Brian Yorkey og Tom Kitt Next to Normal

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 heart--or wrings it as thoroughly--as 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.