normal, with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt, explores how one suburban household copes with crisis and mental illness. A song with an asterisk () before the title indicates a dance number a character listed in a song with an asterisk () by the characters name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.