Original Broadway Cast of Next To Normal
Alice Ripley & Aaron Tveit & J. Robert Spencer & Jennifer Damiano & Louis Hobson & Adam Chanler-Berat
Jennifer Damiano
J. Robert Spencer & Louis Hobson & Alice Ripley & Jennifer Damiano & Aaron Tveit & Adam Chanler-Berat
Jennifer Damiano & Adam Chanler-Berat
Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley & Aaron Tveit & Adam Chanler-Berat & Jennifer Damiano & J. Robert Spencer
J. Robert Spencer
Alice Ripley
J. Robert Spencer & Alice Ripley & Aaron Tveit
Jennifer Damiano & Alice Ripley & Aaron Tveit
Aaron Tveit
Alice Ripley & Jennifer Damiano & J. Robert Spencer & Aaron Tveit & Louis Hobson
Alice Ripley & Aaron Tveit
Aaron Tveit
J. Robert Spencer & Aaron Tveit
Alice Ripley & Louis Hobson
J. Robert Spencer & Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley & Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Damiano & J. Robert Spencer & Alice Ripley
Adam Chanler-Berat & Jennifer Damiano
Alice Ripley & J. Robert Spencer & Louis Hobson
Louis Hobson & J. Robert Spencer & Jennifer Damiano & Alice Ripley
Aaron Tveit & Alice Ripley
Original Broadway Cast of Next To Normal & Adam Chanler-Berat & Jennifer Damiano
Louis Hobson & Alice Ripley
J. Robert Spencer & Alice Ripley
J. Robert Spencer & Jennifer Damiano & Alice Ripley
J. Robert Spencer & Adam Chanler-Berat & Jennifer Damiano & Alice Ripley
Aaron Tveit
Alice Ripley
Louis Hobson & Aaron Tveit & Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley & Jennifer Damiano
Jennifer Damiano & Adam Chanler-Berat
Original Broadway Cast of Next To Normal & Alice Ripley
J. Robert Spencer & Aaron Tveit
Aaron Tveit & Jennifer Damiano & J. Robert Spencer & Alice Ripley
In this song, Diana lets out frustration at the constant guessing and trial and error of different treatment. The ECT was meant to be the treatment that finally did it so when this didn’t work she finally snapped. The title of this song has a double meaning. It refers to the metaphorical “Break” tha...
[DIANA]
They told me that the wiring
Was somehow all misfiring
And screwing up the signals in my brain
And then they told me chemistry
The juice and not the circuitry
Was mixing up and making me insane
What happens when the burn has healed, but the skin has not regrown?
What happens when the cast, at last, comes off
And then you find the break was always in another bone?
They tried a million meds and
They strapped me to their beds and
They shrugged and told me, "That's the way it goes"
But finally you hit it!
I asked you just what did it
You shrugged and said that no one really knows
What happens if the medicine wasn't really in control?
What happens if the cut, the burn, the break
Was never in my brain, or in my blood, but in my soul?
What happens if the cut, the burn, the break
Was never in my brain, or in my blood, but in my soul?
The Break was written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey.
The Break was produced by Tom Kitt & Joel Moss & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch.
Alice Ripley released The Break on Tue May 12 2009.