Depressing Show Tunes

[Mr Roxy]

Depressing Show Tunes#1

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:17pm

One that comes to mind is

But You Go On - Annie Warbucks

Poster Emeritus

[Perfectly Marvelous]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#1

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:20pm

Two that I can think of off the top of my head;

Javert's Suicide - Les Miserables
I Don't Care Much - Cabaret

"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who

"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables

[COOOOLkid]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#2

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:23pm

How about Your Daddy's Son? It's more like sad, but I guess it would still fit in this category.

Would the "finale" from Cabaret work, too?

"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" -Family Guy

[ShbrtAlley44]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#3

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:24pm

What Would You Do? - Cabaret

[pianoman215]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#4

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:32pm

I Dreamed A Dream

[SpamalotDiva]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#5

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:41pm

Nothing-A Chorus Line

It sounds so happy but Nothing!

Big Spender-Sweet Charity

Just so degrading to girls.... just the moves they do its so robotic... its like their is nothing left of them

You Know you're a B'way geek when... Ok Ok I made this one up... "When someone asks what you want(for Christmas, B-day, Gala Event...) and you reply..." I wanna be a Producer!" Sammi bproudbblonde.piczo.com 4 sheet music

[Mr Roxy]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#6

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:48pm

Fathers & Sons - Working

Poster Emeritus

[defyingravity11]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#7

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:52pm

Just A Housewife - Working

[All_For_Laura]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#8

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:54pm

Grey Gardens has two of the best:

Around the world

Another Winter in a Summer Town

...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...

[geekgirl06]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#9

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:58pm

"President" from Ragtime. That song kills me everytime now that I know what happens.

"It's Hard To Speak My Heart" and "The Funeral" from Parade

"I'll Cover You (reprise)" from Rent

"The I Love You Song" from The 25th Putnam County Spelling Bee

"We Do Not Belong Together" from Sunday In The Park With George

"Still Hurting" from L5Y

"To The Lifeboats" from Titanic

And the song that imo takes the cake:
"Goodbye Till Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" from L5Y

Dancing through life... For the next ten minutes

[Lome2]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#10

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:02pm

Updated On: 8/20/10 at 07:02 PM

[MrSweetNAwful]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#12

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:06pm

I'll tack on:

Something Just Broke from Assassins

You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

"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

[BNN]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#13

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:10pm

The Judge's Return or Final Sequence - Sweeney Todd
For Good/Finale - Wicked
The entire second act of Fiddler on the Roof
Mr. Cellophane - Chicago
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music (this kills me)

Tick Tock

[show2n2]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#14

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:31pm

I Don't Want to Know - Dear World

Not a Day Goes By - Merrily, We Roll Along (this one always makes me blue)

[alterego]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#15

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:48pm

Anything from Les Miserables.

[MotorTink]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#16

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:49pm

I agree with most already mentioned and will add....

"I know the Truth" - Aida

BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless

SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!

[bwayondabrain]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#17

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:52pm

What I Did For Love- A CHORUS LINE

The Winner Takes it All- MAMMA-MIA!

I'm The Bravest Individual (reprise)- SWEET CHARITY

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#18

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:57pm

Mr Roxy - you're familiar with ANNIE WARBUCKS? It's one of my favorite shows, but I can never seem to find anyone who's into it (probably because the CD has been out of print for years). "But You Go On" kicks ass, and Donna McKechnie sings the hell out of it.

Other depressing (but gorgeous) songs:

"Stranger In This World" - TABOO
"Petrified" - TABOO

"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

Updated On: 12/5/06 at 07:57 PM

[RentBoy86]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#19

Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:58pm

"Why" - Tick Tick Boom (especially if you know what Jonathan has just announced prior to the song)

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#20

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:01pm

"It's Only a Play" - The Frogs

Pretty much every song in ASSASSINS.

"You Must Love Me" - Evita
"The Point of No Return" - Phantom of the Opera
"Next" - Pacific Overtures
"Finale" - Passion
"John Nine Forty-One" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"Anatevka" - Fiddler on the Roof
"I See a River" - Urinetown
"I Don't Care Much" - Cabaret
"Finale" - Cabaret

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

Updated On: 12/29/06 at 08:01 PM

[ashbash1990]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#21

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:02pm

Almost anything from Les Miz... We do not belong together from SITPWG... Another suitcase from evita... Why from Tick tick boom...Pity the Child from chess... The Movie in my mind from miss saigon... I know the truth from Aida... Memeory from cats.... Those are just some off the top of my head...

What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!

Updated On: 12/5/06 at 08:02 PM

[show2n2]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#22

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:08pm

Marieke - Jaques Brel

[Broadwayboy2631]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#23

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:42pm

"Another Suitcase In Another Hall" from Evita. We do not even know the mistress, but we still feeel for her. It's so sad becuse we don't really know what happens to her. It's the best fill in song ever.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#24

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:51pm

Anything written in the last 3 years based on a movie.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

re: Depressing Show Tunes#25

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:52pm

"I Read"-Passion
"Time Heals Everything"-Mack & Mabel
"Trio"-Passion
"Beautiful"-Sunday in the Park with George
"In Buddy's Eyes"-Follies (if you know the context/character)
"It Wasn't Meant To Happen"-cut from Follies
"Ah, But Underneath"-cut from Follies
"Simple"-Nine
"Dividing Day"-The Light in the Piazza

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"