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just gonna squeeze these in if you don’t mind

@brekker._by._.brekker posted this on tiktok with that sad girl harmonising with her kitchen fan song and ISTFG Im going to start hunting these criminals

jazzpiano... <3 (you'll never guess what my Henry headcanon is !!)

natalie meaning 'christmas', natale domini referring to the birth of the lord, while gabriel is the archangel who announced the birth of jesus... yeah

fun little music analysis for yall but thinking about the chord in just another day where they sing "it hurts when i sayyyyyy"

so heres a bit of the official score. diana is the pink line, gabe is orange, and dan and natalie are blue

i always knew that the "say" is a dissonant chord (aka it clashes) but looking at the score it made me See some Things

diana sings a C while natalie and dan sing a D which clash with each other. they dont typically fit into a chord together

but GABE on the other hand sings an A. which fits into a chord with diana's note (a C is a third above A so naturally they fit nicely together)

so the way that diana and gabe are the only ones with a regular harmony while dan and nat create dissonance with her is a very subtle but super cool way to indicate show diana's dissonance with her family and how diana and gabe exist together separate to the rest of the family. and i just think it's pretty neat

I know you know who I am + A vision in blue

- Next To Normal (2025)

Everyone has been drawing this shot of Gabe, so obviously I wanted to join the club. But I was sad Natalie didn't get the same attention, so that needed to be amended. And then her hair probably took more time than the rest of both of them combined. Still a delight!

I've loved this show since I saw it opening night on Broadway in 2009, and I got to see this production live last year. And now the PBS recording of it is my new hyperfixation. Highly recommend it, but be warned: it tackles very heavy mental health topics. Be safe, take care of yourself. ♥

All my love to Jack Wolfe and Eleanor Worthington-Cox for portraying these characters so wonderfully.

Reference shots:

Been thinking lately about how Next to Normal would go if Gabe were a girl and the only change I've come up with so far is that she stays on stage during "Why Stay?/A Promise" and harmonizes/sings along with "To the girl who was burning so brightly/Like the light from Orion above"

"and if memory makes things better... well memory always does" ok then mr. repressed feelings 3000

I love how Henry soley exits to be Natalie's supportive boyfriend.

unpopular interpretation? regarding bway vs west end gabe goodman.

okay, im seeing a lot of posts comparing aaron tveit and jack wolfe as gabe, and the differences in their portrayals. a lot of people are chalking it up to jacks being more of a sad ghost, and aaron’s more of a malicious manifestation, which i don’t disagree with! however, i have always regarded gabe in both lenses since i first heard the show, so it was suprising to me that this was the interpretation. instead, i thought it had to do more with how times have changed since 2008 regarding male main characters. more under cut.

because next to normal takes place in the “modern day” i don’t think most of us think of it as a dated show, but visually, it most certainly is. in the original production, gabe spends most of the show in those y2k cross shirts, diana is almost entirely in skirts and tights, natalie is DEFINITELY a by-product of the “not like other girls” era (i can make a post on this, too)

but we know the relationship between diana and gabe is played some what as oedipal, because he’s an extension of herself. gabe is like the first victim of the draco malfoy affect. he’s evil? …but he’s hot! that’s why he pole dances!

in 2008, every love interest in a rom com was six feet tall, absolutely jacked, and possessive? this is the era of chad michael murray and singing at girls. this is the era of rom coms where every couple should’ve been in therapy. because we’ll never know what gave really would have looked like, he gets to be perfect! and possesive! and on the football team! because this was what was considered hot in 2008. it’s why aaron is in his boxers.

in 2025, the family dynamic is much more relaxed. diana wears jeans, because she’s a millennial and a mom and that makes sense. natalie gets to have fun outfits, because her wearing tights has nothing to do with how smart she is. but gabe? we don’t find men pushing you around hot anymore, thank god. so what is? the white boy of the month!! gabe isn’t possesive because that would scare the audience. there’s a world, for one, would become so much scarier. instead, he’s the white boy with the curly hair and the grandpa sweaters, perfectly engineered for the fangirls to make uwu edits about him, as they already are!

in order to understand diana’s grief and depression, one has to understand why gabe is compelling. why would we want to feel sympathy, want to root for him? and the quickest subconscious way to do that is visually. in 2008, it’s aaron with no clothes on. in 2025, it’s jack and the close ups on his eyes. and yet, they both manage to do the opposite as well. jack is genuinely scary to dan in im alive and i am the one. aaron is soft to diana in i dreamed a dance/there’s a world. it’s both at the same time, and two amazing performances!!

in this house, we love gabe goodman, for all the weird and fucked up that he is.

usually wouldn’t share edit here, but they’re the only thing on my mind atm. like holy shit their relationship is so complicated, so here’s nat and dan :)

apart from all the shit she’s done, it’s slightly weird having a 61 yr old play someone in their thirties even if it’s to evoke nostalgia

Breaking!!!

Alice Ripley will perform in an immersive production of Next to Normal in Argentina!

https://www.instagram.com/nexttonormalimmersive?igsh=MXF4MHJ2b2FxOTVr

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

Also, are we just going to ignore Dan starting to say ‘hopefully’ when Nat asks/assumes ‘so it’s just you and me for now?’ Then corrects himself to say ‘yeah’

Looking Gabe right in the eyes as he says it after, not only, finally acknowledging his existence (grief), but finally naming him?

He chose Nat, as he should, but OUCH

Imagine going to your big piano recital that is supposed to get you into Yale, your parents don't show up, you have a breakdown on stage, you go home and find out that your mom attempted suicide, and then when you see her three weeks later she has forgotten you.

if 'so anyway' has 100 fans I'm one of them if it has 1 fan it's me if it has no fans I'm dead

the world can be cruel to your kind vs i treat you more harshly than the world will both said by their fathers is the craziest wesper parallel of all time

steven sater posting from the uk spring awakening reunion has reminded me how much i love charlotte wakefield as wendla

Orpheus (Dónal Finn) and Eurydice (Grace Hodgett-Young) + Can't Keep Their Hands Off Each Other 🥺

Promises | Hadestown West End | 📹: @callmelasagna

entire n2n uk cast album just got added to my stagey playlist with one click, never kill yourself

idk why i haven’t noticed it until now but what a horrible mistake to use a shot from a performance dan was already in the kitchen and then cut to him running down the stairs

Headcanon: Natalie starts fully trusting Henry when she asked him "promise this will help?" and he answers "No". A lifetime of being told "this treatment will work" "this will make things better". Henry doesn't try to pretend to know what will help.

two gabe goodmans in my head,,, one played by aaron tveit screaming at me and telling me to kill myself, the other played by jack wolfe screaming at me and telling me he's gonna kill himself

jack wolfe reposting a hadestown edit

JACK WOLFE ORPHEUS AGENDA NEVER DIES

it honestly makes me so sad how isolated diana and dan are in their grief. the only two people in the world who can understand what theyre going through, and they just cannot reach each other. and a lot of it wasnt their fault. diana couldnt control the fact that the death of their son made her bipolar present. and it seems dan made the choice to focus on that part of it all, instead of dealing with his own grief. and in doing that it made it so diana also couldnt deal with her grief, because she felt alone in it, especially with the added fact of her mental illness, which dan was just never going to be able to fully understand. and that also probably made him feel alone, that diana was somewhere he couldnt reach.

i deeply believe they eventually find their way back to each other, idc what anyone says.

i am once again goodman sibling posting becaue i love them both so much

with a side of henry and natalie because ofc

does anyone remember that post that said gabe was put in ‘bottom jail’ (or something like that) during aftershocks?

as requested by @abottlvr 🫶

they should release a CD and have a dedication to everyone who thought it would be released last year only to be bamboozled by everyone’s least favorite marketing rebrand

N2N UK CAST ALBUM IN 8 DAYS HOLY SHITTTTT