“There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
The director, Kyle Boatwright, mentioned this Leonard Cohen line to me when describing some themes she found important while working on Next to Normal. This Pulitzer Prize-winning musical looks at the ripple effects of mental illness, stress, grief, secrets, and tremendous love, and asks what actually constitutes reality.
The poster itself is a still life of a memory. Vivid, but unclear. The letters float above the blurred and oversaturated image of a music box. Some are drifting away. Mementos disappearing into the background.
