Best musical theatre songs about heartbreak- Page 2

[brdway411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 8:08pm

It's Never That Easy, Closer Than Ever.

[Magalamb]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 8:13pm

He Wanted a Girl from Giant

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 8:15pm

"Pretty Funny" & "Take Me Back" from Dogfight

[PattyO'Furniture]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 8:16pm

"I Still Believe" - MISS SAIGON
"Lion Tamer" - ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
"Stay with Me" - INTO THE WOODS
"Someday" - HUNCHBACK

[SharoninB]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 8:16pm

not really but whispering spring awakening

[Wickedlover56]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 9:25pm

Still Hurting-The Last Five Years
I Know the Truth-Aida
You Learn to Live Without-If/Then
Another Life-The Bridges of Madison County
Stay With Me-Into the Woods
We Do Not Belong Together-SITPWG
With You-Ghost
Telephone Wire-Fun Home
See I'm Smiling-The Last Five Years
Pretty Funny-Dogfight
Time Heals Everything-Mack and Mabel
You Don't Know This Man-Parade
Funeral-Parade

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 10:02pm

"Love in Vain" Kern/Robin
"Children Will Listen" INTO THE WOODS
"Losing My Mind" FOLLIES
"If I Have to Live Alone" BAKER'S WIFE
"Can't Help Loving Dat Man of Mine" (SHOW BOAT Act II, ballad version)
"I'll Be Seeing You" Fain/Kahal
"With So Little to be Sure Of" ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
"I Can Dream Can't I?" Sammy Fain
"The River" Bruce Springsteen
"The End of the Innocence" Don Henley

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 1:00am

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again -- POTO
Castle on a Cloud -- Les Miz
Not a Whole Song, but the one line reprise from MOTN to end the show -- "It's over now, the Music of the Night." -- POTO
Phantom Faces at the Window -- Les Miz
The one about innocents going off to war (to the tune of "Lovely Ladies") -- Les Miz
Anatevka Reprise when everyone is leaving the town -- Fiddler on the Roof
Edelweiss -- Sound of Music (because everyone in retrospect knows what the Anschluss started)
If/Then -- almost everything towards the end of the married with children timeline, from "I Hate You" on.

Note: It's the heartbreak in the middle of Les Miz that makes it so hard for me to watch, including "On My Own," which others have mentioned.

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 2:46am

Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin

The Man Who Got Away - A Star is Born (film)

Rodgers and Hart

Little Girl Blue - Jumbo
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Pal Joey
Spring is Here - I Married an Angel

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson

It Never Was You - Knickerbocker Holiday

[The Glenbuck Laird]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 2:56am

All those songs listed and you have missed

You'll Never Walk Alone, Carousel

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 4:08am

Walking Away Whistling (Greenwillow)

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 5:35am

Be on your own - Nine

Posted: 3/9/15 at 5:44am

Where in the World- The Secret Garden
Sirens (Reprise) + Farewell Good Angel- Jane Eyre
Just Another Love Story- Passion
Pretty Lies- The Count of Monte Cristo
Lisa Carew- Jekyll and Hyde
Anything out of Sydney Carton's mouth in a Tale of Two Cities
Gentil + Why- Beauty and the Beast (Not the Disney version)

I prefer ensembles/duets, and nostalgia may be what I am searching for more so than heartbreak, I was tempted to include songs like the Johanna reprise from Sweeney Todd and the Epilogue from Les Mis. I adore many of the songs already named as well, but am trying to find new things to bring up.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 6:07am

Not A Day Goes By ~ Merrily We Roll Along

[Tateh]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 7:11am

Tell me on a Sunday. Song and dance

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/9/15 at 9:25am

Cabaret can be staged as a response to heartbreak, but the song itself is not about heartbreak.

[DrewVandy]

Posted: 3/10/15 at 10:24pm

Til' I hear you sing from Love Never Dies is a show stopper
Til' I Hear You Sing- Final Performance (Ramin Karimloo)