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#26

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:24pm

I'm a wimp and I cry at everything. Seriously. I don't even know if I'm crying out of sadness, usually, or just crying because the song is pretty or I'm happy or... anything, really. But a few of the culprits:

"Move On", "We Do Not Belong Together", and "Sunday" - SITPWG (basically this show is just one long sobfest for me)
Sweeney's "Johanna" - Sweeney Todd (sometimes the last time he sings "The Barber and His Wife", too)
"I Never Wanted to Love You" - March of the Falsettos
"The Music Still Plays On" - A New Brain
"No One is Alone" - Into the Woods
"Being Alive" - Company
"Something Just Broke" - Assassins (if I'm in the right mindset)
"Anytime", "When the Earth Stopped Turning", "Goodbye/Boom Boom" - Elegies: A Song Cycle
"Mr. Andrews' Vision" - Titanic (Yeah, I don't know why either)
"This is Not Over Yet", "Sh'ma", "All the Wasted Time" - Parade ("It Don't Make Sense" too, if I'm that much of a baby that day)
"Till We Reach That Day" - Ragtime
"No One Has Ever Loved Me", "Finale" - Passion ("Loving You" sometimes, too. This show drains me.)

But like I said, I'll cry at anything.

#27

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:29pm

The most recent was Yo Yo Ma's version of the main theme from
Once Upon A Time In America, a salt water tear left my eye while driving the car, no place for blurred vision: - )

#28

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:35pm

The entire score from "Bklyn" !!!

On a serious note "Little Fall of Rain" -

#29

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 6:43pm

I second "The I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee

+- Nobody Needs to Know & See, I'm Smiling- TL5Y
+- The Gods Love Nubia- Aida
+- Chava Ballet- Fiddler
+- There is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense- Parade
+- 'Til We Reach that Day, Sarah Brown Eyes- Ragtime
+- The Graveyard- Jane Eyre
+- The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In- Hair

#30

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:17pm

-The entire second act of Les Miserables. I can never take it.
-"Some Things Were Meant To Be" from Little Women. Oh my God, my mom, my sisters and I all lost it. We acquired some really nasty looks during that scene.
-Chava Ballet from Fiddler on the Roof, although it's more the scene after that gets to me.
-"When I Look At You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel. Aww.
-"How Could I Know" from The Secret Garden. The basis of that song is so depressing.

#31

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:24pm

i've been moved many times, but "See Me" from BARE brought on the tears... it's a reminder of the connection many of us have with the song... and how it was dealt with when i was in that situation

::bust a move::

#32

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:25pm

"Some Things Are Meant to Be"-Little Women
"Days of Plenty"-Little Women
"Fable"-Piazza
"The I Love You Song"-Spelling Bee
"Wicked Witch of the East"-Wicked (I have no idea why.)
"The Proposal/The Night Was Alive"-Titanic
"You Don't Know This Man"-Parade (most of that score actually)

so many more, I can't think of them though

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

#33

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:38pm

"Anytime" - Elegies: A Song Cycle
"Finale" - Children of Eden
"Louder Than Words" - Tick, Tick...BOOM!
"Nobody Needs to Know" and "If I Didn't Believe in You" - The Last 5 Years
"Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You" - I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change

Those are some of my favorites.

#34

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 7:39pm

*Sarah* from The Civil War

Gilles Chaisson is the private singing the letter that his wife is reading as they stand together on the same stage. When it was over, he turned and lazily walked back into this giant white light just upstage and to the side...it was only after she started her song, *The Honor Of Your Name*, that I realized it was his ghost singing it to her! I lost it!!

"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium!"

#35

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 8:25pm

when i saw Antonique Smith sing Goodbye Love, I had tears in my eyes . . . it was so beautiful

#36

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:04pm

Oh Boo Hoo! everybody. Go do some volunteer work and you'll really start to well up!

#37

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:21pm

um, perpetualanticipatio ....Music can make someone cry because it's beautiful and touching. That's what art is supposed to do. It's supposed to give one an emotional response.

I don't see what volunteer work has to do with this. So, basically what you're saying that we should all do volunteer work and cry because of that, instead of listening to music that touches us? Bad comparison...

#38

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:23pm

keyword: songs.... not events in life

::bust a move::

#39

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:25pm

haha exactly.

#40

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:27pm

I don't know how to love him -- ALWAYS makes me cry.

And Isabella -- volunteer work is always the key to humility.

#41

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:32pm

you need to tone down your extremely condescending remarks because i don't appreciate it... at all.

This thread has nothing to do with volunteer work so maybe you should give perpetualanticipatio a lesson in context.

Updated On: 3/17/06 at 10:32 PM

#42

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:34pm

The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee
Tell Me It's Not True from Blood Brothers
What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line
I Feel So Much Spring from A New Brain
I Could Never Rescue You from Last Five Years
Sh'ma from Parade
I Never Wanted to Love you from Falsettos
What Would I Do from Falsettos
Let Them Go from Happiest Millionaire
A Whole New World from Aladdin (just because it sounds so beautiful)
Anything from RENT

"How could she just suddenly, completely disappear into thin water?" - The Little Mermaid

#43

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/17/06 at 10:56pm

I've teared up at quite a few songs, but I've really only cried during the last couple songs of The Last 5 Years. The "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" juxtaposition is gorgeous and absolutely heart wrenching at the same time.

#44

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 12:11am

"It don't make Sense" and "My Child Will Forgive Me" from PARADE tear me to bits. Heartbreaking! No parent should have to lose their child. JRB puts such potent lyrics in both songs and that just makes him even more of my hero.

#45

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 12:11am

Oops.

Updated On: 3/18/06 at 12:11 AM

#46

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 1:30am

He is only mad that the 'n' wouldn't fit for Perpetual Anticipation.
On the other note, I find so much music just moving as hell. There are certainly multiple ways of eliciting emotional reactions from people, whether by real life tragedies, music, or problems.
I personally find Parade the most moving of all to me, its amazing.

#47

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 3:34am

"Bring Him Home" - Les Mis (I was just sobbing by the end of it... Randal Keith makes me cry!) "A Little Fall of Rain", "On My Own"... and it's not necessarily a song title, but when the music (the tune of "Bring Him Home") swells as the barricade turns around and that special hits the flag I lose it again. And naturally the finale of Les Mis.

"The Next Ten Minutes" (every single time!) and "Nobody Needs to Know" - L5Y
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" and "Will I?" - RENT and depending on the mood I'm in "Goodbye Love"
"Not A Day Goes By" - Merrily We Roll Along (Bernadette Peters version!)
"No One Is Alone" and "Children Will Listen" - Into the Woods
"Being Alive" - Company

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts..." ~Jaques - "As You Like It" Act 2, scene 7

Updated On: 3/19/06 at 03:34 AM

#48

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 3:45am

FLIGHT! Just a Housewife! - Craig Carnelia is the best writer PERIOD!

#49

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:25am

I'll play again, too...

Like many of you, a well written piece - regardless of subject matter (and how sad or not sad the song really is) certain songs always get me.

THE KING AND I
Hello, Young Lovers - as performed by Donna Murphy in the revival
Something Wonderful - ALWAYS

THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Climb Ev'ry Mountain - particularly in the finale as the family is leaving for their journey.
All of the nun's music - just gorgeous.

CAROUSEL
What's the Use of Wond'rin'?
If I Loved You - yes, all 17 minutes of it!
You'll Never Walk Alone - so moving, especially in the finaly.

CABARET
Cabaret, of course - and the explosive finale, as used in the revival.

FOLLIES
Loosing My Mind
I'm Still Here
In Buddy's Eyes

HAIRSPRAY
I Know Where i've Been
You Can't Stop the Beat

INTO THE WOODS
No One is Alone
Children will Listen

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Finishing the Hat
We Do Not Belong Together
Sunday
Beautiful
Children and Art
Lesson #8
Move On

THE LAST 5 YEARS
Goodbye Until Tomorrow/Finale - just rips your heart out.

RENT
One Song Glory
Another Day
Will I?
Seasons of Love
I'll Cover You (reprise)
Finale B

SONG AND DANCE
Married Man
Unexpected Song
Tell me on a Sunday

TICK TICK BOOM
Why?
Louder than Words
Come to your Senses

1776
Mama, Look Sharp

WORKING
Just a Housewive
If I Could Have Been

GODSPELL
Save the People
By My Side
On the WIllows
Finale

COMPANY
Being Alive

NINE
The Overture, as stunningly staged in the revival
Nine
Growing Tall/Reprises - Entire Finale
Unusual Way
Simple
Be On Your Own

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
The Beauty Is
Fable
Love to Me
The Light in the Piazza

ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
Anyone Can Whistle

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Non/Soon/Later
Send in the Clowns

MERRIILY WE ROLL ALONG
Not a Day Goes By

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#50

re: Songs That Have Made You Cry?

Posted: 3/18/06 at 5:54am

If I Sing - Maltby and Shire (Closer Than Ever)
You Are My Home - Frank Widhorn (The Scarlett Pimpernel)
Loving You - Stephen Sondheim (Passion)
The Next 10 Minutes - Jason Robert Brown (The Last 5 Years)
Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You (FINALE) -
Jason Robert Brown (The Last 5 Years)
In His Eyes - Frank Widhorn (Jekyll and Hyde)
Back To Before (Ragtime)
A Little Fall of Rain (Les Miserables)
Children Will Listen - Stephen Sondheim (Into The Woods)
No One Is Alone - Stephen Sondheim (Into The Woods)
Too Many Mornings - Stephen Sondheim (Follies)
For Good - Stephen Schwartz (Wicked)
My Man - Maurice Yvain (Funny Girl)
Nothing Like You've Ever Known - Andrew Lloyd Webber (Song &
Dance)
Millwork - James Taylor - (Working)
Just A Housewife - (Working)
If I Could Have Been - (Working)
Fathers & Sons - (Working)
All The Wasted Time - Jason Robert Brown (Parade)
You Don't Know This Man - Jason Robert Brown (Parade)
What Would I Do/FINALE - William Finn - Falsettos
The Other Lady - Leslie Gore
Morningside - Neil Diamond
I Am I Said - Neil Diamond

AND the closing number to "Songs For A New World" ("Hear My Song") - THE WAY IT WAS DONE IN THE PRODUCTION AT CAIN PARK IN CLEVELAND, OHIO LAST SUMMER (2005)!

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