Bring Him Home (and half the other songs from Les Miserable) Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (from Phantom of the Opera...especially the Swedish cast recording) It Never Was You Gethsemane Tell Me On A Sunday The Meadowlark Someone Else's Story (Chess) If I Can't Love Her (Beauty & The Beast)
"John 19:41" from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Doesn't have to have lyrics to be sad) "
ooh i totally agree
"A Little Fall of Rain"-Les Miserables "No More"-Into the Woods (i just relate to this song..its probably my favorite from the show) "One Song Glory"-Rent "I'll Cover You (Reprise)"-Rent "You Got to Die Sometime"-Falsettoland "Anatevka"-Fiddler on the Roof "Drink With Me"-Les Miserables "Final Sequence, the Death of Alonso Quijana"-Man of La Mancha "I Still Believe"-Miss Saigon "All I Ask of You (Reprise)"-Phantom
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
"I Remember" from Evening Primrose. If anyone wants a hint of what it's like to live in the closet, just listen to this song. Though not written about life in the closet, it comes closer than any song I've ever heard to evoking that experience.
Man, I'm about to cry just thinking of some of these songs! I'd have to add "Serenade" from Amour and "Please, Let's Not Even Say Hello" from Yeston's December Songs make me want to curl up and weep. As far as non-Broadway goes, a really good rendition of "The Trees on the Mountain" from Susannah and "The Black Swan" from The Medium are gorgeously poignant.
"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?"
I totally have to agree with What Would I Do from Falsettos. I played Marvin in that show, and had just lost one of my friends to AIDS and that song just killed me every nihgt. I don't know how I sang it. I just sang it at another memorial service for one of my best friends. I also agree with MAke them Hear You from Ragtime, but I would have to add the finale wot Act One of Ragtime. The funeral of Sarah....OH MY GOSH. No More Questions from Into The Woods, The funeral song from Parde, and also the song song by Mary's mother in Parde. There was a song in The Rothschilds, I think it was the Will....played Nathan Rothschild in that one and when the guy playing our father would sing that I would get choked up. I could keep going, there are tons of them.
"If I Didn't Believe In You" - L5Y "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" - L5Y "Nobody Needs To Know" - L5Y (seeing a pattern here? The whole story just makes me so sad lol) "I'd Give My Life For You" - Miss Saigon The Finale of Les Miserables
On My Own, I Dreamed a Dream, Finale, and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables-Les Mis The Light in the Piazza, Clara's interlude, Love to me-The light in the Piazza No More, No one is alone-Into the Woods I still Believe-Miss Saigon Role of a Lifetime, Absolution-Bare I'll Cover you Reprise-RENT All I ask of you (original and reprise)-POTO Maybe this time-Cabaret and I'm sure there are more..
This is wanting something
This is reaching for it
This is wishing that a moment would arrive- LITP
everybody goes down well with beer!-sweeney
Todd
Listen to the stories
Hear it in the songs
Angry men don't write the rules and guns don't right the wrongs!-Assassins