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    Next to Normal

    By Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt

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    Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

    Rock is alive and rolling like thunder in Next to Normal. 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.”Rolling Stone

    No show on Broadway right now makes as a direct grab for the heartor wrings it as thoroughlyas Next to Normal does. . . . [It] 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. Next to Normal does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts.”Ben Brantley, The New York Times

    Winner of three 2009 Tony Awards, including Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre, Next to Normal is also available in an original cast recording. It was named Best Musical of the Season by Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times.

    Brian Yorkey received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work on Next to Normal and was also nominated for Best Book of a Musical. His other credits include Making Tracks and Time After Time.

    Tom Kitt received two 2009 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for Next to Normal. He also composed the music for High Fidelity and From Up Here. His string arrangements appear on the new Green Day album 21st Century Breakdown, and he is the leader of the Tom Kitt Band.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTheatre Communications Group
    Release dateJul 20, 2010
    ISBN9781559366625
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      La obra, en Argentina, Buenos Aires, va a cumplir 10 años en cartel, el 2022.
      No solo es perfecta Next to Normal en Broadway, sino en el mundo. Por supuesto que el libro es oro en polvo. TODOS DEBERIAN, se los suplico, leer y ver Next to Normal, CASI NORMALES...como el tatuaje que llevo en mi Casi Normales.

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