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"One song, which consists of only the words "This Is Normal" repeated over and over, is one of the year's most gorgeous and heartrending"
-Talkin' Broadway |
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"The first scene, in which Max wakes up in the morning, literally shaking with fear and delight and at the myriad sounds that are filling his ears was itself a triumph,."
-Broadway Stars |
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"Outstanding New Musical"
-Talkin' Broadway 2009 Summer Theatre Festival Citations |
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"Consistently fascinating."
-TheatreMania |
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"Music is fascinating and complicated... quite unlike anything I've heard..."
-Broadway World |
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"I was pleased to find deeper layers than base cliches [about autism]"
-New York Theatre |
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"The lyrics are simple and poetic; the book is impressive in its surreality."
-Live Journal |
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"There's no opening "number," exactly, in Nancy Carlin and Michael Rasbury's odd, intermittently transfixing not-quite-musical Max Understood, but there's an opening, all right, and it's a memorable one."
-American Theatre |
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"I honestly don't remember being this moved and affected by a first viewing of a show in a long time."
-Anonymous Review from a Broadway Chat Group |
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