Moments in shows that make you cry — Page 2

#26

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 10:45am

broadwaybelter, that same moment makes me cry too!

Darlene Love's rendition of "I Know Where I've Been" in Hairspray has gotten me choked up a few times. She seems to get more and more into that song each time I see the show.

In Avenue Q, when Rod is having a "session" with Christmas Eve on the steps, he asks her why he doesn't have a special someone to keep him safe. When he says "I miss Nicky!" and starts to cry... that moment gets me every time.

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#27

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 11:09am

it would have to be the beginning of "Wicked" when Cheno lands safely in her bubble instead of falling out and tumbling onto the stage....

seriously though, i dont wish harm on anyone.

the beginning of the overture in "Phantom" after the auction when the proscenium unmasks and the chandelier rises.

the graduation scene at the end of "Carousel".

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Updated On: 2/10/06 at 11:09 AM

#28

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:03pm

I bawl everytime I watch the ending in ITW and during Children will Listen and No one is alone
I get choked up during the "Mama I'm a pretty girl" part in Gypsy
The ending of Gypsy when Rose and Louise walk out together "a picture in a lady's magazine...Madame Rose and her daughter....GYPSY" and teh subsequent exit music.
"Make Them Hear You" and end of Ragtime

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Updated On: 2/10/06 at 01:03 PM

#29

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:10pm

"I Don't Care Much" from CABARET

"Lament" from EVITA

"John 19:41" from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

But the all time winner is:
"The Music Still Plays On" from A NEW BRAIN...so reserved, so honest, so compelling...I want to cry every time I listen to it.

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Updated On: 2/10/06 at 01:10 PM

#30

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:22pm

In Les Mis:

1) When Fantine is dying and sings the line "and tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake". Gets me every time.
2) When Gavroche is shot
3) When ValJean is dying at the end and Fantine sings "Come with me, where chains will never bind you"

In Wicked, during the end of "For Good". I teared up for that one! So sad to see the friend you love most go away!

In Rent: during the entire reprise for "I'll Cover You". Also during "Goodbye Love" when Joanne & Mimi say they'd give anything to have what Angel had, someone to say I love you to. And the line on "One Song, Glory" about "one song, before the virus takes hold".

Also watching "Diary of Anne Frank" when Otto Frank was reading Anne's diary at the end...I was shamelessly bawling!!!

#31

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:31pm

Bare: Peter's phone call to his mother
Bare: One Voice
Taboo: Il Adore

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"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

#32

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:31pm

Most of the second half of act two of "Rent" - I'll Cover You (reprise," "Without You," "Goodbye, Love," and all of "Finale B."

the finale of Aida, with the reprises of the songs.

"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Mis gets me every time, too.

And "Not a Sound" from BKLYN.

#33

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 1:33pm

"Phantom Of The Opera" the music RIGHT before "All I Ask Of You" starts.. it's just this GORGEOUS well staged moment and it ALWAYS makes me cry.

Also "Wicked" before "For Good" The little entrance music before Glinda starts to sing..

Basically I think for me it's the entrance music to any sappy moment that makes me cry.

#34

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 2:56pm

Rent:
The "MIMIII!" in the finale.

Les Mis:
The moment when Gavroche dies.

Tick Tick Boom:
When Jonathan is talking about how he wants to write a great rock musical with songs "that people will listen to and remember." I find it so upseting that, in real life, he did just that but never lived to see the impact it would make.

#35

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 3:08pm

Les Miz basically when all the character's die. They mean so much to me... im a sucker :)

And all of Rent Act 2: Gets me so hard. Just thinking this is going on around me and "One Song Glory" and all I can think of is poor Jon Larson...
Like I said I'm pretty much a sucker whenever someone dies!

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#36

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 3:36pm

When Audrey dies in Seymour's arms at the end of little shop. It's just a sad moment.

The ending of Phantom because he comes to the realization that he will never have Christine.

Fallen Angel cause it seemed like the right song for that moment in Jersey Boys when Frankie finds out about his daughter overdosing.
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#37

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 3:43pm

I'm not a big crier, but my eyes well up sometimes..

-RENT during "Goodbye Love"
-ITW "No One Is Alone"
-the end of Wicked, before I knew what happened next

#38

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 3:51pm

The drum roll when Carrie gets blood spilled all over her.

And her internal struggle as she tries to fight out her mother's voice.

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Updated On: 2/10/06 at 03:51 PM

#39

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 3:51pm

RENT ICYR beautiful song. It makes me cry every time.

Goodbye Love and Without You

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#40

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 4:03pm

In Sweeney Todd (spoiler):









When Sweeney find out that the Beggar Woman is Lucy, just that moment, it is so sad.

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#41

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 4:40pm

1) From the time Angel dies in Rent until the end of Goodbye Love -- every frickin time I see the show I cry.
2) "For Good" in Wicked

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#42

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 4:42pm

Dividing Day
Say it Somehow
Love to Me
The finale of Fable

All from the Light in the Piazza

#43

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 4:44pm

It's bizarre, but the only two moments I cry during "Wicked" are when the monkeys first get their wings behind-bars and when Elphaba pulls the blanket up off of Dr.Dillamond. I'm just a sympathetic animal lover I guess.

#44

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 5:09pm

Mine would have to be in Beauty and the Beast where Belle thinks that the Beast is dead and says "No I love you". I also get all choked up during "To the Lifeboats" and "We'll meet tomorrow" in Titanic.

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#45

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 5:19pm

Fiddler on the roof-Little Chavalette

#46

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 5:21pm

Updated On: 2/23/06 at 05:21 PM

#47

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 5:38pm

I always feel heartbroken at the end of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

#48

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 6:46pm

Definitely "Days of Plenty" from Little Women... AND "Some Things Are Meant To Be"...so much weeping.

I'm seeing Spelling Bee soon and I'm almost positive that I'll be crying during the "I Love You Song".

and for some reason when I'm listening to Bright Lights, Big City, I always cry at the very last song because it's so nice that he cleans himself up and such. I'm a sap.

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#49

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 6:48pm

I always cry at the end of FALSETTOS, LES MISERABLES and RAGTIME, even though I've seen them all multiple times and can do it from memory...I still cry...

#50

re: Moments in shows that make you cry

Posted: 2/10/06 at 6:49pm

"I'll Cover You" (reprise) from RENT. Man I saw the show for the first time last March and I just lost it here, as well as I did during this part in the movie.

"Your Eyes" from RENT; not sure why...maybe I was just in a sappy mood then.

"Shadowland" from The Lion King; there was something about the power of the Nala that I saw along w/ the visual aspect of it all and she is doing something for her "people" and its so heartfelt.

I'll be expecting to bawl during Sutton's show at Feinstein's, The Color Purple, and LITP over this spring break, simply because I'm a sap...

Cheers,

C.

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