A musical that makes you sad...
A musical that makes you sad...
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#1A musical that makes you sad...
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:00am
I feel like everyone has the one musical that you just LOVE but it's hard to listen to the soundtrack alot or see the show cause it makes you feel things you dont want to feel.
Mine is Next to Normal.Its one of my favorite shows and is beautiful in every way but I dont listen to My CD of it often just because that whole show is just heart breaking, and than you realize there are real people who have to go through that experience.
If i am ever listening to that the soundtrack I always have to skip "how could i ever forget" the lyrics are just to painful to hear.
Anyone else have a show like that?
Updated On: 9/6/12 at 11:00 AM
#2That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:02am
Maybe a weird answer, but john & jen.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#2That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:21amIt's something of a paradox that our happiest moments are often the saddest to remember. So I find it with the shows that gave me the most joy-- they're at the same time the happiest and the saddest to return to.
#3That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:26amThe ones that make me the saddest are the ones I listen to the most.
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#4That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:31amfor me it is ... "The Light In The Piazza"
#5That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:45am
The Glorious Ones.
Don't know why, but it puts me in a deep funk.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#6That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 11:49am
Updated On: 9/6/12 at 11:49 AM
#7That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:10pm
Next to Normal
and I know it will sound very odd, but THE WIZ. Some of the music makes me sad.
Also THe SEcret Garden which I've been listening to.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#8That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:13pmWe'll Meet Tomorrow - Titanic
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#9That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:26pmMelodrama pushes buttons for a reason, and on that point, the Celtic-tinged instrumental music in the background of BLOOD BROTHERS (as opposed to a lot of the somewhat overstated pop songs) is unspeakably sad. The counterpoint that plays under much of the open sequence is just devastatingly forlorn. That said, "Sunday Afternoon" is a standout, one of the most searing snapshots of childhood loneliness ever written. If the rest of score had that simple, unassuming eloquence, it would be a better show. Not that they need my vote.
#10That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 12:32pm
"To, Too, and Two"
The preposition to refers to a place, direction, or position. To is also used before the verb in an infinitive. The adverb too means "also" or "excessively." Two refers to the number 2.
#11That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:10pm
I've been known to cry while driving in the car listening to show tunes, namely the following:
In the Heights, Billy Elliot, The Light in the Piazza, Next to Normal, Ragtime
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#12That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:38pm
I totally bawled my eyes out the first time I listened to act 2 of next to normal.
The finale of into the woods always gets me also.Ecspecially "no more"and "wicthe's lament".The witche's line: "ask a wolf's mother" is one of the best spoken lines ever!
This is going to sound really stupid but "solla sollew" in suessical breaks My heart.The lyrics are very touching and they all just want to find there own little heaven.
other shows that come to mind are:
-BARE finale
-west side story "now i have hate" that line is amazing.
-Rent "without you"
One of the cirque du soleil shows:Quidam.One of the acts has an aerial act and the performer commits suicide.
- Gypsy .
Updated On: 9/5/12 at 01:38 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#13That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:47pm
Updated On: 9/6/12 at 01:47 PM
#14That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:49pmFor me it's Ragtime without a doubt. I can't sit through the show without sobbing, and listening to the cast recording doesn't have quite the same effect but it's close. It's my favorite show ever but I just can't listen to it very often.
#15That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 1:56pmBilly Elliot.
#16That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 2:24pm
"Goodbye Until Tomorrow" from Last 5 Years is a killer. The complete joy and optimism that you know will come tumbling down.
"No Voice" from Bare is full of such loss and sorrow with no hope in sight. The build up to the final "no voice..." that just ends.
#17That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 2:30pmI actually find it easier to listen to sad musicals than it is to see them. The score of Parade is one of my favorites and I listen to it often but I don't think I'll want to sit through the whole show.
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#18That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 2:43pm"I am the one who loved you,I am the one who stayed.I am The one and you walked away....." god i was a mess when i heard those words LOL
#19That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:43pmI cry whenever I hear anything from Lestat, but only because I'm reminded of 2 and a half hours of my life that were needlessly wasted.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#20That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:47pmbroadway guy, I'll correct you on the hunch that you may legitimately think that that is how it is spelled. The term is "bawled" instead of "balled".
Born in a Ditch
Understudy Joined: 6/1/10
#21That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 3:51pmI completely agree with Next to Normal. Gets me sad every time. Also, I have a hard time listening to "No One Is Alone" from the 2003 Into the Woods revival without getting misty eyed. Damn you Laura Benanti.
bwaymizfit
Chorus Member Joined: 2/22/06
#22That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:13pmI'm glad somebody else mentioned Parade. The score is stunning, but I have a hard time listening to it straight through.
broadway guy
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/5/11
#23That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 4:30pmLOL thankyou Wynbish.Im going to change it now lol.I was never great in grammar lol
#24That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.
Posted: 9/5/12 at 5:13pm^Can you correct the thread title as well?
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