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
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.
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,
is also available in an original cast recording. It was named Best Musical of the Season by
,
The Washington Post
Los Angeles Times
, and
.
Brian Yorkey
received the 2009 Tony Award for Best Original Score for his work on
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
. He also composed the music for
High Fidelity
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.