Favorite Mental Breakdown Song- Page 2

[PerforMeg]

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]

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]

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?]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 4:19am

One Hallow'een-Applause

[Unknown User]

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

[Aqualline2]

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]

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

[Unknown User]

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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[musicalkid]

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.

[actor]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 7:13am

Bride's Lament - DC
Hysteria - TLITP

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 8:18am

Betrayed - The Producers

[think_of_me2007]

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'

[AlmondEyes252]

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.

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 9:33am

Bride's Lament from The Drowsy Chaperone

[FosseForever3]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:18am

Three Bedroom House - BATBOY!

[kooky]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:08am

"It's like I'm loosing my mind" . . . . Follies!

[ChrisLovesShows]

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!!!!!!

[kk holiday]

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]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:37pm

THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE is a psychotic stalkers anthem and no one can convince me otherwise.

[JRybka]

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

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:46pm

sondhead: I totally forgot to say that song! My favorite version is Carl Anderson's

[VonTussleGirl]

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

[elvisitis1302]

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]

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.

[glimpseofstocking]

Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:02pm

Rose's Turn - Gypsy
Cabaret - Cabaret
Make Me Happy - The Wild Party (Lippa)