“It makes you want to reach out to people and connect.” “One of the biggest reactions from people who saw the show before was they wanted to call somebody they loved when they were done,” Townsend said. The opportunity to come back and work with it, he said, allows him to revisit the material at a different point in his life after a period of personal growth. Townsend called the musical, and his experience with it, cathartic.
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It’s full of humor and you cry and it’s full of beautiful emotions and I think that, if nothing else, it makes you think.” “People come in and they say, ‘A musical about bipolar ? That sounds like the worst idea ever.’ It’s not. “This isn’t a tragic, tragic musical, it’s a realistic musical – it’s about real life,” Townsend said. Townsend said he found it daunting when he approached the musical for the first time, like many people who might read about it before seeing it. That includes watching videos of people going through electroconvulsive therapy and reading extensive documentation about mental illnesses and behavioral disorders. To take on the complexity of mental illness, the entire cast has been doing extensive research on the subject prior to the show.
It came to me the first time at a time when I needed to be able to take that trip every day to deal with some things in my personal life, you know, some loss in my family, and I found it so helpful…It was something I needed.” It’s a demanding show to do, but I love the piece so much. “It’s an emotional journey, it’s a physical journey. “It’s not an easy show to get through,” Townsend said. Townsend, Malone and Egan were asked to come back and reprise their roles. The producers saw the production and “fell in love” with the show, Townsend said, and decided to bring it down to San Diego. Townsend initially undertook the challenges of the musical a year and a half ago, when he and two other cast members – Bets Malone and Eddie Egan – were cast in the show together in La Mirada.
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s book and lyrics transform the mundanely of suburban life and the struggles of dealing with loss into a riveting powerhouse contemporary musical. The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical tackles mental illness and crisis through the eyes of one family and its mother, Diana Goodman, as she struggles to cope with her bipolar disorder. The actor, fresh off the Jersey Boys National Tour, has been home for less than a month and is already in rehearsal for San Diego Musical Theatre’s production of “Next to Normal,” opening Sept. “All these things kind of just kept happening and there was no moment, until I suddenly found out I was in love with performing,” the Framingham, Mass. “I always call it my accidental career,” Townsend said, adding that he spent his college summers working on productions before eventually getting paid for his work. That was the start of what would become a global career in theatre, from singing with the Opera Pacific in Orange County to singing in Brazil to his current endeavor, playing the clean-cut dad Dan Goodman in San Diego Musical Theatre’s “Next to Normal.” “But that was the first time, and I just sort of got bit by the bug.” Terrible, I can’t even believe I did the show,” Townsend said. “I was terrible, terrible, there’s a video on Facebook. He ended up auditioning for the school musical that year, but he had nothing to sing, so he sang “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” – and he got cast. One afternoon in high school, Townsend’s best friend stayed after school to audition for the school musical “Something’s Afoot.” Townsend, who usually got a ride home with his friend, decided to wait for the ride anyway. Townsend stumbled upon musical theatre by complete accident. Photo by Samantha Tatro.Ĭarmel Valley actor Robert J. Townsend (far right) with other “Next to Normal” cast members and director Nick DeGruccio.
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