Sad Male Broadway Love Song

[Andrew040501]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 6:42am

Hi guys! Im looking for a sad love song that can be sung by a male. What is the male equivalent to Im Not That Girl? Or something about loving someone who doesnt love you or that you want a second chance with? Thank you!

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 7:06am

It’s not technically Broadway, but “Evermore” from the live action Beauty and the Beast.

”You Should Be Loved” from Side Show and “I’ll Be There” from The Pirate Queen are definitely pining songs but get pretty belty. 

Updated On: 5/14/21 at 07:06 AM

[carolinaguy]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 7:07am

Double post

Updated On: 5/14/21 at 07:07 AM

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 7:47am

"If I Can't Lover Her" from Beauty and the Beast.

[Plannietink08]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 8:12am

Anthem from CHESS.

[rkade21]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 9:12am

Why God Why

Epic II / If it’s True / Epic III from Hadestown

All I Ask of You (Reprise) - Phantom portion

[CPannullo]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 9:49am

“Why” from Tick, Tick... Boom

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 10:56am

Plannietink08 said: "Anthem from CHESS."

To each their own! I don't think of this as a sad song at all; the character is embracing something positive.

Anyhow, my answer to the question would be "Role of a Lifetime" from Bare.

[sparksatmidnight]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 11:04am

What Would I Do? from Falsettos

[NameGreg]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 11:09am

So In Love’s reprise from Kiss Me, Kate.

[bjh2114]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 4:25pm

This Nearly Was Mine from South Pacific.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 4:47pm

The Games I Play - Falsettos 

[ggersten]

Posted: 5/14/21 at 9:18pm

It's not a "why doesn't she love me" song, but Funny from City of Angels is pretty sad. 

[¿Macavity?]

Posted: 5/15/21 at 7:23am

"The Right Girl", "Too Many Mornings" (though it's a duet, and plenty longing is coming from Sally, Ben is the one who introduces the regret), "Buddy's Blues" - FOLLIES

The first of these starts as a frantic up-tempo, but about 2/3 of it is a slower kind of frantic, if that makes sense. The second is pure ballad, enjoy. The third is a purely manic up-tempo. All are crushing within context.

 

"All Through the Night" - ANYTHING GOES

Not too heavy, but pleasantly melancholy.

[akhoya87]

Posted: 5/15/21 at 3:53pm

Answer Me from the Band's Visit.  

[justoldbill]

Posted: 5/16/21 at 8:14am

It may not necessarily be a song about unwanted or unrequited love, but a good show-off-your-voice song would be "There But For You Go I" from BRIGADOON.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/16/21 at 11:06am

*****Why Can't I Walk Away?   MAGGIE FLYNN*****

I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You (sadness inflected)  TWO BY TWO 

This Nearly Was Mine  SOUTH PACIFIC 

I Don't Remember You  THE HAPPY TIME

Finishing the Hat  SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE 

Why Can't I Speak/That's a Beginning (duet, man's is the second)  ZORBA 

Her Face  CARNIVAL



 

Updated On: 5/16/21 at 11:06 AM

[OlBlueEyes]

Posted: 5/19/21 at 1:59pm

Go back in time a bit to 1940: "It Never Entered My Mind" a classic by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

Can be sung by either sex, and made the crossover the the Jazz world via Miles Davis. Also recorded by Linda Ronstadt in 1984.

Here sung by Ol' Blue Eyes on the famous album In the Wee Small Hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijYzhQDUGYU

 

 

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 5/21/21 at 7:27pm

akhoya87 said: "Answer Me from the Band's Visit."

I love that song. 
One of the songs that always gets me is “Where is Love?” from Oliver.

[tmdonahue]

Posted: 5/22/21 at 8:32am

"It started out like a song" from Merrily We Roll Along.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 5/24/21 at 9:16am

'Not A Day Goes By'...orginally sung by Charlie in the OBC of
"Merrily We Roll Along"