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'Next to Normal'

Alice Ripley just keeps getting better. Although "Next to Normal" inspired mixed emotions at Off-Broadway's Second Stage last year, this remarkable singing actress seemed as smashing as anyone could be while still playing a lovable suburban mom with catastrophic bipolar depression, suicidal tendencies and delusions about an 18-year-old son who died in infancy.

But here she is on Broadway,...

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