Depressing Show Tunes
#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
#26re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:07pm
"Anything written in the last 3 years based on a movie."
hehe
#27re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:24pm
""Why" - Tick Tick Boom (especially if you know what Jonathan has just announced prior to the song)"
That's my favorite song from TTB.
The "Finale" in Cabaret is more disturbing than it is depressing, but "What Would You Do?" is definitely sad - and just filled with hopelessness.
"Roses At The Station" from Grand Hotel is sort of depressing, too, I suppose.
"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
#28re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:28pmWhat Kind of Fool Am I-------------Stop the World I Want to Get Off
#29re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:29pm
"Still Hurting" and "Nobody Needs to Know" from L5Y absolutely destroy me. "President" from Ragtime upsets me so much that I can't even listen to it. I always skip straight from "Wheels of a Dream" to "Till We Reach That Day."
I'd also like to add "There's a Fine Line" from Avenue Q to the songs already mentioned. And "Far From the Home I Love" from Fiddler.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
ByMySide25
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/04
#30re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 11:27pm
"Losing My Mind" FOLLIES
"On the Willows" GODSPELL
"Hedwig's Lament" HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
"All Grown Up" BARE
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#31re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/5/06 at 11:47pmI have to add Funny from City of Angels, when that songs starts playing and I'm in the right mood, WOW.
#32re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 12:17am
BE OUR GUEST from BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
cause these people are becoming napkins and stuff
LostLeander
Broadway Star Joined: 3/18/05
#33re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 12:36am
3/4 of the Bare score.
Weep fest.
My Son, and Are You Still Holding My Hand? from Bright Lights, Big City.
No More, ITW.
rickydrummer
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/04
#34re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 12:42am
"The Dark I Know Well" in "Spring Awakening." Nothing like a healthy dose of child sexual abuse.
"There's a part I can't tell
About the dark I know well"
Also the opening strains of "Finishing the Hat" right before "Yes, she looks for me -- good." "Sunday" breaks my heart.
And "It Don't Make Sense" from "Parade."
#36re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:50am
'Nothing like you've ever known' and the title song from Tell Me on a Sunday/Song & Dance
'Beautiful' from Sunday in the Park. When the Old Woman says "How I long for the old view" my heart just breaks...
'Happily Every After' - cut from Company but appears in Marry Me A Little (if that show is still even licenced)
Joelbeans
Stand-by Joined: 5/9/05
#37re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 9:05am
Wow so many people that know Annie Warbucks. I didn't think that anyone knew that show. I have done it twice, once as Daddy Warbucks and once as musical director. There is a song that Grace sings, that just tears my heart out, but I can't think of the name of it.
Wht Would I do from Falsettos, oh my God, when I did that show I couldn't stop crying when I sang that song.
The song I'm Not Saying a word from Blood Brothers.
#38re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 10:30am"The Barber and His Wife," Sweeney Todd.
K8eeyore
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/04
#39re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 1:11pmJoel, I think Grace's song is "It Could Have Been Wonderful"
#40re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 1:35pm
i'm suprised no one has said "no good deed"
but yeah, a lot of Parade is pretty depressing
and "private conversation", the finale, and well a most of Side Show really, lol. but i still love that how.
#41re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 3:50pmWithout You and Goodbye Love from Rent are pretty depressing.
#42re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 3:51pm"Around the World" and "Another Winter in a Summer Town" from GREY GARDENS
OasisBroadway
Leading Actor Joined: 9/28/05
#43re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 4:25pm'Could We Start Again, Please?' from Jesus Christ Superstar
#44re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 4:27pmAgreed about Bare. I sob every time I listen to it.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#45re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 4:32pm
"No One is Alone"- Into The Woods
"For Good"- Wicked
"Where In The World/How Could I Ever Know"- Secret Garden
#46re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:04pm
"Send in the Clowns" from 'A Little Night Music'
"Lament" from 'Evita'
"Losing My Mind" from 'Follies'
"A New Life" from 'Jekyll & Hyde'
"A Little Fall of Rain" from 'Les Miserables'
"As Long As He Needs Me" from 'Oliver!'
"Fable" from 'The Light in the Piazza'
"What Would You Do?" from 'Cabaret'
Updated On: 12/6/06 at 05:04 PM
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#47re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:14pmEvery song in "The Life" except for My Friend.
#48re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:17pm
I secong "Beautiful" From SITPWG is the only song thats ever made me cry. By far my favorite song in that whole show.
"Another Hundred People" from Company is depressing too.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#49re: Depressing Show Tunes
Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:30pmIn the context of the show, "The Next Ten Minutes" is absolutely devastating. I think it's even more depressing than something like "Nobody Needs to Know," because it hurts to see those two characters pledge their lives to one another while you know the ending.
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