Lost Love Broadway showtunes?

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 2:52pm

I'm writing a piece on Broadway showtunes that relate to real life: happiness, sorrow, lost love, randomness. And I was wondering if anyone has any good showtunes that are about lost love???? Thanks for the suggestions guys!

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 2:57pm

Hello Young Lovers - King and I

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 2:58pm

A Man Doesn't Know - Damn Yankees

[Robert Taylor]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:04pm

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again- Phantom

More about her father, but the lyrics leave enough to make it seem like a lost lover

[philly03]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:39pm

"Evermore Without You" - Woman in White
(*Spoiler* doesnt matter anymore though : Walter is mourning the loss of his love Laura, whom he believes dead)

"When I Look At You" - The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Don't know if it totally applies, but Marguerite is singing in reference that she no longer "knows" whom she marries, as she thinks he is a totally different person)

"Where's the Girl?" - The Scarlet Pimpernel
(Chauvelin tries to "seduce" Marguerite back to her old "affair"/love she had with him. But Marguerite is married (see above :)) and does not return the love for Chauvelin)

"Someone Like You" - Jekyll & HYDE
(Lucy is singing of an unrequitted love for Dr. Jekyll, not sure if this one would apply either!)

Hope these helped!

[Amalia Balash]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:44pm

"I Dreamed a Dream" -- Les Miserables
"This Nearly Was Mine" -- South Pacific
"My Eyes Adored You" -- Jersey Boys
"We Do Not Belong Together" -- Sunday in the Park With George
"Good Thing Going" -- Merrily We Roll Along
"Not That Girl" -- Wicked
Updated On: 1/22/09 at 03:44 PM

[iluvny04]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 3:46pm

If He Walked Into My Life (Mame)- Mame sings this song when she loses Patrick, but sang out of context could be a song about lost love

Winner Takes It All or One of Us (Mamma Mia

If I Can't Love Her (Beauty and the Beast)

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (My Fair Lady)

Losing My Mind (Follies)- more unrequited, but could be lost

So In Love (Kiss me Kate)- could work posibly, tghe singer is definitely devoted
Updated On: 1/22/09 at 03:46 PM

[WOSQ]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:05pm

"Not a Day Goes By"

Sometimes it hurts too much to hear this song. Its like you've opened your wrists and then you won't die. You will spend eternity listening to that song, wondering what might have been.

[dg22894]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:31pm

Maybe from Annie (About he parents)
As Long as He Needs Me from Oliver (I am not sure but worth a shot)

[TheCharleston]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 4:36pm

"Its like you've opened your wrists and then you won't die."

Wow.

[Scott Briefer]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 5:17pm

Time Heals Everything - Mack and Mabel

[dg22894]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:02pm

Ireland-Legally Blonde

[Amalia Balash]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:17pm

"Once Upon a Time" -- All American

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:25pm

"But Not For Me" from George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy.

[jenna2]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:27pm

"Still Hurting" -- The Last 5 Years

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 6:48pm

Tell Me On A Sunday from Song & Dance/Tell Me on a Sunday is simply heartbreaking.

[dayao]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 7:55pm

These are some of my personal favorites:
LOVE, LOOK AWAY (Flower Drum Song)
ALWAYS…NEVER (The Young Girls of Rochefort)
JOHNNY’s SOLILOQUY (The Unsinkable Molly Brown)
LOVE, YOU DIDN’T DO RIGHT BY ME (White Christmas)
LITTLE GIRL BLUE (Jumbo)
THE PARTY’S OVER (Bells are Ringing)
LOVER COME BACK TO ME (New Moon)

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 8:00pm

"Nobody Does It Like Me" and "Finale: I'm Way Ahead/Seesaw (Reprise)" from SEESAW.

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 1/22/09 at 9:33pm

Someone else's story from Chess.

[SteamHeat2]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 12:33am

"I Could Never Rescue You" Last Five Years
"What I Did For Love" A Chorus Line (possibly out of context...)
"On My Own" Les Miserables
"I Will Never LEave You" Sideshow (kind of. they realize that they will never find love from a man but that they will always have each other..so its a little out of the box but works in my mind..)
"Easy as Life" Aida
"Another Suitcase in Another Hall" Evita
"Dividing Day" Light in the Piazza
"The Fire Within Me" Little Women (sisterly love but still)
"I Guess I'll Miss the Man" Pippin
"Without You" Rent
"How Could I Ever Know" The Secret Garden
"This Nearly Was Mine: South Pacific
"He Vas My Boyfriend" Young Frankenstein (kind of comedy but theoretically its about lost love)

[broadwaypunk06]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 1:00am

Thinking of Him - Curtains

[bluetuna]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 6:19am

"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" - "Rent"

[amyja89]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 6:26am

I'm Going Home - The Rocky Horror Picture Show

"Cards for sorrow cards for pain..." etc.?

I'll let you decide on that one!

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/23/09 at 7:58am

"Nothing like you've ever known" from Tell Me on a Sunday/Song & Dance - a rare understated gem from Lloyd Webber!

"Who's gonna love me?" from Spend Spend Spend