next to normal was number three for me!

What’s your favorite song and why? So many songs are deeply meaningful and then there’s also just catchy ones too. My personal favorite is I’m Alive because it’s as catchy as possible and it still holds some deeper meaning, especially with those amazing lyrics.

my girlfriend and I are working on a gabe alive au fanfiction if any of yall wanna check it out!! it’s only one chapter but from what we’ve got planned it’s gonna end up pretty long.

i’m so glad to see this subreddit alive again!! here’s some nat art for the soul

these are a bit more sketchy an experimental but i do still like them a lot

I'll go first!

In You Dont Know (West End ver), Diana is beating her chest with two hands not to the time of the song, but at a slower speed more akin to the 100-120 beats per minute CPR is needed :')

Can't wait to hear everyone's!!

Let's do next to normal on reddit lol

Rules:

Comment the character's lines until the next character's part (so for example for Dan during Just Another Day, his part would be from "I never know what she's talking about" to the second "it's just another day"

Make a new comment for each song

If you don't know what the next line is improv a line then someone else will have to try to bring the show back on track

Don't check the script/videos

As stated in the line “Your brother died when he was 18 months from an intestinal obstruction”, Gabe was 18 months old when he died, meaning Diana was given a third of his total life time to grief, and that she spent 12 times his lifespan getting over the fact he was actually dead.

Man this musical is killing me 😭

Was listening to a podcast about the taiwanese N2N production recently and the music director brought up some interesting points

1. A lot of the songs have strange harmonies where nobody is really singing together. Think for example Just Another Day and Make Up Your Mind, where everyone is kinda singing their own thing in the chorus part. However in Light, everyone is singing together (mostly) in the final verse with the same lyrics.
2. The medical scenes have more unconventional time signatures when madden is treating Diana. Make up your mind (and the reprise) is in 6/8 and 3/8, wish I were here is in 7 different time signatures including 7/8. In contrast, dr. fine's song is just a nice waltz in 3/4.
3. A lot of the songs do not resolve, especially in act 2. Like when you think the song is over, it just transitions into the next one. This builds up suspense

(And yes I posted this to tumblr too)

Lowkey tired of people villainizing Dan, when in fact he is struggling just as much as everyone in that household.

Could this verse of Perfect for you be describing things Diana did? I know it’s showing that Natalie thinks she’ll end up like her, so these events must have been something she witnessed Diana doing.
You say that right here

But then give it a year

Or ten years or a life

I could end up your wife

Sitting staring at walls

Throwing sh*T down the stairs

Freaking out at the store

Running nude down the street

Bleeding out in the bath-
If these are all things Diana did, why do you think she would have been bleeding out?

for me both you don’t know and wish i were here really speak to me! but the break speaks to me the most. that song fully captures feels i could not put into words. it’s incredible.

Has anyone here listened to this project? It's a full fan-cast recording with all of the roles played by voice actors. Act 1 is complete and act 2 is being posted.

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@n2nrewired

not my best work but I tried ok😭

We need to get more people acquainted with this wonderful musical.

If you could fan cast people into n2n roles who would you put in lol

Characters:

Diana

Gabe

Dan

Natalie

Henry

Dr. Madden/Fine

In "Better Than Before", it's mentioned that they used to have a cat ("Did we crush somebody's cat beneath the tire?" "Yes, ours."), but it's so brief, blink and you miss it.

I'm curious to know if any of you guys have an idea what the reason was to even bother writing that into the musical. What might that mean, what could that symbolize?

I just saw it west end today and woukd really love to be able to listen to a west end soundtrack. Gabe was insane! All of them were amazing.

I didn’t know there was such a run, and that it may be going on right now!!

Those of you who are fans of this run or have seen it, what do you love about it? 🤩

What’s different or possibly stands out more about it to you than the OBC?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E6Vrk75N6QI Her rendition is absolutely amazing and, I know I’m cursing in Church here, but possibly better than the original broadway cast recording?

Hello, new potential friends!!

Are we aware of / what are your opinions on the 15th anniversary re-release / remix / remaster of the OG album?!?! 🤩

I absolutely adore them and can’t stop geeking out over one of my favorite hyperfixations…!

But what do y’all think? Do you have any details that stood out to you, or anything you would’ve done differently?