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#1Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 12:55am
I've unfortunately never seen the musical & I've never gotten into the score but I feel like the only person who wasn't completely obsessed with this show when it opened. I want to buy the album but before I do what are the best songs on the album that I should listen to first?
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Updated On: 6/28/15 at 12:55 AM
#2Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:01am
The whole score is pretty amazing and strong. My favorites are: I am the one, Superboy and the invisble girl, light in the dark, Why Stay/A promise, Catch me I'm falling, How could I ever forget, light and I miss the mountains.
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#2Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:01am
"I've unfortunately never seen the musical & I've never gotten into the score but I feel like the only person who was completely obsessed with this show when it opened. "
Wait. What?
For a first listen, I would start from the beginning.
#3Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 1:36am
Typo sorry !:/
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Updated On: 6/28/15 at 01:36 AM
#4Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 2:37am
If I were listening to a truncated version of Next to Normal, I'd select the following songs (if you're looking for an even briefer selection, I've "**" my four favourite)
Prelude/Just Another Day**
My Psychopharmacologist and I
I Miss the Mountains**
You Don't Know/I Am the One**
I'm Alive
I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World
How Could I Ever Forget
Maybe (Next to Normal)
So Anyway**
Light
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
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#5Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 7:27pm
I saw it 4 times on Broadway and again in Brooklyn last summer. The whole thing is amazing.
#6Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 7:33pm
" I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World"
I think you meant, "I Dreamed a Dance", not "I Dreamed a Dream" :)
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#7Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 10:52pm
Huge fan here, my favorites are:
I'll mark my favs like the other poster
- Just Another Day*
- Everything Else
- You Don't Know / I Am the One* (Segue)
- Super Boy & the Invisible Girl
- I'm Alive*
- Catch Me, I'm Falling
- I've Been
- Didn't I See This Movie
- A Light in the Dark
- Wish I Were Here*
- Better Than Before
- After Shocks
- I'm Alive / The Break (they segue into eachother so it's really cool)
- I Am the One (Reprise)*
- Light *
Updated On: 6/28/15 at 10:52 PM
#8Next to normal
Posted: 6/28/15 at 11:46pm
To be honest? The whole album is a must-listen.
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#9Next to normal
Posted: 9/6/16 at 8:52pm
The crime of the cast recording of this breathtaking musical is that they stripped out all of the dialogue from the recording. The dialogue interspersed throughout the songs is critical for a person to understand what is going on. Because I've seen the show numerous times I know that when Gabe is singing There's a World, that he's essentially encouraging his mother to commit to suicide, which she then tries to do. There is no way for somebody who hasn't seen the show to know that that is what is happening. It pulls the emotional core out of the recording.
This show begs for a full on live concert performance and recording.
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#10Next to normal
Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:11pm
My favorites:
- Just Another Day
- Perfect For You
- I Am the One
- Superboy and the Invisible Girl
- I'm Alive
- Hey #1
- Hey #2
- Maybe
- Hey #3/Perfect For You (Reprise)
- I Am the One (Reprise)
- Light
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#11Next to normal
Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:35pm
I love song Next to Normal. When being normal cannot be achieved
#12Next to normal
Posted: 9/6/16 at 10:36pm
Sally Durant Plummer said: "" I Dreamed a Dream/There's a World"
I think you meant, "I Dreamed a Dance", not "I Dreamed a Dream" :)
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hahaha yes.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#13Next to normal
Posted: 9/7/16 at 3:55pm
"You Don't Know / I Am The One"
The Tony performance was a nightmare, don't go by that performance, everything went wrong that night.
Stephanatic
#14Next to normal
Posted: 9/7/16 at 4:57pm
South Florida said: "The Tony performance was a nightmare, don't go by that performance, everything went wrong that night."
It did?!?
#15Next to normal
Posted: 9/7/16 at 5:00pm
NTN remains my favorite musical. However, the Tony performance was not remotely good...
#17Next to normal
Posted: 9/7/16 at 11:15pm
I love that performance. She totally disregards the tempo at certain points but I think that adds to the rawness of the song and it makes it really powerful. Plus I love the vibrato in J. Robert Spencer's voice.. he's just great to listen to.
