Rochester Theatre, Much Better Than "Normal"

Rochester's Geva Theatre Center is the premiere professional theatre in New York state outside of Manhattan.

That's saying something, isn't it? Basically, aside from the sky-high prices of Broadway, the best theatrical bang for my buck within a 300-mile radius is right in my own backyard at Geva. Josh and I have been to plays at Geva before, but my birthday gift of going to see Next to Normal was our first musical there . . .

And we . . . were . . . floored.

The following is an article I was commissioned to write by our campus newspaper. I came just short of saying this in the actual article because it sounded unprofessional and un-journalisty, but I'll say it now:

Geva's performance was better than the one I saw on Broadway.

Read the following article to find out why:

The world is full of families that consider themselves “normal,” but the families of which this is true are not the ones with award-winning rock musicals composed in their honor.

Continue reading after the jump!