>When people talk about the musical Next to Normal, it's inevitably about one of two things: how they related on a deep personal level to the story of a bi-polar mom and the affect her disorder has on her family or how astonished they were by Alice Ripley's lead performance as the struggling mom. Ripley is extraordinary " this is the role that won her the Tony Award " and the show can be amazingly powerful, but …
SOURCE: Chad Jones' Theater Dogs at 01:36PM on January 22, 2011