Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them.....- Page 4

[The_Jackal2]

Posted: 6/6/07 at 6:24pm

There are very few songs that make me cry every single time I hear them, but...
"A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Mis
"Those You've Known" from Spring Awakening
um...I know it's not actually on a C.D. but "The Life I Never Led" from Sister Act gets me kind of teary eyed sometimes...

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:38pm

Bumping this to add:

"Old Red Hills" (Prologue and Finale)-Parade

Unbelievable. I just dl the recording from iTunes and cannot stop crying when I hear both of those songs. I want to salute something when the chorus joins in, haha. :)

Updated On: 8/8/07 at 05:38 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:41pm

"You Can't Stop the Beat" from HAIRSPRAY

I'm not the only one, either. Something about the building momentum of the song/number hits a certain nerve in people.

[babygiraffeboots]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:51pm

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught- South Pacific, it sends these chills through me. It is so simple yet so powerful.

I know it sounds weird but the most recent song I have discovered that gets my eyes watering is "Chip on My Shoulder" from Legally Blonde. It makes me want to work harder at what I do.

And not a song but a line from a musical: In A Chorus Line when Diani gives her little speech about waiting at the stagedoor and says "I never thought I'd be old enough to come out of that stagedoor," I start bawling.

[Dirty Rotten Scoundrel]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:52pm

"Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" from THE LAST FIVE YEARS. It's just so heartbreaking to take a journey through their lives and see everything in their relationship come to and end. Especially to hear Cathy be so hopeful about her relationship with Jamie when Jamie is singing about how it's over. That final "goodbye," Cathy's being hopeful, Jamie talking about how their marriage is over. Wow, I am getting misty eyed just thinking about it.

ps. To anyone who hasn't heard the score this isn't really a spoiler, because the first song is Cathy talking about their relationship being over.

I also agree with "The Old Red Hills..." from PARADE. Ah, Jason Robert Brown.

[futurebroadwaystar1]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:55pm

"In Whatever Time We Have" from Children of Eden and most of the songs in Secret Garden

[ahmelie]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 5:57pm

I haven't been able to get through "Drift Away" without tears since Grey Gardens closed.

The Finale of Passion, when the entire cast starts singing. It's the most beautiful, haunting sound and I get chills just thinking of it!

[Lorelai]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:07pm

"Still Hurting" and "See I'm Smiling" from The Last 5 Years.

[rose_pearl]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:14pm

"You Can't Stop the Beat" from HAIRSPRAY

I'm not the only one, either. Something about the building momentum of the song/number hits a certain nerve in people.

Totally agreed. I can't explain it...I thought I was the only one.

And word to L5Y. It kills.

And of course, In Whatever Time We Have. Has anyone heard the version on The Schwartz Album? Brian d'Arcy James and Luba Mason I think....anyway, it's gorgeous.

[thesondhead]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:17pm

Gensho wrote: "Migratory V/Horse with Wings (Ricky Ian Gordon)-as sung by Betty Buckley."

You do know that Migratory V is Adam Guettel, not Ricky Ian Gordon, correct?

[ohjohnny]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:46pm

I can't believe this was only mentioned once, but I'll second it: "Somewhere" from WSS.

"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret, the movie.

"Oklahoma". Only in the past few years, but when I hear "We know we belong to the land, and the land we belong to is grand..." it gets me. So innocent.

And in the unexplainable category, "So Long, Farewell" from SOM, the movie, and "I Can Do That" from ACL, the Wayne Cilento version.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 6:50pm

Oh, and when Lizzie comes in with "Now I'm no longer alone!" in Wonderful Music, I cry like a little baby.

As well as at the end of Old Maid.

[withoutlovewithoutU]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:04pm

Pretty much all of The Last 5 Years gets to me. Especally Still Hurting.
Come to your Senses from Tick, Tick boom is a big one, too.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:09pm

Anytime (I Am There) and My Dogs - Elegies

Mama Look Sharp - 1776

The Les Mis finale, especially at "To love another person is to see the face of God."

And I second Julie Andrews' rendition of Feed The Birds.

[uhkthxbye2]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 7:21pm

1. Overture from Gypsy - I don't know why. It just gets me so elated that I cry whenever I listen to it.

2. Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You from L5Y - That entire show, but especially that song, just devastates me. ::shivers:: Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott ... <3

3. Around the World from GG - Especially the stripped down Ebersole-and-a-piano version, that song gets me every time.

4. See Me from Bare - The idea of the song and what's going on it it kinda hit home.

Plus a couple others that elude me just now ...

[titleofjessica]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 8:56pm

left behind
new words
there is a fountain
when the earth stopped turning
let me grow old
1953

Updated On: 11/4/07 at 08:56 PM

[amalou]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 9:22pm

I can sometimes get teary-eyed watching parts of Riverdance. I'm a dork.

Other than that:
Defying Gravity (only when it's live)
Make Them Hear You and Finale- Ragtime
Some Things Are Meant To Be- Little Women
Imagine from Lennon always made me cry

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 9:51pm

The finale of "Parade" gets to me. From the "Sh'ma" all the way to those last drums. Oy, it's beautiful.

"Rose's Turn."

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:34pm

I am absolutely reduced to rubble every time I hear Katherine Hepburn sing the title song from COCO.

[courtney4]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:49pm

Finale B- Rent
Will I- Rent
I'll Cover You(reprise)- Rent
Those You've Known- Spring Awakening
For Good- Wicked

okay those were my typical ones

Halloween- Rent, i don't cry everytime but the two times i saw it Chris J. Hanke made me cry.

Legally Blonde, whoever said it a couple pages back, you aren't alone. it's a sad song.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 10:54pm

"How Glory Goes" from Floyd Collins
"Finale" from Parade
"Epilogue" from Ragtime
"No One Has Ever Loved Me" from Passion
"Johanna" (the Act II one) from Sweeney Todd

[StarUsher]

Posted: 8/8/07 at 11:08pm

I second that Halloween. When I saw RENT again over the weekend that was my breaking my point and when my best friend and I discussed it afterwards she couldn't understand why on that song. It's good to know I wasn't the only one.

[brooklynbecca]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 12:16am

"Tender Sheperd" from Peter Pan
"Fable" Light in the Piazza
"The Light in the Piazza" Light in the Piazza
"Children Will Listen" Into the Woods
"Old Maid" 110 in the Shade
"Is It Really Me" 110 in the Shade
"In Buddy's Eyes" Follies
"Beautiful" SITPWG
"Something Wonderful" The King and I makes me bawl like a big baby for hours. I cannot even listen to it or even think about it for very long without weeping. It's a little pathetic.
"This Nearly Was Mine" and "Twin Soliloquies" South Pacific
When Christine Ebersole sang "I Only Have Eyes for You" in the 42nd Street revival
"Love Who You Love" "Love's Never Lost" and "The Cuddles Mary Gave" from Man of No Importance
"Another Winter in a Summer Town" Grey Gardens
"Say the Word" Kerrigan and Lowdermilk There's a great recording of Celia singing it on their Myspace page.
"I'll Forget You" The Scarlet Pimpernel V2.0 and up
"Just a Housewife" Working
"Mama, Look Sharp" 1776
"If He Walked Into My Life" Mame
"I Promise You a Perfect Ending" Mack and Mabel
"Wake Up, I'm Leaving" Drop Everything
"Days of Plenty" and "Some Things Are Meant to Be" Little Women
"Make Our Garden Grow" Candide, but only because it's so gorgeous
"How Could I Ever Know" The Secret Garden
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" Les Miserables
"Cheer Up, Charlie" Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (ironic, no?)
"And I Was Beautiful" Dear World
"Lonely House" Street Scene
"I Remember" Evening Primrose
"It's Hard to Speak My Heart" and the whole finale sequence of Parade
"I Hate Him" into the "Her Face" reprise from Carnival

That's a pretty long list. I guess I'm just a weepy person.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 12:29am

"Up, Up, Up to the Heavy-Side Layer" from CATS

"My Friend" from THE LIFE

"I Know Where I Been" from HAIRSPRAY

"I am What I Am" from La Cage

[roseaddams]

Posted: 8/9/07 at 1:29am

What I Did For Love, A Chorus Line revival.