Best Unrequited Love Songs
Best Unrequited Love Songs
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#1Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:40pm
Ok, so I am in kinda of a mood, and want to put together a playlist of some of Broadway's great unrequited love songs, and I wanted some help from you all.
So far I have several songs from Zanna Don't,
"I'm not that Girl," from Wicked,
"Once in Awhile," from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I need some help thinking of other ones, it doesn't matter what show they are from.
Updated On: 3/30/09 at 05:40 PM
#2re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:48pm
'On my Own' - Les Mis
'Nothing like you've ever known' - Tell me on a Sunday/Song & Dance
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#3re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:50pm
Unworthy of Your Love
We Do Not Belong Together
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#4re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 5:55pmIs, "not a day goes by" from Merrily an unrequited love song?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#5re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 6:15pm
I'm not familiar with that song. I don't know that show well.
Updated On: 6/17/09 at 06:15 PM
#6re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 6:28pm"Loving You" from Passion
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#7re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 7:28pmI listened to "Loving You" on a loop for 2 weeks after my last break up. Yeah it's a good one if you've just gotten your heart ripped out of your chest and spit on by a cheating liar after 2 years of nothing but helping them and being there for them and giving yourself over completely, but hey. I'm not bitter at all!! lol
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#8re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 8:09pmJordan, sorry to hear about your situation..you are doing the right things by turning to showtunes for comfort!
#9re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:12pm
I Still Believe - Miss Saigon
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Mis
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ulkis
Chorus Member Joined: 6/5/06
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#11re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:24pm
If I Loved You - Carousel
Love Look Away - Flower Drum Song
As Long As He Needs Me - Oliver!
Where Is Love? - Oliver!
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#12re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:29pm
Unrequieted Love? You go to Lorenz Hart.
Glad To Be Unhappy from On Your Toes
Nobody's Heart from By Jupiter
Falling In Love With Love from The Boys From Syracuse
#13re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:34pm
In the context of the show, the love technically gets "requited," but... "Joanna" in Sweeney Todd seems like a great unrequited love song (albeit a bit stalker-ish).
"On My Own" is obviously the quintessential example of unrequited love though.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#14re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/30/09 at 11:56pmLove Look Away was the 1st one I thought of
#16re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 12:05am
Also, "I'll Be There," the only good song from Pirate Queen.
"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd.
#17re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 12:57am
A lot of the good ones have already been mentioned. I'm not sure if my list completely follows the theme, but here it is:
The Long Grift from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hey There from Pajama Game
Without You from RENT
How Many Women in the World? from LaChuisa's The Wild Party
An Old Fashioned Love Story from Lippa's The Wild Party, humorous as it is.
Dear Friend from She Loves Me
A few songs from Tell Me on a Sunday/Song & Dance
Lonely Pew from Reefer Madness, lol
Not from a show, but Kerry Butler's version of When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2 on her solo album.
And just because I'm a stickler for this. It's The Rocky Horror Show, not the Picture Show, that's the name of the film. Once in Awhile isn't in the film, it was recorded and shot but was left on the cutting room floor.
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"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#18re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 4:22am
Breaking up or having relationship troubles != unrequited love
So you can throw out "We Do Not Belong Together," "If I Loved You," "Without You," and "Lonely Pew." There are probably more that have been mentioned that really aren't about unrequited love.
Updated On: 3/31/09 at 04:22 AM
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#19re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 7:11am"If I Can't Love Her" BATB
"You know what really makes me mad? When girls think they can sing just because they are on the Disney Channel."
#20re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 8:53am
I agree with On My Own.
....but the world goes 'round
#21re: Best Unrequited Love Songs
Posted: 3/31/09 at 8:56amOn My Own is the epitome of an unrequited love song.
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