Organization

Singer

Lilian Prent

Natalie

Florian Graf

Doktor Madden, Doktor Fine

Dramaturge

Victor Pohl

Sound designer

Matthias Schuster

Kerstin Ibald

Diana

Christian Alexander Müller

Benjamin Hübner

Gabe

Stage director

Matthias Straub

Conductor

Roland Fister

Lighting designer

Thilo Schneider

Costume designer

Carola Volles

Set designer

Till Kuhnert

Choreographer

Daniel Cimpean

Landestheater Coburg

German

Fast normal

Coburg

Germany

Grosses Haus

Coburg, Großes Haus

Fast normal: Next to Normal Kitt

Public

Next to Normal

Approved

"We're having the luckiest toilet flush on the street," Diana Goodman, who has suffered from 16-year bipolar disorder, tells her horrified husband after dumping her mood-boosting medication in the toilet. The courage of Brian Yorkey (lyrics) and Tom Kitt (music) to approach a behind-the-scenes-the-hand subject with gruff humor has paid off. In 2010 they were awarded the Pulitzer Prize (Best Drama) for their musical about a mentally ill suburban mother, and the critics were not sparing in their praise either: in 2009 the musical won eleven Tony Award nominations in three categories (Best Original Score, Best Orchestration, Best Performance by a leading actress in a musical).


The view of the world and the attempts of her doctor, Dr. Fine to treat her through the eyes of Diana, who states that she no longer feels anything because of the medication, while Dr. Fine finally describes his patient as "stable". The duo Yorkey and Kitt have managed to bring the complex pandemonium of illness and codependency to the fore in a musical that embraces all genre conventions and virtues, while never rising above its subject or even its characters.


Rare in German-speaking countries, but then successful on the schedules, the Landestheater Coburg opens its season in the big house with this extraordinary musical highlight, which meets the expectations of a "musical", but at the same time turns them upside down.

English

Fast normal by Kitt, From (2021/2022), Directed by Matthias Straub,, Conductor Roland Fister, Coburg, Großes Haus, Coburg, Germany

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