Saddest Broadway Songs
Saddest Broadway Songs
Saddest Broadway Songs#1
Posted: 1/11/21 at 6:09pm
What are some Broadway numbers that are major tearjerkers?
For me, the ultimate examples would be Words Fail and So Big/So Small from Dear Evan Hansen and No More and No One is Alone from Into the Woods.
In both cases its two emotionally destructive numbers one after another, by mere seconds for the former.
Saddest Broadway Songs#2
Posted: 1/12/21 at 9:18pm
Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music
Finale from Chess
The Letter from Billy Elliot
Tell Me It's Not True from Blood Brothers
I Am Here from Come From Away
I Dreamed a Dream from Les Miserables
With You from Ghost
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from The Phantom of the Opera
Without You from RENT
I'll Cover You (Reprise) from RENT
She Used To Be Mine from Waitress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
Saddest Broadway Songs#3
Posted: 1/12/21 at 10:11pm
Days and Days - Fun Home
Telephone Wire - Fun Home
How Could I Ever Know - The Secret Garden
Who Will Love Me As I Am? - Side Show
Chorus Member Joined: 9/15/14
Saddest Broadway Songs#5
Posted: 1/13/21 at 7:36am
The I Love You Song from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Saddest Broadway Songs#6
Posted: 1/13/21 at 12:12pm
The Saddest Song from Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
kidding
I second Not A Day Goes By from Merrily
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Saddest Broadway Songs#8
Posted: 1/13/21 at 12:49pm
Jule Styne's "The Music That Makes Me Dance" from FUNNY GIRL. Unfortunately, the song was dropped in favor of "My Man" in the film narrowing its popularity as a ballad.
Broadway Star Joined: 10/14/09
Saddest Broadway Songs#9
Posted: 1/13/21 at 2:31pmOn My Own always gets me, even after all these years. Recently rediscovered the 1991 Paris recording and its truly heartbreaking.
Saddest Broadway Songs#10
Posted: 1/13/21 at 2:50pm
"So Anyway" from Next to Normal makes me weep every time!
Saddest Broadway Songs#11
Posted: 1/13/21 at 3:47pm
Not the whole song, but one line in “Children and Art” from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE breaks my heart everytime.
“Isn’t She Beautiful?
There she is
There she is
There she is
There she is
Mama is everywhere
He must have loved her so much”
Saddest Broadway Songs#12
Posted: 1/13/21 at 4:27pm
Although these two are more touching than sad:
"For Good",especially since my dad passed way.
"Omar Sharif"--my grandfather was Middle Eastern and loved Arabic music. I used to listen to this type of music with him,as the character Dina had described doing with her mother.
"Far From the Home I Love" This one is sad.
Saddest Broadway Songs#13
Posted: 1/13/21 at 5:40pmAlex Kulak2 said: "The I Love You Song from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
I second this.
And also "I Miss the Mountains" from NEXT TO NORMAL.
Saddest Broadway Songs#14
Posted: 1/13/21 at 10:51pm
The songs which brings tears to my eyes are:
Send in the Clowns (Jean Simmons) A Little Night Music
Back to Before ( Patti Lupino’s recording) Ragtime
When There’s No One (Betty Buckley) Carrie
Evitas Final Broadcast (Lupone) Evita
The last two lines of “ New Ways To Dream” by Lupone in Sunset Boulevard:
“ They can’t see where the future lies...They don’t recognize a star. “ (Makes me tear up every time!)
Same with Crawford’s “ Phantom” when he sings the line: “ Christine I love you...”
Saddest Broadway Songs#15
Posted: 1/14/21 at 9:10am
brox22 said: "Not A Day Goes By from Merrily We Roll Along"
I agree with this one, but in the context of the show, I think “Our Time” is much sadder still.
Saddest Broadway Songs#16
Posted: 1/14/21 at 10:25amI always find it much more emotional to hear Not a Day Goes By out of context and in concert from Bernadette Peters and Marin Mazzie than within the context of any of the cast recordings or filmed London production.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/11
Saddest Broadway Songs#18
Posted: 1/15/21 at 10:02am
The Love I Meant To Say from SMASH. (Not quite Broadway but still relevant)
Swing Joined: 4/19/17
Saddest Broadway Songs#21
Posted: 1/18/21 at 5:02pm
Surprised no one has mentioned:
"MAMA, LOOK SHARP" from 1776
or
'FAR FROM THE HOME I LOVE" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
Saddest Broadway Songs#22
Posted: 1/18/21 at 6:14pm
"No One Has Ever Loved Me" from Passion turns me into a puddle and "Finale" makes it hurt all the more. The OBC is unbeatable, but the '97 London recording's slower tempo toward the end of "Finale" is terrifically hypnotic.
"People Like Us" from LaChiusa's The Wild Party is a heartbreaking duet.
"What Would I Do?" from Falsettos is always a pleasure to cry to.
"What Would You Do?" from Cabaret. Highland Guy already posted the video, but if you skipped over it, I urge you to go back.
"Love and Love Alone" from The Visit is a different animal. It's sad, but in a profoundly numbing way that I have never heard before. The music and lyrics work in perfect tandem to create the effect. I think it's a monument of a song.
Saddest Broadway Songs#23
Posted: 1/19/21 at 2:35am
"It Never Was You" Kurt Weill Maxwell Anderson
Judy Garland from I Could Go On Singing
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Saddest Broadway Songs#24
Posted: 1/19/21 at 12:18pm
Count me as another vote for "The I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Saddest Broadway Songs#25
Posted: 1/21/21 at 6:17pm
But You Go On. Annie Warbucks
50% Ballroom
People. Funny Girl
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