STAGE TUBE: 'I Miss the Mountains' from SpeakEasy Stage's NEXT TO NORMAL

Beginning March 9, SpeakEasy Stage will present the Boston premiere of NEXT TO NORMAL. Get a first look at the production below!

NEXT TO NORMAL is the creation of composer Tom Kitt and bookwriter/lyricist Brian Yorkey. Mr. Kitt was responsible for the music supervision, arrangements and orchestrations for Green Day's American Idiot on Broadway, and is also the composer of the music for High Fidelity (Broadway), The Winter's Tale (NYSF), From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons). An alumnus of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, Brian Yorkey has theatre credits that include Making Tracks, a musical version of Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, and the country musical Play It by Heart.

SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault will direct this Boston premiere production of NEXT TO NORMAL. Mr. Daigneault has directed over forty plays and musicals for SpeakEasy, and has twice been named Best Director by the Boston Theater Critics Association. In addition, Paul serves on the faculty at The Boston Conservatory, and this season, is also the Rev. J. Donald Monan S.J. Professor in Theater Arts at Boston College.

The cast for the SpeakEasy production will feature Chris Caron, Christopher Chew, ?Kerry A. Dowling, Sarah Drake, Michael Levesque, and Michael Tacconi.

Nicholas James Connell will music direct and conduct.

The SpeakEasy design team includes Eric Levenson (scenic), Tyler Kinney (costume), Jeff Adelberg (lighting), Aaron Mack (sound), and Seaghan McKay (projections). Amy Spalletta is the Production Stage Manager.

NEXT TO NORMAL will play in the intimate Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St. in Boston's South End.

Ticket prices start at $30. There are discounts for students and seniors. Persons under age 25 are $25 at all times. Student rush tickets are $14, and go on sale one hour before curtain, limit one per valid student ID. . For tickets or more information, the public is invited to call 617-933-8600 or visit www.SpeakEasyStage.com.

 

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