SADDEST song from a musical...
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Joined: 12/31/69
#100re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 1:28pm
for me, though most of them have already been posted:
"For Good"--Wicked
"I'm Not That Girl"--if you've ever been in the situation, you cry!
"Some Things Are Meant to Be"--LW
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"--POTO
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" + "Bring Him Home"--Les Mis
"No Good Deed"--Wicked
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#101re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 2:46pm"One More Walk Around the Garden" from Carmelina.
DivaQueen332
Chorus Member Joined: 6/14/05
#102re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:05pm
The entire score of Ragtime
'Days of Plenty'- Little Women
'Fine Fine Line'- Avenue Q
'For Good'- Wicked
'Hardest Part of Love' from Children of Eden
'I will cover you'-Rent
#103re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 3:20pm
hey ms. divaqueen....you need an avatar picture.
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#104re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 4:58pm
Tell Me Its Not True - Blood Brothers
Youll Never Walk Alone - Carousel
#105re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 5:16pm
"A Little Fall of Rain"-Les Miz
"No More"-Into the Woods
two of my favorite songs of all time :)
#106re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 5:33pm
- Ever More Without You (Woman in White)
- Whising you were somehow here again (PotO)
- I'll Cover You (reprise - Rent)
#107re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:23pm
Kiss the Day Goodbye-Chorus Line
I Dont Know How to Love Him-JCS(thats for you Judas:))
Somewhere That's Green-Little Shop of Horrors
Your Eyes Rent (sorry if thats not the actual title all you major rent heads out there, I just had an exam, so I'm on a permanent brain fart)
One Day More-Les Mis
Memory/Grizzabella the Glamour Cat (the original london cast version)-Cats
Why God Why?-Miss Saigon
I'd Give my Life For You-Miss Saigon
At the Ballet-chorus Line
Alone in the Universe-Suessical
#108re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/15/05 at 6:34pm"Without You" and I will have to agree with Mistoffeles on "Your Eyes"
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#109re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 12:26am
"I Know the Truth" from Aida
"Il Adore" and "Petrified" and most of Act 2 from Taboo
"I'll Cover You: Reprise" from RENT (when sung right)
"In L.A" from Fame
"Come to Me" from Les Miz
"Sacred Bird" from Miss Saigon
"Fine-Fine Line" from Avenue Q
"Raven" from Brooklyn
"There are Worse Things I Could Do" from Grease
"Origin of Love" and Tommy's "Wicked Little Town" from Hedwig
"Somewhere That's Green: Reprise" from Little Shop
"I'm Going Home" from Rocky Horror (Tim Curry only, please. Sorry Tom Hewitt, but you didn't sound near as good at Tim in that song)
All of those songs have made me cry (or at the very least tear up) on more than one occasion. I remember bawling in the theatre when I saw Marcus Paul James sing 'I'll Cover You: Reprise' in Cincinatti earlier this year.
#110re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 12:42amSo much of the Secret Garden but especially "Lily's Eyes" and the Quartet.
#112re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 2:31am
What Kind of Fool Am I? from Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
This Nearly Was Mine from South Pacific
POTO finale
Being Alive from Company
Send in the Clowns, of course
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Joined: 12/31/69
#113re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 2:38am
I'm very surprised that no one mentioned "I'll Forget You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel. That song--sung by the wonderful Linda Eder, of course--is a KNIFE in my HEART every single time I hear it.
I'm also voting for "Endless Night" from The Lion King, but maybe I just miss Jason.
#114re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 3:03am
For all of the songs already listed that I'm very familiar with I totally agree. However, I'm very surprsed that out of 113 posts I am going to be the first one to post these songs.
To The Lifeboats, We'll Meet Tomorrow and Still From Titanic
and
I Can Hear Music from Leader of the Pack
The Titanic songs make me tear up every damn time, with Leader of the Pack, I think it has more to do with the staging of that song when I saw it, although the song is fairly sad.
#115re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:19am
Agree with "Still" from Titanic...actually cried in the theater...more than I can say for the movie.
Will add "Il Adore" from Taboo. Didnt like the video montage staging tho. Too much.
Liz McCartney also breaks my heart in "Talk Amongst Yourselves"
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mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#116re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 10:25amFunny...."One Day More" gets the exact opposite visceral reaction from me than sad.
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Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
#118re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:31am
That's What I Could Do - Violet
Raise Me Up (Reprise) - Violet
Promise Me Violet (Reprise) - Violet
Rafiki Mourns - The Lion King
On the Willows - Godspell
The I Love You Song - ...Spelling Bee
Stars and the Moon - Songs for a New World
This Is Not Over Yet - Parade (only if you know how it ends, which most do...)
See Me - BARE
perhaps i'll add more later, but that's my list for now...
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#119re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 11:40am
I don't know which is THE SADDEST but here's a couple
A Little Fall Of Rain - LES MIS
If I Can't Love Her - BEAUTY & THE BEAST
Memory - CATS
Who Will Love Me As I Am? - SIDE SHOW
#120re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 3:11pmWhen Cathy says in L5Y, "I swear to God I'll never understand, how you can stand there straight and tall, and see I'm smiling, and not do anything at all".
#121re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 3:11pmWho Will Love Me As I Am...no question about it
#122re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 3:23pmIn addition to the TITANIC songs mentioned above....I also have to add the finale/reprise of "Godspeed Titanic". The ending scene where the survivors are in front of the screen, and then it rises to show all of the passengers who perished in their same positions from the opening sequence...gave me chills...and to top it off the survivors join them for the rousing finale. I have to admit that I lost it there!
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#123re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 4:32pmthe way Brian D'arcy James sing the song: What is it about her in the Wild Party, always makes me cry a little.
#124re: SADDEST song from a musical...
Posted: 6/16/05 at 5:14pm
After mentioning this song on "the Best" list, I realized that it should also be on "the Saddest" list.
"Ol' Man River" from Showboat. The song is powerful, and when you put yourself in the characters shoes---definitely VERY moving!
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