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
Frustrated, Diana asks Dan why he even bothers to keep trying to save her. The same feeling is reflected in Natalie and Henry’s relationship as Henry keeps pursuing Natalie even though she wants to push him away. The song reinstates that Dan truly loves Diana despite everything.
In the production i...
[DIANA]
Why stay?
Why stay?
So steadfast and stolid
And stoic and solid
For day after every day
Why stay?
Why stay?
Why not simply give in and get on with living?
'Cause everyone knows you tried
But somehow something died
On the way
So tell me why you stay
[DIANA & NATALIE]
Why stay?
Why stay?
Enduring and coping and hurting and hoping
For day after fucking day
Why stay?
Why stay?
Why not simply end it?
We'd all comprehend it
And most of the world would say
"He's better off that way
To be free
And maybe so is she"
[DAN]
A promise a boy says forever
A boy says
[DAN & HENRY]
Whatever may come we'll come through
And who can know how when all I know now to be true
Is this promise that I make to you
[DAN]
A question, a boy wonders whether
[HENRY & DAN]
A boy wonders should I stay The two stay together the way that they stay
For year after year, for love or from fear Oh...
Either way Either way
[DAN]
That's the promise that I made that day
[HENRY]
Here's what I say
[DAN & HENRY]
To the girl who was burning so brightly
Like the light from Orion above
[DAN]
And still I will search for her nightly
If you see her, please send her my love
And the boy was a boy for all seasons
[HENRY]
The boy is long lost
[DAN]
That boy is long lost to me now
[HENRY]
So lost
[DAN & HENRY]
And the man has forgotten his reasons Forgotten his reasons
But the man still remembers his vow Now...
[DAN]
A promise, a man says forever
A man says I'll never regret or let you
The promise I made to stay and I stayed true
Knowing one day we'd remember that joy
You'd remember that girl, I'd remember that boy
'Til we do, the promise I made I'll make it brand new
The promise that I made to you
Why Stay?/A Promise was written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey.
Why Stay?/A Promise was produced by Joel Moss & Tom Kitt & David Stone & Kurt Deutsch.
J. Robert Spencer released Why Stay?/A Promise on Tue May 12 2009.