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Musical Moments That Make You Cry
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Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#25re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:12pm
Gavroche's death gets me every time. EVERY TIME.
I'll Cover You Reprise...RENT. (Especially once I noticed Angel's space in the line was empty.)
"And if you're beautiful, what then, with yellow hair, like wheat.." The whole sequence in Sweeney Todd, where Anthony and Sweeney and Johanna are singing at once, and people are going down the chute-chair contraption. I know it's weird, but I find that really beautiful.
I am what I am ...La Cage...
Oh, lots and lots.
"Well, obviously Company is about the Kennedy family. Bobby is played by Raul, and JFK is played by Harvey Fierstein."
-vfd88
#26re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:12pm
Make Our Garden Grow does soar!
I get choked up with that one. :)
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
#27re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:13pm
Two words and that's all:
Angel's Funeral
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#28re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:13pm
Ragtime - Same. Coalhouse Jr.
A Raisin in the Sun (not a musical, but a tear jerker)
Les Miserables - when Dudu (David) Fischer sings Bring Him Home
Aida - when the box closes in on them
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#29re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:14pm"There is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense" from Parade. I cried like a baby. The part where Mary's friends name details about her ("She had two crooked teeth...") breaks my heart every single time. I had tears in my eyes during "Tell Her I Love Her" in Urinetown too.
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#30re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:34pm
Never cried, but got chills:
CIVIL WAR - "Tell My Father," "How Many Devils?" & "The Glory"
LES MISERABLES - "One Day More," "Bring Him Home" & "Finale"
CAMILLE CLAUDEL - "Gold" (Finale)
SECRET GARDEN - "Lily's Eyes" & "How Could I Ever Know?"
- Michael
#31re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:36pm
rent
Good-bye Love
Halloween
Your Eyes
I think there was another time
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#32re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 10:36pmDays of Plenty in Little Women..and No Day But Today in RENT.
#33re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:12pm
There have been many that make me cry, some not so much as others.
WICKED--Defying Gravity and For Good, such powerful songs with such great meanings. I love Idina's voice. I know, I know I probably shouldnt say that but I did.
RENT--Practically the whole second act. It is so powerful and moving. I had heard the sound track previously before seeing it in the 7th row in January and I was just utterly amazed.
Les Mis-- WOW what a show. A little fall of rain is pretty sad, not only for Marius but also for Gavorache. Also Empty Chairs at Empty Tables. I also think that One Day More is pretty great.
"There are times when were dirt broke, and hungry and freezing and I ask myself why the hell am I still living here?...And then they call!" ~ Mark Cohen RENT movie
#34re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:13pm
taboo- out of fashion
rent-ICYR makes me cry everytime, that whole show gives me chills
there are more just cant think rite now
"But I relish every brillant inspired moment. This is who I'm determined to be- an actor/singer/dancer-no, I take that back, this is who I am. These people are my tribe, my destiny. I know it.
-How I Paid for College; A story of sex, theft, friendship and musical theater.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#35re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/14/05 at 11:14pmWest Side Story, the Anita rape scene gets me every time, as does the ending...
B.B. Wolf
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/26/04
#36re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:03amThe reprise of "Fine fine Line" that Princeton sings to Kate in Avenue Q. I think it's musical theatre perfection.
Word. Word, indeed.
#37re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:07amFor Good from Wicked gets me alot, Somewhere Thats Green (reprise) where Audrey dies really got to me and basically the last half of RENT. I know it was only with the cast recordings/audios but they made me so teary eyed. I'll be bawling rivers when I see them live if I get teary eyed from the cast recordings. :-P
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#38re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:12amThe finale to "Cabaret" gets me everytime.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
Blair
Broadway Star Joined: 11/4/03
#39re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:19am
It wasn't sad or anything and maybe I'm just weird, but when I saw 42nd Street, I cried during "We're in the Money", and the title song. All of that energy and passion that those performers had...it was just so inspiring.
Gliding - Ragtime
There is a Fountian/It Don't Make Sense - Parade
#40re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 12:37am
oh man...so many...
Alright, so Make Our Garden Grow - for sure.
Bare during All Grown Up and...well, other stuff that's obvious - don't want to give anything away.
Miss Saigon - that ending (what used to the painted bird or whatever)
Wicked during Defying Gravity - couldnt' stop crying all during intermission - it's just so inspiring. That and when Chistery gives Glinda the bottle...just makes me bawl like a baby everytime that Glinda pulls back that curtain looking for elphaba going "elphie?" and realizes she's gone. eek...tearing up now...such a loser
Some Things Are Meant To Be - c'mon, I'm not made of stone people!
Ragtime when little coalhouse runs out at the end (same for chip in beauty and the beast at the end)
Hairspray - Good Morning Baltimore and You Can't Stop The Beat - just cause I wanna be Tracy so bad it literally makes my heart ache to the point I cry - SUCH a loser, I know!
...I could be here all night, so I'll stop there, lol. :)
If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?
#41re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:35amYeah Wicked gets me so badly. But RENT is the winner for "Musical that makes me bawl." I was having a semi-bad day and was listening to it in my free-period class and when they started on I'll Cover You (at Angel's funeral) I just started to tear up. It took all my energy to keep me from bawling right there in class.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
sipos
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/04
#42re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:49am
The last thing I saw on Broadway that made me cry was the scene ending right before and the "I Honestly Love You" number in THE BOY FROM OZ. I was thrilled to see Jarrod Emick in a show again, and I didn't see him at all that song because of my tears.
And then I just saw the HAIRSPRAY tour and Charlotte Crossley tore up "I Know Where I've Been", and seeing how proud the ensemble was to be onstage for that song wrecked me (in a beautiful way). I was sitting too close.
Also when they did "Without Love" because at the moment I don't have what the characters had onstage, it was bittersweet, and I quietly sobbed. I know, pathetic.
Tears at a show is the best therapy for me.
sipos
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/04
#43re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 1:59am
and one more.
I ushered the previews of LOVE, JANIS.
I watched it every night from the back of the house and tears every performance. Especially during "Little Girl Blue".
That Catherine Curtain made the biggest impression in my heart.
And that's all the crying I'm gonna give on this board.
#44re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 2:00amThe end of Caroline or Change - Larry and Emmie and Jackie and Joe, the Children of Caroline Thibodeax.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Derech2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/24/04
#45re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 2:42am
Well, for me a teary/crying moment vs. a shiver/chills moment correspond to different emotions. But here are my chills moments ~
Wicked ~ Defying Gravity (pratically the whole thing), No Good Deed (Fiyero .... FIYERO!)
Les Mis ~ Prologue (several of the prisoner solos), Valjean's Soliloquy (this is all I have lived for - this is all I have known!), I Dreamed a Dream (with their voices soft as thunder), On My Own, The Confrontation (my race is not yet run!), Javert's Soliloquy (shall his crimes be reprieved? Philip Quast hits the note the best 
)
Miss Saigon ~ Why God Why?, I Still Believe (Ellen's solo), Bui Doi, The Fall of Saigon
Phantom ~ Phantom's solo (you will curse the day you did not do ...)
And then my teary moments (I've never actually cried) ~
Les Mis ~ Heart Full of Love and Bring Him Home
Wicked ~ For Good and Finale
Miss Saigon ~ The Fall of Saigon (don't take my love away not now *sniff*)
Phantom ~ Wishing You were Somehow here Again (as sung by Emmy Rossum *nod*)
Can't think of a many other really memorable moments ... but those are mine
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.
#46re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 2:54am
Most of (the second act) of Caroline will move me to tears. Tesori's score & Kushner's lyrics are nothing short of heartbreaking!
The Last 5 Years. I remember a tear droping down my cheeck watching JRB sing 'Nobody needs to know' with full band. 'All that I ask for is one little corner. One private room at the back of my heart'. Ouch!!
the end of Into The Woods alway's gets to me.
Falsetto's
&
Saigon were my original tear Jerker's.
*sob*
Updated On: 2/15/05 at 02:54 AM
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#47re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 3:06am
Paul's monologue and Kiss Today Goodbye from A Chorus Line.
Something Wonderful and the final scene from The King and I.
Come to my Garden from Secret Garden.
Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha.
You'll Never Walk Alone from Carousel.
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables.
The end of Act I of Ragtime.
Ol' Man River from Showboat.
The Bus from Caroline, or Change.
I Know the Truth from AIDA.
The Finale of Brigadoon.
gcal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#48re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 3:21am
No One Is Alone- Into the Woods
Not a Day Goes By- Merrily We Roll Along
Being Alive- Company
There Is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense- Parade
If He Walked Into My Life- Mame
How Could I Know- Secret Garden
Climb Every Mountain- Sound Of Music
What I Did For Love- A Chorus Line
#49re: Musical Moments That Make You Cry
Posted: 2/15/05 at 3:24am
BARE
Almost the entire thing....
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
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