Songs about unrequited love

[Elphaba43]

Songs about unrequited love#1

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

Any Broadway showtunes about unrequited love?

I am a bagel on a plateful of onion rolls. If you know what I'm talking about, good. If you don't, you're on your own!

[mybigsplash]

Songs about unrequited love#2

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

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

Personal faves.

Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?" Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"

[jpbran]

Songs about unrequited love#2

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

"On My Own" from Les Mis.

[best12bars]

Songs about unrequited love#3

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."

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

[givesmevoice]

Songs about unrequited love#4

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

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

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Jeneration]

Songs about unrequited love#5

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

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

[jpbran]

Songs about unrequited love#6

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

"By the Sea" from Sweeney Todd perhaps?

[FunnyGirl617]

Songs about unrequited love#7

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]

Songs about unrequited love#8

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]

Songs about unrequited love#9

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

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

[SporkGoddess]

Songs about unrequited love#10

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

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

Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!

[musicalmack]

Songs about unrequited love#11

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

"What Can You Lose?" from Dick Tracy

[DMsquared2]

Songs about unrequited love#12

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

"Love is a Question Mark" from Taboo

[twinbelters]

Songs about unrequited love#13

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

"You and I" - Chess

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

With Irma you gotta do something!

[KylieS]

Songs about unrequited love#14

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]

Songs about unrequited love#15

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).

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22

[Weez]

Songs about unrequited love#16

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

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

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

[kooky]

Songs about unrequited love#17

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

"The man That got away"

[Jon]

Songs about unrequited love#18

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

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