A wide stage view shows a neon-outlined house set with performers on multiple levels under blue haze and bright overhead beams.

The Mack Theatre, Mountview2025

Next to Normal

The Production

Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts staged Next to Normal at The Mack Theatre in November 2025, performed by its Musical Theatre cohort. The production presented Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s rock musical in a double-cast student staging exploring grief, love and mental health.

50 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Seán Linnen
Musical Director: Tamara Saringer
Choreographer: Myles Brown
Lighting Design: Alex Musgrave
Set Design: Elliott Squire
Costume Design: Rhyannon Richardson
Sound Design: Matthew Giles
Commissioned by: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Photography: Steve Gregson

A performer kneels on a kitchen counter, mouth open in intense expression, with orange pill bottles beside her and glowing rectangular frames behind.

A dim blue stage frames a neon house outline, with one performer curled in an armchair under a floor lamp and another standing at the side.

Two performers with backpacks stand close together, smiling and holding each other in an intimate moment against a dark background.

An ensemble in bright, color-blocked costumes dances across the stage while musicians and other performers appear on the raised platform behind them.

A performer sits wrapped in a large yellow blanket in an armchair, isolated under blue light beside a warm floor lamp.

Three performers lean tensely around a kitchen counter, with the central performer shouting toward one side under pendant lights.

Two performers stand downstage in front of a red-lit raised platform filled with an ensemble lined along the railing.

A performer lies face-down on a counter beside orange pill bottles, lit starkly against a dark stage.

A performer stands center stage singing under blue haze and a glowing house outline, with two seated performers behind.

In a tight, brightly lit stage moment, a performer with a pink backpack cups another performer's face while a suited performer grins between them from behind.

A wide view of a two-level stage framed by glowing house-shaped light strips, with haze, spotlights, stairs, a sofa, and a lone performer seated at a kitchen island.

Two performers face each other closely and hold hands under cool blue neon lighting, one in a pale suit and the other in a patterned dress.

Under a sharp white spotlight on a blue-lit stage, one performer stands on a central platform with an arm raised while four others reach toward or gather around it.

A headset-wearing technician sits at a control desk filled with monitors and lighting equipment, with the glowing blue house-shaped set visible across the auditorium.

Two performers sing into handheld microphones in dynamic crouched poses, with dancers in orange on an upper balcony behind them amid pink and purple haze.

On a dark stage edged with white neon frames, one performer lies stretched on the floor while another kneels beside them in tense stillness.

A performer stands alone behind an upper-level railing, head tilted back into a narrow white spotlight against blue neon house outlines and stage haze.

A performer reclines dramatically across another performer's lap on a chair, mouth open as they are held close under bright stage lighting.

A wide magenta-lit stage scene shows multiple performers across two levels, including singers on the balcony, a covered figure on a central table, and others separated across the glowing house-shaped set.

A woman sits tensely on dark stairs in a black coat, surrounded by blue haze and a vertical strip of bright light.

A young performer crouches on the floor among scattered sandwiches while a man kneels beside them, with a kitchen island and other performers behind in blue neon light.

Two performers stand on an upper platform holding hands, framed by railings and glowing blue house-shaped light lines.

At a table with blue glasses and a chocolate cake topped with an 18 candle, a man reaches across while looking closely at a woman.

A large ensemble fills a multi-level stage under saturated red light, with two performers embracing at center and others posed around them.

A man sits forward on a low armchair beside a yellow blanket and paper bag, while a barefoot performer in a hospital gown stands behind him in stark light.

A young man leans across a kitchen island toward a performer in a cardigan who holds torn papers, set against blue neon frames.

A man kneels beside a performer seated in a wheelchair, holding their hand beneath a bright rectangular light frame.

A wide stage glows with orange house-shaped light outlines as performers gather around a kitchen island, move on stairs, and rush across the set.

A man in a dark coat stands on a small staircase in blue and orange haze, looking down near a large yellow cushion on the platform.

On a dark stage, a woman in a blue striped shirt sits on a couch with one arm around a woman in a blue dress, gesturing as they talk under cool blue light.

A smoky two-level set outlined in blue neon frames two performers leaning across a kitchen island, with musicians visible on the upper level.

A young woman in a purple hoodie holds a plush toy close to her chest and looks upward, lit by a vertical blue stage light.

In a wide blue-and-red-lit stage scene, a woman in a coat and orange scarf leans back into a man’s arms beneath an upper platform with silhouetted musicians.

A woman in a blue striped shirt sits on the floor cradling another woman in a blue dress, who lies with her head in her lap inside a glowing blue square frame.

Under bright blue beams and haze, a man kneels and reaches across the stage while a woman sits apart on a stool before the neon-outlined set.

Three performers lean over a counter examining papers together, surrounded by mugs and a red tin under intimate stage lighting.

On a blue-lit stage, an ensemble surrounds a seated woman while two performers lift another horizontally above her behind an armchair.

In warm hazy light, a woman in a colorful knitted cardigan grips a man’s arms and looks up at him as he stands tensely facing her.

A wide ensemble tableau fills the neon-outlined set, with a clustered group around an armchair center stage and two performers clasping hands on a raised platform.

A young woman in a purple hoodie and backpack looks anxiously at a man in a beanie and jacket, with blue neon stage light behind them.

A wide stage scene shows several performers crouched on the floor arranging small objects around a kitchen island, framed by a two-level neon house set.

Two people in black hoodies sit side by side at laptops in a dim workspace with green tiled walls and overhead lighting.

A performer in a blue striped shirt holds a microphone center stage, flanked by three performers in orange scrubs under pink-purple haze and neon light.

Two performers sit close together under warm pendant lights, smiling at each other while holding hands against a dark neon-framed set.

One performer grips another from behind as both lean forward in distress, lit by cool blue stage light against a dark set.

A performer sits tensely in an armchair while another crouches beside them with a microphone, isolated in a spotlight beneath a large neon house outline.

Two performers sit wrapped in a yellow blanket on an armchair, one holding a bowl while the other eats beside her in bright stage light.

A performer in a blue striped shirt clutches a small star-patterned box while a suited performer steadies her by the shoulders against a dark neon-lit backdrop.

A full ensemble stands across the stage with mouths open as if singing, beneath intense white lights and a glowing two-level house-shaped set.

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