SADDEST song from a musical...- Page 3

[threatXthree]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:23am

The Movie In My Mind from Miss Saigon

[Marlothom]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:26am

Losing My Mind
You Could Never Bring Me Shame (From Kiss)

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:28am

Oh so many songs from Kiss of the Spiderwoman. Molina is one of the great tragic characters of musical theatre.

[musicnmath]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:31am

WhiteGuy...which song is " 'For Food' Wicked"? That would be an interesting plot twist...

[charliebrownkid]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:33am

sh'ma from parade... its short, but its the saddest song...

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:42am

I Hate the Bus-- Caroline, Or Change
Salty Teardrops -- Caroline, Or Change
Underwater-- you guessed it...Caroline, Or Change

[incendiary_wit]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:47am

"I'll Cover You" (reprise) makes me cry every single time I listen to it.
"For Good" from Wicked, because if you've ever lost a close friend you know what they're talking about.
Also, "I Could Write a Book" and "Do You Know What it's Like" from Zanna, Don't
Lastly, "Still Hurting" from The Last 5 Years.

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:51am

See I don't consider I Hate the Bus to be a sad song. I think when you really analyze it and get past the fact that she is sad when she is singing it, it is a really hopeful and joyous song but on the outside appears sad. I don't know that's just what I got out of it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:54am

Yeah I agree, but the first time I heard it, I wanted to cry because of how perfectly sung it is, and it is about hope, but also the stark reality of how things really are. In that sense, I empathize with and for Emmie as she sings of her hopes and dreams and her actual life.

(Sorry for the threadjack)

[Sumofallthings]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:56am

Oh I agree completely! Caroline made me cry so many times! I was especially touched by the story of Rose and Stuart. Stuart in my opinion is one of if not the most tragic characters in the piece.

http://chucksbroadwaythoughts.blogspot.com/

Check it out for my pretty lengthy but hardly thorough analysis!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:02am

Wishing you were somehow here again, from PTOO

[justthefacts2]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:04am

I had a song in mind but needed to track it down, and it turns out that the song that's been running through my head lately - that I haven't thought of in decades - isn't from a stage musical at all, and I'd thought it was. It was a film, but what a film. 1974 "The Little Prince" starring Richard Kiley. Gene Wilder was the Fox, Bob Fosse was the Snake. The score was by Lerner and Loewe. The song that always made me cry was "Little Prince From Who Knows Where?" - Richard Kiley was amazing singing it.

Does anyone know if this was ever done on stage? How about staging it - or doing a revival? In the meantime, I'm going to order it for my library.

[Matthew Rask]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:34am

I agree with a few other posters...

Without a doubt, A Little Fall of Rain from Les Miz.

[Unmasked05]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:02am

I think

"Your Daddys Son"-Ragtime
"Make Them Hear You"-Ragtime
"New Music"-Ragtime
"For Good"-Wicked
"Here's Where I Stand"-CAMP
"I Am Changing"-Dreamgirls
"And I'm Telling You"- Dreamgirls
"This Should Have Been My Time"-AIDA
"Elaborate Lives(Reprise)-AIDA
"Lullaby/Home"-The Scarlet Pimpernel

Those are some of my favorite sad songs

[Bluejay2]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 4:44am

"Empty chairs at empty tables" (Les Miserables) and "Wishing you were somehoe here again" (POTO) are my favorite sad songs but also from little shop of horrors the song that Audrey sings at the end, I don't know the English title, maybe "Somewhere that's green" reprise

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 5:53am

LOSING MY MING - FOLLIES

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:00am

14 Dwight Ave, Natick, Mass and The Day The Earth Stopped Turning from Elegies. Also Anytime (I Am There) from said show. All 3 songs had me boo-hooing in the aisles when I saw it in London.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:16am

"I Am There" from William Finn's Elegies and "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from Sideshow.

[Greekmusicalfan]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:16am

"On my Own" & "Empty Chairs" from Les Mis
"The Movie in my Mind" from MIss Saigon
"Written in the Stars" from Aida
"Once Before I Go" from Boy from Oz
"Somewhere" from West Side Story

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:49am

I think that 'I'll Cover You:Reprise' is really sad.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 7:39am

Your Daddys Son- Ragtime
The Sacred Bird- Origional Ending To Miss Saigon
Maybe This Time- Cabaret
Tell Me It's Not True- Blood Brothers
As Long As He Needs Me- Oliver!
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables- Les Mis
Fantines Death- Les Mis

[paradox_error]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 7:55am

Next - Pacific Overtures.

Mainly because of the absolute irony. This song never fails to give me chills...

[QuiteSo]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 8:19am

POTO's finale never, EVER has failed to make me cry. There are just so many emotions running in that last scene...the last time I saw it, Hugh added in an extra cry of "I LOVE YOU!" and ran toward Sandra...and my heart broke. God.

Others:
"Not While I'm Around" - Sweeney Todd
"I Wish I Could Go Back To College" - Avenue Q
"Unworthy of Your Love" - Assassins
Entire final sequence from Bat Boy (especially when Dr. Parker and Meredith start singing together)
"I Don't Care Much" - Cabaret
"Stay With Me" - Into The Woods
"No More" - Into The Woods
"No One Is Alone" - Into The Woods (kind of depressing show, but uplifting at the same time)
"Sailing" - A New Brain (William Finn is amazing)
"Somewhere That's Green (reprise)" - Little Shop of Horrors

I think that's all I can handle right now o.o;;

Updated On: 6/15/05 at 08:19 AM

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 8:42am

What Would I Do? from Falsettos

[jasobres]

Posted: 6/15/05 at 8:45am

I couldn't stop crying when I heard the "I'll Cover You" reprise from Rent.