Songs about unrequited love

[Elphaba43]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 3:56pm

Any Broadway showtunes about unrequited love?

[mybigsplash]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 3:59pm

"Losing My Mind" from Follies comes to mind.
"Loving You" from Passion.

Personal faves.

[jpbran]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 4:02pm

"On My Own" from Les Mis.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 4:14pm

Unrequited love's a bore,
and I've got it pretty bad.
But for someone you adore,
It's a pleasure to be sad.

-- "Glad To Be Unhappy" by Rodgers & Hart, from "On Your Toes."

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 4:38pm

"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins, of course.

[Jeneration]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 4:52pm

I'm Not That Girl from Wicked
There's a Fine, Fine Line from Avenue Q

[jpbran]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 4:57pm

"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd perhaps?

[FunnyGirl617]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 5:16pm

"The Boy Next Door" from Meet Me in St. Louis
"He Was Too Good to Me" Rodgers & Hart, cut from Simple Simon
"I Had Myself a True Love" Arlen & Mercer-popular jazz standard, not sure if it was written for a particular show or film
"Feelings You've Got to Hide" from Side Show
"I Won' t Send Roses" from Mack and Mabel
"Time Heals Everything" from Mack and Mabel
"If Only" from The Little Mermaid
"The Man That Got Away" from A Star is Born
"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along (haven't seen the show, so I don't know in what context it's sung, but it could certainly be interpreted that way outside the show)
"Spring is Here" Rodgers & Hart, I Married an Angel
"They Say It's Wonderful" from Annie Get Your Gun
"What'll I Do" by Irving Berlin, Music Box Revue
"You Should Be Loved" from Side Show

[philly03]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 5:25pm

"Someone Like You" - Jekyll & HYDE
"If Dreams Came True" - A Tale of tWo Cities
"Where's the Girl?" - The Scarlet Pimpernel

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 6:01pm

Not really unrequited, but of faded love:

When I Look at You - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Once Upon a Dream - Jekyll and Hyde

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 6:43pm

"I Know The Truth" from Aida
"Love, Look Away" from Flower Drum Song

[musicalmack]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 8:54pm

"What Can You Lose?" from Dick Tracy

[DMsquared2]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 9:54pm

"Love is a Question Mark" from Taboo

[twinbelters]

Posted: 11/3/10 at 10:17pm

"You and I" - Chess

"I Had Myself A True Love" is from St. Louis Woman.

[KylieS]

Posted: 11/4/10 at 2:02am

Surprised no one's said "Send in the Clowns" yet... I guess it's a slightly unusual variation on the theme but I think it counts.

[best12bars]

Posted: 11/4/10 at 6:59am

I wouldn't say "Send In the Clowns" is about unrequited love. It's about bad timing.

Fredrik still loves Desiree, but he's married to Anne and unwilling to give her up (at least at that point).

[Weez]

Posted: 11/4/10 at 7:43am

"This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific counts though, right?

[kooky]

Posted: 11/4/10 at 8:31am

"The man That got away"

[Jon]

Posted: 11/4/10 at 8:43pm

"But Not for Me" - Girl Crazy/Crazy for You