NEXT TO NORMAL to Close on Broadway January 16 — Page 2

Its finally official!

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Any chance Alice and J. Robert Spencer will come back to close the show?

^I agree Jordan, I just saw the new cast on Saturday and they are unbelievable. The original cast was great, and this cast is just as good if not better. They need to keep in mind Adam and Louis are still in it and they ARE from the original cast. Also, if they really need to see Alice that bad, she'll be on tour with the show about two weeks from now.

I am upset this show is closing :/ I was hoping this show would have a big, extravagant run like RENT had, but I guess it just isn't possible . This is a show that should be preserved forever.

tking, if you are paying any attention to theatre news, you would know that Alice Ripley will be in Denver on that day closing out the Denver run of the show. I doubt they would pull her off of the tour to bring her back to NY.

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We know.

I spoke to David this summer and he confirmed the closing of the show to me.

He also said he thinks there would be some beautiful moments on film for Next To Normal. He does think making a movie would have saved the show a bit, but he has no intentions of being a film producer any time soon. Wicked takes 80% of his time and it has been hard for him to start anything new. Next to Normal will get a film (not a filmed on stage but a real film) but not anytime soon.


I think of this as a very positive thing. It's time for this show to go and I am so glad that is has had some great success. This was one of the most sold cast recordings of 2009 and tickets sales jumped really high once it opened to great success. Can't wait to see this on tour, if it tours for another year.


As great as it would be to get this on Greatest Performances on PBS i'm sure it won't happen.

What a great run and a fantastic show. Hope this has a long life on tour and afterwards. Congrats to everyone on a wonderful piece of theatre.

I know shows don't last forever, but I'm a bit bummed that it's closing. It had a wonderful run and I'll be going by the box office tomorrow to get my closing ticket (unless my dad picked up on my hint and wants to get me an early Christmas gift).

Does anyone know how many people will be at the lottery for the final show?

Updated On: 11/10/10 at 08:19 PM

I need to go see this again before it goes..... it was a show I walked in not knowing a lot about and walked out loving every second of it.

I just saw it with the current cast this week. Quite glad I got to, considering the news. Though I know all shows close, I'm taking this one a bit to heart. I also know that I will kind of get ripped to shreds for that, since it has somewhat of an odd following. Oh well.

Despite its at-times batshiz crazy fanbase (and almost-always batshiz crazy ex-star), Next to Normal is just such a great piece of theater. Even with the cast change, I still think it's (one of) the best thing(s) playing on Broadway right now. When I saw it earlier this week, I went into it expecting not to feel anything due to both my previous exposure and the cast change. Instead, since I knew what was coming, I was a weeping mess from beginning to end. It is not often that I quote Brantley, but I think he put it best when he said that the show "is much more than a feel-good musical; it is a feel everything musical."(Sidenote: yes, I'm aware that this quote is printed outside of the Booth Theatre. I said he put it best; I never said I was all that original.)

So again, I know that this is the nature of the business that is show. When you add that to the economy not being so great, Next to Normal lasting as long as it did is kind of shocking. Still, I'll be rather sad to see something so original, moving, and about such an important topic, leave the Great White Way.

dramamama, I partially agree with you, but I think every show should be filmed. Maybe not released to the public right away, but filmed so that it can be preserved for generations.