A year and a half ago we first saw Next to Normal, shortly after it arrived on Broadway. The original Broadway cast–Alice Ripley, J. Robert Spencer, Aaron Tevit, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Berat and Louis Hobson–were stunning with Ripley having a career defining performance as bipolar mom Diana. This fall Ripley departed the Broadway company to [...]
25Dec09
Friday Geek Out: Top 10 of 2009
I enjoyed this so much last year, I decided to do a consolidated top 10 list again this year for the things the world that struck me as being the best of the year. 1) Will! He had the top spot last year and he does this year too (and wouldn’t it be wrong if [...]
Tonight we got to join an intimate crowd at the 92Y Tribeca for “On Stage with Next to Normal,” a panel discussion with the Tony winning writers Tom Kitt (composer) and Brian Yorkey (Librettist, Lyricist), the show’s director Michael Greif and producer David Stone. The panel talked about the creation of the show from when [...]
Next to Normal (@N2NBroadway) continues to break new ground online. Back in May, I wrote about how the show was giving a complete performance on Twitter. After the performance was done, the cast and crew took questions from their Twitter followers and then reversed the roles and asked their followers a bunch of questions. Now [...]
Yesterday was the first complete Broadway in Bryant Park I’ve seen this year. The line up was hard to pass up… Current favorites Next to Normal and Burn the Floor along with The Lion King and off Broadway fare from The Marvelous Wonderettes and The Fantasticks. Lots of video to share! There’s some Next to [...]
31May09
Tony Awards in Concert
In this week leading up to the Tony Awards CBS affiliates have the option to air a special concert that was shot earlier in the month highlighting the musicals nominated (except for Pal Joey, which I guess was left out because it finished its limited run a few months ago). The concert, which also showcases [...]
I’ve devoted a fair amount of space to Next to Normal over the past couple of months because it is one superb show. The Tony voters agreed with the audiences and the critics giving the show 11 nominations, making it the second most nominated show of the year. Among it’s nominations are Best Musical, Best [...]
