뮤지컬 <넥스트투노멀>은 락 뮤지컬로서 Brian Yorkey가 극작과 가사를 맡았고, Tom Kitt이 음악을 맡았다. 이 뮤지컬은 극심한 조울증을 앓고 있으며, 그 병으로 미쳐버리는 

엄마가 가족애로 병을 극복하는 모습을 담고 있다. 또한 각종 현대 정신질병문제에 관해 다루고 있으며, 어두운 교외지의 삶을 나타내고 있다.

2009년 4월에 브로드웨이에서 초연을 하였고 그해 Tony Awards의 11개 부문에서 노미네이트되어 3개 부문을 수상하였다. 이듬해 뮤지컬에서는 1996년 Michael Greif가 

연출한 <넥스트투노멀> 이후 8번째로 퓰리처 드라마상의 영예를 얻었으며, 퓰리처상측에서는 ‘도외지 가족의 정신질병문제를 뮤지컬영역까지 확장시킨 완벽한 락 뮤지컬’이라

극찬했다.

Next to Normal is a rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. Its story concerns a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder 

and the effect that her illness and the attempts to alleviate it have on her family. The musical also addresses such issues as grieving a loss, suicide, drug abuse, ethics 

in modern psychiatry, and the underbelly of suburban life.

The musical opened on Broadway in April 2009. It was nominated for eleven 2009 Tony Awards and won three, Best Original Score, Best Orchestration and Best 

Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for Alice Ripley. It also won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming just the eighth musical in history to receive 

the honor. The previous musical to win the Pulitzer was Rent, in 1996, which was also directed by Michael Greif. In awarding the prize to Kitt and Yorkey, 

the Pulitzer Board called the show "a powerful rock musical that grapples with mental illness in a suburban family and expands the scope of subject matter for musicals."