As the dynamic rock score ratchets up in the opening number of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Next to Normal,” and as perky blond Mom Diana ends up on the floor, frenetically making sandwiches with her appalled family looking on, we’re forewarned: This is not going to be a comedy.
“Next to Normal” is in fact anything but a normal Broadway show.
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As the dynamic rock score ratchets up in the opening number of the Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Next to Normal,” and as perky blond Mom Diana ends up on the floor, frenetically making sandwiches with her appalled family looking on, we’re forewarned: This is not going to be a comedy.“Next to Normal” is in fact anything but a normal Broadway show.
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For Alice Ripley, playing the lead in the acclaimed musical “Next to Normal” is not a matter of choice.“I can’t say no to Diana. She’s going to have to say no to me sometime,” the San Leandro-born, Midwest-bred actress says during a phone interview.Opening next week at the Curran Theatre, the show — about ups and downs in a modern suburban family — is remarkable because it is simultaneously, and extremely, meaningful and emotional.
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