This content was created by Kevin Surace. This content was uploaded by Kevin Surace. This is a YouTube video titled "Next To Normal Rehearsal - June 19, 2017" (uploaded/created 2017-06-20T22:35:38Z) containing a rehearsal excerpt from the rock musical Next to Normal. Two performers (labeled SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) trade sung/dialogue lines and fragments of lyrics addressing themes of mental health, medication, grief and relationships. The excerpt reads like a staged rehearsal or vocal run-through rather than a formal performance.
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And— Mozart's crazy. Flat fucking crazy. That shit I hear.
And I was a wild 25, and I loved a wife so alive, but now I believe I would settle for one who can drive.
My psychopharmacologist And I, it's like an odd romance, intense and very intimate. We do our dance. But I might be perfect. I'll make myself perfect, perfect for you. I miss the mountains high. I miss the lonely climb. Wandering through the wilderness and spending all my time. It's gonna be good. Jingle all the way.
It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. It's gonna be good. 2 weeks and it's all working just the way I knew it would. And I don't sit at work just waiting for the phone to ring. It's a good, good, good, good thing. He's been dead all these years and oh my love. He is not here. You don't know.
I know. I know you don't know. Yes, I know that you're hurting. I know that it's so good. I am.
I am the one who needs to forgive you, but I just still am. Just don't know. Superboy and Invisible Girl, son of steel and daughter of air.
He's a hero, a lover, a prince. She's not there. She's not there. She's not there. She's not there.
I've been there for the show, every high, every low. It's the worst we've ever known. She's been hurt and how, but I can't give up now. So alive, alive, yeah, yeah. I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive. That's it.
