#126
Posted: 9/3/15 at 4:19pm
You'll Never Walk Alone, every time
Songs That Have Moved You To Tears — Page 6
#127
Posted: 9/3/15 at 6:32pm
In no particular order:
"With You" from Ghost
"Still Hurting" from The Last Five Years
"I Dreamed a Dream," "On My Own," and "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Misérables
"All the Wasted Time" and "You Don't Know This Man" from Parade
"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime
"I Hate the Bus" from Caroline, or Change
"Telephone Wire," "Days and Days," and "Flying Away (Finale)" from Fun Home (the entire musical, really)
"Somewhere" from West Side Story
"Role of a Lifetime," "Best Kept Secret," and "Ever After" from Bare: A Pop Opera
"I Still Believe" from Miss Saigon
"Losing My Mind" from Follies
"Love, Look Away" from Flower Drum Song
"Lonely Town" from On the Town
Every so often there was a rare moment of perfect balance when I soared above him.
Updated On: 9/3/15 at 06:32 PM
#128
Posted: 9/3/15 at 7:06pm
I tear up pretty easily at the theater, but man, it was open weeping at Sunday in the Park with George (2005 Broadway) during Move On and Sunday reprise. Too damn beautiful to bare.
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#129
Posted: 9/3/15 at 7:40pm
Children Will Listen from Into the Woods has always made me emotional.... What You Mean to Me from Finding Neverland, Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music...
#130
Posted: 9/3/15 at 8:00pm
You Don't Have to Love Me from If/Then
I'll Cover You (Reprise) from RENT
#131
Posted: 9/3/15 at 8:22pm
I absolutely agree with you on the Sunday in the Park songs. I've never actually seen it, but listening to the soundtrack is almost as good as seeing it live. Have you seen the Sondheim birthday concert? There was a sort of Bernadette Peters/Mandy Patinkin "reunion" at the event, and it was amazing and emotional at the same time, listening & watching them perform it after several years.
#132
Posted: 9/3/15 at 11:36pm
When I really get into this song while singing, I can't help but shed tears. "If I Can't Love Her" from Beauty and the Beast.. I'm gay so I say "Can't love HIM".. lol
#133
Posted: 9/4/15 at 3:32am
I've never seen the show live but 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee's "The I Love You Song" has gotten me going a few times. I remember once listening to the soundtrack on a late night drive on the way home, and I was super tired so I needed something with a story to keep myself awake, and from "I wrote you a letter" on I was sobbing as I sang. It was completely ridiculous, but the amazing connection I felt to it was electrifying.
#134
Posted: 9/4/15 at 2:18pm
I cry easily, so my list is very long. Haha! "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from Rent, "Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" from The Last Five Years, "No One Is Alone" from Into The Woods, "Midnight Radio" from Hedwig, "Tell Her I Love Her" from Urinetown, multiple Les Mis songs (but none more than "A Little Fall Of Rain"
, and SO MANY OTHERS.
This one has only made me cry once, but I was at Nikki M. James' final performance in The Book Of Mormon, and I was in tears during most of "Sal Tlay Ka Siti." Part of that was because I'm a big fan of hers and I was sad that she was leaving, but it was also because I think it was really hitting her that it was her last time singing the song, and it was so full of emotion and she gave it everything she had.
"I have maggots in my scrotum!"
#135
Posted: 9/4/15 at 2:39pm
I'm pathetic. I often start sobbing during the first few notes of the overture at any given show just from the joy of being there. And I cry pretty easily during live performances in general. But the one song that will get me without fail, even in a really bad production is Sunday from SITPWG. It's funny because on the surface, the lyrics don't seem to be about anything emotionally stirring or related to any of the plot lines. Yet somehow, the music itself always makes me climax, emotionally.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion.
#136
Posted: 9/4/15 at 2:52pm
This is a little different but I wanted to mention it:
Almost every time I've cried in a show it has been during a musical number, which is understandable, as they are often the emotional climaxes of shows.
However, only one musical (that I can think of) has ever made me cry during book scenes: Matilda. I've seen the show 3 times, and without fail, my eyes immediately start to swim with tears when Matilda hugs Miss Honey in class and she says "That is the biggest hug in the world." Similarly, I always cry at the end when they both say "They had found each other," then do a cartwheel upstage.
#137
Posted: 9/5/15 at 1:53pm
"Slipping Through My Fingers" from Mamma Mia.
Also, from the 2013 Tony Awards opening number, the line "...And we might reassure that kid. Or do something to spur that kid,. 'Cause I promise you all of us up here tonight, we WERE that kid...." really got to me.
#138
Posted: 9/5/15 at 2:39pm
Days and Days (and Days) in FUN HOME. I wouldn't say it's moved me to tears but it is a pretty but depressing song. Judy Kuhn's voice is beautiful and haunting.
#139
Posted: 9/5/15 at 2:51pm
Bernadette recorded a version of Not A Day Goes By from MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG that had me in tears.
#140
Posted: 9/5/15 at 5:07pm
I'm a big mush. Everything makes me cry.
From time to time, I watch NPH sing the opening to the Tonys, "bigger". I cry every time. It's not the song as much as the audience's reaction. They are mesmerized. It makes me happy. With technollogy and special effects, theater still has the power to surprise and impress. I find it so moving,
Updated On: 9/5/15 at 05:07 PM
#141
Posted: 9/5/15 at 7:44pm
bring him home Alfie Boe 25th les miz concert
For Good-Idina and Kristin Wicked
Not my fathers son-kinky boots
#142
Posted: 9/5/15 at 9:44pm
He Plays The Violin - 1776 (Especially Betty Buckley's rendition)
#143
Posted: 9/6/15 at 12:27am
Tell me on a Sunday
Days and days and days
Gliding
Race you to the top of the morning
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