Brian Yorke and Tom Kitt’s Tony Award-winning 2009 musical “Next to Normal” follows the Goodman family, who look like the perfect family from the outside, but peeling back layers reveals a family struggling with the grief of losing their son Gabe (Dillon Klena) and how that loss has affected each of them differently. From left: Jonny Perl (Dan), Sophia Roth (Natalie), Catriona Fray (Diana) and Dillon Klena (Gabe) in "Next to Normal" at Hudson Backstage Theatre. Photo by Rache

The young and talented cast of Musical Theatre West’s (MTW) “Disney’s Newsies” – a feisty, fun musical with a Marxist message – makes...