Anyway Shout Out Once Again To Love Me Normally By Will Wood For Being One Of The Few Pieces Of Art I've

anyway shout out once again to love me normally by will wood for being one of the few pieces of art I've encountered that takes that feeling seriously.

I've always felt that whenever I say I wish I could be "normal," people rush to jump down my throat with the same adages- that "normal is boring," "there's no such thing as normal," whatever. and that's typically the moral pushed in anything that deals with the idea of feeling abnormal. which is usually well-intentioned, but when you go days of your life desperately wanting to know and understand normality, it just feels isolating. I always hated being told "just be yourself" for a slew of reasons, but mainly because it just... sort of does nothing.

which is why I love the song so much. it really sits with that dysphoric feeling (in a general sense), gives a voice to it, and lets you just feel without being told to just get over all that pain and shame. there's nothing about how your abnormality is actually a "superpower," nothing about how "normal is just a setting on the dryer," nothing about "everyone is a little quirky in their own way" (and even if they are, at least they're better at hiding it than I am, goddammit!). it allows you to process those emotions instead of instantly shutting them down. like, yeah. sometimes it does suck to feel you aren't normal. sometimes, you do want normalcy, even if you know it's just a "majority concept" you as an individual have no control over, as richard matheson put it. I think it's so, so important to be honest and recognize when that awful feeling is there- and this song has done that for me in a way that nothing else really has.

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will wood you word it so well

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If funded, the live remount will run this summer (July - August 2025) at the El Portal Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Following that, a digital version of the new performance will be made available at first to rent, then it'll hit YouTube a short time later. The show's Kickstarter campaign starts Saturday, April 26th, so bookmark the project and join us for the horror and jubilation!

This long awaited remount of THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS will be directed by Lauren Lopez. It will star:

Jon Matteson as Paul Matthews

Lauren Lopez as Emma Perkins

Joey Richter as Ted Spankoffski

Corey Dorris as Bill Woodward

Jaime Lyn Beatty as Charlotte Sweetly

Jeff Blim as Mr. Davidson & General MacNamara

Mariah Rose Faith Casillas as Zoey Chambers, Alice Woodward & The Greenpeace Girl

Will Branner as Professor Hidgens

THE GUY WHO DIDN'T LIKE MUSICALS features a book by Nick & Matt Lang, and music & lyrics by Jeff Blim. More info about the remount's creative team to come over the course of the Kickstarter campaign.

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