Depressing Show Tunes
Depressing Show Tunes
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:17pm
One that comes to mind is
But You Go On - Annie Warbucks
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#1re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
"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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#2re: Depressing Show Tunes
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?
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
SpamalotDiva
Stand-by Joined: 2/10/06
#5re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:54pm
Grey Gardens has two of the best:
Around the world
Another Winter in a Summer Town
geekgirl06
Featured Actor Joined: 11/9/06
#9re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
Lome2
Stand-by Joined: 1/23/05
#12re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:06pm
I'll tack on:
Something Just Broke from Assassins
"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
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"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
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#13re: Depressing Show Tunes
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)
show2n2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/22/04
#14re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#16re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#17re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
#18re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
-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)
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#19re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 7:58pm"Why" - Tick Tick Boom (especially if you know what Jonathan has just announced prior to the song)
#20re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#21re: Depressing Show Tunes
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...
show2n2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/22/04
#23re: Depressing Show Tunes
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.
#24re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:51pmAnything written in the last 3 years based on a movie.
#25re: Depressing Show Tunes
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
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