Real-Life Spouses Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley to Co-Star in Next to Normal

Broadway couple Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley will assume the leading roles of Diana and Dan Goodman in the Broadway musical Next to Normal on July 19. The real-life husband and wife are set to replace Tony winner Alice Ripley and Brian d’Arcy James in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical at the Booth Theatre. Both Ripley and James will give their final performance on July 18.

Although Mazzie and Danieley perform together often in concert, they have never acted together in a Broadway musical. They married in 1997, a year after co-starring in the off-Broadway production The Trojan Women: A Love Story. In Next to Normal, they'll play a married couple dealing with Diana's bipolar disorder and the effect it has on their family.

Mazzie most recently co-starred in the short-lived Broadway production of Enron. She received Tony nominations for Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime and Passion and has appeared on Broadway in Spamalot, Man of LaMancha, Into the Woods and Ragtime.

Danieley received a Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut performance in Candide and has appeared on Broadway in Curtains and The Full Monty. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Hit the Lights! and Floyd Collins.

The cast of Next to Normal also includes Jennifer Damiano, Kyle Dean Massey, Adam Chanler-Berat and Louis Hobson.

Departing star Ripley will headline the show’s forthcoming national tour and James will co-star in the Broadway return of Donald Margulies’ Tony-nominated play Time Stands Still.