“Next to Normal” Destigmatizes Mental Illness, at Los Altos Stage
Millennial Notes Yorkey & Kitt Master the Manic Depressive Musical by Fritz Mad’Laine Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s smash hit “Next to Normal” shatters expectations for a standard romantic musical, uprooting the stigma of mental illness with tenderness and pizzazz. The show depicts Diana (charming Jillian Toby-Cummings), a mother battling bipolar disorder as she…