I Dreamed A Dream-Les Miserables "but there are dreams that can not be/and there are storms we can not weather!" (that line always reduces me to tears)
One Day More!-Les Miserables
the whole ending of The Phantom of the Opera "it's over now, the music of the night"(sob)
I Will Never Leave You-Side Show
Lot's Wife-Caroline, or Change "Caroline, Caroline, from the evil she done, Lord, set her free. Set her free. SET ME FREE!"(wailing)
I Hate the Bus-Caroline, or Change "I'll pack up the nothing I own" "and I'll live in my house and I'll make it okay, by myself" (this song always gives me a hard cry)
A Little Fall of Rain-Les Miserables
Walk on - Carousel
The Theme from Somewhere in Time
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Mis
For Good- Wicked
Chorus Member Joined: 2/2/08
i'm always a mess the second half of rent
The second time I saw Rent for some reason I lost it from Will I? to the end...
I also cry when I hear Julia McKenzie singing I Dreamed A Dream
or
Judi Dench in A Little Night Music
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
Everybody Likes You - Carnival
Her Face - Carnival
Last Night of the World - Miss Saigon
Bring Him Home - Les Miz
They Were You - Fantasticks
Little Lost Girl - Christine
i wish i could go back to college- avenue q
especially when he says "I wish i had taken more pictures"
sad =(
The end of "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown (I am a sucker for harmonies)
"Some Things Are Meant To Be" from Little Women
"Stay With Me" from Into the Woods
The overture for Peter Pan with Mary Martin...for sentimental value...
any song from "Beauty and the Beast"
"Music That Makes Me Dance" from Funny Girl
Ruthie Henshall's Fantine just makes me weep.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
Will I? - Rent
Finishing the Hat - Sunday in the Park With George
Being Alive - Company
Epiphany & Johanna (act 2) - Sweeney Todd
Why - Tick, Tick... Boom!
A Little Fall of Rain & One Day More - Les Mis
Pertified & Stranger in This World - Taboo
Ahh, so many!
Show People Reprise from Curtains
A Little Fall of Rain from Les Miserables
Some Things Are Meant to Be from Little Women
You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel
Swing Joined: 6/27/07
Finale B and Another Day from RENT. Those two are always the most emotional for me because they just bring back the best memories of seeing my favorite show at the Nederlander. So surreal.
It's funny but the original poster asked if there was any music that was just so beautiful that it made you cry. The first three pieces of music that came to my mind all came from films - not theatre. They are Tara's Theme (Gone With the Wind), the theme from Steel Magnolias, and the theme from To Kill a Mockingbird. There is one piece that literally brings me to tears from the start and it is from the stage - Grandma's Song from Billy Elliot. It tears my heart out. But it's the lyrics - not the music.
Cabaret- Cabaret
My Child Will Forgive Me - Parade
The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square - Ragtime (I only cry at the line 'My brother, you are with us now!')
I Will Never Leave You - Side Show
A Little Fall of Rain - Les Miz (But only when sung by Lea Michele and John Lloyd Young.)
Around the World - Grey Gardens
This is Not Over Yet - Parade
There were only a few times I've actually became tear-y in a theatre (I usually don't in general!);
"A Little Fall of Rain" - upon my first seeing it live (I knew Eponine died,...but a beautiful song!)
"Move On" & especially "We Do Not Belong Together" - the latter which Jenna Russell really pushed it to me!
Others:
"The Graveyard" - Jane Eyre ~ The Musical
"Rain" - Jane Eyre ~ The Musical Cast Recording (It was cut from the show I believe,...and I have no idea why I get emotional with it??!!)
"Evermore Without You" - Woman in White
"If Dreams Came True" - A Tale of Two Cities
"Let Her Be a Child" - A Tale of Two Cities
"Reflection" - A Tale of Two Cities
"In His Eyes" - Mostly Lucy's parts, as well as "A New Life"'s beginning...from Jekyll & HYDE.
"I'll Forget You" and "When I Look At You" - the first when done correctly & well acted, the second if well directed...from The Scarlet Pimpernel.
"I Still Believe" - Miss Saigon (again, just mostly Kim's parts!)
Just thinking about some of the songs listed in this thread is making me choke up. Most (if not all of mine, I believe) are listed, but:
"Why" tick, tick... BOOM!
"Still Hurting" Last 5 Years
"For Good" Wicked
"I'll Cover You" Rent
"Alabanza" In the Heights
all made me cry at first listen, due to various external factors, and now I can't hear them without a tear or two.
Sunday in the Park with George- Finishing the Hat, Move On, Lesson #8
Company- Being Alive (especially when Raul starts to sing, "Somebody hold me too close..")
The Last 5 Years- Still Hurting, See I'm Smiling, Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You
A Chorus Line- At the Ballet (mainly Maggie's part)
Avenue Q- There's A Fine, Fine Line
Into the Woods- Children Will Listen
Rent- I'll Cover You (Reprise), Goodbye Love
Featured Actor Joined: 9/4/07
The final notes of the Gypsy score being played at the St. James on 1/11/09.
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