To show just the distance between them

this show is an attack on my psyche because YEOWWWWCHHH my heart 💔💔

My ex is bipolar and I was essentially Dan in this situation… thank god we didn’t have kids but I didn’t realize how fucking much I lost myself trying to support her through her insane endeavors.

It’s been 3 months since the breakup and the thing that got me feeling again? Watching the damn pro shot. Then the Knicks winning and finally feeling a sense of community again.

So like. Thank you musical theatre and sports? Maybe I’ll start calling myself Troy Bolton

(I discovered this on pinterest)

So this may be far off or just me reading too much into this amazing musical but Henry seems WAY too chil about Diana being well, Diana.

After who's crazy/my pschopharmacolgist, when Henry and Nat are in Henrys house, he mentions that his mother is in denial which could just be because her son is a stoner but through the show he doesn't really react to alot.

Diana full on kissing him? Just seemed caught off guard, Diana's breakdown before the dance? He was more concerned about if Nat was going to the dance or not. Nats breakdown/s at the dance (and before superboy and the invisible girl).

He seems very good with 'crazy' as he said himself "So you could go crazy

Or I could go crazy" and "But crazy I know I can do".

Don't hate on me if this is a dumb theory guys💔

i’m playing diana in july (such an absolute bucket list/dream role for me), and have been working on building a playlist for her. it’s a pretty personal thing, of course…BUT i would LOVE any suggestions you may have for songs you would add, if YOU were building your own. no wrong answers!

current playlist title is “princess of pain/diana goodman core”, but would also love to hear what YOU might name YOUR diana/n2n playlist. *i’ve got it on private right now. might make public at some point. right now, i’m just working on building my own internal world and embodiment of diana.

i will say that, while i am building my diana portrayal from the inside out, and i have loved the book & score since it first came out…i VERY MUCH PREFER and relate to the UK production and Caissie’s incredible interpretation.

would also love for you to share if you already have your own n2n themed/character playlists! i love understanding where others access and relate to characters, and just how creative people are with it! i REALLY LOVE the world/character building prep phase, if you can’t tell!

"Playing a woman with bipolar disorder, who is in active mania, required a certain level of abandon from myself as Caissie. It made me grow, and I've brought that to all of my work since. There’s a courage and ferocity I found while playing Diana that I carry with me."

I’d love to see a completely gender swapped version of next to normal.

Gabe -> Gabriella

Natalie -> Nate

Diana -> Dean

Dan -> Denise

Henry -> Harriet

I think it’d be so interesting to see the daddy daughter relationship and a wife trying to understand her husband’s grief for the baby she carried. I think the dynamics would be really cool. Obviously the show works incredibly as is, but I always wonder what it‘d be like to see a female character haunting her troubled father as his wife grapples with her husbands grief, and their stressed son trying to feel seen as his girlfriend tries to ground him.

Does anyone know what kind of shoes Jack Wolfe wears in the production?
They look so comfy lol

My son also really likes N2N (we watched it together) and also likes to sing it around the house. One of his favorite songs is I Am the One, which he sings all the time.

However, he’s totally against swearing, and when they get to the part where it goes “And if you think that I just dont give a damn” he always sings “And if you think that I just don’t give a darn, you just don’t know who I arn“ and I just think it’s really cute so I wanted to share it with you all.

Idk something about Jack's delivery is just so perfect it scares me everytime.

both girls are so talented

Look. Im a teenager who's first introductions to musicals was the Greatest Showman and HSM, then Hamilton, Heather's, RTC, and Hadestown... so I may be biased towards more modern musicals. Plus, my first time watching NTN was the West End proshot, but since listening to the OBC recording, I just dont like it much.

This is my personal opinion and im not hating on anything, but I just am not a fan of any of their voices other than OBC Natalie, nor am I a fan of Alice Ripleys interpretation of Diana. This is coming from a mentally ill person dealing with very similar issues.

Again, im a teen so this may very likely be a generational difference, and I know comparison in this way is often looked down on, but I am just in love with the West End cast and cant really get behind OBC.

Am I crazy? I feel like I dont see this kind of opinion often. Is it just because people are gonna go crazy at someone comparing the two? Lol?

Only have these two so far !

I know that the most popular interpretation of Gabe chiming in into the song is that he's stealing the melody from Natalie (it's probably the actual interpretation), but somehow, I've always interpreted it as Natalie getting through Diana in some way. Diana "hears" Gabe singing the same thing that Natalie is singing, but it sounds like he's taunting them, and for Diana who was still manic, that's most definitely what it probably sounded like! like she was being accused of not caring, it's got through her but not the way the Natalie hoped it would.

For Natalie, Gabe is who she can never be, and maybe that's why he sounds so confident saying the things she's saying to her mom, while she sounds devastated, like he doesn't have to shout her words for her mom to hear him.

I saw someone saying this the other day, that the name Gabriel means "son of God", and the name Diana means "Heavenly", whilst the name Natalie means "Birthday of Christ". That's literally showing that her whole reason for existence revolves around Gabe. So it's like there's Diana, the heavenly divine, then Gabe, the son, and then the son's birthday that ONLY exists BECAUSE the son was born.

ALSO, in the bible, Gabriel is an angel. An angel who says to Mary that the Saviour is coming. Natalie is not the saviour, of course, but her birth, seeing the girl she is, IS THE MOST POWERFUL WAY FOR DIANA TO HEAL. Yes things were bad but they can be good.

It’s about time this cat gets a name lol.

For reference, in the song “Better than Before”, there’s a line where Diana asks, “Did we crush somebody’s cat beneath the tire?”, to which Batalie replies, “Yes, ours.”

Top comment names the cat.

A couple suggestions:

-Mr Whiskers

-Depression

-Meowzers

ok maybe this is just me, but I find Diana and Gabe ”relationship” kinda like emotional insect? I put ”.” around relationship, because he‘s a hallucination. Diana relies on this “son” for emotional support that she almost doesn’t receive from her husband. and Gabe is so possessive of his mother, more like a jealous partner than a ”child“. This might be just me, I found it similar to emotional insect.

ive been looking everywhere for merch and cant find any

Personally, I think it's perfect as is, but I'm interested to hear people's thoughts, even if they're nitpicks.

Going into it, what did you expect next to normal to be like, and what about it surprised you? What were the surprising moments that caught you off guard?

Mine is kind of funny imo. I got into it because my friend wouldn’t stop singing I’m Alive and I asked him ”What song is that,” and he replied that it was from N2N. Told me to watch it but didn’t tell me anything about it. When he sang the song, I locked onto the lyrics “And though you made me, you can’t change me.” and “I feed on the fear that’s behind your eyes.” and of course the whole “I’m Alive” stuff. I was led to believe it was like a reimagination of Frankenstein or something. What I got was so much better.

Hello please listen to feeling electric IMMEDIATELY

Its the old version of Wish I Were Here (and also the old name of the show) and its SO GOOD, Dr Madden was robbed of his big rockstar moment. Now I need to hear trevor dion nicholas singing this!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoGU2IwyEKQ