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Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
#25Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:17pmi start to tear up at overtures too! i thought i was the only one!
#27Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:20pm
I've cried during many of the shows mentioned above, but two shows in which I didn't expect to cry but did are:
"Everyday Rapture" - I first started tearing up when the light on the Kansas map that represents Topeka faded out, and again at the line, "my son is a speck of dust."
"Dear Edwina" - I went in just expecting it to be light and silly, but at "Sing Your Own Song," I was tearing up. Strange.
#28Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:27pm
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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#29Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:28pm
Rent
Ragtime
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#30Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:02pm
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.
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#31Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:31pm
-A Chorus Line, during the finale. My mom doesn't understand why that part made me cry, but the brilliance is just beyond words
-Ragtime, during the finale of an amazing production
-Les Miz, the new tour, during One Day More. Hearing the beautiful music sung with such energy by an amazing cast was thrilling, but the great staging that had them actually march forward (I always hated the marching in place in the Trevor Nunn production) pushed me over the edge.
-Candide at the Goodman Theatre last fall, during the a capella section of Make Our Garden Grow. In Mary Zimmerman's brilliant staging, little flowers started growing out of every part of the set.
So, basically the staging is what usually makes me cry because I want to be a director.
#32Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:44pmPut 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.
#33Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 11:58pm
I know I am going to catch flack for this but WICKED makes me tear up several points. "Defying Gravity" always gets me to tear up from the sheer power and beauty of the moment, and the "Finale" ALWAYS gets me to cry my eyes out. The party where the two girls sing "Because I knew you" and the ensemble come in lightly and sing "no one mourns the wicked" is just so beautiful and IMO a brilliant moment in Musical theater...no special effects, just beautiful music haha
And of course there are your usual tear jerkers...
Les Mis
Gypsy (for some reason "roses turn" gets me)
RENT
Even though I dislike the show as a whole, the last bit of POTO where Christine leaves with Roul gets me
And there are others...but those one's are my top.
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#34Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:00amSweet Charity is just so damn depressing.
#35Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:00am
Cry-baby alert... 
Les Misérables
The Secret Garden
Ragtime
Next To Normal
The Scottsboro Boys
War Horse
South Pacific
In The Heights
#36Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:04am
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
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#37Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:15am
fingerlakessinger- I cried at Wicked too, especially at For Good and the finale. Also:
Next to Normal when Dan sees Gabe
Les Mis several times but most when Eponine dies
Spring Awakening, when Moritz says "So cold" before he kills himself and the entire graveyard scene
Rent- I saw Adam Pascal and I lost it during Your Eyes
That's all I can think of At the moment!
#38Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:18am
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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#39Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:23amThe Last 5 Years. Just the soundtrack. Haven't even seen the show.
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#40Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 12:50am"I honestly love you" from Boy From Oz.
#41Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 1:01am
^^ Oh yes, The Boy From Oz!
I remember the moment where Peter tells his mother that he met someone and she says "That's lovely! What's her name?"... "Greg"... and she replies "Well that's lovely too". Got me totally choked up.
#43Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 1:23am
Les Miz, West Side Story, The Color Purple, Carousel, and Fiddler On The Roof
Some numbers that got me teary-eyed:
Spamalot- 'Find Your Grail' the first time hearing and seeing it was sort of moving. I blame Sara Ramirez's amazing singing.
Hedwig & the Angry Inch- 'Wicked Little Town' and 'Wig In The Box'
Rent- 'I'll Cover You' sung by Collins. Not overall that hot on the show but that number never fails to move me.
#44Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 1:59am
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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#45Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 2:59am
GYPSY (LuPone revival) - after "Rose's Turn" and Laura delivers the "Like I wanted you to notice me?" line and Patti just completely loses it and is sobbing like a lost child. Pretty much everything that follows "Roses Turn" through the curtain, really. I had never seen that entire sequence played quite like that before and it totally destroyed me.
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Bernadette) - As many issues as I had with this incarnation of the revival, Bernadette's "Send In The Clowns" is one for the ages. I always thought the scene should be played rather jaded. Like Desiree should be, above all else, amused at this latest stroke of bad luck in a long line of fcuk-overs in her life. But Bernadette's heartbreak during this scene pretty much obliterated everybody in the audience.
#46Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:53am
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!
Maybe I'm on nobody's side
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#47Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 5:00am
A Chorus Line
A Little Night Music
A Streetcar Named Desire
AIDA!
Anything Goes
Barefoot in the Park
Closer
Evita
Fame
Finian's Rainbow
God of Carnage
Grey Gardens
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Little Shop of Horrors
Promises, Promises
Rent
Rock of Ages
Spring Awakening
The Apple Tree
The Blue Room
The Fantasticks
The Little Dog Laughed
The Vertical Hour
The Woman in White
Time Stands Still
West Side Story
Wonderful Town
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#48Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 6:57am
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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#49Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/21/11 at 10:03am
I also tear up a lot at shows, but some shows that have really made me cry were
Gypsy
Juno
Fiddler on the Roof
Fanny
Sunday in the Park with George [to the point where my friend was embarrassed]
Finian's Rainbow [Jim Norton reminded me so much of my grandfather, who I still miss terribly]
Angels in America
Red
South Pacific [that Honey Bun reprise really got to me]
Man of La Mancha
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Updated On: 3/21/11 at 10:03 AM
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