I honestly have never cried during a song being sung... but I've been pretty close. I definitely forgot Home from Beauty and the Beast
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depending on whos singing it Home and If I Can't Love Her from B&TB and also Who Am I and I Dreamed A Dream from Les Mis
The entire score of Les Mis and POTO, especially "One Day More", "I Dreamed a Dream", "Stars", and "Javert's Suicide". My professor sings a bad-ass "Bring Him Home".
"What I Did For Love"
"The Party's Over" from Bells Are Ringing
"If I Loved You"
"The Impossible Dream"
"If Ever I Would Leave You"
The last refrain of "Johanna". The guy on the ST dvd with Lansbury and Hearn has a WONDERFUL voice.
"It Only Takes a Moment" is charming.
"Dulcinea"
I usually never cry during songs, but they can still be incredibly moving.
If I Loved You....Carousel
Your Gonna Love Me........Dreamgirld
Home.............The Wiz
You Are Not Alone.......Into the Woods
For Good.......Wicked
I Dreamed a Dream......Les Miserables
Bring Him Home........Les Miserables
The End of Les Mis......Les Miserables
One Thousand Kisses(Reprise).......Rent
Seasons of Love........Rent
Someone Like You.......Jekyll & Hyde
This is The Moment......Jekyll & Hyde
Old Man River, Show Boat
since I just watched it, AGAIN.....and turned into a blubbering idiot.....
I have a few more to add -
"Come to Me (Fantine's Death)" - Les Mis
"My Brother Lived in San Francisco" - Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens
"Shadowland" and "Endless Night" - The Lion King
"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" - Sideshow
basically EVERYTHING turns me into a blubbering idiot! lol
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Yeah normally I don't cry at all during songs but I happened to listen to the end of RENT when I was already having a really bad week and I was just ready to start bawling. I dont know if it would have been like that under normal circumstances but those songs really got me.
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I'll Cover You Reprise gets me teary everytime, ditto with Your Eyes...
Confrontation from Jekyll can give me shivers if done well
The end of Defying Gravity
All of Make Me Happy from Lippa's Wild Party
And pretty much all of the Last 5 Years.
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"I'll Cover You" from RENT
I also agree with Dreamcatcher. At the end of Act II in Rent is really a tearjerker.
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the "Elaborate Lives" reprise- aida
i saw it today in a local theatre and the girl playing aida had sooooo much feeling that i almost cried
Norm Lewis singing "Anytime" on the Infinite Joys CD is pretty moving...
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Sweeney Todd's Finale gets me every time... but only in the concert version, because it has "Beggar Woman's Lullaby", which always rips me apart. Man of La Mancha (especially the Broadway Revival)'s finale also gets me.
Lots of Bare... "See Me", "Role of a Lifetime", "All Grown Up"... Into the Woods - "No One Is Alone" made me cry the first time I saw it. Lots of Ragtime, "Wheels of a Dream", "Your Daddy's Son", "Til We Reach That Day", "Make Them Hear You", "He Wanted to Say".
All of Parade and Last Five Years.
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ALL of rent, but especially 'what you own', 'another day' and 'life support'.
plus 'if i didnt believe in you' from the last 5 years
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No Good Deed- Wicked
Your Eyes- Rent
For Good- Wicked
A Little Fall of Rain- Les Mis
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again- POTO
Written in The Stars- Aida
Glinda's Candy:
"Who Will Love Me As I Am?"
GREAT one. I forgot to mention that one; it's not from a show many are familiar with. Two girls with phenomenal voices in my voice class sang that. Which reminds me... one of them also did "You Don't Know This Man" from PARADE. When she finished, we all just sat there silently until, from the piano, I said... "DAMN." We're doing PARADE next spring, and she'll most likely be cast as Lucille.
You Don't Know This Man from Parade
Make Them Hear You from Ragtime
Goodbye Love from Rent
Lot's Wife from Caroline
Days of Plenty from Little Women
Love Don't Need a Reason from BFO
One Day More from Les Mis
Til We Reach That Day from Ragtime
the Finale from Titanic
the Finale from Les Mis
No One is Alone from Into the Woods
Children and Art from SITPWG
I'll Cover You (reprise) from Rent
Still Hurting from The Last Five Years
Endless Night from TLK
God, I can think of more but that's all for now.
Defying Gravity from Wicked
Fantasies Come True from Avenue Q
It may be the fact that it's after 1 am but if my eyes aren't mistaken......NO WHERE HAVE I SEEN "rose's turn" from GYPSY, I cannot believe this!?! I mean I agree with some others but Rose's Turn..WOW...Hands down, the most moving song...
Runners Up:
What I did for Love- A chorus Line
Till We Reach That Day/Finale - Ragtime
Is Anybody There?-1776
Old Man River-Showboat
Finale(cast recording #22&23)-Beauty and the Beast
You'll Never Walk Alone-Carousel
Circle of Life-The Lion King
i broke out the tissue box just reading this thread...
A Quiet Night at Home - Bare
Kim's death scene - Miss Saigon
Pretty much the whole last act of Madame Butterfly
A Really Lousy Day in the Universe - A New Brain
My Brother Lived in San Francisco
Please, Let's Not Even Say Hello - December Songs
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Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Les Mis
Before the Summer Ends, Dracula
I agree with apdarcey. The ENTIRE score of "Ragtime" is gorgeous. I'd have to add:
"Don't Cry Out Loud" - Boy from Oz
"Come to My Garden" - The Secret Garden
"Anthem" - Chess
"I'd Rather Be Sailing" - A New Brain
"The Party's Over" - Bells Are Ringing
"People Like Us" - The Wild Party
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain" - The Sound of Music
"You'll Never Walk Alone" - Carousel
"Poor Little Hollywood Star" - Little Me
"When I Look at You" - The Scarlet Pimpernel
"In His Eyes" - Jekyll & Hyde
"For Good" - Wicked (What do you want? I'm a sap!)
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People Like Us-The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Your Daddy's Son-Ragtime
You Gotta Die Sometime-Falsettoland
I Will Never Leave You, Who Will Love Me As I Am?, Private Conversation-Side Show
The Music Still Plays On-A New Brain
That's Enough For Me-Romance In Hard Times
Make The Man Love Me-A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
But Not For Me-Girl Crazy
Loving You-Passion
Children and Art-Sunday in the Park with George
Losing My Mind-Follies
With So Little to be Sure Of-Anyone Can Whistle
Lot's Wife-Caroline, or Change
All the Wasted Time-Parade
I Will Love You and Tell Me-Marie Christine
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Sunday from Sunday In The Park With George. Top of the line Sondheim.
I'll Cover You (Reprise) ~ Rent
I Honestly Love You ~ Boy From Oz
I Could Write Books ~ Zanna Don't
Role of a Lifetime ~ Bare
and if done well
Climb Every Mountain ~ The Sound of Music
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