Next to normal lyrics
Next To Normal Musical Album Lyrics
[ Featuring Aaron Tveit, J. Robert Spencer, Louis Hobson, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler-Berat ]
DAN
Who's crazy, the husband or wife?
Who's crazy to live their whole life
Believing that somehow things aren't as bizarre as they are?
Who's crazy, the one who can't cope?
Or maybe, the one who'll still hope?
The one who sees doctors or the one who just waits in the car?
And I was a wild twenty-five,
And I loved a wife so alive.
But now I believe I would settle for one who can drive.
DR. MADDEN
...The round blue ones with food, but not with the oblong white ones.
The white ones with the round yellow ones, but not with the trapezoidal green ones.
Split the green ones into thirds with a tiny chisel, use a mortar and pestle to grind?
DIANA
My psychopharmacologist and I.
It's like an odd romance:
Intense and very intimate, we do our dance.
My psychopharmacologist and I.
Call it a lover's game.
He knows my deepest secrets.
I know his... name!
And though he'll never hold me
He'll always take my calls.
It's truly like he told me
Without a little lift, the ballerina falls.
CAST
Do doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo d
Next to Normal
Ray Fellman, originally from the NYC area, serves as a music director, vocal coach, and voice teacher, for Indiana University’s BFA in Musical Theatre Program. He has conducted over 60 musicals off broadway, regionally and internationally, and performed in over 100 cabaret shows in major clubs in NYC and around the world. Career highlights include Stephen Schwartz’s Captain Louie (Little Schubert Theater/National Tour), which included a performance on The Today Show. Les Miserables, Sweeney Todd, and West Side Story for Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, Ecuador directed by Chia Patiño. Regionally, the O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, the Fulton Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, and Indiana Repertory Theatre. Ray’s cabaret work garnered him a Backstage Magazine Bistro Award for his work as music director of The After Party at the Laurie Beechman Theatre. In addition, he has performed at Feinstein’s, The Algonquin, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Town Hall, BB King’s, and the Duplex Cabaret Theatre in NYC. As a stage performer Ray has sung with such opera companies as Florida Grand Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, and New Orleans Opera, and been a featured so
Next to Normal Lyrics – All Songs from the Musical
Musical has been written by B. Yorkey. Composer – T. Kitt. In 1998, a 10-minute skit about women who were treated with electroshock therapy has been established. Later authors extended it to full production. The premiere took place in 2002 at the Village Theatre stage. Then they went through several New York shows. The show involved: N. L. Butz, S. R. Scott, B. Schrader, A. Singleton & G. Naughton as actors. In late 2002, a musical was shown on stage of Musical Mondays Theater Lab. Also performances took place in the Village Theatre in 2005, New York Musical Fest in September 2005, in the Second Stage Theatre in 2006-2007 years.
Off-Broadway was shown on Second Stage Theatre from January to March 2008 under direction of G. and A. Rapps. The show had cast: B. d'Arcy James, A. Ripley, A. Tveit, J. Damiano, A. Somers & A. Chanler-Berat. Musical subjected to severe processing with time. The creators have focused on personal relationships within the family. The new version was shown on Arena Stage from November 2008 to January 2009.
Broadway premiere took place at the Booth Theatre from March to April 2009. Then it went to Lon
I'm Alive Lyrics - Next to Normal
Song Overview
Song Credits
- Album: Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
- Release Date: 2009-05-12
- Producers: Tom Kitt, Joel Moss, David Stone, Kurt Deutsch
- Writers: Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
- Genre: Broadway, Rock, Soundtrack
- Instruments: Violin, Cello, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards
- Label: Ghostlight Records
- Vocals: Aaron Tveit
- Orchestration: Michael Starobin & Tom Kitt
- Conductor & Music Director: Charlie Alterman
- Recorded At: Ghostlight Records
Song Meaning and Annotations
Welcome to the anthem of the ghost who won’t go hush. "I’m Alive", sung with piercing charisma by Aaron Tveit in Next to Normal, is more than a showstopper — it’s a spectral seduction, a psychodrama set to pulse-pounding rock.
“I’m Alive,” sung by Aaron Tveit as Gabe in Next to Normal, opens with a line that hits hard right away. Gabe states his existence plainly, boldly, as if daring us to question it. He is Diana’s creation, her deepest longing and most powerful illusion. The lyric immediately captures his role in the show. Gabe isn’t just a memory. He’s a living manifestation of everything unspoken, unresolved, and un
Following its critically acclaimed sold out run at the Donmar, Next to Normal transfers to the West End for a limited 14 week run
“It feels as if there’s no more vital theatrical place to be”
New York Times Critic's Pick
★★★★★ “Electrifying… beautiful… heartwrenching” Sunday Express
Next to Normal is an intimate exploration of family and loss. At its heart is Diana Goodman, a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past.
Former Donmar Artistic Director Michael Longhurst directs the UK première of this powerful musical about a far from average family with the full original cast.
Nominated for four Oliver Awards including Best Musical, Next to Normal is the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and three Tony Awards including Best Original Score.
★★★★ “It’s brilliant” The Telegraph
★★★★ "Astonishing... an absolutely superb production" WhatsOnStage
★★★★ "Outstanding performances" Daily Mirror
★★★★ "Impeccable, immaculate" Sunday Times
NEXT TO NORMAL in the West End is produced by David Stone, James L. Nederlander and the Donmar Warehouse.