Most touching ballads?
Most touching ballads?
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#0Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:37amOther than the usual "omg For Good!" type songs, what do you feel are very deep and emotionally testing songs that seem to get you and you can really feel the emotion?
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#1re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:43am
a lot from sondheim:
being alive (company)
unworthy (assassins)
not a day goes by (...i forgot jeje)
no more (itw)
soooo many songs to pick from...there's also time heals everything from mack and mabel
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C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#2re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:45amone that comes quickly to mind is I hate the bus. Anika noni rose was 100% deserving of that tony
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#3re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:47am
i agree completely. beautiful performance.
mmm...another one that floors me is little lamb, i don't really know why i've never seen gypsy.
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CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#4re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:47am
Im bored and taking a break from packing so I'll play..... the following songs have a sentimental connection to me:
In His Eyes ~ J&H
Unusual Way ~ Nine
Without You ~ Rent
Written in the Stars ~ Aida
At the Ballet ~ ACL
Somewhere ~ WSS
Long Before I Knew You ~ Bells Are Ringing
See I'm Smiling ~ TL5Y
Still Hurting ~ TL5Y
Nobody Needs to Know ~ TL5Y
My Friend ~ The Life
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
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tagiunagi
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/05
#5re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:51amTake Me to the World - Evening Primrose
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wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#6re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 1:56am
soo many from aida...
i know the truth, a step too far, enchantment passing through (reprise)...
i also like shadowland and endless night from lion king
there's also the classics from les miz.
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#7re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:00amOHH i second the j&h love, plus 'without you' and 'somewhere'. aida in general just has some of the best music
#8re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:02am
Verge of a Kiss - Dracula
Moonfall - Mystery of Edwin Drood
Take Me as I Am - Jekyll and Hyde
No One is Alone - Into the Woods
"You just have to do what your voice tells you to do." -Linda Eder
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#9re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:04am
i'm packing too! what are you packing for tag?
angels arise from dance of the vampires is also pretty. i have no idea what the context is like but the harmonies are beautiful.
ooo losing my mind!! and unexpected song.
since i dont have you from grease is also cute.
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NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#10re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:14am
My #1 Most Beautiful Ballad: MOMMA LOOK SHARP -1776
Honorable Mention: Losing My Mind -Follies
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
#11re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:24amsun and moon from miss saigon gave me the chills, although, its not everyones cup of tea- just thought i'd throw that one out there
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#12re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:30amThats a beautiful song I find myself listening to quite a lot. especially since the entire show is so damn nice to listen to, even though a lot of people dont really like it, but I think that it was issues with the book
LaVieBoheme2
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#13re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:32amA lot of songs from The Last 5 Years were the first thing that came to my mind when I read the subject, and then "Without You" and "I'll Cover You (reprise)" from Rent, and almost all of the stuff from Light in the Piazza. Those are just the first that come to my mind.
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#14re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:43amooh yes! the last five years is perfect for this thread! 'Still hurting' is so depressing!! And i haven't even SEEN the show yet!
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
DanaeB
Swing Joined: 8/23/05
#15re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:45amHmm... The first one that comes to mind tonight is "On My Own" from Les Miserables. It's so beautiful yet so honest that it's painful. Gives me chills every time.
#16re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 2:56ammy fav from les mis is I Dreamed A Dream, gets me everytime.
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kas
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/05
#18re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 7:03am
tell me on a sunday is one of my all time favs
also, drink with me and stars
some girls and that song that timoune sings with her parents
send in the clowns
AngusN
Broadway Star Joined: 3/23/05
#19re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 7:51am
Different - Honk!
Unworthy of your Love - Assasins
Not a Day Goes By - Merrily we Roll Along
Being Alive - Company
Cover You (reprise) - Rent
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#21re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 10:48am
I hate to keep repeating but Aida has amazing songs, including "Enchantment Passing Through" and "I Know the Truth".
The Last 5 Years has "Still Hurting" and "If I Didn't Believe in You".
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4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
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2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#22re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 11:19am
i wish i could forget you - passion
my best girl -mame
if he walked into my life - mame
on my own -fame
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
#23re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 11:21am
Johanna- Sweeney Todd
This is the first song that came to my mind. Its heartbreaking...
Others:
Make Them Hear You
Move On
Being Alive
Not a Day Goes by
No one is Alone (I cry all the time when I hear this song from beginning to end...without fail!)
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Updated On: 8/27/05 at 11:21 AM
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Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/05
#24re: Most touching ballads?
Posted: 8/27/05 at 11:48am
Tell me On A Sunday always makes me cry. I will never forget the first time I heard Bernadette Peters sing it in Song and Dance. She had a terrible cold and so performed that night with a box of tissues in hand. When she finished "Tell Me On A Sunday", she could have passed out tissues to the entire audience . We were all sobbing.
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