#next to normal

[profiad]

Catch me I'm falling

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[sadgrass123]

OP doing the lords work 🙏

EDIT: PLEASE REBLOG THIS EVEN IF YOU DONT NEED IT IM DESPERATELY TRYING TO GET IT TO PPL WHO WANT IT 😭

NEXT TO NORMAL PROSHOT if you dont want to get a vpn with american servers or dont want to wait until cinema release or are worried pbs will take the it down once there is a cinema release heres the whole thing!!! i screen recording the whole thing in chunks and edited them together as seemlessly as possible so there shouldnt be any noticable interruptions. if i try to post this one more time on youtube they will hunt me down so spreading the file itself will have to suffice

[arcticwolf144]

Gabe as a manifestation of grief also contains all his family’s longing for what he could have been. I love the idea that, when he and Natalie have their moment at the very end, it’s because she for the first time wonders what it would be like to have her older brother with her. Her family has just fallen apart, it’s just her and her father alone in the house and she’s feeling a whole mess of emotions as to what her life will look like from now on. And maybe it would have been comforting to have a sibling at that moment who had grown up with her and could perhaps understand what she was feeling. I know this is probably a bit of a reach but I love the interpretation that this is why Gabe touches Natalie’s hand here and she feels it. Because for the first time she’s missing him too.

[giiyus]

moments that i find interesting in next to normal

the chaoticness of the choreography matching to the lyrics the cast sings here really speaks to the dancer part of my brain

gabe touches diana's hand up to her wrist because he's offering her a way to join him (by having her cut her wrists)

dan repeatedly tapping his phone at the tap to pay device while singing "and me, i'm just tired, tired, tired, tired" is such a unique modern detail that i really like

gabe's silhouette lingers behind this screen until im alive reprise to show that he's always in the back of diana's mind even if he's not present which is such a good blocking decision

dan reaching for diana while diana reaches for gabe will never not hurt

the emotional difference between henry smoking his apple while the whole goodman family goes through it downstairs during superboy and the invisible girl will always make me giggle a bit

i just love the counterbalancing diana and gabe do here. they are both on the edge and only holding on because they need each other to survive

[blueathn]

I am the one who watched while you died

[howtonerdoutovereverything]

I wish the new production ended with this oh my GOD

It’s important to me that the new N2N fans know that the bway production ends with Natalie’s birthday

[aejiee]

Forgot to post this but 🙇‍♀️ ive been obsessed with next to normal (and jack wolfe cough cough... id never even heard of the unlikely pilgrimage of harold fry until yesterday) but yeah i drew this and posted to instagram and he liked the post 😭🙏 still in (after)shock

[blond-shell]

NEXT TO NORMAL Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Natalie Goodman

[not-mary-sue]

Real Gabe's grave is likely rarely visited because his mother can't accept he's dead, his father can barely face acknowledging him at all, and his sister is too afraid to ask either where he is.

[satan-wishes-he-was-me]

how gabe joins in towards the end of super boy and the invisible girl like she can’t even have this song to herself he’s always there shadowing her and haunting her…

[copykangaroo]

Jack Wolfe deciding they wanted to play Gabe as a real person with real emotions is I think objectively the best choice. like I don’t think Gabe is real at all, but we see Gabe from Diana’s perspective for most of the musical and to Diana he is a real person with real emotions, so it makes sense to play him that way and when we don’t see him from Diana’s perspective (in songs like “I’ve Been” and “I Am The One (Reprise)”) the emotions that Gabe portrays (sadness and guilt in “I’ve Been” and anger and desperation in “I Am The One (Reprise)”) are those of Dan. They’re all the feelings that Dan has actively been repressing showing you that Gabe is grief personified. like i feel as though if Gabe were played as simply a device for Diana’s mental illness or as purely sort of sinister and vindictive, it takes away the fact that navigating mental illness and grief is extremely difficult and by Gabe being portrayed as a real person it makes it easier for the audience to see why the Goodmans make the choices they do and sympathize with them rather than it being clear when something is a “bad” choice because we have been viewing Gabe as sinister and simply Diana’s illness.

[epicb00knerd]

REAL ITS LIKE IN MY TOP 5 N2N SONGS AND NO ONE TAPKS ABOUT IT

the n2n fandom do not talk about Aftershocks enough

[dontyouknowemma-itsyou]

Gabe wears the same gray hoodie Diana once wore in a flashback, when she was pregnant with him. What was once hers becomes his, turning the hoodie into a quiet symbol of their bond. It ties past to present, showing how deeply her grief and love are tied to him.

[eleftherian]

ok but when diana said “I love you as much as I can” to natalie it fckin broke me

[curiouslymyown]

Jack Wolfe knows he has a wide-eyed & innocent face and he WEAPONISES IT

[crazygirleddie]

Eleanor Worthington-Cox as Natalie Goodman Next To Normal | “Superboy and The Invisible Girl”