Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite?- Page 8
Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite?
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #175
Posted: 1/26/08 at 11:59amstill no songlist in the playbill. I am not familiar with the show and I would like to know who sings what when.
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #176
Posted: 1/26/08 at 12:43pmI like not having a song list...it forces you to be in the moment and watch the show as a story. Not counting down the songs.
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #177
Posted: 1/26/08 at 12:48pm
the problem with a song list i think MissAnne is that some of the song titles could spoil certain aspects of the show. It's probably for the best that there isn't a song list.
ETA. looking back at my program for Feeling Electric at NYMF, the song list could easily give away where the show goes.
Updated On: 1/26/08 at 12:48 PM
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #178
Posted: 1/26/08 at 1:44pmOne thing i keep forgetting to mention, that's not related to the quality of the show at all, is how much Alice Ripley looks like Catherine O'Hara (Best in Show, Home Alone, For Your Consideration) I noticed it the first time i saw the show and during tuesday's intermission the woman behind me said the same thing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #179
Posted: 1/26/08 at 2:06pm
I agree with jake. I liked not having a song list for the same reasons he mentioned. Too often even if I'm really into a show, knowing how many songs there are does affect me for the worse. Especially in anreally intense second act, if I know there are only a couple of songs left I find myself focusing on that fact rather than the entirity of the show.
(Incidentally, I'm going back Sunday night. :) Loved it that much!)
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #180
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:08pmbump..looking for the list of songs?
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #181
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:09pm
found it.. thanks leagirl 
for those inquiring minds...
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Act I:
Let There Be Light
Just Another Day
Perfect
Costco
Who Is 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
Open Your Eyes
I'm Alive
Catch Me I'm Falling
I Dreamed A Dance
There's a World
Didn't I See This Movie
Light in the Dark
Feeling Electric
Act II:
Growing Up Unstable
Song of Forgetting
*Song that i have NO idea what it is called*
Getting Better
Aftershocks
*reprise of above song that I don't know what it is*
I Don't Know
How Could I Ever Forget
It's Gonna Be Good (reprise)
Why Stay?
I'm Alive (reprise)
The Break
Catch Me I'm Falling (reprise)
Next to Normal (guessing this is what this song was called)
Perfect for You (reprise)
So Anyway
I Am the One (reprise)
Let There Be
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #182
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:27pmThe songs that I had no idea what they were called are I think Hey 1, Hey 2 and Hey 3? According to that article? (Is Hey 3 the "Perfect for You" reprise?) Anyhow I think some of those titles are still guesses!
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #183
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:31pm
thanks... trying to sort out songs that I had.
J*
Updated On: 2/12/08 at 10:31 PM
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #184
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:32pmJay ~ There are some pretty significant lyric changes in some of the songs. Just so you know.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #185
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:32pmI believe the song that everyone thinks is called "Next to Normal" is actually called "Everything."
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #186
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:34pm
thanks guys... I am just trying to familiarize myself with the music.. I like Feeling Electric & Let There Be Light.
Blue skies is gone, huh?
J*
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #187
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:35pmYeah. Gone.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #188
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:35pmOh, and Open Your Eyes got cut.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #189
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:37pmI think I always get that mixed up with "Catch Me I'm Falling" ~ "Catch Me" is the hypnosis song and "Open Your Eyes" was the scary rock star song?
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #190
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:39pm
Feeling Strong Fine is that Catch Me I'm Falling?
J*
re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #191
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:41pm
Yes. "Open Your Eyes" was the one that came right after the whole "let's get it on now baby" bit that stayed. It went:
"Open your eyes
Open your eyes
It's a world that's full of wonder
And the wonder never dies..."
(Or something.)
The "catch me, I'm falling" part happens during the hypnosis sequence that's doubled with Natalie's piano recital.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #192
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:41pmPretty much, yeah... Again, lyric changes. And definite dialogue changes.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #193
Posted: 2/12/08 at 10:42pmThanks Emcee. I've got it now. I think I get confused because of the stuff that happens with the set on the second level. I've got it now.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #195
Posted: 2/13/08 at 5:54amI didn't see it last night, but I saw it Saturday when it was frozen. There was press there.
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re: Anyone seen NEXT TO NORMAL tonite? #196
Posted: 2/13/08 at 9:13amI saw the show last night. It was my first experience with Next to Normal, so I don't have a reference point or prior knowledge of song changes that have been made, but I truly loved the show. Very solid, great acting...I can't get the songs out of my head. I can't wait to go back again!
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Changes being made NOW?#197
Posted: 3/9/08 at 12:34pm
*Edited to add: Sorry, saw a thread devoted to the changes below!*
I saw N2N a little over a week ago, and then just yesterday. At the matinee yesterday I realized that they had cut the Costco song! How random to be making changes like that a week before they close! I guess maybe they are still tweaking things with the idea that they will move on to a larger commercial run somewhere?
Anyone have any ideas? I kinda missed the song! This time her breakdown occurred in the dining room on the floor. She was making sandwiches on the ground, and stacked bread on top of bread on top of bread, using a little dressing squirt bottle on it all. Definitely a bit different than what I saw a week ago....
Updated On: 3/9/08 at 12:34 PM
Changes being made NOW?#198
Posted: 3/9/08 at 3:12pm
Finally I saw it.... FULL Circle.. I started the thread asking how's the show...now I saw it..
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Jordy.. look at my facebook photos .. I posted it alreday... I DID IT AGAIN. I called Alice Ripley... Emily Skinner again?
Hey guys.. (Frog_fans & Dave ) Did I by any other chance call Alice Ripley yesterday Emily Skinner? (to her face? ..oh my god.. that would be a disaster!!! lol! )
you guys have to CORRECT me pls.... I have a MIND BLOCK on the two...I keep calling Alice Ripley.. Emily Skinner...
I hope I did not say yesterday... Hi..Emily can you pls sign my playbill?
J*
Updated On: 3/9/08 at 03:12 PM
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