Next to Normal
Musical by Brian YorkeyWikipedia
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Sep 21, 2026
Jake GrearGUEST
I've gotten a lot of work doing that.
Jake GrearGUEST
The reason I worked on Next to Normal was because I emailed Randy and I was like, I don't know if there's a budget, but I will work on the show for free.
Jake GrearGUEST
It is my favorite show.
Jake GrearGUEST
I'll do anything.
Juliana TracyHOST
to our slow burn fire questioning.
Juliana TracyHOST
Musical you would love to direct one day.
Jake GrearGUEST
Next to Normal.
Jake GrearGUEST
I mean, I've worked on it before, but it's my favorite show.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
Emma Hunton has spent some time being wicked.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
She's been next to normal.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
She's found herself in a lot of good trouble
Emma HuntonGUEST
on Freeform.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
Okay.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
I'm not totally sure about the chronology of your career.
Jeffrey Scott ParsonsHOST
So when Freaky Friday comes around, are you already working professionally? Has Next to Normal already happened? When did you meet the show?
Emma HuntonGUEST
Next to normal has already happened.
Mickey JoHOST
Ellen Kane's been doing a lot of really exciting work on stage, but I think that Matilda movie is evidence enough that she is the right person for this project.
Mickey JoHOST
The award-winning creative team also includes orchestrations by Tony and Olivier award-winning Simon Hale of Spring Awakening and Girl from the North Country, music supervision by Nigel Lilly, the wonderful Nigel Lilly, of Follies, Next to Normal, and Newsies, with music arrangements by Simon Hale and Nigel Lilly, lighting by multi-award-winning designer Howard Hudson, credited to Aunt Juliet, Starlet Express, and Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, sound designs by Olivier and Tony Award-winning Ian Dickinson for Autograph of Company, Angels in America, and Jerusalem, Illusions by Chris Fisher.
Mickey JoHOST
This is great news.
Mickey JoHOST
An award-winning illusionist and visual effects designer and a member of the Magic Circle who has worked on Back to the Future and Stranger Things The First Shadow.
Lauren MorganHOST
crashes and they all die.
Lauren MorganHOST
And a magic, like, you know, fortune-telling machine brings them all back and they all... basically fight for who gets to come back to life oh my god and so they're each telling their story and it's really funky and fun and then one that I did see the pro shot of because shout out to PBS great performances they had it on there which is the Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Next to Normal it's just literally my new hyper fixation obsession I've been literally listening to the soundtrack all week long it is truly incredible without spoiling too much it's about grief and mental illness it's following a family where the mother has serious bipolar disorder so it's something light and fun yeah super fun it's like a rock musical the soundtrack's really really listenable it's really it's really incredible if you can find it uh steph thinks pbs got rid of it because it was like up for a while and i just found out about it but if you can find the pro shot for rent or to watch it is truly incredible like really compelling i felt really moved it's really good thanks and that's what i've been consuming this week Excellent.
Lauren MorganHOST
But what I also find interesting is our patrons.
Lauren MorganHOST
Love those guys.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
So many.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
I mean, I, my dream role that I say every time anyone asks me is, uh, Next to Normal.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
Um, Natalie w- is just, like, my dream role of- ... my life, that would be amazing.
Lizzy McAlpineGUEST
Spring Awakening would be amazing.
GavinHOST
The thing that I'm hoping is that this is just a style of show and of music in which our industry ebbs and flows through styles.
GavinHOST
And if you look at the early 2000s and if you look at some of the most popular shows of that time, like Avenue Q, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal being three examples.
GavinHOST
one of those shows has, like, high-belty stuff.
GavinHOST
And even if you're looking at, like, maybe one of the high-belty characters, like, yeah, the lead of the show in Next to Normal needs to be able to sing, like, insane.
GavinHOST
But as far as, like, young tenor boy, that role that Aaron Tveit played in Next to Normal... isn't you know you know if written today would have been much more challenging than it actually is yeah and now if you look at like three of the new musicals today i mean if you look at like from the last few years like the lost boys and the outsiders and shocked okay, cool, now two out of those three shows have these really high-belted, and I guess it's fine, like, whatever, I'm cherry-picking three shows, but if you just kind of look, if you look at how shows have evolved and scores have changed, we're shifting a lot more into, like, that's what people are really wanting to see, so that's what they're getting.
GavinHOST
and it's unfortunate for the performer that we have to bear kind of the brunt of that.
GavinHOST
And it's at our expense.
39 MINS LATER
GavinHOST
ragtime with Casey Levy.
Mickey JoHOST
I have met individuals before who have told me that they are holding the rights to a certain niche musical, and it can only be produced if they are part of it.
Mickey JoHOST
The rumor was for years that the rights to Next to Normal, which eventually received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, were being passed between such venues as the National Theater, who didn't use them in time, and then the Almeida, who also didn't use them in time.
Mickey JoHOST
And actually, in the world of seldom produced Sondheim-adjacent musicals, there was talk of an alleged bidding war happening when the rights to a London production of West Side Story became available, one which we now realize with the announcement last week has been won by the National Theater.
Mickey JoHOST
More on that later as well.
Kevin MinerHOST
I don't say nothing normal is happening here, but this is nothing but normal.
Kevin MinerHOST
What about Next to Normal, the famous musical about grieving parents and a mom with problems? Isn't that just the musical Wicked? There's that, too.
Kevin MinerHOST
I mean, it turns out every musical is just about grieving parents and a mom with problems, especially if you're Disney.
Odie MatthewsHOST
Relatable.
Ben StefanoffGUEST
The incredible Tom Kitt wrote
JoshHOST
the music, who wrote Next to Normal.
JoshHOST
There's no way of knowing.
JoshHOST
Hayley is going to message me and go, it was this person.
Pat HazellHOST
My guest today is a singer-songwriter and a musician who was a former member of the Brian May Band.
Pat HazellHOST
She toured with Michael Crawford in the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, she appeared in the West End plays Only the Lonely and Sunset Boulevard, and she was a stand-in for the Broadway cast of Next to Normal.
Pat HazellHOST
Her newest album, Kath & Seth, will be released this fall.
Pat HazellHOST
Stay tuned for my conversation with Netweaver and the Nightingale of New York, Katherine Porter.
43 MINS LATER
Pat HazellHOST
No, you are a really...
Pat HazellHOST
You know how to sing pretty.
Pat HazellHOST
But let me ask about Next to Normal because I know that you were a cast member and a stand-in and had learned this material, but that show is a very dramatic show.
Pat HazellHOST
It's amazing kind of story that I didn't expect to see in a musical.
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