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Saddest Bway Performances
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.
asmith0307
Broadway Star Joined: 8/5/14
#27Saddest Bway Performances
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.
#28Saddest Bway Performances
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
Featured Actor Joined: 6/7/15
#29Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:13pm
Being Alive
You'll Never Walk Alone
At The Ballet
funhamilton_rent
Featured Actor Joined: 9/26/15
#30Saddest Bway Performances
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
#31Saddest Bway Performances
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
Featured Actor Joined: 2/29/16
#32Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:28pm
So Big/ So Small from Dear Evan Hansen
I'll Cover You (reprise) RENT
BroadwayMan5
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/15
#33Saddest Bway Performances
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
#34Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:30pm
Telephone Wire in Fun Home wrecks me every single time. Absolutely devastating.
#35Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:31pm
The entire last 15 minutes of Grey Gardens. From "welcome to Grey Gardens" till the end.
#36Saddest Bway Performances
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.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#37Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/23/16 at 9:58pm
Lot's Wife Caroline or Change....heartbreaking perormance
sorano916
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/08
#38Saddest Bway Performances
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
#39Saddest Bway Performances
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.
#40Saddest Bway Performances
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
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
#41Saddest Bway Performances
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.
#42Saddest Bway Performances
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/06
#43Saddest Bway Performances
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)
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#44Saddest Bway Performances
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
Featured Actor Joined: 11/12/12
#45Saddest Bway Performances
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/08
#47Saddest Bway Performances
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
#49Saddest Bway Performances
Posted: 5/24/16 at 1:26am
Not gonna lie...I started to lose it at the end of Finding Neverland, i was devastated!
#50Saddest Bway Performances
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.
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