The Beauty Is from LITP (because it's such a gorgeous melody)
See I'm Smiling from L5Y
All The Wasted Time from Parade
"My Brother Lived in San Fransisco" is from Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/8/08
"Without You" (Rent)
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" (Rent)
"Halloween" (Rent)
"Goodbye, Love" (Rent)
"Finale/Your Eyes" (Rent)
"Alabanza" (In The Heights)
"Finale" (In The Heights)
"I Know Where I've Been" (Hairspray)
Featured Actor Joined: 8/21/08
"Sweep up the years of sadness and tears and throw them away..."
Human Again (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman)
'The Next Best Thing to Love' and 'Self Portrait', both from A CLASS ACT
For Good - Wicked
Slipping Through My Fingers - Mamma Mia
The Story Goes On - Baby
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
Deep Love from Young Frankenstein... its just so dang sad!
And i will keep love... deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper... forever inside! FOREVER INSIDE!
I have to be in the right mood, but sometimes, if I am particularly nostalgic and recall my feelings seeing a particular show the first time, these will get to me:
One Day More - Les Miserables
Tell Me It's Not True - Blood Brothers
I'll Cover You (reprise) - Rent
Finale B - Rent
The Old Red Hills of Home - Parade
I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
The Circle of Life - The Lion King
Father to Son - Falsettos
Listening to You - Tommy
Non-musical theatre:
Annie's Song - John Denver
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Losing My Mind - Follies
Chorus Member Joined: 8/10/07
Look Over There and Song On the Sand - La Cage
I Have a Love - West Side Story
A Little Fall of Rain - Les Mis
At the Ballet - Chorus Line
This Nearly Was Mine - South Pacific
Also another vote for "Puff the Magic Dragon" -- specifically starting with "his head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain".
"Evermore Without You" - Woman in White
"Back to Before" - Ragtime
just two of many
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/08
Definitely A Little Fall Of Rain from Les Miz and also One Day More. (But only Live...)
A Change In Me from Beauty and the Beast.
(Only the less belty versions of the song, even though the grander, beltier ones later on in the production totally blew me away.)
And I know this has nothing to do with how many times I listened to it, but when the cast sang What I Did For Love at closing night of A Chorus Line, I was crying SO hard. And seeing them cry made me cry even harder. Aw, I'm getting choked up thinking about it all over again!
I'll Cover You (Reprise) ...I cry when everyone comes in with the back up.
For Good (it is very symbolic of my divorce)
I Dreamed a Dream (only when performed by Miss LuPone, and I cry when she sings, "so different from this Hell I'm living...)
Ok, now I'm crying!
Swing Joined: 3/17/09
-I'LL COVER YOU [Reprise] - RENT
especially when the company comes in with backup
-FABLE - THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
-SOME THINGS ARE MEAN'T TO BE - LITTLE WOMEN: THE MUSICAL
-A LITTLE FALL OF RAIN - LES MISERABLES
-I'D GIVE MY LIFE FOR YOU - MISS SAIGON
-LEFT BEHIND and THOSE YOU'VE KNOWN - SPRING AWAKENING
Swing Joined: 12/31/69
Some Thing Are Meant to Be - Little Women
Nobody Needs to Know - L5Y
Finale - In the Heights
Maybe This Time - Cabaret (and how ironic that the only recording that makes me cry is by Natasha Richardson)
No Voice - Bare
Chavaleh - Fiddler
My Child Will Forgive Me - Parade
Bring Me to Light - Violet
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
"Sunday", from Sunday in the Park With George.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
Atencion from ITH
I'll Cover You (Reprise) Rent
Finale B - Rent
and half the songs from The Story of My Life. Most of the storyline made me cry to like with his mom. Oh soo sad!
Flying Home from Songs for a New World
Featured Actor Joined: 2/11/08
no one is alone into the woods.
Goodbye Until Tomorrow -L5Y
If I Didn't Believe in You-L5y
Race You to the top of the Morning- Secret Garden
Probably more to come later.
Chorus Member Joined: 7/9/08
There are two songs that make me cry, to the point of embarassment, no matter where I am or who I am with:
1) Bye Bye Miss American Pie
2) Cats in the Cradle
Broadway Star Joined: 2/8/07
The only song that ever made me cry in a musical and makes me cry every time I hear it is The Letter from Billy Elliot
I can't say that there are songs that always make me cry but there are some that get to me based on my mood or what's going on around me. Earlier this month I was at a performance of "The Marvelous Wonderettes" which is a "feel good musical". But the night before I'd had my heart tromped upon tremendously and when Victoria Matlock goes into "Maybe" in Act II I just could not hold it together.
Meadowlark is my favorite all time song and it makes me sob!
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