Songs That Have Moved You To Tears- Page 4

[Bro_on_Broadway]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 1:27pm

"Fly, Fly Away" - Catch me if you Can.

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 1:45pm

"No One Is Alone" from INTO THE WOODS...always makes me tear up...it's as if Sondheim is trying to comfort me through the hard times...:)


"Chaveleh" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF...more from the movie version than from the OBC...even singing this song to myself makes me very emotional...what a perfect moment on screen...with reflections in the dance sequence of Jerome Robbins...plus the cinematography was brilliant! Updated On: 3/13/14 at 01:45 PM

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 2:54pm

"Look, my eyes are dry/The gift was ours to borrow." The fact that they know it won't last forever doesn't preclude the heartbreak when it ends.

[Sant]

Posted: 3/13/14 at 4:09pm

"Something wonderful" -- THE KING AND I
"Bill" -- SHOW BOAT
"Ol' man river" -- SHOW BOAT
"Till we reach that day" -- RAGTIME original production
"This man" -- CHAPLIN The musical
"The Impossible dream" -- MAN OF LA MANCHA (Brian Stokes Mitchell live)

[rob_hanson1979]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 9:59am

For me, it's The Letter from Billy Elliot. It always gets me choked up.

[ShakinBaconGirl]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 10:08am

IF/THEN- Learn to live without.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS- Somewhere that's green (reprise).
A CHORUS LINE - What I did for Love.
LES MISERABLE- Little Fall of Rain/ On my Own/ Finale/ Bring Him home/ I dreamed a dream.
Next To Normal- I am the One ( reprise)/ How Could I ever forget.
SUNSET BOULEVARD - As if we never said Goodbye.
NEW YORK NEW YORK- New York
HAIRSPRAY- I know where I've been.
RENT - Goodbye Love/ I'll cover you reprise.

[kec]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 10:40am

Bring Him Home -- reminds me sometimes of the night we brought my firefighter brother home from the hospital. He was dying (multiple myeloma contracted from working at Ground Zero)& his wife wanted to get him back home -- he died two days later.

Depending on the performers, in Les Mis, pretty much from Little Fall of Rain to the end.

Tell My Father from Civil War. I saw the musical at Ford's Theatre in WAshington DC and was fine, but sometime after my father passed away I was listening to John Owen Jones' self-titled CD, and the song started playing in my ears. I was on a Metro rail heading to work in DC, and I suddenly realized I had tears running down my face. A couple of years later I saw Welsh Baritone Mark Llewelyn Evans sing the same song live -- and I was a complete basket case.


There are others, but these are the ones that have come to mind immediately.


Updated On: 3/30/14 at 10:40 AM

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 2:34pm

I am a huge crybaby...

Paciencia Y Fe- In the Heights
My House, Naughty, and When I Grow Up- Matilda
Almost all of Les Miserables
I'll Cover You (reprise)- Rent
Almost all of Bridges of Madison County
Defying Gravity- Wicked
The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In- Hair
Almost all of Next to Normal
I'll Be Here- Ordinary Days
Anything Audra McDonald sings
Losing My Mind- Follies
I Don't Know How to Love Him- Jesus Christ Superstar
Sonya Alone- Natasha...
Telephone Wire and Ring of Keys- Fun Home

and many, many more

[VotePeron]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 2:48pm

"Quiet" in Matilda, and "How It Ends" in Big Fish.

[romain2]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 3:50pm

Children and Art from Sunday in the Park is definitely a great choice. What gets me is, well, pretty much the second half of Next to Normal. And although I know it's completely manipulative, The Letter from Billy Elliot.

Falling Slowly from Once just slays me. I almost lost it in the theatre at the end of the show.

[HighFlyingAdored97]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 4:13pm

I don't think actual songs move me to tears. It depends on how the actor/actress is performing them.
Sierra Boggess - "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"
Hugh Panaro - Pretty much anytime he's on stage as the Phantom
Sophia Gennusa - "Naughty"
I got misty eyed several times during Once and when I saw Donna Vivino as Elphaba.
I don't cry, but I always get shivers during "I'm Here" from Matilda. The "He smashed the door open!" and "An almighty rage grew in his great heart!" lines always get me.
I cried 3x during The Bridges of Madison County.
I'm not going to lie... I loved Ashley Brown's portrayal of Mary Poppins and I cried when she flew over the audience.

[Melissa25]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 4:18pm

I went to see Barbara Cook at Cafe Carlyle and she had me sniffling when she sang Peter Allen's "Harbour." Then I completely lost it and was balling like a baby when she sang Bucchino's "If I Ever Say I'm Over You."
She just transports you and there is absolutely no where to hide in that intimate space. A treasured memory.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 6:00pm

Dorothy Louden-Fifty Percent
Tell me it's not True-Blood Brothers
The ending of Aspects of Love
A blubbering mess for all of the above.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 6:15pm

The "Wicked Little Town" reprise moved me to tears at Hedwig last night. I was not familiar with the show beforehand.

Too many others to mention. In the last year, about a solid third of Fun Home.

[kec]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 6:31pm

"I'm not going to lie... I loved Ashley Brown's portrayal of Mary Poppins and I cried when she flew over the audience."

That reminded me... the first time I saw Mary Poppins on stage in London, I found myself getting very emotional during Feed The Birds. This happened every time I saw the show both in London and at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Not sure why -- might be a nostalga thing, since MP was the very first movie I ever saw.

[NeverSoShy]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 6:43pm

One that really surprised me was the a capella reprise of Gold in Once when I saw it in the West End in February. I've listened to the cast album many a time and hadn't expected to be moved so much by it live. A real testament to the actors. The Falling Slowly reprise also got me quite teary eyed.

All The Wasted Time from Parade always gets the tears going (particularly the London version starring Bertie Carvel & Lara Pulver).

With You from Ghost is also another one that really got to me in the theatre.

Many of the Les Mis songs can make me cry if they're performed by the right person.

Oh and the I'll Cover You (reprise) from Rent & Without You (the latter particularly when it's performed live).

The list goes on and on!





Updated On: 3/31/14 at 06:43 PM

[broadwaybabywannabe2]

Posted: 3/30/14 at 8:58pm

I.ve come to realize that 'EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES' from LES MIZ is the most emotional song from that score for me...when I hear this song I often think about all the friends I have lost to AIDS...right at the very time we were experiencing such sexual freedoms, much like all those young men who were killed at the barracks...so sad and for what?...

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:29pm

Ive been on a LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA kick lately and these three, even on the recording, well me up pretty much every time:

 

The Beauty is

Say It Somehow

Fable

 

Essentially the dramatic trifecta of the show I guess.

[Ranger Tom]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:41pm

* The opening of A Chorus Line, * Chavaleh (Little Bird) - Fiddler, * Molasses to Rum and Mama Look Sharp - 1776, *On the Williows" - Godspell.  

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:47pm

Being Alive - Company

Bring Him Home - Les Mis

Wicked Little Town (Reprise) - Hedwig

Edges of the World - Fun Home

Somewhere - West Side Story

Finale - POTO (depending on the actor playing the Phantom)

Carousel Waltz - Carousel

Overture - The Light in the Piazza

and many more!

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:48pm

You have heart and soul if music brings you to tears.

 

[all_that_jazz]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:50pm

Um pretty much everything from the original ragtime...back to before, make them hear you, your daddy's son,  three quarters of boy from oz. And most recently when your feet don't touch the ground from finding Neverland.  That one nearly killed me.

[all_that_jazz]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 8:50pm

Um pretty much everything from the original ragtime...back to before, make them hear you, your daddy's son,  three quarters of boy from oz. And most recently when your feet don't touch the ground from finding Neverland.  That one nearly killed me.

[Ado Annie D'Ysquith]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 9:04pm

Oh heavens, where do I begin...I cry at everything...in fact, I cry almost every time I'm in a theater, even when I'm not sad or joyous. It comes solely from the inspiration I feel from seeing good productions. This list is most likely incomplete. Lol

"I Dreamed a Dream" and "Finale" from Les Miserables

"Ring of Keys" and "Flying Away" from Fun Home

"Being Alive" from Company

"Unusual Way" from Nine

"You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel

"This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific

"Chavaleh Sequence" from Fiddler on the Roof

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 9:25pm

what a great thread! 

Let the sunshine-Hair

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