NewsPHOTO CALL: Heidi Blickenstaff, Aaron Ramey, Etai BenShlomo and Cast Rehearse Next to NormalHeidi Blickenstaff takes on the role of bipolar mom Diana in the Weston Playhouse's production of Next to Normal , directed by Tony Nominee Michael Berresse, beginning July 11.
"Soaring and diving on a Tony-winning rock score," Next to Normal, according to the Weston Playhouse, "peels back the facade of a suburban family dealing with mental illness and other contemporary American struggles. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this emotional story reveals the risks and rewards of being truly alive."
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Heidi Blickenstaff, Aaron Ramey, Etai BenShlomo and Cast Rehearse Next to Normal
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.