Didn’t I See This Movie?

Alice Ripley & Louis Hobson * Track #17 On Next to Normal (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

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Alice Ripley

2009

Didn't I See This Movie? by Alice Ripley (Ft. Louis Hobson)

Release Date

Tue May 12 2009

Performed by

Alice RipleyLouis Hobson

Produced by

Joel Moss & Tom Kitt & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch

Writed by

Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey

About

This song is Diana’s protest to the ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) recommended to her by her doctor. She makes references to “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and famous faces who coped with depression like Sylvia Plath and Frances Farmer.

Upon learning what the next suggested step is to treat her...

Didn’t I See This Movie? Lyrics

[DIANA]
Didn't I see this movie
With McMurphy and the nurse?
That hospital was heavy
But this cuckoo's nest is worse
And isn't this the one where
In the end the good guys fry?
Didn't I see this movie
And didn't I cry?
Didn't I cry?

[DR. MADDEN, spoken]
The modern procedure's clean and simple. The electricity required is barely enough to light a hundred-watt bulb.

[DIANA]
What makes you think
I'd lose my mind for you?
I'm no sociopath
I'm no Sylvia Plath
I ain't no Frances Farmer
Kind of find for you
So stay out of my brain
I'm no princess of pain

Didn't I see this movie
Where the doctor looked like you?
Where the patient got impatient
And said "sorry, doc, I'm through."
I know where this is going
And I know what you're about
'Cause I have seen this movie
And I walked out
I walked out
I'm walking

Didn’t I See This Movie? Q&A

Who wrote Didn’t I See This Movie?'s ?

Didn’t I See This Movie? was written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey.

Who produced Didn’t I See This Movie?'s ?

Didn’t I See This Movie? was produced by Joel Moss & Tom Kitt & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch.