Songs That Have Moved You To Tears- Page 5

[luvcaroline]

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

Love Like That - Passing Strange

I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change

Go Back Home - Scottsboro Boys

Losing My Mind - Follies

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 9:49pm

I need to add "For Good". Forgot about that one! Also the final song in BARE The Musical. (No Voice?)

[BroadwayConcierge]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:01pm

Good lord, I didn't realize I welled up so much in the theatre until I made this list! I'll honestly probably keep adding to the below list. There's truly nothing like being moved to tears in the theatre, and I especially love crying not necessarily because of a show's emotions, but because of the sheer beauty/brilliance of a production. 

 

Nearly every song from The Bridges of Madison County.

"What I Did for Love" - A Chorus Line

"One" - A Chorus Line

"Being Alive" - Company

"Telephone Wire" - Fun Home

"The Flesh Failures/Let the Sun Shine In" - Hair

"Burn" - Hamilton

"The World Was Wide Enough/Finale" - Hamilton

"Wicked Little Town (Reprise)" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

"Midnight Radio" - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

"Something Wonderful" (specifically Ruthie Ann Miles' rendition) - The King and I

"One Day More" - Les Misérables

"Bring Him Home" - Les Misérables

"Finale" - Les Misérables

"Finale" - Pippin's 2013 revival

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" (specifically Sierra Boggess' rendition) - Phantom

"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" - Rent

"Sunday" - Sunday in the Park with George

"Somewhere" - West Side Story

"For Good" - Wicked

"The I Love You Song" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Updated On: 9/4/15 at 10:01 PM

[Steve C.]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:19pm

I agree with Melissa25 about Barbara Cook. We saw her at the Kennedy Center upstairs Cabaret. She sounds quite remarkable. and yes, "ice cream, she gave us ice cream..."  truly wonderful!

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:21pm

My house(especially the way Alison luff sings it), with you, defying gravity(flying portion), wicked finale, I dreamed a dream, bring him home, Les mis finale, the letter, being mrs. Banks, pippin finale, honey bun reprise from South Pacific, you'll never walk alone, and sililoquy from carousel.

[JBroadway]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:22pm

I don't know about songs that CONSISTENTLY move me to tears, but here are songs that HAVE moved me to tears:

Something Was Missing (Annie)
The Letter (Billy Elliot)
No One is Alone (ITW)
If I Didn't Believe
Neverland Reprise (Finding Neverland)
Alabanza (In the Heights)
He Lives in You (reprise) (The Lion King)
Can You Feel the Love Tonight (The Lion King)
My House (Matilda)
I Am The One Reprise (Next to Normal)
I'll Cover You Reprise (Rent)
This is it (The Story of My Life)
Angels in the Snow (The Story of My Life)
Sunday (Sunday in the Park)
I Wouldn't Change Anything (Sam Brown)
Ghost Story (The Last Ship)
Flying Away (Fun Home)

[JoseLee_]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:31pm

I have a feeling some of you are just saying songs that you like and are also "sad/depressing".. If you were to listen to one of the songs on that long list of yours.. you wouldn't cry. Sorry, I had to say it.

[toofunktastic2]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:43pm

Honestly I cry pretty easily so I could make a book out of songs that have moved me to tears.  However there's something about Alison Luff's performance of My House that always makes me cry like a baby. 

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:45pm

• "Who Are You Now", "The Music That Makes Me Dance", and "Don't Rain On My Parade (Reprise)" from Funny Girl
• "Around the World" and "Daddy's Girl" from Grey Gardens
• "Buddy Kissed Me / Who Will Love Me As I Am?" and "I Will Never Leave You" from Side Show
• "Legally Blonde" from Legally Blonde
• "The Hill" from Once
• "Everything Else" from Next to Normal
• "Cabaret" from Cabaret
• "Lost in the Stars" from Lost in the Stars
• "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods
• "Still Hurting" and "See I'm Smiling" from The Last Five Years
• "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music
• "Let Me Be Your Star", "Never Give All The Heart", "Second Hand White Baby Grand", "The Right Regrets", "Hang The Moon", and "Don't Forget Me" from Bombshell

[ChiTheaterFan]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 10:54pm

Well I cry in every show I like so this would be a lot, but the songs that have made me do the full out ugly cry would be Little Fall of Rain, Bring him Home (Les Mis), Wait for It and It's Quiet Uptown (Hamilton), and midnight radio (hedwig). 

for some reason I also ridiculously and rather inappropriately broke down during Jenny's Blues in it shoulda been you. I don't know. I guess I identified with her and it struck me. 

[RaiseYouUp]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:27pm

Defying Gravity and For Good move me to tears. So do a couple songs in Kinky Boots

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:38pm

oh yea One Finale from A Chorus Line as well!  Especially watching it, and then the lights go down...i cry all the time when i watch/listen to it! It really depends on my mood though. I feel like i cry more from watching people's joy more than when people are dying in a corner. I actually sometimes laugh because its so dramatic and the stakes are so high that it can sometimes become humorous to me. Im incomprehensible!

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:45pm

Didn't you leave?

[Phillypinto]

Posted: 9/2/15 at 11:53pm

yeah but the board needed me so i came back :)

[TBone]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 1:22am

IT ALL FADES AWAY from The Bridges of Madison County. Hearing it for the first time in the theatre is something I'll never forget.

 It's now one of my absolute favorite songs. Ever.

[Markie27]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 2:12am

Like all the posts here I easily get emotional specially on big 11:00 numbers... But these songs had me specially bawling in the theater:

1. "No More" from Into The Woods (I sobbed so hard at this)

2. "Telephone Wire" from Fun Home (Beth Malone was devastating!  I was a wreck... Special mention to Judy Khun's "Days and Days"

3. "I'll Cover You Reprise" and almost all of the songs from Rent.  best musical ever.

4. "I'm Not That Girl" and "For Good" from Wicked

5. "Try To Remember" from Fantasticks (I wonder why but this song kills me)

6.  "There's A Fine Fine Line" from Avenue Q

7. "On My Own" by Nikki M. James from Les Miz 2014 revival (she was absolutely mesmerizing)

8. "Sleeping" from Once (the beautiful choreography of the family as Nolan was singing this was totally heartbreaking)

9. "Raise You Up / Just Be" from Kinky Boots (such an uplifting song that made me tear up with joy...one of the best finale songs ever)

10. Audra as Lady Day.... She is a goddess.  "Strange Fruit", "God Bless The Child"...  Aaahhh!!!

Special mention to "With You" from Ghost.  Although I wasn't able to watch the show this gorgeous ballad from Cassie Levy brought me to my knees.  Beautiful beautiful song.

Updated On: 9/3/15 at 02:12 AM

[nicnyc]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 2:29am

"Your Daddy's Son" Ragtime/Audra McDonald

"Make Them Hear You" Ragtime/Brian Stokes Mitchell, also Kyle Scatcliffe

"Be On Your Own" Nine/Karen Akers

"Nobody Needs to Know" & "I Could Never Rescue You"The Last 5 Years/Norbert Leo Butz, also Jeremy Jordan

"It All Fades Away" Bridges of Madison County/Steven Pasquale

"Easy as Life" Aida/Heather Headly

"Love Can't Happen" Grand Hotel/David Carroll

"Pity the Child" Chess/Philip Casnoff

"She is a Diamond" Evita/Michael Ceveris, also Jonathan Pryce

"Gethsemene" Jesus Christ Superstar/Ted Neeley

"I Still Believe", "I'd Give My Life for You", This is the Hour", "Finale" Miss Saigon/Lea Salonga

 

Updated On: 9/3/15 at 02:29 AM

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 3:38am

"There Will Be A Miracle" from See What I Wanna See

"Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins

[aj88]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 8:30am

Two that come to mind are FABLE from The Light in the Piazza (combined due to the exquisite work of Victoria Clark, the beautiful song, and how everything just built up to that glorious point).

And the other was actually THE I LOVE YOU SONG from Spelling Bee. In the case of that song, I saw that show during a very difficult time in my life and I still hold that show very close to my heart because its joy and creativity really lit a fire in me. The whole show I remember thinking "This is so fun, but I would love a very nice William Finn ballad"...and then the song came and once Lisa Howard sang "We always knew you were a winner...", I fell in love with the song and found it so beautiful. By the end, I was tearing up for many reasons. 

And then those two shows lost to Spamalot......oh well.

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 8:44am

Kerry Butler's Somewhere that's green  always gets me. 

[wcoyote]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 2:11pm

"I won't send Roses" - Mack and Mabel

[Steve C.]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 2:28pm

While Kerry Butler can be very good, Alan Mencken( and sadly Howard Ashman is gone), may as well change the song title to Somewhere That's Greene. After the Encores performances in July, there should be no doubt that song is Ellen Greene's forever. She still sounds the same! Incredible! Jake Gylenhaal sounded pretty terrific too.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 2:57pm

I cry in the theater in response to a thing of perfect beauty more likely than for a sad song. Last season? I cried at nearly every dance sequence in ON THE TOWN, with "Lonely Town" the standout.

I cried at the pure artistry throughout the first act of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS. The depiction of 2 boats floating in the Seine, the miraculous change in wardrobe from post-war drab to Dior's New Look, the expression of an artist's drawn line blooming into 3 dimensions, the thrill of jumpstarting a blackout with a bicycle. I cried at all of it, and the particular songs involved couldn't have mattered less.

Songs that out of context can make me cry at the drop of a hat?  I'm generally a strict traditionalist in my show tastes, but here are 3 that confound even me:

"Without You/ No Day But Today" duo from RENT.

"Let the Sunshine In" from HAIR. (We starve, look at one another, short of breath...)

"On The Willows" from GODSPELL

 

 

[Fantod]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 3:05pm

Can say I'm much of a cryer. The only one I can recall is He's Not Here from Next to Normal, as well as every song in that show after that point.

[phantomcrazy14]

Posted: 9/3/15 at 3:15pm

Ghost had me in tears a lot, especially because of what I was going through in my life at the time.

Both letter songs and "Once We Were Kings" from Billy Elliot

"A Little Fall of Rain" always hits me so hard in Les Miserables, especially when they start singing together.

Everything in Hedwig after "Exquisite Corspe", I'm a mess.

The end of Pippin also made me cry, I thought it was chilling and beautiful. When the Leading Player said to Pippin that there are people out there who would kill to live this magic every day, and how they undid the tent. I knew nothing about the show and so I loved that moment.

"No One Else" from Natasha, Pierre....etc That was my first Off-Broadway show and I was just in shock the whole time at how much I was loving it. Something about the piano in that song, and just how in love she was, I just had tears streaming down my face. It was a happy cry :)

Phantom was my first show, and every time I've seen it I cry multiple times, but especially the end when he sings "It's over now, the music of the night".