Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up, and sobbing like a bitch?- Page 6

[Qfan]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:36am

Everything mentioned above and i have one thing to add. I did a scene from "The Normal Heart" the second scene between ned and ben (I was playing Ben). But, everytime we ran it or whatever i barely made it through with out crying. What a beautiful show

OH! I forgot the end of "Drowsy Chaperone" I was laughing nonstop til the power blew and afterwards o god! I wept.

Updated On: 6/4/06 at 02:36 AM

[CTTheatreLvr]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:42am

the revival of BIG RIVER. the woman sitting next to me kept giving me this look like "are you for real?"

[Color and Light]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 3:00am

Into the Woods always makes me cry, no matter if I'm watching it, listening to it, or (one year) performing in it. There's just this tremendously sad lilt to the music that always gets me.

[HorseTears]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 5:02am

Goodness gracious me! Some of you are... emotionally unstable. I guess this board is populated mainly by the key Wicked demographic?

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 5:10am

i cried in RENT when Angel died. but i think i do that almost everytime. i know that's not very unique or original but i can't help it!

i also started to cry in The History Boys when Posner has the talk with the new teacher and in Awake & Sing! at the end of the second act.

i cry really easy tho so i don't count

[sabrelady]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 6:40am

The only time I really remember looseing it was the original "Chorus Line" -"At The Ballet". Barely heard "Sing" after wards.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 6:55am

Last year's production of THE BAKER'S WIFE at the Paper Mill. When Alice Ripley sang "Gifts of Love", I had a few tears in my eyes. By "Meadowlark", they were full-on sobs.

NINE, first preview of the recent revival. Laura Benanti's "Unusual Way" simply floored me and I started to cry.

THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL. When the man tells Lois Smith's character that her only friend left in Bountiful had died the day before she arrived. The expression on Ms. Smith's face was so real and so devestating.

The last scene of RABBIT HOLE.

Nearly every song Natascia Diaz and Gay Marshall perform in JACQUES BREL.

"Anytime (I Am There)" from ELEGIES.

At the final performance of RAGS on Broadway, when Judy Kuhn sang the title song, I was a wreck. By the end, when she exclaims "I'm just one more Jew in her rags!", the entire audience was sobbing uncontrollably. An amazing performance.

[Sant]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 7:23am

THE KING AND I revival. I was crying my eyes out!!

[SmeagolxIsxSexy]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 8:08am

Miss Siagon... one of the few musicals that doesn't have a happy ending.

[OtherDaryl]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 8:42am

Death of a Salesman
I Never Sang for My Father
Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer
A Chorus Line
Sunday in the Park with George

[iHeartMyGeek]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:05am

Admittedly, I've lost it at just about every show I've ever seen at some point or another because I think that musicals are just so powerful. Except Sweet Charity, which I saw without knowing anything about it and was so greatly disappointed in because...well, it was the only show I got to see on that trip to New York. I DID cry, however, when we walked past the Nederlander on our way back to the hotel. But I...am pathetic. Anyway.

To state the obvious, Ragtime, RENT, (as much as I HATE to admit it) Wicked, Aida (my school did a production of it this year that had me bawling at "The Gods Love Nubia" and the reprise of "Elaborate Lives.") There's a ton more but I'm totally blanking right now...

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:45am

Each time I saw LES MIZ, I left crying- although depending on who was who, I may have cried at some points in between The final performance on Bway back in '03 was the hardest.

PHANTOM- the first two times, after that, I didn't.

WICKED, RENT and INTO THE WOODS had me teary.

Updated On: 6/4/06 at 09:45 AM

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:53am

I saw a production of Ragtime at a community theatre in Norwell. Let me put it to you this way. For weeks, I could not think about the production without welling up. After the first act, I was reduced to a sobbing wreck. As I write this, I'm thinking about the very end when the family walks off into the sunset. I'm welling up as I type this.

That same theatre did The Sound of Music. The Von Trapp family appears on top of the mausoleum they're hiding in to simulate climbing into the mountains. That final tableau brought a lump to my throat.

As did that theatre's production of Beauty and the Beast the second time I saw it (I was ushering).

And, this will sound weird, but I welled up during the curtain calls of that theatre's Teen Conservatory production of Grease. To answer any impending questions, here's why:

I was going to audition for that production but a school assignment on Edgar Allen Poe's Masque of the Red Death as well as a test in Wellness prevented me from doing so. I had many friends in the cast who were like a second family to me. I was just so damn proud of them after seeing them give such knockout performances and absolutely crushed that I couldn't be up there with them.

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 9:56am

I also came close to crying while listening to the cast recording of Seussical. How do Ahrens and Flaherty do it? For a show about Dr. Seuss (or rather based on his works), this show sure was moving.


When I was in Godspell at that community theatre, I played Judas. We were in the rehearsal room and I was "offstage" watching them rehearse On the Willows. The Crucifixion scene was particularly powerful.

[icantbelive]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:07am

Tick Tick Boom, during the Michael and Jon scene where Michael tells Jon that he is HIV+

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 10:34am

These are all shows that I never got to see, but listened to or read, which had this effect on me. Imagine if I could have actually seen the pruductions.

Tick, Tick, BOOM! The first time I listened to the cast recording, I actually couldn't move. I sat, and cried, and listened to it from the beginning again.

The Normal Heart. I read this play, and I finished it one morning alone in my school's cafateria, and I just cried and cried and cried. Also, a teacher I am very close with was involved in casting the original production, and hearing him speak about how important the prosuction was to him set me off again.

Angels in America. Nonstop.

And I did get to see the revival of Cabaret at Studio 54. After that last scene I couldn't move.

[ahimsa]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 2:46pm

I didn't cry during Les Miz. Am I going to Hell?

I still get woozy thinking about Alan Cumming at the end of the Cabaret revival. He got to me in a big way.

[Millie Lammoreaux]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 3:05pm

"The Diary of Anne Frank" and "Bent. I saw "Bent" in a small, nearly empty theater, so my sobs could be heard by the actors. I sense they were energized by my reaction, making their performances all the more powerful, especially in the harrowing final scene. Ain't live theater amazing?

[bwaybabe3]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 6:02pm

Hmm lets see... well I don't cry at RENT even though I loooooooove it. It's very odd.

I think the onlly shows I've cried at are Bee and Q! I know, it's weird they are comedies. But at Bee when the kids are eliminated I always get teary eyed. I don't know.. it just makes me sad. And then Q is my favorite show and when I won the lottery as the show was coming to a close I got very sad... especially during For Now.... it was just such a great experience and it was all over and i got very upset haha.

[Practically Perfect]

Posted: 6/4/06 at 6:40pm

Light In The Piazza - just so beautiful and moving. Kelli O'Hara and Victoria Clarke were just out of this world.

Miss Saigon - it's just so tragic.

Mary Poppins - every time I've seen it I've cried, and at Laura-Michelle Kelly's last performance I was uncontrollable.

Sunday In The Park With George - the song 'Sunday' just makes me weep.

Evita - the new London revival - Elena Roger had me in tears when she sang 'You Must Love Me'.

Phantom Of The Opera - the last 15 minutes or so has such beautiful music.

Mary P x

[CapnHook]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 3:41pm

I saw one of those types of shows today. A NERVOUS SMILE by the late John Belluso at the WILLIAMSTOWN THEATRE FESTIVAL. It starred Amy Brenneman, Gloria Reuben, Scott Cohen, and Deirdre O'Connell.

When the show was over, I couldn't stand up at first, but then I lead the standing ovation. The cast was so moved by our response. They took some extra bows (it was the closing performance, too).

Then I sank back down to my seat. I couldn't feel my knees. People trying to leave on my aisle had to climb over me because I couldn't get up.

I was sobbing like a bitch.
I was trembling.
I was speechless.
And being that the show was over only 20 minutes ago, I am still trembling and still unable to breath. I'm at work and everyone is looking at me like I'm crazy.

This is why I live. For instances in the theatre such as what I just experienced.

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:12pm

Phantom--the end of each act...and on Oct. 1st I was bawling thru most of the show...

AIDA--the very end...KILLED me

Les Miserables--Enjolras dead on the barricade. every time. (when I did the production, the final night it was all i could do to not cry the entire time I was onstage)

JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS...every single time...I'm a mess once Fanette starts and then i calm down...but the second act 2 breaks into Old Folks, I'm a wreck again and I stay that way for the rest of the act.

[danaonotlater]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:35pm

As I knew it was the last time I was probably ever going to see it, the last time I saw Lennon I was a mess. I held it together through most of the show, but Chuck started his police officer dialogue at the end and I was gone. I bawled through 'Imagine.' The cast kept sending me supportive glances, though.

Also, the first time I saw Wicked (my first show), closing night of Brooklyn (So much energy). Awake and Sing! shook me up pretty good too. Rabbit Hole.

[secret-soul]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:37pm

Yes, i also cried a lot closing night of Lennon--it was the only time i saw it...but will chase made me an emotional mess...and then when Julie started...god they all just killed me.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 8/6/06 at 4:43pm

RENT - I'll Cover You Reprise (The movie)

Fiddler - When Tevye dosen't talk to his daughter and says he has no daughter. And the Leave taking.

The Producers, DRS, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee and many other comedies in laughter!!!!