NEXT TO NORMAL On Sale Now For July at Knight Theater

From the director of RENT comes the most talked about new show on Broadway, next to normal, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three 2009 Tony® Awards including Best Score. This highly-anticipated musical will arrive in Charlotte starring its acclaimed Tony Award-winning star, Alice Ripley.

Chosen as "one of the year's ten best" by major critics around the country, next to normal is an emotional powerhouse of a musical with a thrilling contemporary score about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other. The New York Times calls next to normal "a brave, breathtaking work of muscular grace and power. It is much more than a feel-good musical; it is a feel-everything musical. It is great, in ways that few Broadway musicals are." And Rolling Stone raves, "It is the best musical of the season - by a mile. It'll pin you to your seat."

For more information, visit the Blumenthal Center website.