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Saturday, April 18, 2009
On Broadway, ‘next to normal’ Aims for Truth About Mental Illness
NYTimes.com: "“I wanted to get ahead on the lunches,” Diana tells her husband, Dan, as she frenetically lines up slices of white bread on the floor and begins piling on the lettuce and mayo."
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While on the one hand I think it is intriguing that this play isn't trying to show mental illness in extreme way like other shows have, I wonder how well "the truth about mental illness" can be portrayed as a musical. I wonder what style this musical takes when people begin singing about depression, and if is actually portrayed in a way that can be related to.
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