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Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
zamedy
Broadway Star Joined: 6/27/07
#25re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 12:04amYou're welcome! I love it too. A great "11th hour" song. Have you heard Carolee Carmello's rendition of it? How is she in the role?
#26re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 12:15am
"Music of the Night" - Phantom of the Opera
I really can't think of that many that haven't be said.
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
#27re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 12:32am"Make Them Hear You" from RAGTIME is the first one I thought of.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#28re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 12:40amThe Ladies Who Lunch
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#29re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 1:08am
Sorry to say that I have yet to see Mama Mia, so I cannot comment. When it was touring, I was not in a position to go see it, so I missed out : But, reviews have been very favorable.
Although I have to say that nobody will ever do it for me better than ABBA!
#30re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 1:14am
I'm Here - The Color Purple (saw Jeanette last night, she was AMAZING)
And I Am Telling You, I'm Not Going - Either Jennifer
Defying Gravity - Idina, Eden, Stephanie, Kerry, Shoshana, Julia, Saycon, Caissie, Hamada, or Willemijn
Dear God - Shug (I know it's like 1 minute, but it's still pretty powerful, especially the "Not like ..." part)
One Day More
Do You Hear the people sing
Masquerade
Part of Your World
If Only
Moments of Happiness
I Dreamed A Dream
Too Beautiful for Words
The Color Purple
Why God Why
If I Can't Love Her
A Step Too Far
Finale B - Rent
Days of Plenty
What I did for love
Another Hundred People
Legally Blonde
Ragtime
Godspeed Titanic
Updated On: 5/18/08 at 01:14 AM
#31re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 1:16amLaura Benanti's interpretation of "Little Lamb."
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#32re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 2:03ammusicaltheatrefan3.... =P !!!
#34re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 2:10am
Everytime I listen to "Bill", no matter who sings it, I am affected in some way.
However, there are several songs that move me on a regular basis, somehow that one just sticks out.
PaintTheMusic
Swing Joined: 11/16/06
#35re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 3:33amYou all mentioned so many good ones. My mind immediately went to "Do You Hear the People Sing" from Les Mis.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#36re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 3:47am
"I Don't Care Much" from Cabaret (especially when it's performed right... I've heard some amazing and less than spectacular renditions of this song).
And also "Finale" from Godspell.
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and dreamer of improbable dreams." - Doctor Who
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
bwaybabe2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/5/08
#37re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 5:01am
Oh, musicaltheatrefan3: That meant, my tongue is hanging out after reading your long list--just some humor (I like humor 
).
Sorry I confused you!
Updated On: 5/18/08 at 05:01 AM
#38re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 8:45am
I know it's not Broadway, but I simply HAVE to chuck in 'How Glory Goes' from 'Floyd Collins'. Spinechilling. O_O
#39re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/18/08 at 8:47amI love the song 'If I Sing' from Closer than ever! Very powerful!
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
#40re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 6:54pmI agree with a lot of the above. I love "I'm still here", "Old man river" and "soliloquy" from CArousel. But for me, one of the most powerful things I've ever heard in the theater was "Gethsemane" in Jesus Christ Superstar.
#41re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 7:42pmAll three of those Side Show songs are love songs.
-Benjamin
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
Leo_Yikes
Understudy Joined: 4/18/08
#42re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 9:53pm
I know I'm gonna be hanged for saying this but....
Defying Gravity.
Its a very moving song for me at least. Idk, I just really relate to the feeling of having to push past all your troubles, overcome a major disapointment and sacrafice alot to achieve a goal.
#43re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 11:34pmThe Funeral and This Is Not Over Yet from PARADE come to mind.
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
#44re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 11:41pmI have to back up "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret. I love Susan Egan's rendition.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#45re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/19/08 at 11:47pm
Being Alive.
Hands down.
heathurrr
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/06
#46re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/20/08 at 1:04pm
Epiphany from Sweeney!
And Being Alive.
(and I could go on with the Sondheim love, as per usual)
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals" - Frank Rich
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
Dearest, how can this be so? You were dead, you know. - Candide
Oh my god, this show has everything! Half naked guys and girl on girl action! - [title of show]
(My avatar? Why, yes! That is Laura Benanti making out with a chick!)
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#47re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/20/08 at 1:14pmI would say "Bui-Doi " from Miss Saigon is one of the most powerfull songs I have heard.
uwho
Chorus Member Joined: 9/16/06
#48re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/20/08 at 1:18pm
Just thinking about some of these songs gives me goosebumps! Good list! I love "I Believe" from Altar Boyz. Very powerful.
Updated On: 5/20/08 at 01:18 PM
#49re: Most powerful (just powerful, no love here) Broadway song.
Posted: 5/20/08 at 2:00pmFirst thought - You Have To Be Taught, from South Pacific
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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