NewsPHOTO CALL: Andréa Burns, Chris Hoch and Nehal Joshi Star in Hangar's Next to NormalThe Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Next to Normal, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, will run through Sept. 1 at the Ithaca venue. Andrea Burns (In the Heights, Songs for a New World) and Chris Hoch (La Cage Aux Folles) co-star as Diana and Dan Goodman, respectively.
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Matthew Blank
August 20, 2012
Tracy Brigden directs a cast that also features Nehal Joshi, Adam Fontana, Alison McCarten and Noah Plomgren.
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Andréa Burns, Chris Hoch and Nehal Joshi Star in Hangar's Next to Normal
The nearly sung-through rock musical examines a woman struggling with bipolar disorder and depression, as her family strains to hold its center. It takes a candid look at prescription drug abuse, suicide, grief and the notion of what a "normal" American family really is.
The Hangar Theatre is located in Ithaca, NY. Visit HangarTheatre.org.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.