Songs That Have Made You Cry?

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Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:21pm

I saw Spelling Bee on Wednesday night from SRO, and was not a big fan of it. The only song I really liked was The I Love You Song--it's funny because that's the only sad song in the show, really. Celia plays a naive, innocent 10 year old so well--it just broke my heart to hear this song. I listened to the song last night from the cast recording--and by the end, I was fighting the tears.

What songs have made you cry?

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:26pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=884103#1819604

among others...

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:27pm

"Why" from tick, tick...BOOM! does it for me pretty good. "Nobody Needs to Know" from L5Y does it when I am performing it. I almost had to leave the theatre on opening night of the RENT movie due to excessive crying, but I think that more had to do with what was going on in my life at the time, and the movie was just a trigger.

Akiva

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:28pm

For Good - Wicked (I was a mess!)
The Color Purple - TCP (The a capella version at the curtain call)

Let him live _ Le Miz
Lot's Wife - Caroline or Change (I teared up at the end)
Home & Be A Lion - The Wiz (Stage show, not the movie)
I'll Cover You - Reprise

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Updated On: 3/17/06 at 02:28 PM

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:28pm

I'm not one to cry often, but the songs that really get me are:
Lily's Eyes: Just because it's beautiful
The Music That Makes Me Dance: I'm not really sure why haha
I Chose Right: I just think this song is so sweet!
Tell Me on a Sunday (when Laurie Beechman sings it): Soo heartbreaking!

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:33pm

I saw Les Miz when I was 9 years old. Gavroche's "Little People" (the reprise) really set me off. As did "On My Own" and the finale.

"Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George ALWAYS makes me cry.
"Johanna Act II" from Sweeney Todd makes me cry, and sometimes "Not While I'm Around" sets me off (mostly because it's such a fked up moment in the show. And it gives me chills.)
"Till we reach that day" and "Sarah Brown Eyes" from Ragtime, for obvious reasons
"Happiness" from You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown because it reminds me of my mom.

Many others, too many to list.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:44pm

If you've ever listened to Heather Headley's first album, the last track on the CD "If It Wasn't For Your Love", it's so beautiful and it made me cry. I performed it for a Cabaret as a going away song. It is so touching and beautiful.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:47pm

I usually don't cry when I see shows or movies but both times I saw Gypsy Rose's Turn made me cry.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:53pm

Sunday from SITPWG

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 2:55pm

"I Only Have Eyes for You" from 42nd Street (esp. Beth Leavel's rendition)

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:06pm

Bui Doi from Miss Saigon is the only song that's ever made me cry, even just with the recording, after the show.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:26pm

Watching the Dreamgirls Tony performance, and seeing the whole "It's All Over/And I Am Telling You..." scene just messed me up.

And "Home" from The Wiz, but only by Stephanie Mills.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:31pm

Aida Enchantment passing through reprise. That gets me everytime. Also Final Lair in Phantom.

Updated On: 3/17/06 at 03:31 PM

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 3:58pm

"we do not belong together" - SITPWG

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:31pm

I'll Cover You Reprise through Finale B from Rent. I am a mess from the time Maureen gives her eulogy to the end of the show.

As Long as You're Mine and For Good from Wicked. (my fiance proposed to me while playing As Long as Your Mine in the background)

Elaborate Lives and Written in the Stars from Aida

All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera

Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:36pm

I have to say that "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Mis makes me cry so hard every time I listen to it. I think it's such a powerful song and when Marius sings that last note of the song I always cry.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:38pm

Your daddys son - ragtime
all for laura- WIW
half the score of Piazza
How did we come to this- wild party
underwater- caroline or change

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:43pm

"I'll Forget You" ~ The Scarlet Pimpernel

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:48pm

Let him live _ Le Miz

The song is actually "Bring Him Home." It's Les Mis.

The only song that chocked me up in theatres was "The Fire Within Me," especially the part when she's reading her story and it emulates the original novel. Beautiful.

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:48pm

Final Lair - POTO
(esp. It's over now the music of the night)

Finale - Les Mis

When Marian says "I close my eyes and I still see his face) in WIW, she says it in two songs but its only that line that gets me

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 5:53pm

I must agree with you for the "Les Miserables" finale. Take my hand is such a great moment.

The Marion references you made are also very emotional.

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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:04pm

there's a fine fine line from Q

#23

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:09pm

I know the Les Mis one is a killer.

"Take my hand and lead me to salvation. Take my love for love is everlasting" Its it sich a killer!!

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:15pm

without you (RENT)

ps- I'm new....hi

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re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:16pm

Dividing Day-Light in the Piazza
I Wish I Could Forget You (performed by Donna Murphy)-Passion
No One Has Ever Loved Me-Passion
Sunday-Sunday In The Park With George
Rose's Turn (live)-Gypsy
Also when I watched a production of A Chorus Line by Baayork Lee I cried during I Hope I Get It and One, not so much because of the songs themselves, but knowing you were watching the original Michael Bennett staging and the energy that comes from that staging was overwhelming.