Preview: Next to Normal

OK Toronto. Are you ready? It is has officially arrived! And EAP is going to the opening tonight of this groundbreaking musical. I had the honour of seeing NEXT TO NORMAL two years at the Booth Theatre and I found it to be a profoundly moving experience. It is dark, funny, well written, executed and directed. We would like to thank Dancap for always being so open and generous with us here at EAP and for making us feel apart of the Toronto theatre community no matter the scale or scope of shows they produce. We applaud you Dancap.

Show Description:

From the director of Rent comes the most talked about show on Broadway, NEXT TO NORMAL, Alice Ripley, who received the 2009 Tony Award® for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance in the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning NEXT TO NORMAL, will reprise her acclaimed performance as Diana Goodman, a woman crippled by bi-polar disorder, for the final time as the musical’s 36-week multi-city North American tour comes to a close in Toronto.

NEXT TO NORMAL also features Asa Somers (Dan), Curt Hansen (Gabe), Emma Hunton (Natalie), Canada’s own Jeremy Kushnier (Dr. Madden/Dr. Fine) who starred as Tommy DeVito in the First National Tour, and first Canadian company, of Jersey Boys in Toronto, and Preston Sadleir (Henry).

With a thrilling contemporary score, NEXT TO NORMAL is an emotional powerhouse of a musical about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other. In awarding the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Pulitzer Board called NEXT TO NORMAL "a powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands the scope of subject matter for musicals."


Dancap Productions Inc. presents
The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-Winning
NEXT TO NORMAL
Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey, Directed by Michael Grief
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen Street West
July 19-30, 2011
Tuesday – Saturday @ 7:30pm • Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday @ 2pm
Opening Night: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 7:30pm
Ticket prices range from $34-$129 including all service charges and HST
To order, visit www.DancapTickets.com or call 416.644.3665 or toll-free 1.866.950.7469
For groups of 12 or more, call 416.644.3666 or toll free at 1.866.960.7469
Official tour website: www.NextToNormal.com

DANCAP announces line-up

Last week Dancap announced its line-up for their up-coming season. All shows are being put on at either, the Four Seasons Centre or The Yonge Centre for the Performing Arts. I think most exciting is the Tony Award winning musical Memphis and the Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Normal.

We are very happy to see Dancap still healthily competing with Mirvish in the big musical department. It just would have been nice to have some of these shows in our city and on our stages for longer runs. You can't always get what you want though and the joy of seeing these shows outweighs any disappointments.

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News Justin will love

Next to Normal co-creator Brian Yorkey is back in the proverbial saddle. Yorkey will be staging the Village Theatre's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, during the 2010-11 season. It seems that this announcement is only the latest in a long line of work for Yorkey, including a rumor that he was brought on to help write music for the much anticipated Catch Me If You Can. Be sure and check out the rest of the article at Playbill, you can access the article directly by clicking the header.

photo by Aubrey Reuben