Next to Normal Question

They're hoping to boost album sales by recording/releasing earlier. It's similar to waht 13 did (which Tom Kitt conducted).

Thank you =)

There are differences in the Spring Awakening cd vs what ended up as their frozen as well. Some lyrics, as well as the order of songs.

Happens frequently. Honestly, it makes MORE sense, so that the cd can be ready to sell earlier at the theater itself.

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That doesn't sound like a lyric change so much as bobby making an alteration after Alice made a mistake.

How would that be possible? It would have been bobby who made the mistake if thats the case. Whatever.. could have been a flub! They did have some mic timing issues throughout the night as well.

Right, and Alice says spoiler



your brother died 17 years ago. 17 years plus 8 months = almost 18, which Aaron says in the beginning. So it's not a mistake.

No no. The lyric that was changed is Natalie's verse in "Just Another Day".

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The cast recording has not been released yet. Digital drop 4/7 (rumored in theatre too) and wide release 5/12.

In other words, the ONE recording that has been made would have been the Arena cast had it not transferred. It will now be OBC.)

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Updated On: 3/29/09 at 07:22 PM

coolkid: I posted this in another thread, but I'll copy & paste it for you:

The progression of Feeling Electric/N2N is probably documented in SOME audio SOMEWHERE, all the way through, from production to production. In that case, the chronologcal productions are: the 2002 FE reading, 2005 NYMF performance of FE, the 2008 Second Stage Theatre Off-Broadway production of N2N (which even had variations made during its short run), the revised 2008/9 Arena Stage Theatre production of N2N (which also underwent changes during the run), and the soon-to-be-released cast recording of N2N.

To search for these, you can try searching http://megadownload.net/ for Feeling Electric and Next to Normal. There might be some stuff on there. Not sure, but that's a good place to start.

Then, if you search around other places like Livejournal (or other blog websites, music websites, or FE/N2N fansites), I would imagine you may find mentions of bootleg audios of the show(s), including the Off-Broadway. As I have done with other musicals, if you contact people (through the blog/website that you find them on), someone might be willing to share their audio with you.

Good luck in your searches! (Maybe in a new thread you can tell us about your findings!) It is fascinating to follow the progression of a musical as I, too, have recently learned.

yeah, i saw the matinee today and there were lyric changes... and yes they make the timeline make much more sense.

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The Gabe being 18 thing has never been a problem really. It's been Natalie's age and the timing of Gabe's death.

The implication through Diana's talks with Dr. Madden has always been that she was conceived and born to "help them get over Gabe" (it's left unsaid, but it's heavily implied). As Heo pointed out, Diana would have had to be pregnant almost instantly (highly unlikely under that kind of stress) or already pregnant (blows the having her to "get over it" thing out of the water.

The age change on Gabe works a tad bit better now with that timeline, but then he would have to be older than just turning 18 if he was 18 months old. My big confusion has always been why it's 18 months, 18 months, 18 months...but then "those weeks full of joy". Why the switch all of a sudden? Making him 18 weeks at death would really completely solve the whole "next to normal math problem".

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Yeah. I constantly get headaches if I think too hard about it. Given the "those weeks full of joy" lyric, it kind of makes me suspect that at least at some point Gabe WAS only 18 weeks old but somewhere along the line weeks became months in some places but that one weeks stayed. I don't know.

I'm frankly just happy the show is on Broadway!!! And getting such good reception! :)

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