MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WTVF) — Performers in Mt. Juliet are utilizing their craft to showcase psychological well being points as they carry a Broadway musical to life in Center Tennessee.

“I feel this musical is so well timed proper now as a result of extra individuals than ever are coping with psychological well being points and this type of sheds a highlight on that,” mentioned Daniel Vincent who portrays ‘Dan’ within the manufacturing of ‘Subsequent to Regular’. The musical follows the story of a household going through grief and psychological sickness.

For Vincent, performing within the musical has been a cathartic expertise, confronting his personal historical past of psychological well being. “I really feel like I have been in a few of these conditions so I associated a lot to it,” he mentioned.

Reminiscence Robust takes on the function of Diana- Dan’s spouse and a mom combating bipolar dysfunction. “She offers with delusions, despair, a suicide try,” mentioned Robust.

The Pulitzer Prize profitable Broadway musical attracts consideration to the psychological well being disaster confronted throughout the nation, together with domestically.

“There’s only a devastating lack of psychological well being counselors in Center Tennessee proper now,” mentioned Robust. “There is a three month ready listing and if any individual’s in crisis- considering suicide- you possibly can’t afford to attend three months.”

Solid members are bringing the subjects entrance and heart, within the hopes audiences can relate.

“I feel that we are able to all establish with the grief and the nervousness and the isolation that has been such an enormous situation over the past two years and residing via the pandemic and I feel the flexibility to specific that in a secure house with individuals who care about you, and concerning the group, and concerning the materials is only a great, cathartic expertise,” mentioned the present’s director, Matt Smith.

Performances are Friday’s, Saturday’s and Sunday’s and run via February 27.

Robust mentioned, “the largest factor is creating normalcy across the problems with psychological well being and the way they affect- not solely the one that’s coping with them- however the individuals round them.”

Anybody experiencing a psychological well being disaster in Tennessee can name the TN Statewide Disaster Cellphone Line at 1-855-CRISIS-1. These combating suicidal ideas can name Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.