The only theater songs that (I think) struck me as so beautiful they moved me to tears just listening to them:
"New Music" from Ragtime "Lesson #8" from Sunday in the Park with George "Move On" from Sunday in the Park with George "The Beauty Is" from Light in the Piazza "Will I?" from Rent "Johanna (Quartet)" from Sweeney
"Lesson #8," in particular, had me just sobbing one day -- both lyrically and with its musical beauty.
"Anytime (I Am There)" - Elegies "Sunday" - Sunday in the Park with George "My Heart is So Full of You" - The Most Happy Fella "The I Love You Song" - ...Spelling Bee "The Real Thing" - Harold and Maude "Moon, Emmie, and Stuart Trio" - Caroline, or Change "At the Ballet" - A Chorus Line
"Who Will Love Me As I Am" and "I Will Never Leave You" from Side Show
Almost anything from Next to Normal (the now-cut "Costco" and "Feeling Electric" are notable exceptions ~ I don't dislike them, they just don't reduce me to tears).
"Old Maid" and "Is It Really Me" from 110 in the Shade
"My Brother Lived in San Francisco" specifically Emily Skinner's version from her CD.
"Every Time You're Near" by Alice Ripley ~ found it on iTunes a couple of weeks ago and can hardly stop listening to it. BEAUTIFUL.
Then if we're talking tears of laughter, "I Could Always Go To You" by Alice and Emily on Emily's CD...and the hidden tracks on their two duets CDs. :)
Experience live theater. Experience paintings. Experience books. Live, look and listen like artists! ~ imaginethis
LIVE THAT LESSON!!!!!!
For Good-Wicked This song has always made me cry(especially with Stephanie and Annaleigh singing it live) but just 2 days ago I said goodbye to my best friend. She decided it was time to move on without me. So now I cry ALOT when I hear it but it's sort of like therapy for me. LOL
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
"Sunday" - SITPWG "Move On" - SITPWG "I Love You Song" - Spelling Bee "Are You There" - Bare Overture - Light in the Piazza "Dividing Day" - Light in the Piazza "Children Will Listen" - Into the Woods "You Daddy's Son" - Ragtime "Being Alive" - Company
A lot of you have the same tastes in emotional music!
Oh god, like half the bare recording. I already said Role of a Lifetime, but also:
Absolution Bare See Me No Voice
and then... Pray- Once on this Island Ill Cover You Reprise- Rent Left Behind- Spring Awakening Johanna reprise- Sweeney Todd First You Dream-Steel Pier Those You've Known- Spring Awakening Forever Yours- Once on this Island
"I told you, NO Rodgers and Hammerstein!"- Bart Simpson
I had lost a classmate a couple of days before I saw WICKED and just hearing "For Good" made me break down. It always does but it was even more emotional for me then.
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music Around the World - Grey Gardens In Buddy's Eyes - Follies Move On - Sunday in the Park With George Finale B - RENT Goodbye Until Tomorrow - The Last 5 Years
And I cried a little during Everything's Coming Up Roses this Saturday at Gypsy...there's just something about it that really gets to me.
-Left Behind and Those You've Known from Spring Awakening -pretty much the entire second act of Bare, but particularly See Me, Once Upon a Time, Bare, Absolution, and No Voice (haha, I think I pretty much just named half of the act! But seriosuly, that show is like DEATH) -Some Things Are Meant to Be from Little Women -I'll Cover You (reprise) from RENT -For Good from Wicked -Being Alive from Company (Raul style ) -Nobody Needs to Know from Last 5 Years -The entire ending of Next to Normal from I'm Alive (reprise) on. But especially Everything and So Anyway into I am the One (reprise) into Let there Be Light (reprise). This is another show that is just like death, basically.
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
I feel the same way about Amazing Grace cause of both my grandmothers. They played it at both the funerals
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
I don't iron his shirts I don't sew on his buttons I don't know all the jokes he tells or the songs he hums Though I may hold him all through the night He may not be here when the morning comes
I don't pick out his ties Or expect his tomorrows But I feel when he's in my arms, he's where he wants to be We have no memories bittersweet with time And I doubt if he'll spend New Year's Eve with me
I don't share his name I don't wear his ring There's no piece of paper saying that he's mine But he says he loves me and I believe it's true Doesn't that make someone belong to you?
So I don't share his name So I don't wear his ring So there's no piece of paper saying that he's mine So we don't have the memories I've had enough memories I've washed enough mornings I've dried enough evenings I've had enough birthdays to know what I want
Life is anyone's guess It's a constant surprise Though you don't plan to fall in love When you fall...you fall I'd rather have fifty percent of him Or any percent of him Than all of anybody else at all
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
Definitely "I Hate the Bus" from CAROLINE, OR CHANGE (Emmie's "the day come soon, I'll pack up the nothing I own..." is pretty heart-wrenching), and of course the whole "Lot's Wife" scene, beginning with "Sunday Morning" all the way through "Salty Teardrops." "Sunday"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE, I lose it when all the characters bow to George, it gets me every time. "Move On"-SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE "Too Many Mornings"-FOLLIES "Shall We Dance?"-THE KING & I, the second the King holds Anna by the waist, and she just loses it and sighs "yes" and then the magnificent orchestra begins with that beautiful dance music and they start waltzing together...it's a perfect moment. "Simple"-NINE "Another Winter in a Summer Town"-GREY GARDENS "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"-DREAMGIRLS "September Song"-as performed in LOVEMUSIK "Time Heals Everything"-MACK & MABEL "I Wish I Could Forget You"-PASSION "No One Has Ever Loved Me"-PASSION, only when Fosca starts singing, it breaks my heart. "Whoever You Are"-PROMISES PROMISES, hits too close to home. "Tell Me On a Sunday"-SONG & DANCE, as performed by Bernadette Peters.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
The grand list of songs that make me all sobby... and there are a lot!
Bare- Role of a Lifetime/See Me/Warning/Bare Les Mis- I Dreamed a Dream (nearly every time), A Little Fall of Rain Next to Normal- How Could I Ever Forget/Next to Normal Ragtime- Back to Before/Make them Hear You Rent- depending on the day Glory/Another Day/Will I?/Without You/ICYR/Goodbye Love/Finale B (the line "Thank God this moment's not the last has become Pavlovian with the tears) Spring Awakening- The Dark I Know Well/Left Behind/Those You've Known (always!) The Last Five Years- Still hurting Tick Tick Boom- Johnny Can't Decide/Why/See Her Smile Wicked- I'm Not That Girl/Defying Gravity/No Good Deed/For Good
I don't always cry when I hear these songs but catch me on the wrong day and any could trip me up!