Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up, and sobbing like a bitch?- Page 9
Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up, and sobbing like a bitch?
Broadway Star Joined: 11/19/05
crying#200
Posted: 8/8/06 at 5:38pm
A production of The Diary of Anne Frank at Illinois State U.
As a jewish female who's had the book/play essentially shoved down her throat since she 8, I am usually fairly numb to this story (although certainly not to the millions of lives it stands for). But I think this production was using the revised script from the 1997 revival. At the end of the show, Anne runs from the SS to grab her diary. Her father goes after her, but the SS stop him with a gun to his head.
My dad and I are very close, and with this scene I suddenly, and for the first time, imagined myself in Anne's place, with someone holding a gun to my dad's head. I freaked...
Even after all this time, it still gives me the chills.
crying#201
Posted: 8/8/06 at 5:58pm
This guy (I can't remember his name) did an off-broadway short one of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. It was him telling that story and weaving in a story about a kid with AIDS. I never got to see him do it Off-Broadway but he came to my school and I was absolutely hysterical. He made even the tough kids who would never expect to cry go weak at the knees.
Bare: A Pop Opera. I say this all the time. I've never even seen the show live, but every time I listen to the music or watch the video I cry like a baby.
And of course Rent. I start crying at Without You and sob through I'll Cover You (reprise), stop, and then start up again at Your Eyes.
And I sobbed on Wicked's last night in Boston knowing I would never experience the same thing again.
Stand-by Joined: 5/28/06
crying#202
Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:04pmWell, I remember this one show...finding out I paid full price and the person next to me paid half.
crying#203
Posted: 8/8/06 at 6:34pmAlmost all of the emotional numbers in rent, for good and finale in wicked, and, oddly enough, in DRS the scene where freddy comes back to find the hotel room empty (i was a little depressed at the fact that norbert wasn't there, maybe that's why i started sobbing). the shoving-the-candlestick-down-the-pants thing kinda ruined it, though.
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness, the trees are full of starlight
And all I see is him and me forever and forever."
crying#204
Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:54am
Jacques Brel tonight.
Sobbed through most of Act 2.
Damn them and their talent and their powerful material!
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
crying#206
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:41am
"More recently, when i watched the alternate ending of the RENT film, when they come back to the stage with the empty spotlight, I was blown away, and then Angel enters and I wept even more.
Oh, the power of the theatre!"
JBSinger - I started to lose it, too, but when Angel re-appeared, it went away some. I think it might have been even stronger if it was just an empty space or a stool with drumstricks on it instead of bringing him back.
--Aristotle
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
crying#207
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:48am
It's usually the performance of the particular actor that makes me cry, though sometimes music is a big part of it.
I think it's a very cleansing experience.
Updated On: 8/9/06 at 02:48 AM
crying#208
Posted: 8/9/06 at 2:50am
The Last 5 Years (the recording), Miss Saigon (both times I saw it) and Ragtime.
"More recently, when i watched the alternate ending of the RENT film, when they come back to the stage with the empty spotlight, I was blown away, and then Angel enters and I wept even more.
Oh, the power of the theatre!"
Me, too!! I really wish they had gone with that ending instead!
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Broadway Star Joined: 3/24/06
crying#209
Posted: 8/9/06 at 12:35pm
Rent-when Angel dies
Little Women
crying#210
Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:12pm
How come so many people on this board find Sweeney Todd so emotional to watch? (This isn't a critisism, I'm just wondering)
Stand-by Joined: 6/12/06
crying#211
Posted: 8/9/06 at 6:23pm
Um... I left Rent (with the ORIGINAL CAST, mind you) in a complete mess... Chorus Line, Light in the Piazza, Sunday (just because of the music)... I was a wreck all through Rent's 10th anniversary (don't kill me). Though I think that Bernadette's 'Rose's Turn' really broke some sort of record for crying in a show.
Sometimes I'm usually moved to tears by phenominal moments. When the music builds, usually. In ACL - the Music and the Mirror, and oddly enough, the Drowsy Chaperone.
I think the most I cried was in Lestat, and of course, that was for fear of the future of the American Musical.
I'm not a person who's usually emotional... but theater just comes in touch with your soul. The characters are letting you in, and showing you themselves and their world. Somehow, that hits something for me.
crying#212
Posted: 8/9/06 at 7:04pm
i cry in everything.
at the end of aida,
everything in les mis.
rent i cried a lot
name a show i will cry in it.
crying#213
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:04pmTHE NORMAL HEART in the Public Theater revival with Raul Esparza. The audience sobbing during the deathbed scene was so loud that the actors had to raise their voices to be heard. I've never seen an entire audience so collectively wrenched by a performance.
Understudy Joined: 6/18/06
crying#214
Posted: 8/9/06 at 10:06pm
"i cry in everything."
Same here. I even cried during Spelling Bee. lol.
Swing Joined: 8/9/06
crying#215
Posted: 8/9/06 at 11:21pmI saw A NERVOUS SMILE 7/29. I have never seen another piece of theater like it. And Amy Brenneman was flawless in it. It was an incredible show...so moving. SO sad to think those things really happen...
crying#216
Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:32am
Les Mis, especially when the Bishop gave Valjean the candlesticks.
Ragtime.
crying#217
Posted: 8/10/06 at 9:49am
The London production of INTO THE WOODS. From where the cuckoo clock set "exploded" at the end of "Last Midnight" through the end of the show.
The finale of the CABARET revival. A brilliant coup de theatre.
crying#218
Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:04amI cry a lot, but some particularly memorable moments were Dessa Rose (from about 30 seconds into the opening number to about 15 minutes after the show ended, i was a disaster); the first time I saw Aida (in San Francisco...Simone and Kelly Fournier KILLED ME); I actually got really emotional near the end of [title of show]; and I nearly had to be COMMITTED after I saw Les Miserable for the first time, lo those many years ago.
Understudy Joined: 7/31/05
crying#219
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:31am
West Side Story gets me every time.
Rent.
Les Miz.
crying#220
Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:54pmAs we speak, I am listening to my copy of Bright Lights, Big City. The third reprise of Brother is making me well up.
crying#221
Posted: 8/10/06 at 2:05pm
Actually, a lot of shows have left me in that condition - but then again, I wear my heart on my sleeve, so I'm an easy mark.
Most recently, The Light In The Piazza did it to me, and I'll never forget the night I saw Parade - I wept for about an hour straight. I love shows that do that to me.
Understudy Joined: 12/11/05
crying#222
Posted: 8/10/06 at 3:10pmI saw RENT again last night and it still gets me! I always get the most incredible chills during the opening song. Will I? really hit me this time and Ms. Smith's Out Tonight got me all teared up. She is just too good! Then, during I'll Cover You (Reprise) I literally forgot to breath and i was almost afraid of dieing! Also, during the line "You always said how lucky you were that we were all friends, but it was us baby, who were the lucky ones," i started completely bawling! And of course, I just completely lost it at the end. I started at Your Eyes and didnt stop until they left the stage. It is such a powerful and real show!
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
crying#223
Posted: 8/10/06 at 3:41pmFloyd Collins.
crying#224
Posted: 8/10/06 at 10:25pmMartin Short: Fame Becomes ME, just because there were some moments that made me laugh so hard I cried. He can be so frickin' random sometimes, and his Jiminy Glick is so funny, especially with Chris Noth last night as the "surprise" guest.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Swing Joined: 6/13/06
crying#225
Posted: 8/10/06 at 11:44pmSide Show: "Who Will Love Me As I Am?" is such a powerful song to end Act I...it made me numb. Act II is a killer for me. "Private Conversation" when the twins seperate in Terry's mind. The whole wedding situation through the end. The finale is so haunting.
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