New York Times - Theater
"Fragmented Psyches, Uncomfortable Emotions: Sing Out!"
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: April 16, 2009
No show on Broadway right now makes as direct a grab for the heart — or wrings it as thoroughly — as “Next to Normal” does. This brave, breathtaking musical, which opened Wednesday night at the Booth Theater, focuses squarely on the pain that cripples the members of a suburban family, and never for a minute does it let you escape the anguish at the core of their lives.
“Next to Normal” does not, in other words, qualify as your standard feel-good musical. Instead this portrait of a manic-depressive mother and the people she loves and damages is something much more: a feel-everything musical, which asks you, with operatic force, to discover the liberation in knowing where it hurts. READ FULL REVIEW
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3 comments:
"Not feel good", but "feel everything." Why not "feel bad"? I guess there's not a large market for that.
In answer to your question, I would suppose "feel everything" because the musical's main character suffers from manic depression; thus, feel everything includes the highs and lows. The market for "feel bad" is plenty big, methinks. One only has to turn on the telly for proof. ;P
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