Most saddest songs
Most saddest songs
Elphaba43
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
#0Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:23pmI'm supposed to be doing a report on a song and I was just wondering what you all think is the saddest, most depressing, all hope is lost, Broadway song? Thanks for the help you guys!
I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!
#1re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:25pm
"The Party's Over" from Bells Are Ringing.
Now, the bitchy part: I hope you use better grammar than "most saddest" in your report. 
#2re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:26pmI was waiting for someone to comment on that....
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
Elphaba43
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
#3re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:32pmI'm sorry about that.....it's been a long day. Sorry again!
I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#4re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:38pm
Till We Reach That Day from Ragtime
My Eyes Adored You and Fallen Angel from Jersey Boys
Look Around and Never Met A Man I Didn't Like from The Will Rogers Follies. Well, they're not really sad but those songs
move me.
I'm Not That Girl and For Good from Wicked
If I Told You from The Wedding Singer
I Never Knew His Name from Brooklyn
Almost A Love Song from Victor/Victoria
Some Things Are Meant To Be from Little Women
It Don't Make Sense from Parade
Without You from Rent
Dividing Day from The Light in the Piazza
Easy To Be Hard from Hair
You Walk With Me from The Full Monty
Black and Blue and Mean to Me from Ain't Misbehavin'
Are You Still Holding My Hand from Bright Lights, Big City
Lot's Wife from Caroline, or Change
What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line
That's about all I got. I looked through my collection and those are the songs that struck me.
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#5re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:40pmTo me, "I'll Cover You - Reprise" from Rent always gets me. But I don't know if it'd be as moving if you never saw the visual (play or movie), but I always tear up!
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#6re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:41pm"Send in the Clowns" is a downer as is "Losing My Mind" from Follies, and "This Is What It Is" from The Wild Party
Elphaba43
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/06
#7re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:41pmThat list was amazing! Thank you so much!!!!
I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!
#8re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:45pmGrey Gardens is new, but I'd say "Winter In A Summer Town"
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#9re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 7:46pm
Most of the songs in The Last Five Years tug at some emotions.
Give 'em a listen.
#10re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 8:03pmuhm i think tht come what may from the movie Moulin Rouge...it always gets me when i watch it=]
*Feel like going insane?
Got a fire in your brain?
And you're thinking of drinking gasoline?
* - Mark, RENT
Hi!!! mhmmm i send this hi out to...OMG!!....wait....is that a Hayley? OMG i think it is!! redey? 1....2....3....ENERGY WAVE!!!!
I'm through accepting limits
'Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I'll never know!
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well, if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost!
I'd sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down
coolphantom919
Broadway Star Joined: 6/6/06
#11re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 9:50pmSomething Bad from Wicked!!! Dr. Dillimond's the best!
#12re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:00pm
Please correct the title of this thread. "Most Saddest" - that is double superlative. Just say saddest.
My saddest song is "I'd Give My Life For You" from Miss Saigon.
Updated On: 11/1/06 at 10:00 PM
#13re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:00pm
Til We Reach That Day - Ragtime
At the Glen - Dessa Rose
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
#14re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:02pm
I would say "Losing My Mind" takes the cake for me.
"Not a Day Goes By" is also up there.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#15re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:05pmOh, also that song from Lestat, which I think is called "So Far Yet Just A Breath Away." I hope I got that right. Hugh Panaro sang it very emotionally. Elton John should release the recording. Maybe it will recoup some of his losses from the show.
#16re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:08pm
. . . and "I'm Not That Girl" from Wicked. That line "wishing only wounds the heart" is profoundly sad.
Updated On: 11/1/06 at 10:08 PM
#17re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:10pm
I'M NOT THAT GIRL could never in a million years touch LOSING MY MIND.
LOSING MY MIND definitely takes the cake for me too.
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#18re: Most saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:25pm
"Not A Day Goes By"-Merrily We Roll Along
"I Have Dreamed"-The King & I
"We Do Not Belong Together"-Sunday in the Park with George
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"-Dreamgirls
"At The Ballet"-A Chorus Line
"It Wasn't Meant to Happen"-cut from Follies
"Losing My Mind"-Follies
"The Story of Lucy and Jessie"/"Ah,But Underneath"-Follies, not typically sad but once you read into them they are very sad.
#19re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:41pm
AlanAntonio - You mean "Right Before My Eyes?"
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#20re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/1/06 at 10:54pm
"A Stranger In This World" - TABOO
"Petrified" - TABOO
"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)
Updated On: 11/1/06 at 10:54 PM
-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)
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#21re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/2/06 at 12:25am
The lyrics may not sound sad but the staging and the sequence on when the song was sung made this one the saddest for me - Sun and Moon Reprise - Miss Saigon
The other contenders:
On My Own - Les Miserables
I Dreamed A Dream - Les Miserables
Love Look Away - Flower Drum Song
When October Goes - (can't rem. this Manilow musical project)
I'd Give My Life For You - Miss Saigon
If I Loved You - Carousel
I Don't Care Much - Cabaret
Sacred Bird - Miss Saigon
Little God Of My Heart - Miss Saigon
Finale - Miss Saigon
We Kiss In The Shadow - King and I
Where Is Love? - Oliver!
Lord and Master - King and I
What About Love? - The Color Purple
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
Updated On: 11/2/06 at 12:25 AM
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
musicalangel12
Stand-by Joined: 10/21/06
#22re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/2/06 at 12:48amI would have to add "The I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee as well as "Something Just Broke" from Assassins
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"Pretty much...if you've seen any shows that have a jerk boyfriend in that show...I'm that guy."--Richard H. Blake
Diane: Aww, you are such a chick flick. I would totally pay $12 to see you. (Kristin Chenoweth on "Ugly Betty") http://musicalangel12.blogspot.com <-- my blog. Give it a read, please.
#23re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/2/06 at 12:54am"Good Thing Going"--the payoff is heartbreaking: Going, going, gone...
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"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
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bella cantato
Broadway Star Joined: 3/16/04
#24re: Saddest songs
Posted: 11/2/06 at 1:09am"A little fall of rain" from Les Mis
"You know, a little orphan girl once told me that the sun would come out tomorrow. Her adopted father was a powerful billionaire, so I supressed the urge to laugh in her face. But now, by gum, I think she might have been on to something!"
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