Favorite Mental Breakdown Song- Page 2
Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
#26re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:16am
Love "I'm Breaking Down" from FALSETTOS
Also, VIOLET has a great climax number where she finds out she can't be healed by the preacher: "Raise Me Up reprise" into "Look At Me." Very stirring.
A funny breakdown song is "Old Fashioned Love Story" from Lippas Wild Party.
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#27re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:37am
I can't believe no one's said Judas' Death from Jesus Christ Superstar.
Anyone who doesn't like that show (and I'm not exactly a huge fan) should listen to the Ben Vereen recording (OBC). He's pretty brilliant, especially in that number.
samcd3
Understudy Joined: 10/24/06
#28re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:41am
what is it about her? from lippa's wild party
amsterdam from jaques Brel
where's my shoe?
Understudy Joined: 9/3/05
#29re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:19amOne Hallow'een-Applause
"I am concocting a seduction. I do not require a patissiere."-Boston Marriage
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#30re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:24am
Great thread!
01 And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (DREAMGIRLS) Jennifer Holliday
02 Little Girls (ANNIE) Dorothy Loudon
03 Later (A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC) Mark Lambert
04 Cabaret (CABARET) Liza Minnelli
05 Losing My Mind (FOLLIES) Barbara Cook
#31re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:29am
My favorites:
Rose's Turn
Octet
And I Am Telling You
Getting Married
Bride's Lament
I don't know what my ablsolute favorite is but it MIGHT be Bride's Lament.
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#32re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 5:12am
"Hysteria," "Octet," and "Clara's Interlude" from The Light in the Piazza (it's FULL of them!)
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from Dreamgirls
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#33re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:11am
People mentioned most of the major SOndheim, etc, ones but some I didn't see listed....
Simple in Anyone Can Whistle (surely this counts?)
Gun Song and Booth's song in Assassins
Umm one of the later pieces in Passion (hahah I'm not really good at the official names of songs for much of Passion)
ALOT of LaChiusa in general but like much of the last half of Marie Christine and Wild Party.
I'm thinking there has to be one from Kiss of the Spider WOman but...
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#34re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:28am
"There is a fountain" (the funeral song) from Parade.
The Frankie parts of the song are simply overwhelming.
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actor
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/06
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#36re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:18amBetrayed - The Producers
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
think_of_me2007
Understudy Joined: 3/26/06
#37re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:26am
Bride's Lament definitely for me. It's hilarious.
And on a sadder note, The Light in the Piazza. as someone earlier said, it's full of 'them'
#38re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:57am
1. The Judge's Return - Sweeney Todd
2. I Can't Do It Alone- Chicago
3. Do You Know what It's Like - Zanna, Don't!
4. One Step - Songs For A New World
5. Once Upon A Time/Cross/Absolution/No Voice - Bare
I kind of consider everything after Once Upon a huge breakdown just because its so emotional.
#39re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:33amBride's Lament from The Drowsy Chaperone
#40re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:18amThree Bedroom House - BATBOY!
"Now she wants to know WHY, if I'm so fabulous, I would WANT to take care of her child.....I answer with as much filigree and insouciance as I can muster, trying to slightly cock my head like Snow White listening to the animals. She, in turn, is aiming for more of a Diane-Sawyer-pose, looking for answers which will confirm that I am not there to steal her husband, jewelry, friends, or child. In that order."
The Nanny Diaries
kooky
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/05
#41re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:08am"It's like I'm loosing my mind" . . . . Follies!
#42re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:21am
"Getting Married Today" from Company goes without saying, but I loved the mention of "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada." Hee, hee. My GIRLFRIEND....who LIVES....in CANADAAAAAAA!!!!!!
"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"
kk holiday
Swing Joined: 2/8/06
#43re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:34pm
No Good Deed - Wicked
Petrified - Taboo
Someday' is for suckers - The Life
Last Midnight - Into The Woods
blueflame
Stand-by Joined: 9/9/05
#44re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:37pmTHE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE is a psychotic stalkers anthem and no one can convince me otherwise.
"You can't just leave a meringue once you start it!"
#45re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:38pm
...and I am telling you... is the ultimate in breakdown songs.
"There's a Fine Fine Line" is not really a mental breakdown song but it is more of a fed up/broke down song.
Sarabya Santa is a meltdown song too
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#46re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:46pm
sondhead: I totally forgot to say that song! My favorite version is Carl Anderson's 
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#47re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:22pm
Also gotta add:
Mummies at the Met - Bright Lights Big City
Final Storm - The Secret Garden
Make Me Happy - The Wild Party
#48re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:56pm
I have a lot...
piphany - Sweeney Todd
Lots Wife - Caroline Or Change
How Many Women In the World? - The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Beautiful (Reprise) - Marie Christine
Gin - The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Tell Me - Marie Christine
Can You Hear Me Now? - A Dolls Life
Down - Grind
Clara's Tirade - Light in the Piazza
The Ladies Who Lunch - Company
The Right Girl - Follies
Last Midnight - Into the Woods
Bernardas Prayer - Bernarda Alba
Confrontation - Jekyll and Hyde
The Christian Thing To Do - By LaChiusa for Audra McDonald's "7 Deadly Sins" Concert
The Smallest Thing - First Lady Suite
Hedwig's Lament - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Superheros - The Rocky Horror Show
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Boom Boom - Elegies
You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos (Falsettoland)
There are more, these are just off the top of my head.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#49re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 2:59pm
Definitely HOW MANY WOMAN IN THE WORLD? from LaChiusa's The Wild Party.
Also, PRISON IN A PRISON from Marie Christine.
#50re: Favorite Mental Breakdown Song
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:02pm
Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Cabaret - Cabaret
Make Me Happy - The Wild Party (Lippa)
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
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