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seidenbros · 17 days

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Jack Wolfe's part of the cast of Next to Normal's performance at the Olivier Awards 2024

#jack wolfe #next to normal #caissie levy #eleanor worthington cox #olivier awards #gabe goodman #musical #I love him a normal amount #sorry the gifs are so big #but I needed them like this

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fandomandmore · 9 months

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Jack Wolfe as Gabe Next to Normal, London (Donmar Warehouse)

#next to normal #next to normal uk #n2n #next to normal musical #donmar warehouse #tom kitt #brian yorkey #jack wolfe #gabe goodman #i'm alive #musical #london west end

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falafel14 · 8 months

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Jack Wolfe as Gabe Goodman

So I've had a few "Tell me everything!" responses to my recent post about the Donmar Warehouse's stunning new production of Next to Normal. Knowing the audience here, I'll narrow my focus to writing about what I know my fellow 'Six of Crows' fans will most want to hear - Jack's role as Gabe. I won't be recapping the show itself, as I assume most folks reading this will have listened to the soundtrack, read the script, or watched a Broadway bootleg. Or at least I hope so, because below you will find MAJOR SPOILERS for Next to Normal and specifically the Donmar's staging of it.

Gabe is introduced to us as the Goodman's teenage son, who seemingly has a close affectionate relationship with his mother, Diana, but frosty relationships with his father Dan and sister Natalie, neither of whom acknowledge his presence. About thirty minutes in we are shown exactly why. Diana brings out an 18th birthday cake when the family have Nat's boyfriend Henry over for dinner and it is revealed that today would have been Gabe's birthday...if he'd been alive. But Gabe died when he was a baby and Diana has only been imagining him growing up all these years.

Up until this point, Jack has been playing Gabe as a cheeky rebellious teenager, but when he slinks back on stage to blow out the candles on his cake, he becomes a much more ethereal and impish presence. In I Am The One, his expression transforms from sweet and devoted when singing to his mom, to menacing and malevolent when singing to his dad. Gabe manifests as different personas for each member of his family and it's thrilling to watch as Jack shifts between them all. When Natalie comes downstairs to sing Superboy and the Invisible Girl we see Gabe as the cocky conceited older sibling, who seems to revel in being their mother's favorite.

In her next therapy session, Diana is asked to speak about her son and this is when we get Gabe's showstopping I'm Alive solo. This number really did raise the roof. I'll admit when I saw videos of Jack singing it at Tom Kitt's concert, I was worried he wasn't giving the song the necessary attack. But on stage he goes absolutely full-throttle with it. He starts at the top of the stairs with a mic stand, looking like the frontman of a rock band, then he brings the mic down, roaming all over the floor. At one point in the song, Natalie and Dan have an argument and Gabe comes to stand between them, looking amused as he passes the mic between them. However Gabe starts to lose some of his swagger as Diana's doctor suggests that - as 18 is the age that children typically leave home - maybe Diana should think about her son this way and finally let him go.

In the next scene, Diana is in the kitchen, clearing out Gabe's things. She holds up a baby-grow and then starts playing a music box she used to use to help Gabe to sleep. Gabe comes down the stairs with a rucksack and duffle bag, like he's a kid being kicked out of the house by his parents. Diana can't seem to go through with it as she pulls him into a dance and they end up hugging with Gabe's head tucked under his mother's chin, like a needy child. This leads into There's a World, a hauntingly beautiful song with a very sinister undertone as we learn this is Gabe leading Diana towards a suicide attempt. This song and Catch Me I'm Falling are an excellent display of Jack's high range (he'd make a wonderful Orpheus in Hadestown - the UK production is coming next year, so...please??)

Following the suicide attempt, Diana is given shock therapy and consequently loses her memories of the last eighteen years. In the early part of Act 2 and for the song Aftershocks, Gabe is up in one of the upstairs rooms, like he's been locked in a cell - not gone, but no longer able to get to Diana. When Diana finds and plays Gabe's music box, there's this very chilling sight of Gabe's silhouette, his hands pressing to the screen, as he sings along to the melody. The lighting here is eerily reminiscent of a sonogram. When Diana regains her memory of her lost son, Gabe breaks free of the room, comes down the stairs to sing his I'm Alive (Reprise) from on top of the kitchen counter. After his wife's relapse, Dan crumbles to the floor, his back pressed to the kitchen counter. Gabe disappears behind the other side of the counter, and (I'm told, I couldn't see from my angle) he sits in the same position as Dan. They both stay like this for about 15mins while scenes with Diana, Nat and Henry take place.

As Diana leaves, Dan finally rises from the floor and begins singing his I am the One (Reprise). In other videos of this song that I have seen, Gabe is played quite aggressively, stalking around Dan, goading his father into acknowledging him. Jack does this scene very differently and effectively. He stays behind the counter, his eyes downcast, his manner meek as if quietly pleading for his father's attention. When Dan yells out "Why didn't you go with her?!" Gabe leaps up onto the counter and throws his arms around Dan, desperately clinging to him. When they get to the chorus, Dan turns round to face Gabe, gripping his arms. Then at the end, Dan staggers back and tearfully says his son's name for the first time. When Gabe responds with his "Hi Dad", Jack's face his full of shocked awe. He plays it like a child realizing the father he thought hated him, loved him all along. It's a devastating moment that had everyone in tears.

After the song, Dan reaches out a hand towards Gabe, but he stops as Natalie comes downstairs. Dan tells Nat her mother has left and Nat asks him - "So it's just me and you for now?" and there's a hesitation where Dan glances at Gabe, who is still sitting on the counter. When Dan finally answers yes, it's just the two of them, Gabe's expression is accepting, not resentful like earlier in the show. As he leaves to go upstairs, Gabe gently touches Nat's hand, almost like an apology. Natalie gives the slightest reaction, as if she is sensing something. It's a beautiful resolve to Gabe's role, and when he appears for the last time for his verse in Light, he no longer feels like a malevolent spirit, but more like this serene angel watching over his family as they all try to heal and go on with lives.

This is honestly a star-making performance from Jack as a young musical theatre actor. And as much as I want Jack and the other Crows actors to be off filming their spinoff show once the strikes are resolved, I also feel strongly that Jack belongs on the stage. Between his acting, his presence and his vocals, he's sure to be a performer in demand in the West End. Here's hoping there's award nominations to come. He's deserving of them.

#jack wolfe #next to normal #gabe goodman #six of crows #wylan van eck

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montygatorguy · 1 month

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some stupid theatre memes i made in imgflip

enjoy

#and juliet #six the musical #beetlejuice #newsies #next to normal #heathers #ride the cyclone #memes #romeo montague #may bellerose #veronica sawyer #gabe goodman #ocean oconnell rosenberg #jack kelly #catherine parr six

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chaoticandsleepdeprived · 3 months

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I’m back on my Polaroid posters. Introducing my current hyperfixation that has been going on for months. Next to Normal. So obviously I had to make posters of the West end cast, now when all of them are returning.

( photos taking from the official released photos and the youtube trailer)

Songs used; You don’t know/I’ve been/I’m alive/Superboy and the Invisible girl/Perfect for you/Make up your mind:Catch me I’m falling

Also on another note I currently have 40 different notes in my note apps, where I have analysed almost the entire production. Do what you want with that information

( if you saw this before shh No you didnt)

#next to normal #n2n #polaroid posters #gabe goodman #natalie goodman #diana goodman #dan goodman #Jack Wolfe #caissie levy #jamie parker #eleanor worthington cox #musicals #west end

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kurthummelseyelashes · 13 days

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just remembered jack wolfe was wylan van eck wtf guys why did netflix make me forget my roots

#jack wolfe #wylan van eck #shadow and bone #six of crows #next to normal #grishaverse #gabe goodman

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wylanslcve · 8 months

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I NEED TO BE SEDATED SOMEBODY SEDATE ME RIGHT NOW

📸 theatrewithv (ig)

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astriexxe · 4 months

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Diana: I'll dream my love

Gabe: *keeps walking*

Diana: I'll live my love

Gabe: *keeps walking*

Diana: I'll die-

Gabe: *turns around* oh now we're fucking talking

#next to normal #listen #this just #i was just thinking about the lovely timing (at least in the donmar version idk abt broadway) on that line #where hes about to leave and that stops him #Gabe goodman #diana goodman #jack wolfe #cassie levy

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theamityelf · 1 year

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Another fun musical trope/archetype is the vaguely antagonistic, functionally symbolic character. Sometimes a narrator, but more essentially a character who is symbolic of some broader concept and also vaguely antagonistic.

Examples include Gabe from Next to Normal, Che from Evita, the Bullet from Hamilton...

Anyone got more examples?

#underrated musical tropes #musicals #broadway #next to normal #gabe goodman #gabriel goodman #che #evita #hamilton musical #hamilton #ariana debose

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0dd-sockz · 8 months

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I made these at 2am 😭😭

#next to normal #jack wolfe #eleanor worthington cox #natalie goodman #gabe goodman #donmar warehouse #i love this musical #someone help

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compulsivewriter · 27 days

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Close to payday thoughts...

Look, I honestly don't know if you'll agree with me here, but: Jack Wolfe as Connor Murphy.

(And yes, this is my reaction to him being cast as Moritz Stiefel in the London Spring Awakening 15th anniversary concert.)

#dear evan hansen #connor murphy #jack wolfe #next to normal #gabe goodman #spring awakening #moritz stiefel #that'll complete the trilogy of him playing ghosts in musicals #random musings of the compulsive writer

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fucked-up-mover-shaker · 2 years

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honestly could you blame me if i became a Aaron Tveit stan acc

he's perfect omfg

#les mis #les mierables #aaron tveit #next to normal #gabe goodman #enjolras #moulin rogue broadway #theatre #theater #musicals #musical theatre #broadway #performing arts

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woodofpath · 1 month

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i'm alive.

#next to normal #n2n #gabe goodman

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antinouswilder · 8 months

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Picked up a copy of the Next to Normal script when I saw it at the Donmar Warehouse and found this cut song in the back, presumably written as an alternative to the “imagining the ways you might have died” discussion at the start of Just Another Day, and suddenly it hurts all over again. Image descriptions under the cut:

Image ID: pictures of the Next to Normal script with the following song lyrics:

DIANA.

I worry you might die.

If you die

I swear to god I'll kill you.

Make a promise, will you?

Tell you why —

'Cause if you die, I die.

GABE.

Why worry? If I die,

Then I die.

So I might end up a sleeper —

No one stops the reaper,

So why try?

'Cause if I die, I die.

DIANA.

I die.

GABE.

I die.

DIANA.

I die.

GABE.

I die.

DIANA.

I die.

“If you die, I die” is underlined in pencil.

#next to normal #donmar warehouse #gabe goodman #diana goodman #jack wolfe #caissie levy #the song is called ‘so many ways to die’#I can’t find a single recording of it or any other evidence of its existence #I can see why it was cut? because I love (read: hate) the way Gabe is portrayed as desperately clinging to life #especially in the london version #whereas he’s more nonchalant in this — but this is still agonising

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sprnklersplashes · 1 month

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'superboy and the invisible girl is my favourite song from next to normal' oh cool bro tell me more about your experience being the glass child

#superboy and the invisible girl #next to normal #natalie goodman #gabe goodman

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beatriceeverytuesday-old · 1 year

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Sorry in advance to anyone who expected me to be a remotely normal Buffy blog but. I’m ALSO a theatre kid and IT’S NEXT TO NORMAL DAY!!!!!! This show rewired my entire brain it changed the way I think it changed how I cope it was EVERYTHING to teenage me actually just!!!!!!

#next to normal #n2n #broadway #musicals #theatre #natalie goodman #precious blorbo #gabe goodman #chaotic blorbo

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