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Published: November 17 2011

Live for the first time ever on a high school stage, Next to Normal, the hottest new show on Broadway, will be presented by South Broward High School (1901 N. Federal Highway, Hollywood) on two nights only: Wednesday, November 30 and Friday, December 2 at 7 p.m.

Presale tickets may be purchased for $5 at (www.SBHSdrama.com) or for $10 at the door. For more information, contact Carol Spears at South Broward High School by calling 754-323-1875 or emailing

(carol.spears@browardschools.com).

Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's Next to Normal is a musical drama about a mother who struggles with bi-polar disorder and how her illness affects her family. Next to Normal won a Tony award for Best Original Score and also received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming only the eighth musical in history to be awarded the honor.

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

The students of South Broward High School are excited about the prospect of possibly bringing this production to the Florida State Thespian Festival, where over 7,500 Florida high school students compete to go to the International Thespian Festival in Nebraska.