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#26

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 5:20pm

I'll Cover You (Reprise) from RENT
Finale from Wicked
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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#27

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

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

I was just listening to Rent and I realized I forgot a song finale B also makes me cry.
<--Sometimes it's easier to get out of a jam than into one
#29

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:37pm

I'll Cover You (Reprise) in RENT

Not While I'm Around- Sweeney Todd

Johanna- Sweeney Todd (Sweeney's Version)
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#30

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:46pm

I never really cried but there's this incredible feeling of sadness in the pit of my stomach when I first heard these songs:

Nobody Needs To Know (Last Five Years)
I Know The Truth (Aida)
A Little Fall of Rain (Les Miserables)
I'll Cover You (Rent)
Will I Lose My Dignity (Rent)
Memory (Cats)
For Good (Wicked)
"I haven't got a pail." "Find your grail, your GRAIL!" "But it's not missing. It's right on the counter where it's supposed to- defying gravity, my giant cup's gone!" "Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure... measure a year?" "How many times do I have to tell you, it's five hundred twenty-five thousand, five hundred and eighty-five point thirty-two minutes. You will never graduate if you keep basing your math on showtunes." "You ruin Broadway for me." "As well I should."
#31

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:50pm

Everyone cries during "I'll Cover You: Reprise"! I don't blame them. It is such an amazing and emotional song.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#32

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:51pm

dont cry for me argentina (evita)
come to your senses (tick tick boom)
see her smile (tick tick boom)
isnt this better? and trio (and the world goes round)
close every door (joseph and the amazing technicolor dream coat)
shadowland (lion king)

these are all my favs!!!!!
#33

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 7:59pm

Finale B
I'll cover you (reprise)
Will I

All of Tick, Tick ...Boom! Just thinking of Jonathan, wow what powerful words.
#35

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:05pm

Without You-RENT
Eva's Last Broadcast-Evita
Little Lamb-Gypsy

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Light in the Piazza with Megan and Emi
"Girl you got money runnin' in yo bloodline."-Carl the Bartender
#36

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:17pm

Why - Tick, Tick... BOOM! (almost always...)
Will I? - Rent
'Til We Reach That Day - Ragtime
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd
#40

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:42pm

Grow Old Along with Me from LENNON (OMG, between the song and the narration in the middle, I lost it every time I heard it; and I heard it many times. Julie Danao was perfect and so was the song.

Will I Lose My Dignity from RENT.

Empty Chairs and Empty Tables
and Bring Him Home both from LES MIZ

For Good and Defying Gravity both from WICKED

Stranger in this World from TABOO and not sure of the title, but Liz McCartney sang it also from TABOO (You Think You Know Me Well...I know My Faults)

#41

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:49pm

"Somewhere that's Green"
"For Good"
and
"You Walk With Me"
p.s.
"Wicked Little Town"
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." - Elizabeth Taylor
#42

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 8:53pm

For Good-Wicked
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables-Les Miz
A Little Fall of Rain-Les Miz
Finale B-Rent
"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."
#43

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 9:03pm

- "Still Hurting" - The Last Five Years
- "I'm Not Afraid of Anything" - Songs for a New World
- "Will I?" - Rent
- "I'll Cover You (reprise)" - Rent
- "Finale B" - Rent

Also, if it is well-acted, "Defying Gravity" can be a bit of a tear-jerker, from the point when Elphaba flies. Jenna Leigh Green's portrayal was so spot-on that my eyes welled up with tears of joy and sympathy for Elphaba. It's a bit cheesy, but she made me really care about the character. Kudos to Jenna.
#44

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/24/06 at 11:01pm

"What About Love" from The Color Purple made me cry sooooo hard, and so did the reprise... that was a-maz-ing..
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!" --Reefer Madness
#45

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:34am

I'll Cover You Reprise -RENT

There is a Fountain/Don't make sense -PARADE

Music of Heaven - Jason Robert Brown

Ballad of Booth - Assassins

Flying Home - Songs for a New World
"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."
#46

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:34am

I'll Cover You Reprise -RENT

There is a Fountain/Don't make sense -PARADE

Music of Heaven - Jason Robert Brown

Ballad of Booth - Assassins

Flying Home - Songs for a New World
"Listen to the song that I sing and trust me..."
#47

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:37am

Pretty much anything from Rent and The Color Purple.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
#48

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 12:47am

All I ask of You- POTO
I Dreamed a Dream- Les Miz
Come to Me- Les Miz
Finale- Les Miz
Why God WHy- Miss Saigon
The Last Night of the World- Miss Saigon
I have Dreamed- The King and I
The Internet is for Porn- Avenue Q (you never said only sad cries!)
All the Love I have- The Beautiful Game
Next time you Fall in Love- Starlight Express
Don't Cry for Me Argentina- Evita
Memory- Cats
IN Una Tepida Nocche- Cats
Being Alive- Company
Somewhere- West Side Story
Maria- West Side Story
Trying not to Notice- Woman in White
Send in the Clowns- A Little Night Music (This one is the hardest for me!)
Till There was You- Music Man
Edelweiss- Sound of Music
Circle of Life- Lion King (just blows me away with the beauty of it all)
Beauty and the Beast- Beauty and the Beast
Love Changes Everything- Aspect of Love
Soliliquy- Carousel

And probably about 30 more that I am forgetting
Keep your morals, I don't have time. Keep your lovers, I'm changing mine! -The Likes of Us
#49

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 1:18am

If i really sit and listen to Last 5 years "still hurting" gets to me and the end of "Goodbye until tomorrow/i could never rescue you" makes me get a bit teary eyed every time when he sings about how much he loved her and they both say goodbye. Both songs are written so beautifully and are very sad as well.
#50

re: Broadway/Musical songs that make you cry

Posted: 1/25/06 at 8:32am

I get really sad when I listen to Goodbye love and I'll Cover you reprise...but I don't cry.

I can't liten to Without you (RENT) without crying. I like the song but I usually just skip over it because I can't handle it.

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