Saddest Bway Performances- Page 2

[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.

[asmith0307]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 8:52pm

I'll second "You Learn to Live Without", especially as it hits close to home for me (the Beth side, not so much the Liz). "I Hate You" is sad as well - particularly when she has the realization and changes from present tense to past. 

 

I also teared up at the final reprise of "You'll Never Walk Alone"  from Carousel. Why? I'm not sure, but I did. 

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:07pm

100% the carousel finale.

Epilogue of Les Miz.

No One Is Alone (especially with the OBC of Into the Woods)

Children and Art from Sunday always leaves me with quite a few tears.

I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face from My Fair Lady

I wouldn't call it sad necessarily, but the finale of Ragtime with the reprise of Wheels of a Dream leaves me a blubbering mess.

The final scene of act one in She Loves Me is heartbreaking to me.

Underwater and the scene before it in Caroline, or Change is incredibly sad.

The final scene in Cabaret 

Another Winter in a Summer Town from Grey Gardens 

Paul's monologue in A Chorus Line

BUT THE WINNER FOR SADDEST MOMENT IN A MUSICAL IS....

I'll Be Here from Ordinary Days.  The song isn't great.  The lyrics are bland and so is the music, but the subject matter rips my soul out everytime I hear it.

[sng]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:13pm

Being Alive

You'll Never Walk Alone

At The Ballet

[funhamilton_rent]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:23pm

Those You've Known from Spring Awakening

She Used to Be Mine from Waitress

This Is Not An Exit from American Psycho

Stay Alive (Reprise)/It's Quiet Uptown from Hamilton

Hamilton's monologue in The World Was Wide Enough

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story from Hamilton

The last 20 minutes of Finding Neverland (hell, I was even crying 20 mins after it ended)

Paul's Monologue from A Chorus Line (gives me goosebumps just to think about it)

Some parts (I can't remember) of Violet

The last 20 minutes of Next To Normal

 

[kdogg36]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:26pm

"Please Let Me Tell You," from The Most Happy Fella - Rosabella's simple plea punctuated by those devastating orchestral comments.

[rangersrule132]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:28pm

So Big/ So Small from Dear Evan Hansen 

I'll Cover You (reprise) RENT

[BroadwayMan5]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:30pm

Chavaleh - Fiddler

No More - Into the Woods

I Know the Truth & Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise) - Aida

 

I don't know if I'd say they are sad but the finales to Carousel and Ragtime get me every time

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:30pm

Telephone Wire in Fun Home wrecks me every single time. Absolutely devastating. 

[SNAFU]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:31pm

The entire last 15 minutes of Grey Gardens. From "welcome to Grey Gardens" till the end.

 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:46pm

Another Winter in a Summer Town , Grey Gardens 

Telephone Wire and Edges of the World, Fun Home 

Underwater, Caroline or Change. That's the one that most just makes me collapse into a puddle. 

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:58pm

Lot's Wife Caroline or Change....heartbreaking perormance

[sorano916]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:59pm

Moritz's suicide monologue into "Left Behind" from Spring Awakening

"The World Was Wide Enough" from Hamilton

"The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In)" from Hair

 

[A Canadian in NYC]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:04pm

It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton. I have to be careful where I am when that songs plays. 

Bring Him Home - Les Mis.  Tears every time. 

[Drewski Vanderbilt]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:13pm

"Left behind"- Spring Awakening

"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" -Hamilton

Miss Saigon

"Dying Ain't So Bad"- Bonnie & Clyde

"The Flesh Failures/ Let The Sunshine In"-Hair

Bat Boy's Ballad in "Comfort and Joy"-Bat Boy

"Almost Perfect Lie"-From Here To Eternity

"No One Else" and "The Great Comet of 1812" -Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

 

[Nettik]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:14pm

Most of these have already been said, but...

"Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind/Left Behind" in Spring Awakening

"Til We Reach That Day" in Ragtime

"Ring of Keys" through the end of Fun Home

"Loving You" through the end of Passion

And technically not even a musical theatre song, but the ending of Evening Primrose destroys me.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:17pm

The first scene second act or cabaret and the end of cabaret. I'll also second telephone wire.

[smidge]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:41pm

The Flesh Failures 

I'd Give My Life for You 

You'll Never Walk Alone

Somewhere That's Green

The Letter  (Billy Elliot)

Updated On: 5/23/16 at 10:41 PM

[willep]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 10:58pm

Mark Rylance's performance in Jerusalem was a gut punch. Particularly that third act...from when the girl puts on the record "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" by Sandy Denny and they dance, then he gets the crap beaten out of him, Ginger, his closest "friend" comes and spits on him, he has to face his little son while covered in blood and spit...ugh

[StephieElise]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 11:33pm

The final scene of Ghost is the saddest for me. I saw it 2 days after my grandfather died and even thinking of Sam's final line makes me tear up.

A lot of Les Mis makes me a blubbering mess, particularly A Little Fall of Rain. 

The final scene of Love Never Dies

Amen, Opus 35 in King Kong

I'll Be Here from Ordinary Days

I clearly don't cope well with death in musicals do I? 

[sorano916]

Posted: 5/23/16 at 11:52pm

It wasn't on Broadway but "Just Ask the Flowers" from Here Lies Love always got me when I saw the show and even when I listen to the cast recording.

[mamaleh]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:25am

"Losing My Mind"--FOLLIES

[@z5]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:26am

Not gonna lie...I started to lose it at the end of Finding Neverland, i was devastated!

[uncageg]

Posted: 5/24/16 at 2:13am

I'll Cover You (reprise) - just gets me every time I hear it and saw it live.

Lot's Wife - I was a TOTAL sobbing mess during the last part and after that song in the theater

"I Love You So Much Jesus" from Your Arms Too Short To Box With God - not s much sad but it caught me by surprised and left me shaking and sobbing big time. AND Patti LaBelle sang it in the show. I cried for a good 5 minutes after the song was over.

Updated On: 5/24/16 at 02:13 AM