Saddest Bway Performances

[sofiaur8]

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

[ZellMorrowsPledge]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:09pm

Flying Away from Fun Home

[pupscotch]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 5:13pm

Next to Normal in general, specifically the final scene.

[Mike66]

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

[TotallyEffed]

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.

[TFMH18]

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).

[sarahb22]

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]

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.

Updated On: 5/23/16 at 06:30 PM

[thirtythirtyninety]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:02pm

What Would I Do, from Falsettos.   Ouch.

 

also I'll Cover You ( Reprise )

Updated On: 5/23/16 at 07:02 PM

[mar6411]

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]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:11pm

Memory.  Makes me sad for the future of musical theatre every time I hear it.

[a-mad]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:11pm

Till We Reach That Day

Ragtime

[a-mad]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:13pm

....oh and I can't forget:

With You - Ghost

[KathyNYC2]

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.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:22pm

 

'Night Mother.

She kills herself.

 

[dev101]

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. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:33pm

Finding neverland reprise

[broadwaybinge]

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. 

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:40pm

I'll Cover You reprise from Rent.

[Alex M]

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]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:49pm

Most recently So Big/So Small from Dear Evan Hansen

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 7:53pm

Being Mrs. Banks

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 8:01pm

For me, it is You Should Be Loved and I Will Never Leave You from Side Show.

[After Eight]

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.

[poisonivy2]

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.