NEXT TO NORMAL TANTRUM THEATRE | Tom Kitt (music); Brian Yorkey (books & lyrics); Robert Barry Fleming (director); Jordan Cooper (music director); Jason Ardizzone-West (set designer); Michael Lincoln (lighting designer); Lex Liang (costume designer); Jane Shaw (sound designer); Jean Godbout (stage manager); Jeanette Buck (production manager); Erin Ocampo (props); Cara Spencer (scenic charge); Jacob Brown, Connor Munion, Lauren Barber, G Warren Stiles, Anton Volovsek (assistant set designers); Kelsey Venter, Marc de la Cruz, Bradley Mckelvey-Askin, Riley McFarland, Tyler Tanner, Travis Kent (actors).

PRESS

THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH REVIEW
"Under the direction of Robert Barry Fleming, Tantrum Theater's impeccable, wrenching production of Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey's musical locates the beauty, as well as the hardwon laughter, that coexist with the pain of this story... Jason Ardizzone-West's intricately designed set plays a major role in the effect of the musical. Constructed primarily of wood, it creates the effect of a maze in which the characters are trapped, with boxes within boxes sometimes framing characters and other times emphasizing the space between them. It also allows for the play of color and shadow in Michael Lincoln's appropriately disorienting and constantly changing lighting scheme..."
The Columbus Dispatch (Margaret Quamme)

COLUMBUS UNDERGROUND REVIEW
"That house (and the limited appearances of hospitals, doctor's offices, school rehearsal rooms) is a dazzling multi-tiered set designed by Jason Ardizzone-West. The set pulls starts as a parody of '60s high-modernism with the white walls of an art gallery and opens into boxes-withing-boxes. It nails the tricky dance of functionality - a vast, eye-catching canvas for Fleming and the actors' wildest flights of dancing and drama, holding characters and the band - and feeling appropriately suffocating..."
Columbus Underground (Richard Sanford)