What I liked
The writer takes us onto a family’s lifeboat with their fragile, beloved daughter, and the tempestuous, enlightening truths that intrude, yet remind them of their inescapable mortality.
What I didn't like
The cast is in performance, exploring the challenge of this developing work’s premise, and yet that is, by itself, powerfully engaging for an audience.
My overall impression
Two women artists/actors with soulful, gifted voices are our storytellers for the exceptional journey of a mother and her young daughter whose mind, during her seizures, travels at the light speed of epilepsy’s burning trajectory. Rachell Kellum, as the daughter, Abby, and Brittani Murphy, in the role of her mother, are true and illuminating in their shared moments in the musical Abby Normal, written/produced by Sandra Cruze with music composed by Raul Ferrando. The supporting cast of actors creates the larger visual world of Abby’s life with dancing pills, medical caregivers, Abby’s young suitor, and her grandmother, who tills the ground she walks on.
