Best musical theatre songs about heartbreak

[Xxxbroadway]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 3:58pm

List them please

[Bilbo3]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 4:04pm

There's a fine line - Avenue Q

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 4:04pm

But You Go On - Annie Warbucks.

[ggersten]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 4:22pm

The Party's Over - Bells Are Ringing
and I think there's a song in some musical about France in the 1800s, but I have a miserable memory for such things on my own.

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:06pm

Title song from Cabaret.

[NJ_BroadwayGirl]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:08pm

"I'm Not That Girl" - Wicked

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:16pm

Fifty Percent - Ballroom
Time Heals Everything - Mack and Mabel
The Strongest Man In The World - Superman

[mar6411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:20pm

This Nearly Was Mine - South Pacific

Cabaret?? Doesn't strike me as heartbreak.

[philly03]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:21pm

Evermore Without You - The Woman in White
Cute Boys with Short Haircuts - Vanities
If Dreams Came True - A Tale of Two Cities

[sabrelady]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:23pm

Love Look Away- Flower Drum Song


Losing My Mind- Follies

The Right Girl- Follies


and in a vicious kinda way- Will I leave You? -Follies







Updated On: 3/8/15 at 05:23 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:26pm

"Cabaret?? Doesn't strike me as heartbreak."

..............what else does it strike you as? It's probably the song that best defines heartbreak, though more over the reality of life than over Cliff.

[mar6411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:33pm

It strikes me as being about life. Get up, get out, live. That's how I have always listened to it. Has never crossed my mind as heartbreak.

Just curious - listening to music we all get our own feelings. To each his own.

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:43pm

Have you seen the show or just listened to the song? It's much more evident if you watch the show.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 5:43pm

There Goes My Life - A Mother's Kisses - Closed out of town.

[mar6411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 6:17pm

I have seen the movie, seen the show and listened to it outside of both.

But thanks for letting me know that I'm wrong. No problem.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 6:18pm

Always Starting Over - If/Then
I'm Here - The Color Purple
Let the Sun Shine In - Hair
With You - Ghost
You Must Love Me - Evita
And I am Telling You I'm Not Going - Dreamgirls
Lot's Wife - Caroline, or Change
It All Fades Away - The Bridges of Madison County
Electricity - Billy Elliot
Hold Me In Your Heart - Kinky Boots
All I Ask of You (Reprise) - The Phantom of the Opera
Your Eyes - Rent
Those You've Known - Spring Awakening
I'd Give My Life for You - Miss Saigon

[Fantod]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 6:31pm

I didn't say you were wrong. We both just interpret the song differently. I said that because the lyrics of the song are, in my view, different from the meaning of the song.

[jawjuhh]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:10pm

Still Hurting - The Last Five Years
Your Daddy's Son - Ragtime
Written In the Stars - Aida
I Know The Truth - Aida

[jawjuhh]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:10pm

Still Hurting - The Last Five Years
Your Daddy's Son - Ragtime
Written In the Stars - Aida
I Know The Truth - Aida

[mar6411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:18pm

Fantod - for me, as I said earlier, it's how it feels. I'm not about interpreting the lyrics. It's how it feels when I hear it and when I sing it (or hum it since my voice leaves a lot to be desired).

Must be a left brain/right brain thing. I have no vested interest in caring about it - it just struck me when I saw Cabaret. On the plus side, I've been humming it since I read it in this thread. And it makes me happy. Go figure. But I'll concede I'm not a student of theater and music. I just feel it.

Knew I shouldn't have commented. Carry on.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:19pm

I've never been sure exactly how to read Cabaret, since it's a diagetic number that comments ironically on the larger world of the show. On the one hand, it's about pitching yourself to the wind and living a freewheeling lifestyle, not worried about where you'll land or how long you'll live, and poo-pooing anyone who tries to stop you. On the other hand, it's a commentary on the way people let the rising Nazi party off the hook as they barreled into the Holocaust. Sometimes Sally sings it triumphantly, as if she's desperately brushed aside everything that's happened with Cliff and given herself totally and completely over to the cabaret life. Sometimes she sings it angrily, and it becomes a character number about pushing herself away from the pain. I don't know if I'd say the song itself is literally about heartbreak, but the context can give it that spin.

Anyways, my nomination is for The I Love You Song from 25th Annual Putnam etc, which tears me apart every time I listen to it.

[mar6411]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:31pm

Thank you - you said that very well unlike my muddled meandering.

And that's how I would describe This Nearly Was Mine - tears me up every time I hear it. But the I Love You Song is a good one too.

[sarahb22]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:44pm

It's a different kind of heartbreak, but..."Momma Look Sharp" from 1776.

"On My Own" from Les Miz is a candidate for 'overplayed songs' I guess, but it's pretty heartbreaking. "Come to Me" is also very sad.

[gangtey]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:50pm

I Never Know When - Goldilocks

[Auggie27]

Posted: 3/8/15 at 7:58pm

"Dividing Day" Light in the Piazza

Updated On: 3/8/15 at 07:58 PM