Songs/Parts of songs that give you chills- Page 3

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:23pm

1. "Lot's Wife" - Caroline, or Change
2. "Tell him God, if he ever, evuh evuh evuh hit me again." - Caroline, or Change
3. The very end of the first act of The Light in the Piazza.
4. The title song in The Light in the Piazza
5. "Move On" - Sunday in The Park With George
6. Almost all of "Success" in Ragtime.
7. The very end of "Wheels of a Dream" - Ragtime.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 9:41pm

"Look at your face in the mirror, I am there inside." from POTO. It's one of the only parts I actually like.

"The renters go home..." from Another Winter (Grey Gardens).

The title number from "Ragtime."

[Night707]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:17pm

When the whole cast joins in, in "What I Did For Love" in ACL.

Jennifer Holliday singing "And I'm Telling You" at the Tony's.

The ending of I Am What I Am (La Cage Aux Folles)

[colors of fate]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 10:44pm

The Ballad of Guiteau the last minute and a half. (Assassins Revival)

[Jellylorum]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:13pm

- The xylophone (?) in Around the World from Grey Gardens.
- The lyric "one little leaf adrift in the breeze ... unwilling to wither and die" from Another Winter in a Summertown.
- The part where Big Edie is calling out for help as Little Edie is considering leaving Grey Gardens.
- The lyric "Because I ask you, who could ever bear to leave?" in Will You? This foreshadowing of what becomes of Big Edie is just very chilling.
- The transition of Big Edie from the 1970s to the 1940s in Toyland.
- When the older Jane Eyre sings along with the younger Jane at Helen's grave.
- When Jane is comparing herself and Blanche in Painting Her Portrait.
- The songs Sorry Grateful and Being Alive.
- And the lyric "And here's to the girs who's just watch. Aren't the best?" from Ladies Who Lunch.

Updated On: 5/29/07 at 11:13 PM

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:28pm

So many people already mentioned "Another Winter..." from Grey Gardens. I literally cry every time I listen to that song.

I always tear up during "Clara...the light in the piazza" at the end of "Fable" from LITP.

There's so much in Parade that gives me chills. The beginning of "The Old Red Hills of Home", "You Don't Know This Man", "My Child Will Forgive Me", "All the Wasted Time", and of course, the finale.

Ragtime is another show that continuously gives me chills. One moment in particular is Sarah's part in "Justice".

In SITPWG...George's "bum bum bum..." in the middle of "Sunday".

The moment Olive sings "Mama...I love you Mama" in "The I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee.

During the song "Days of Plenty" from Little Women, when Maureen McGovern sings "So believe that she mattered..."

And I can't forget "What I Did For Love" from ACL.

Ah, there are so many, I could go on forever.

Updated On: 5/29/07 at 11:28 PM

[LouieLovesTheater]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:56pm

During the song "Days of Plenty" from Little Women, when Maureen McGovern sings "So believe that she mattered..."

Oooo...I second this as well...on the recording and on tour this was a great moment. Maureen is one of the few people (in my opinion) that sounded just as good on CD as she did live...great vocals always.

[Elphabuff2]

Posted: 5/29/07 at 11:59pm

"He Lives in You" - LION KING
flying portion of "Defying Gravity" - WICKED
end portion of "Find Your Grail" - SPAMALOT
when both ladies sing during "I Still Believe" - MISS SAIGON
ending notes of "Easy as Life" - AIDA

[sweeneynut]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 12:25am

-The final "Mama" that Celia belts at the end of The I Love You Song. Amazing.
-The part in the Final Ballad of Sweeney Todd (revival cast) when Mano goes up the octave
-"And I'm full of joy!" from Sweeney
-When Celia Keenan-Bolger sang "Clara's Tirade" (replaced by Clara's interlude) in previews of LitP
-The "Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Sunday Wendsday Tuesday Friday-Days!" from Little Fish
-The opening music to "I Ran" from Little Fish
-"In Twos and Threes" from Little Fish
-Eh, most of Little Fish
-"Sunday Morning 6AM" from Bright Lights, Big City, especially "I am Mary O'Brian McCann.."
-"Jean Valjean is nothing now!/Another story must begin!"
-The low note Javert slides to in the Confrontation in Les Miz
-Eponine's underscoreing in "A Heart Full of Love" in Les Moz
-"She is the first to fall/the first of us to fall upon this barricade"
-When the barricade turns to reveal Enjolras dangling on the barricade in Les Miz
-Goodbye/Boom Boom from Elegies
-The transition from the Looking In Quintet to Mr. Choi and Madame G in Elegies
-"Anytime" fron Elegies
-The last note in "Henry and Mudge" from Henry and Mudge
-"Hidden Sky" from The Hidden Sky
-"No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods
-"Bells/Annabel Lee Finale" from Poe: A Musical, particually "Keeping time, time, time, to the bells, bells, bells!" and "Bells bells bells bells bells bells bells!"
-"Dying boys, hungry souls, the worst of men" from "There Will Be A Miracle", See What I Wanna See
-"Cristine, I lo-ove you" Only good part of PotO, imo.
-Celia Keenan-Bolger singing "Millwork" from Working-The best song experience I've ever had

Can you tell I have nothing better to do? :P

[Andergoat]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 9:53am

From The I Love You Song in "Spelling Bee" when Olive sings "I think he takes out on me what he wants to take out on you" and how Celia's voice and the music very subtlely get quieter.

[WickedRentHead]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 10:25am

This may be kind of a weird one but the end of "I'd Give My Life for You" in Miss Saigon after Kim finishes singing and the music changes and the chanting in all the different parts comes in, its pretty haunting.

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 10:45am

at the ballet and i hope i get it when they say 5,6,78 and they start the combination in a chorus line
also defying gravity in wicked
javerts suicide and i dreamed a dream in les mis

[bwayrunner22]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 11:17am

Well, it's mostly been said but here goes:

Most of Ragtime, but especially New Music and Wheels of a Dream-- I love Audra's voice

Most of Parade-- especially when Leo and Lucille sing together and the Prologue

I'm not a big fan of the musical, but in Tarzan, during For the First time when the two of them start to sing together.

The whole Louder than Words from Tick, Tick, Boom

Comfort and Joy, Inside Your Heart, and Apology to a Cow from Bat Boy

The end of In the Beginning from Children of Eden

The last one for now-- The Gods Love Nubia from Aida

Yeah, I don't have much to do right now

[JohJoh525]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 11:03pm

A few...

--Side Show in "Tunnel of Love" when Alice Ripley belts "I want mine! Where are mine!?"

--Seeing Carolee Carmello in Mamma Mia! when she sings the last bit of "The Winner Takes it All"

--Any song Julia Murney sings in The Wild Party.

--The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee.

[another_reprise]

Posted: 5/30/07 at 11:47pm

I second Julia Murney in Wild Party, especially How Did We Come to This

And some of my own that I haven't seen yet...

Louder Than Words from TTB, every single lyric is just so... perfect
Nobody Needs to Know from L5Y, I can't get enough of how Norbert sings it
Anne Marie Milazzo's versions of Happy Birthday Darling and Are You Still Holding My Hand from Bright Lights Big City
Cabaret finale, enough said.
Wicked Little Town reprise/Midnight Radio from Hedwig
Those You've Known from Spring Awakening

I can keep going but I'll exert some self control and stop here.

[PaintWordPictures]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 12:36am

* "And I wash my hands..." "The Proposal" Jane Eyre

* the end of "Children of Eden" from Children of Eden.

* IF SUNG CORRECTLY (and not on the cast album...) "you are my favorite of all earthly delights" - Adam and Eve...SO good.

* The beginning and end of "The Gun Song" as well as the barbershop part in the middle from Assassins.

*"In The Way I Love You" Norm Lewis - Side Show. Anything that man sings pretty much...

[felineofavenueb]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 1:57am

- When the whole cast comes in in "Lullaby of Broadway" in 42nd Street. Actually, and the little orchestral anticipation music right after Julian says "Sawyer, think of Broadway, dammit!" through the beginning.
- When the whole cast comes in in "What I Did for Love" in ACL (but, okay, actually basically the whole song)
- Radames' bit ("and why did I tell her this? A stranger I've just met, a woman whom I hardly know at all and will forget") in "Enchantment Passing Through" and the acapella section of "The Gods Love Nubia" in Aida
- "Hold Me Bat Boy (Reprise)" in Bat Boy
- "And I Am Telling You" from Dreamgirls
- The acapella sections of "Run Freedom Run" and "I See A River" in Urinetown
- All of "No One Is Alone" in ITW
- The "Just You Wait" reprise in My Fair Lady

... I'm quintessentially sure there are more but these come to mind first.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 2:31am

Audra's "Your Daddy's Son" when she sings "I buried my..." It's so haunting.

and I'm sorry, but "Touch me, it's so easy to leave me" from Memory in Cats gives me chills.

[theatregeek2]

Posted: 5/31/07 at 12:52pm

I agree with Julia Murney in The Wild Party but my fav is Maybe i Like It This Way......the harmonies in Make Me Happy also gives me chills

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 3:48pm

Any song in the E-flat major key which ends in a soft bittersweet E-flat major chord make me cry, like these songs:

Questions for the Rain - Children's Letters to God
"Secret Garden" Finale - Secret Garden
A Man Has Dreams - Mary Poppins
Our Children - Ragtime
Larger than Life - My Favorite Year
Our Perfect World - On the Twentieth Century
Beauty and the Beast (in its original key)
Let's Walk - The Light in the Piazza
Follow Your Heart - Urinetown
"Prodigal" Finale

[WaltSummersPI]

Posted: 6/1/07 at 4:11pm

From "Elegies for Angels..." - My Brother Lived in San Francisco

And from Grey Gardens, in "Another Winter..." - "My season ended a long time ago, but no one took the party lights down..."

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 4:55pm

But if you're thinking abouot the LOUD moments in shows that give you chills, here's my faves:

I'm surprised no one ever brought up "Oh God, don't let me live and die alone!" at the end of "Old Maid" from 110 IN THE SHADE

Back to Before - Ragtime ("Unafraid to feel strong")
Suspended in Time - Xanadu
If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast (everything from the big orchestral swell in the middle after "I moved onward" to the end of the song, including "No spirit could win me/No hope left within me")
Suddenly Seymour - Little Shop of Horrors (after "it's so hard to say")
Everything That I Am - Tarzan ("These spirits calling me" all the way to the end)
One Day More - Les Miz (when everything comes together)
This New Jerusalem - King David (the final "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, your palaces may rise")
Goodbye Old Girl - Damn Yankees (once Joe Hardy comes in and sings "And though your Joe has to go")
Sweet Charity (1986 version) - Sweet Charity (I love the way Michael Rupert sings this song, it gives me total chills.)
I Feel So Much Spring - A New Brain (the harmonies give me the most chills you can think of)

[misschung]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:01pm

The first few lines of the opening to Little Night Music always give me chills

tick tick boom - the first time Amy sings the chorus of "Come to Your Senses"

[SDav 10495]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:12pm

A lot of these are really great ones. One from a show that I don't think has been mentioned yet--when the full cast comes in singing "My body...my body...my body..." in "Walking In Space" on the OBCR of Hair. The bass and drums start to build, and the harmony that ends that strain of music never fails to give me chills.

[bigred3535]

Posted: 6/3/07 at 5:29pm

The end of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" when Sweeney starts singing.

The end of "Poor Child" from Lippa's Wild Party.

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" and "Goodnight Saigon" in Movin Out.

When Ethan and Malcolm sing together in "You Walk With Me" from Full Monty.

The end of "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat."

"Touch Me" from Spring Awakening.