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

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.

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

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.

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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

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.

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

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...

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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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!!!!

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