Posted: 5/14/21 at 6:42am
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
Posted: 5/14/21 at 7:07am
Double post
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Posted: 5/14/21 at 7:47am
"If I Can't Lover Her" from Beauty and the Beast.
Posted: 5/14/21 at 8:12am
Posted: 5/14/21 at 9:12am
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.
Posted: 5/14/21 at 11:09am
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Posted: 5/22/21 at 8:32am
"It started out like a song" from Merrily We Roll Along.
Posted: 5/24/21 at 9:16am
'Not A Day Goes By'...orginally sung by Charlie in the OBC of
"Merrily We Roll Along"
