"Perfect for US": The NEXT TO NORMAL love thread! — Page 29

Question: do you, the fans, feel that there will be tickets available for N2N via TDF or TKTS for July 2nd given the rising popularity of the show and the pending Tony awards? Just wondering if I can afford to wait or if I should bit the bullet and get tickets before being in NYC.
Thoughts?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Brantley just posted an article about the great shows that closed this season and says the following about NEXT TO NORMAL:

"Where the theater ? as a live art in the present tense ? beats out its narrative brethren is in its ability to elicit undiluted, instinctive emotion from those who watch it, together and alone in a crowd. The best new musical of the season, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey?s ?Next to Normal,? is an uncompromising portrait of the pain felt and caused by a bipolar suburban mother (played brilliantly by Alice Ripley) who is being treated with medications that numb her beyond caring. ?Give me pain if that?s what?s real,? she sings. ?It?s the price we pay to feel.? After years of self-induced anesthesia, Broadway has remembered that feeling, in heightened ways real life only occasionally affords, is what theater is about."

We'll be seeing "THE BEST NEW MUSICAL OF THE SEASON"- Ben Brantley, The NY Times on a lot of the ads methinks!

Didnt get a chance to post last night, but the show was amazing !! Was in the Mezz, and did not see one single empty seat !!! Crowd was so into it !! Little treat before the show-- Cheyenne Jackson doing a video/photo shoot right near the theatre--- must have been there around 30-45 minutes.

I really think "word-of-mouth" has made a big impact, and the show is picking up steam at just the right time !!!

All I kept hearing was "my friend told me this is amazing, and I had to see it" !!!! :))

As I posted in the Broadway Celebrity thread, Neil Patrick Harris was also at the show last night, and was the first one on his feet at curtain call. :)

Show was wonderful, as always.

Why do I always miss all the good people? I was there Sunday night and had David Hyde Pierce and a couple of Spring Awakening kids (Phoebe Strole and Jonathan B. Wright). Oh, and I had that Catwoman one night.

Other than opening night, I've never had anyone really good.

dramamama ~ April 18th? He was there for the first act. Hal Prince that night as well. (If it was another time, I HOPE Kevin was able to see the whole thing and not have to leave because of people harassing him during intermission!)

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The was an Ursula sighting Thurs night as well !!! :))

Fantastic seats...enjoy!

This is probably an exhausted question, BUT....

What's the rush update? I'll be in the city in a week and I was thinking I will get in line around 8 AM. Do you guys think I will be able to get tickets that way? I know it varies depending on the day, but I was just trying to get a general idea.

I bought the cast recording off iTunes last week and I CAN'T stop listening to it! I absolutely love it and am beyond excited to see Aaron, Alice, and the rest of the cast!!!!

Question guys/gals... Generally, how have the Sunday matinee crowds been? I tend to stay away from matinees as much as possible, because too many times the audience is too ... lets just say, "calm".. (nice way of putting it)

TIA!!!

I was at the matinee this past Sunday and the audience was quite calm... especially in Act 1. The applause were not as enthusiastic as I am used to and there was very little laughing at the funny parts. The audience energy picked up in Act 2. Of course, even without the best audience, the show was still amazing!