Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry — Page 2

Spider-Man.

I don't cry often, but while I was in college I came to the city for a weekend and saw four shows all of which made me tear up:

Jersey Boys (the daughter dying just really hit me)
Sunday in the Park (I mean, c'mon)
Spring Awakening (the funeral sequence was really touching)
South Pacific (I think it was the first time I cried because something was so beautiful)

Recently I saw a semi-pro production of RENT that had me sobbing. I'm talking full on ugly cry.
Next to Normal
Billy Elliot (seen it 4 times now, and it still gets me)

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By the end of this perf. on 2/4/75, the ENTIRE Orchestra section was audibly sobbing. LOUD. Unforgettable. I was w/my college class.

http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=3709

Hearing Colm Wilkinson hit that note in " Bring Him Home" at the very 1st perf. of Les Miz, (B'way) Unbelievable!

Dean Jones - Company (1970?) Singing "Being Alive". I still listen to the OBCR rendition - great! One of the great moments of live theater I can ever rmember.

There must be more - but those pop to mind.

Put me in the "cries at overtures" category. I think "South Pacific" was the best experience I have ever had listening to an overture. I cry fairly easily, but "The Scottsboro Boys" had me sobbing for about 10 minutes after leaving the theater...it took a very long time for me to compose myself. Very telling, as I still long for the show and to see it again.

Sweet Charity is just so damn depressing.

wow I left out some biggies in my book haha
Next to Normal
Secret Garden (it was a nightmare trying not to cry too hard when I sang "How Could I Ever Know" when I was Archie a few months ago)

Little Shop (yea...a weird one but the part where Seymour holds Audrey while she dies is just depressing...again, another one I had to fight the tears from clogging my throat while singing)

There's a few

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The end of Grey Gardens. To this say it's the saddest thing I've ever seen.

A couple months back, I saw a production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot that made me a mess by the end. And I'll admit that I did cry a little during Les Mis when I performed in the show.

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"I honestly love you" from Boy From Oz.

Passion

I cried like a baby both times I saw Next to Normal.
Other shows that made me cry:
Rent
Spring Awakening
Billy Elliot
Les Miz

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So glad someone menation TBFO, lots of that show made me cry; the bit above where Peter tells his Mum about Greg and also 'I Still Call Australia Home' always made me cry because I saw it when living in Candada (I'm British) and missing home.

I also cried in:
RENT (Once during 'Will I' I totally lost it completly sobbing possibly the most moved I've been in the theatre)
Next to Normal- several moments but particularly 'So anyway I'm leaving'
Angels in America (UK production 2006) various points, various reasons!
Embarassed to say I cried at Idina's last Wicked here in London too...

I also feel like a freak because Les Miz just left me cold...

I also cry at overtures!

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I tear up at just about any good musical. If I'm not wiping away a tear at some point, I'm not having a good time.

But the comments about crying during the overture struck a particular chord (sorry) with me. During the recent production of SOUTH PACIFIC, each time I saw it (4) I unexpectedly welled up at the cymbal crash. It instantly brought me right back to being a gawky, sexually confused adolescent, growing up in San Francisco in the late 60's, taking refuge in my room after school, hiding from the taunts of the neighborhood kids by endlessly listening to Broadway shows I had borrowed from the library. I'd read about the shows and listen to the albums, creating a whole back story about audience members who would get all dressed up for Dinner And A Show, dining at places I'd never hope to go to like 21 or Sardi's, rushing off in a cloud of cigarette smoke to see a wonderful show like SOUTH PACIFIC or MY FAIR LADY, and then finishing the evening with drinks and dancing at the Copa or The Stork Club. Sitting there at the Vivian Beaumont, some 40 years later and hearing that iconic cymbal crash made me realize that, even if the Stork and the Copa are long gone, I was living in New York, regularly seeing terrific theatre and, to paraphrase Dolly Levi, things somehow or other turned out well.

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