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#151

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 3/19/09 at 10:34am

"The Rainbow Connection" -The Muppet Movie
"All I Ask of You (reprise)" -The Phantom of the Opera
"Circle of Life" -The Lion King
"Tonight" and "Somewhere" -West Side Story
and if I'm feeling really emo... "Little Lamb" -Gypsy

#152

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 3/19/09 at 11:10am

Given the recent passing of Natasha Richardson, Cabaret has made me tear up now. I just can't listen to the song the same way again.

"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world." "Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.

#153

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 3/19/09 at 11:57am

Bwaygal Im compltly with you on Cabaret. I had to listen to it all night last night for some closure. When she said "When I go I'm Goin like Elsie into Start By Admitting from Cradle to Tomb" I got so choked up I cant describe it. That song has forever been changed for me.

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

#154

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 3/19/09 at 1:46pm

I'll Cover You (Reprise)

Gets me every single time.

#155

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 3/19/09 at 6:15pm

I know they're not musical theatre numbers but what the heck. For anyone who likes a good sob over a song I recommend "Lullaby In Blue" by Bette Midler (from the "Bathhouse Betty" album) and the title track from Take That's "The Circus" album. (Do we still call them albums even? I remember vinyl!)

#156

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:08pm

For me recently it is "Hang the Moon" Bombshell

"I think lying to children is really important, it sets them off on the right track" -Sherie Rene Scott-

#157

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Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:14pm

Some of the songs I hear listed make me realize the people hear have never felt any real emotion. Crying to Wicked... really???

that being said, the people listing Sondheim get a thumbs up.

#158

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:17pm

Nice judgement.

And notice how old this thread is.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

#159

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:27pm

As far as crying to Wicked-Listen to the words to "For Good." The message can easily be taken out of the context of the show. For me, the first time I saw the show on Broadway, it was shortly after someone I knew had died. The song made me think about what that person meant to me in my life. So, yes, even songs from Wicked can make you cry with real emotion.

#160

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:28pm

Bring Him Home and the Les Mis Finale.

Memory

Updated On: 7/23/13 at 03:28 PM

#161

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:36pm

Some of the songs I hear listed make me realize the people hear have never felt any real emotion.

Because you're the one to decide how other people should feel?

"here" not "hear"

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#162

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:49pm

I've cried every time I've listened to stay with me from Into the Woods. I don't know why.

Others tear jerkers for me include Will You and Another Winter in a Summer Town from Grey Gardens along with When there's
No One from Carrie and Eva's Final Broadcast from Evita.

#163

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:52pm

Shocker! People respond differently to different things.

I'm pretty sure no one here is in a position to be judging the "realness" of other people's experiences or emotional responses.

(To be clear, this comment is aimed entirely at TheHappyPhantom.)

Updated On: 7/23/13 at 03:52 PM

#164

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 3:59pm

Oh, I'll be just fine with getting all judgy about TheHappyPhantom right now. Obviously, they have never experienced true happiness or joy and are probably so highly judgmental from being a virgin for so very long. I can instantly know all this to be true from they way they answer one question. And I feel sublimely superior.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#165

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:12pm

What More Can I Say? (Falsettos). This video always makes me cry.
What More Can I Say?

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)

#166

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:20pm

Think of Me from Phantom is one...If You Want Me by Cristin Milioti, you just feel her longing....

Wild Horses by the Sundays gets me everytime.

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#167

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:24pm

Momma Look Sharp from 1776
The Letter from Billy Elliot

Both are parent/child songs of loss. Very difficult to bear.

#168

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Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:26pm

"I'll Buy You A Star" A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
"Mama, a Rainbow" MINNIE'S BOYS
"Effie, Sing My Song" DREAMGIRLS
"Joey, Joey, Joey" THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
"Here I'll Stay" LOVE LIFE
"At the Ballet" A CHORUS LINE
"Chavaleh" FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
"Sabbath Prayer" FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
"He Can Do It" PURLIE
"I Wish It So" JUNO
"Night Song" GOLDEN BOY
"Isn't It a Pity?" PARDON MY ENGLISH
"Sorry,Grateful" COMPANY
"All Things Bright and Beautiful" MARY ME A LITTLE (cut from Follies)
"So Many People" SATURDAY NIGHT
"Where Do I Go From Here?" cut from FIORELLO
"Lost in the Stars" LOST IN THE STARS
"September Song" KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY
"Sleepy Man" THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
"In My Own Lifetime" THE ROTHSCHILDS
"Sing Happy" FLORA THE RED MENACE
"The Butterfly" ZORBA
"Why Can't I Speak?" ZORBA
"Life Is" ZORBA
"I Don't Remember You" THE HAPPY TIME
"Mama, Look Sharp" 1776
"Is Anybody There?" 1776
"Four Unlikely Lovers" FALSETTOS
"Bess You Is My Woman Now" PORGY AND BESS
"My Man's Gone Now" PORGY AND BESS
"I Don't Care Much" CABARET
"No More" INTO THE WOODS
"Another Winter in a Summer Town" GREY GARDENS
"Worlds Apart" BIG RIVER
"What's The Use of Wondrin'?" CAROUSEL
"This Nearly Was Mine" SOUTH PACIFIC

Updated On: 7/23/13 at 04:26 PM

#169

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:26pm

Home (Sung by Shoshana Bean, written by Scott Alan. The live versions tend to get me more. Especially this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThsUa9heVJM Skip to 7:16)
Anything Worth Holding On To (Sung by Crystal Monee Hall, written by Scott Alan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uKK7ilE2w)
No More (Into the Woods)

Updated On: 7/23/13 at 04:26 PM

#170

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:50pm

WOw Henrik thats some awesome list! I hope you have a lot of happy songs to counter them! :)

#171

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:53pm

Many, Sue. But good schmaltz is good schmaltz!

#172

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:56pm

ha yep. i love a good cry!

#173

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 4:58pm

Oh My Papa, by Eddie Fisher. It isn't played much anymore, but I can't listen to it.

<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES

#174

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 5:15pm

Finale- In The Heights
How Glory Goes- Floyd Collins

#175

re: Songs That Make You Cry No Matter How Many Times You Listen to them....

Posted: 7/23/13 at 5:30pm

"Till We Reach That Day" - Ragtime
"I Know Where I've Been" - Hairspray (I'm always incredibly moved, if not before, on the line "cause just to sit still, would be a sin")

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