Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley Join Next to Normal

Real-life spouses Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley begin performances as Diana and Dan Goodman in the Broadway production of Next to Normal. They replace Alice Ripley and Brian d'Arcy James, who depart the production on July 18.

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 inSpamalot, 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 Curtainsand The Full Monty. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Hit the Lights!and Floyd Collins.

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.