Saddest Bway Performances
Saddest Bway Performances
sofiaur8
Swing Joined: 2/12/16
#1Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:04pm
I was wondering what you think the saddest performances or songs are?
Updated On: 5/23/16 at 05:04 PM
#2Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:09pm
Flying Away from Fun Home
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pupscotch
Broadway Star Joined: 1/24/16
#3Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:13pm
Next to Normal in general, specifically the final scene.
Mike66
Leading Actor Joined: 12/17/15
#4Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:24pm
"Far From the Home I Love" from Fiddler. When she says "God only knows when we will see each other again" and he says "Then we will leave it in His hands" -- I turn to mush.
And it's happened every time since I saw the show with Zero Mostel.
It just wipes me out. Every time
#6Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 6:21pm
The reprise of "I Am the One" from next to normal always made me cry like a baby.
#7Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 6:23pm
I actually think Idina's role in If/Then was extremely sad. Both parts of the dual role of Elizabeth were heartbreaking in vastly different ways. The show does ultimately end on an uplifting note, I suppose, but honestly most of act 2 is devastating, as are the songs ("You Learn to Live Without" particularly has some of the saddest lyrics of any song written for theatre).
#8Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 6:26pm
I don't think it gets much sadder than 'Stay Alive (Reprise)/It's Quiet Uptown' from 'Hamilton'. It's a real gut-wrencher.
aaaaaa15
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/31/15
#9Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 6:30pm
The last 20 minutes or so of Next to Normal (from Maybe to the end).
The last 20 minutes or so of Fun Home (from Days and Days to the end).
Stay Alive (Reprise)/It's Quiet Uptown and The World Was Wide Enough/Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story from Hamilton.
thirtythirtyninety
Broadway Star Joined: 5/30/05
#10Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:02pm
What Would I Do, from Falsettos. Ouch.
also I'll Cover You ( Reprise )
mar6411
Broadway Star Joined: 9/19/09
#11Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:09pm
Written in the Stars and I Know the Truth - Aida
There's a Fine, Fine Line - Avenue Q
Another Winter in a Summer Town - Grey Gardens
This Nearly Was Mine - South Pacific
Without You - Rent
Deep Into the Ground - Billy Elliot
And I agree with It's Quiet Uptown from Hamilton - makes me cry every time - and Far From the Home I Love from Fiddler
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#12Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:11pm
Memory. Makes me sad for the future of musical theatre every time I hear it.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
KathyNYC2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/10
#15Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:22pm
Miss Saigon - Kim - especially at the end. Also Chris in the same show when he realizes that Kim is not going to get out on the helicopter.
dev101
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/14
#17Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:32pm
Fantine's death and when Valjean dies made me cry in Les Mis, especially when RK played Valjean. Just such a sadness in his voice.
Stay Alive/It's Quiet Uptown also had me teary eyed.
#18Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:33pm
Finding neverland reprise
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#19Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:37pm
I've seen Wicked eight times and "For Good" still unironically kills me. And then Glinda up there in that bubble, not knowing that her best friend is still alive. I'm never not crying through the last ten minutes.
#20Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:40pm
I'll Cover You reprise from Rent.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Alex M
Broadway Star Joined: 11/16/13
#21Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:44pm
I know its off broadway but "For Forever" and "Words Fail" from "Dear Evan Hansen" really got me when i saw it.
billyelliotfan123
Leading Actor Joined: 10/24/09
#22Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:49pm
Most recently So Big/So Small from Dear Evan Hansen
#23Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:53pm
Being Mrs. Banks
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#24Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 8:01pm
For me, it is You Should Be Loved and I Will Never Leave You from Side Show.
"I don't want the pretty lights to come and get me."-Homecoming 2005
"You can't pray away the gay."-Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy.
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After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#25Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 8:22pm
When Anna Maria Alberghetti sings, "I'm very far from Mira now, and there's no turning back," in Carnival, how can anyone hope to stay a tear?
Bob Merrill is so underrated as a composer/lyricist.
#26Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 8:23pm
I've never been able to not cry through "Chava's Dream." One of the most emotional, heart wrenching moments in musical theater. I cry for Tevye, I cry for Chava, I'm a mess.
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