Musical Moments That Make You Cry — Page 3

so i cry way too often for my own good at the theatre. really any great emotional moment will have me in tears. i cry at joy, pain, saddness. yes, i'm a loser. but what takes the cake for the thing that had me the most bawling i will ever be in a theatre is at the end of ragtime at tateh's monologue about 'a gang of children' and little coalhouse runs out. well if a boy was ever going to lose it in a theatre that just did me in. it was the most incredible feeling i've ever had in a theatre. EVER.

apdarcey - I REFUSE to believe that your willingness to fully experience the breadth and scope of your emotions makes you a 'loser'!

As for me, my ultimate meltdowns come during 'straight dramas'. I couldn't breathe at the climaxes of several plays - most notably among them:

The Elephant Man & Bent.

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 03:41 AM

oh yes. some straight dramas i just don't want to move or breathe or anything because they are just so gripping. among them were my friends' productions of the goat (stevie's breakdown) and the shape of things (during evelyn's final monologue). there are so many others too but i thought i would mention those because they were recent productions by friends! but the title of this thread was musical moments. so the end of ragtime it is. i just died. even though i knew exactly what was going to happen every time i've seen it.

i should say that right now i'm in a show called 'shakespeare on love' depicting differetn visions and types of love in shakespeare's plays and the scene that really has me so caught up is between cleopatra and the messenger when he tells her that antony is married to someone else. she is so off of it that i am totally taken aback. and guess who's playing the messenger? well needless to say it is one of the biggest acting challenges of my life!

The last 10 minutes of Once on this Island.

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I still have more...

Kiss Me and Ladies in Their Sensitivities (Sweeney Todd) - Expecially during the last part of the second song, with the quartet and the orchestra. Wow! I find this the best musical theatre scene, [I]ever[/I]

Finale B (Rent) - The different melodies are both energetic and hopeful, and meaningful to what happened in the past.

Finale (A Little Night Music) - Not the whole song, but the beginning, when they kiss and the woman dies. Oh!

papabear, you're right. Will's Elaborate Lives was to die for. so was Jeremy Kushnier's. hell, so was Adam's...all three sang it so differently.

As far as my crying moments, I'll name only a few since I cry all the time
-"Tell me its not True" Blood Brothers...the first time I ever cried in a theater, and I was pretty inconsolable...sooo good!
-Ragtime finale when little Coalhouse runs out and they start singing "Wheels of a Dream"
-Saigon Finale "What have you done Kim? Why?..." ripped my heart out.
-Secret Garden "Lily? Is that you?" into How I could I ever know?
-Aida: from Mereb's death "Aida, take me home" to the end.
-Little Women "Some things are meant to be" and "Days of Plenty"
-The first time I saw Rent on Bway, I cried thru the whole thing, cause I was sitting in the lotto seats and was so completely overwhelmed. Now, Mark Richard Ford never ceases to make me cry with his I'll cover you Reprise
-The End of Last Five Years: the complete joy in Sherie's "Goodbye until Tomorrow" and the devastation in Norbert's "I could never Rescue You" was heart wrenching.

Many more...but those stand out in my mind the most

the overture and rising chandelier in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

the final scene in FALSETTOS

The Music and the Mirror from A CHORUS LINE

Solo Saxophone from MISS SAIGON

If He Walked Into My Life Today from MAME

Before the Parade Passes By from HELLO DOLLY!

Tradition from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

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The final moments of Days of Plenty - LITTLE WOMEN.

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Oh ym god yes - When Coalhouse JR runs on from the wings i actually cried out loud. Also the Act One Finale of Ragtime.

Falsettoland - Four Unlikely Lovers through to the bows

Carousel - Final You'll never walk alone

Witches of Eastwick - after the opening number, East wick Knows, I was blown away.

I am such a wuss though, will cry at the drop of a hat!

The ending of Phantom: I saw it first when I was 15 and was so impacted! I saw it again many times after that but could never muster the tears like it did the first time.

I saw Rent in San Francisco. I cried hard during I'll Cover You. Oh my gosh ~so many people in the theater where crying. You could hear the heavybreath and sniffling everywhere!

And last, Les Miz: when the Gavroche got killed, it set me up for a cry when a few moments later they showed the entire barricade filled with the fallen.

God, I love theater!!!!!!!

Updated On: 2/15/05 at 07:26 PM

The whole finale of "Les Mis," starting with Valjean slipping out of Marius and Cosette's wedding to be alone through the curtain call.
And after I saw CATS at the Winter Garden, I spent a good part of the next day in tears, I guess because I was so thrilled to have actually seen it on Broadway before it closed.

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"All the Wasted Time" from Parade made me cry this past weekend when I saw it at NYU.

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Movin Out: Elegy