Musicals that I have experienced, The Beautiful Game-Almost the entire show. Jekyll and Hyde-Sympathy, Tenderness Aida-Elaborate Lives Taboo-Petrified Cabaret-I Don't Care Much Little Women-Astonishing
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
From RENT: Goodbye, Love (most of it) I'll Cover You: Reprise Another Day (when the Life Support group starts singing with Mimi) Your Eyes One Song Glory Without You
From AIDA: Elaborate Lives
And, for some strange reason "Morning Glow" from Pippin
"I'll Forget You" from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (3.0).
Marguerite is facing the razor sharp blade of the guillotine and she has to tell herself to forget how much she loves Percy in order to walk the stairs to her death. I cried like a baby.
i never cry but ive gotten shivers alot, too many times to name, like: all through Taboo Lots Wife Everybodys got the Right
etc...
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
At the end of NINE when Little Guido takes the gun away from Guido, and the entire cast of women comes down and each has a moment with Little Guido. I balled like a baby....I will never forget it.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."-Charlie Manson
I have never actually cried, but these either give me chills or tears in my eyes Wicked: the bubble entrance, for good Little Women: astonishing (or everything sutton does), days of plenty Les Miz: one day more Aida: written in the stars, a step too far Rent: the end, when maureen does the, "mark, roger, anyone heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllp" i don't know why, but it does something for me.
I'm sure there are many others
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Little Shop of Horrors: "Somewhere That's Green" though I don't know why...guess I was just feeling emotional that night
Chicago: "Nowadways"
Les Miserables: "Finale"
Phantom of the Opera: "Overture" I sobbed. It was really just the excitement of being in New York and seeing a Broadway show for the first time. Oh, and I cryed during the lines: "It's over now the music of the night!!!"
Yep. Goes to show what a sucker I am when it comes to theatre.
"I would dance in the moon; pale as a fading star that quickly falls from veiw-" Lucy, Dracul
Make Our Garden Grow (Candide) - Just wow. The melody is just so heartbreaking and meaningful I just bawl.
Finale (Rent) - Again Maureen's shout gets me everytime.
Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime) - Again, the melody and what they are saying means so much and gives so much hope.
Lot's Wife (Caroline, or Change) - I always cry at the same times: "Some folks go to school at night, and some folks march for civil rights, but I don't, I ain't got the heart. I can hardly breathe!" and "Caroline...Caroline..."
And...
Epilogue (Caroline, or Change) - I bawl from Emmie's "I'm the daughter of a maid in her uniform crisp and clean" to "Down to Larry and Emmie and Jackie and Joe- the children of Caroline Thibodeaux.
chills wise circle of life i'll cover you reprise defying gravity on occassion, no good deed, when elphaba surrenders and i am telling you i'm not going the final line of for now molasses to rum, is anybody there?
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel