Songs That Have Moved You To Tears- Page 3

[siren]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:48pm

I'm Here-The Color Purple
Make Them Hear You-Ragtime
For Good-Wicked
All I Ask of You (reprise)-Phantom of the Opera

[Lottery Addict]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 12:08am

Les Miserables - A Little Fall of Rain. "And rain will make the flowers (will make the flowers). . . grow." When I was a boy, my family used to listen to that cassette on road trips, and I would cry every time it got to the that part. Eventually I built up a tolerance.

[LittleEdieFan]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 4:21am

"What would I do" from Falsettos
"Around the World" / "Another Winter in a Summer Town" from Grey Gardens

[VeraCharles3]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 7:55am

Thank you Sally for starting this thread. I think most of my choices have been mentioned but here goes

Stay With Me - Into the Woods (Bernadette's vocal is exceptional on this)
We Do Not Belong Together - SITPWG (Bernadette at her most emotional)
Make Them Hear You - Ragtime
Not While I'm Around - Sweeney Todd
And This is My beloved - Kismet
One Heart, One Hand - West Side Story

Born Free - I know it's not a musical but I always get emotional hearing that song!

[dreaming]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 8:26am

I am going to leave some more personal songs off here. But, the following I'm willing to divulge:

The verse in "A Little Fall of Rain" where Eponine says "I'll sleep in you embrace at last. The rain that brings you here is heaven blessed. The skies begin to clear and I'm at rest, a breath away from where you are. I've come home from so far."

Also, "I Dreamed a Dream" when the right person sings it. (I've had the pleasure of hearing two exceptional Fantines do this. There were some others I saw, but they didn't measure up.)

"How Could I Ever Know" really does it (the line "how could I know I would never hold you, never again in this world?" really gets me-I saw it a couple times as a kid and the staging was perfect.)

"Somewhere" from West Side Story does it because you know what's going to happen (or if you know)

In Phantom, where he says "Christine, I love you" if the Phantom has been played sympathetically will elicit tears (at least from me)

"On My Own"-the line 'Without me, his world will go on turning, the world is full of happiness that I have never known".

And for a non-mega musical: "Around the World" from "Grey Gardens".

There are some others, as I can emote easily when the music moves me, but some are too personal for here.

[pinoyidol2006]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 11:40am

Right now, it's "Days and Days" from Fun Home. I'm so glad Judy Kuhn is doing musicals again.

The "I Love You Song" from Spelling Bee moved me a lot. The last "Mama, mama, MAMA!" is heartbreaking.

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 12:47pm

A few seem to do it to me every time, regardless of who is performing:

--"Sunday": The song, as it swells in volume and intensity, just captures it all. The Move On/Sunday reprise is just as powerful to me...it just makes it all feel complete.

--Les Mis finale: From when Fantine comes in with "Take my hand..." Into the quiet start of Do You Here the People Sing. Cried during every performance I've seen, even during the movie.

--Ragtime finale: The first time I saw the show was 18 years ago in Toronto. I was barely 12, but I knew it was special. Hearing the little boy begin the epilogue with the whole, "The era of Ragtime had run out..." totally finishes this 2 hour history lesson. Each of the characters coming forward and ending their story is so moving yo me, as we see what's happened to Coalhouse's dream, the children, and the world.

[Luv2goToShows]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 12:59pm

I've had a few and it is one of the things that I love about theater, not so much being moved to tears but the being moved. In addition to some that already been mentioned, the finale in Hair, The Flesh Failures (Let the Sun Shine In) comes to mind.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 2:05pm

The first song that I ever remember moving me to tears by itself was "Mr. Tanner" by Harry Chapin. I was sitting in the car while my mother picked up dry cleaning and it came on the radio. It was the first time I heard it.

Some others that have been mentioned:
"Around the World" / "Another Winter in a Summer Town" from Grey Gardens

"Last Night of the World" from Miss Saigon Updated On: 3/11/14 at 02:05 PM

[Phan#24601]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 2:15pm

"Bui Doi" from MISS SAIGON, as with a bunch of other songs from that musical...

Pretty much all of the 2nd act of NEXT TO NORMAL and LES MIS, especially the finales.

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" and the whole final song from PHANTOM...

I actually cry during most performances I see live.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 2:18pm

The one song that has reduced me to sobs in every production of this particular show I've ever seen is What Makes Me Love Him? from THE APPLE TREE.

And after Audra Ann sang I'll Be Here at Carnegie Hall, I was bawling so hard that, instead of applauding, I just shouted, 'OH F*CK YOU!' It hit a little too close to the bone.

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 3:04pm

Can I Close the Door (On Love) - Motown
Role of a Lifetime - Bare
The Music and the Mirror - A Chorus Line
Defying Gravity - Wicked
Sante Fe - Newsies
And I am Telling You I'm Not Going - Dreamgirls
Close Every Door - Joseph..Dreamcoat
Suspend My Disbelief/I Had a Life - Ghost
All I Ask of You (Reprise) - The Phantom of the Opera
Don't Forget Me - Bombshell
As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Boulevard
If I Can't Love Her - Beauty and the Beast
Electricity - Billy Elliot
Quiet - Matilda
Not My Father's Son - Kinky Boots
With One Look - Sunset Boulevard
The Soul of a Man - Kinky Boots
Montage/Lament - Evita
Let the Sun Shine In - Hair
On My Own - Les Miserables
Updated On: 3/11/14 at 03:04 PM

[SamIAm2]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 3:28pm

Wow,great, great lists everyone. Almost all of mine have been mentioned, especially songs from West Side Story and 1776. I'll add two:

You've Got To Be Taught (South Pacific)
Dyin' Ain't So Bad (Bonnie & Clyde)

[Jersey Girl2]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 8:12pm

Teal wicks singing -ONCE UPON A DREAM
& Off-Broadway Ne Me Quitte Pas from JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE & WELL

[mikey2573]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 9:00pm

"Come To My GardenLift Me Up" Perfectly staged in the original Broadway production of THE SECRET GARDEN. The way Colin put his head on his mother's shoulder as the lights ever so slowly dimmed, leaving just one tiny spot on the child with mother until the light blew out like a candle.

"Just Like That" from A CHRISTMAS STORY. The way the song starts with the mother telling Ralphie that the bad times will be gone "Just Like That", but then turns the meaning into her lament for how quickly time is passing and how quickly her kids are growing up. Then, when she picks up Randy's snow suit and hugs it as if he were still in it. As a parent, that gets me every time.

[AKarp2013]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 9:23pm

"Still" - from TITANIC, just haunting and beautiful lyrics.

"A Part of Us" - from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, the heartbreak of a parent losing their child is very emotional

"Fallen Angel" - from JERSEY BOYS, same as above

"God Bless Us Everyone" - from A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the melody is perfect and the lyrics just powerful

"Who I'd Be" - from SHREK, it speaks of having that dream of having that "perfect happy ending"

"A Christmas Story" - it reminds me so much of my childhood Christmas and just brings me back


Updated On: 3/11/14 at 09:23 PM

[AC126748]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 9:29pm

The one song that has reduced me to sobs in every production of this particular show I've ever seen is What Makes Me Love Him? from THE APPLE TREE.

"What Makes Me Love Him?" gets the tear ducts moving. Adam's monologue after is what opens the floodgates for me.

[uncageg]

Posted: 3/11/14 at 9:54pm

Many have brought me to tears but I would have to say that "No More" - Into the Woods, "Bring Him Home" -Les Miz and "Lot's Wife" - Caroline or Change are at the top. I almost had to be carried out of the theater after Lot's Wife. Oh...and I was a total wreck during Patti LaBelle singing " I Love You So Much Jesus" in "Your Arms Too Short...". I was a TOTAL mess that evening.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 3/12/14 at 8:30am

Even after 30 years, the entire score of LES MIZ makes me cry.

CHILDREN WILL LISTEN/NO ONE IS ALONE, SEND IN THE CLOWNS, NOT A DAY GOES BY

FOR GOOD from WICKED

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 3/12/14 at 8:24pm

I totally forgot "We Do Not Belong Together" from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE. That one's even worse than "Children & Art."

[After Eight]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:05am

Two songs fom Illya Darling come to mind:

Love, Love, Love and Ya Chara

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 8:11am

The one song that has reduced me to sobs in every production of this particular show I've ever seen is What Makes Me Love Him? from THE APPLE TREE.

"What Makes Me Love Him?" gets the tear ducts moving. Adam's monologue after is what opens the floodgates for me.

Tearing up just reading this...

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 11:25am

A lot of times I find that the songs that move me on stage are not the same as on the recordings, or vice versa. For example:

Staged:
Gold (Reprise) - Once
Child of My Child - The People in the Picture

Recorded:
When I Grow Up - Matilda
My Child Will Forgive Me - Parade
The Funeral - Parade
Left Behind - Spring Awakening

Both:
Finale - The Great Comet

[Eurotrash]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 11:38am

I would challenge anyone not to weep their way through the final number from 'Kristina at Carnegie'

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 11:52am

"Fifty Percet" as sung by Dorothy Loudon for the Leading Ladies performance.
"Natasha and Pierre" from the recently closed production. Got me every time.
"He Wanted a Girl" from Giant. Hauntingly simple and heartbreaking.
"I Never Know When (To Say When)" from Goldilocks. A beautiful song.
"He's Good For Me" from Seesaw. Oh Michele Lee, I love you!