Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Tom KittEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2009-05-12
Music Label: Sh-K-Boom
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude
- Just Another Day
- Everything Else
- Who's Crazy/My Psychopharmacologist and I
- Perfect for You
- I Miss the Mountains
- It's Gonna Be Good
- He's Not Here
- You Don't Know
- I Am the One
- Superboy and the Invisible Girl
- I'm Alive
- Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling
- I Dreamed a Dance
- There's a World
- I've Been
- Didn't I See This Movie?
- A Light in the Dark
- Wish I Were Here
- Song of Forgetting
- Hey #1
- Seconds and Years
- Better Than Before
- Aftershocks
- Hey #2
- You Don't Know (Reprise)
- How Could I Ever Forget?
- It's Gonna Be Good (Reprise)
- Why Stay?/A Promise
- I'm Alive (Reprise)
- The Break
- Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)
- Maybe (Next to Normal)
- Hey #3/Perfect for You (Reprise)
- So Anyway
- I Am The One (Reprise)
- Light
Free Music Notes for Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Devastating and powerful
Hit: 5 Stars
"Next to Normal" will always stand as one of my favorite experiences at the theater and I would urge anyone with a keen interest in seeing a singular star-making performance should run - not walk - to get tickets to this bold, awesome musical. It left me breathless, speechless, depressed and joyful at once.
I decided to buy tickets to this Broadway production after seeing Alice Ripley's stunning performance on the TONY Awards. In that one short sequence, Ripley proved why her tour-de-force singing and acting earned her this year's Tony for Best Actress in a Musical. At once bitter and lovelorn, depressed and joyful, Ripley made the hair on my neck stand up as my body trembled with goose bumps. It's a feeling I had not had since witnessing Jennifer Holiday show-stopping performance of "And I Am Telling You" in Dreamgirls more than 20 years ago.
On stage, Ripley's incredible acting and singing was even more intense, but the show itself - and the entire cast in fact - got under my skin in a way very few theatrical experiences have ever done. The story is incredibly sad - depressing some would say. And yet, in its human-ness and real-life expressions, it's a testament to life's hardships - more akin to "Porgy and Bess" and the bittersweet aspects of " A Chorus Line" than the joyful exuberance of "Billy Elliot" or other audience pleasers. I know folks who left the show at intermission because they felt the musical was too depressing. I would respectfully suggest that despite the obvious themes of loss and redemption witnessed on stage, rarely if ever has there been a Broadway musical with as much heart and soul as this eloquent non-spectacle. Simple, sad, and tragic, yes. But also heart-stopping in a way that you will never forget. The entire cast was a standout, and Ripley proved why she deserved her Tony as the bipolar mom whose cries for help are just bubbling under the surface as she struggles to accept the tremendous loss that afflicts her and her small family.
Easily one of the most powerful theater experiences of my life, and heartily recommended to anyone who appreciates a stunning score, book, lyrics and production that doesn't result in you leaving the theater humming a song, but instead makes you think about the human experience in a way anyone can relate to. See it, make yourself stay thru to the end, and I guarantee you'll walk out at the end knowing you've witnessed something truly special.
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The most talked about new show on Broadway is Next to Normal - the acclaimed, groundbreaking musical "that pushes Broadway in new directions" (Rolling Stone). With a thrilling contemporary score,Next to Normal is an emotional powerhouse of a musical about a family trying to take care of themselves and each other. Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and 3 Tony Awards including Best Score and Best Leading Actress in a Musical, Next to Normal is "A Brave, Breathtaking Musical" ( NY Times) that the Washington Post calls "The Future of American Musicals!" Next to Normal has been described as a contemporary musical that explores how one suburban household copes with crisis. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score of more than 30 original songs, Next to Normal shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family's world intact. Next to Normal recently received five Helen Hayes Award nominations for its Arena Stage engagement, including Outstanding Non-Resident Production, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production (Alice Ripley), Outstanding Lead Actor in a Non-Resident Production (J.Robert Spencer), and Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Non-Resident Production (Aaron Tveit and Jennifer Damiano). For its sold-out Second Stage Theatre engagement, Next to Normal won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score and also received the following accolades: Lucille Lortel Award nominations for Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Featured Actor (Aaron Tveit), and Outstanding Lighting Design (Kevin Adams); Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley) and Outstanding Music; Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical and Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Alice Ripley); and a Drama League nomination for Outstanding Musical, among others.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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