Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:37am

I can't really think of alot right now, but here are two that always make me tear up one way or another:

I'll Cover You(Reprise)- RENT

My Eyes Adored You- Jersey Boys

For Good- Wicked

Finale B- RENT

Through My Tears- CAMP (Ok, I'm not sure if people consider this to be a musical or not, but I love the movie anyways.)

[Kellie]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:39am

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[YankeeGal#24]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:43am

"I Only Have Eyes for You" from 42nd Street does it for me.

And just about anytime the lights go down, and an overture (ANY overture) starts to play...yeah, I get a little choked up then too.

[jasobres]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 10:47am

"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" and "For Good" get my vote.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 11:05am

Two that raise a lump in my throat are 'All the wasted time' and the finale reprise of 'Do you hear the people sing'

[ally_kay_on_broadway]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 12:49pm

"if i didn't believe in you" -L5Y

wow, i think i'm on a L5Y kick today

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:02pm

I agree with I'll Cover You (Reprise), and For Good.

I'd go on to say Your Daddy's Son and Till We Reach That Day (Ragtime).

Most of the Songs at the end of Into The Woods

[DancNdaMoonlite]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:44pm

Without You
I'll Cover You Reprise
Goodbye Love
What You Own
Your Eyes
Finale B
-RENT

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 1:50pm

No One is Alone- I start to bawl without doubt every time I hear this. This song really gets to me.
Not a Day Goes By
Ragtime Finale
Children will Listen
Make Them Hear You

Updated On: 1/24/06 at 01:50 PM

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:15pm

What I did for Love
For Good
You Can't Stop the beat (don't ask...)

[Marguerite Chauvelin]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:20pm

Brave Enough for Love- Jane Eyre, I don't know why but it makes me tear up. I *heart* James Barbour.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:23pm

Goodbye Until Tomorrow from L5Y always gets me.

[WickedRentEder]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:23pm

I'll Cover You (reprise) -- gets to me ALL the time
For Good
I dreamed a dream
One Song, Glory

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:29pm

Mama, Look Sharp - 1776
I Know the Truth - AIDA
Anyone Can Whistle - ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
I Wish I Could Go Back to College - AVE Q (personal reasons)
What's the Use of Wond'rin' - CAROUSEL
You'll Never Walk Alone - CAROUSEL
Being Alive - COMPANY
Too Many Mornings - FOLLIES
Losing My Mind - FOLLIES
Midnight Radio - HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
Children Will Listen - INTO THE WOODS
No One Is Alone - INTO THE WOODS
Something Wonderful - THE KING AND I
If I Didn't Believe in You - THE LAST 5 YEARS
Nobody Needs to Know - THE LAST 5 YEARS
Finale - THE LAST 5 YEARS
Finale - LES MISERABLES
The Beauty Is - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Dividing Day - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
The Light in the Piazza - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Love to Me - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Send in the Clowns - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
The Impossible Dream - MAN OF LA MANCHA
Not a Day Goes By - MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Nine - NINE
Unusual Way - NINE
Getting Tall - NINE
Finale - NINE
As Long as He Needs Me - OLIVER!
A Part of Us - ONCE ON THIS ISLAND
Wheels of a Dream - RAGTIME
Make them Hear You - RAGTIME
Finale B - RENT
When I Look at you - THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
She Was There - THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Tell Me On a Sunday - SONG AND DANCE
We Do Not Belong Together - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Beautiful - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Sunday - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Children and Art - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Move On - SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Johanna - SWEENEY TODD
Not While I'm Around - SWEENEY TODD
Final Sequence - SWEENEY TODD
Stranger in This World - TABOO
Out of Fashion - TABOO
Come on In From the Outside - TABOO
Petrified - TABOO

[Hanna from Hamburg]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 3:32pm

"You Walk With Me" - The Full Monty
"I Will Never Leave You" - Side Show

[kate2]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:16pm

"My Eyes Adored You" Jersey Boys

[Mamie]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:20pm

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" - Phantom

Makes me cry every single time I hear it.

[pianoman215]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:28pm

Say It Somehow/Love To Me/The Light In The Piazza - The Light In The Piazza

Sunday - Sunday In The Park With George

One Day More/I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables

Please - Miss Saigon (UK Version)

One - A Chorus Line

Defying Gravity - Wicked

Wheels Of A Dream/Back To Before/Make Them Hear You/Gliding/He Wanted To Say/Till We Reach That Day - Ragtime

Circle of Life - The Lion King



Updated On: 1/24/06 at 04:28 PM

[TLKfan]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:31pm

Off the top of my head:
Endless Night, Opening Number - The Lion King
Finale- Les Miserables
For Good- Wicked
Will I- Rent

There are probably tons of other ones, but I can't think of anything else.

[suddenlyseymour]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:38pm

I'll Cover You (reprise) - Rent
Somewhere That's Green (reprise) - Little Shop
A Little Fall of Rain and the Finale - Les Miserables

[GClef2]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:44pm

Move On from Sunday in the Park with George

[littleredridinghood]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:47pm

"Not While I'm Around," Sweeney Todd...though in the revival, it's so creepy (in a good way), so I didn't cry.

"Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You," The Last Five Years. God, Norbert. Stop being so damn good.

"Being Alive," Company...Sondheim just has a way of illustrating the human condition.

I sob hysterically through all of Les Miz and Light in the Piazza, and kind of the whole second act of Rent.

If the performer's crying, I generally start crying too.

[Color and Light]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 4:57pm

-Sweeney's version of "Johanna" in Sweeney Todd makes me so unbelievably sad everytime I hear it.

-"I'm Still Hurting" and "Goodbye Until Tomorrow" from The Last Five Years are almost painfully sad. Uggghhhh, but I love it.

[TabooWickedFan]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 5:00pm

I'll Cover You Reprise (Rent), For Good (Wicked), Out of Fashion (Taboo)

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 1/24/06 at 5:01pm

Your Eyes, I'll Cover You (reprise), Goodbye Love(I don't know why this one makes me cry) all from Rent
For Good from Wicked