Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings. Songs that make you FEEL.
#100re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 8/1/06 at 8:31pm
Fallen Angel- Jersey Boys
Memory-Cats
Music of the Night-The Phantom of the Opera
Johanna (the very last of all the Johanna songs on the album.)-Sweeney Todd
The I Love You Song-The Spelling Bee
For Good- Wicked
Finale B-Rent
I'll Cover You reprise-Rent
I Know Where I've Been- Hairspray
As Long As Your Mine-Wicked
You'll Be In My Heart-Tarzan
My Eyes Adorded You-Jersey Boys
thats all 4 now!!!
#101re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 8/2/06 at 9:46pm
Down - The Grind
What Would I Do? - Falsettos
Goodbye/Boom Boom - Elegies
When the Earth Stopped Turning - Elegies
Anytime - Elegies
I Will Give - Marie Christine
Tell Me - Marie Christine
I Will Love You - Marie Christine
I Don't Remember Christmas - Starting Here, Starting Now
Patterns - Baby
Private Conversation - Side Show
We Do Not Belong Together - Sunday in the Park With George
Finishing the Hat - Sunday in the Park With George
Not A Day Goes By - Merrily We Roll Along
Take Me To the World - Evening Primerose
Loving You - Passion
Someday is For Suckers - The Life
I Don't Care Much - Cabaret
Ha, just to name a few...
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#102re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 8/3/06 at 12:00pm
I'll Cover You (reprise), Your Eyes and Without You ~ Rent
Nowadays ~ Chicago (depends who's playing Roxie and what kind of opening she gives the song -- ie: how emotional she is)
My Friend ~ The Life
In His Eyes ~ J&H
Unusual Way ~ Nine
I Know The Truth and Radames Letter ~ Aida
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#103re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 8/3/06 at 6:56pm
"What Kind of Fool" - Stop the World...
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" - Rent
"Tell Me On A Sunday" - Song and Dance
"Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise)" - Aida
"Something Wonderful" - The King and I
#104re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:03pm
"Left Behind" - SPRING AWAKENING
"Another Winter in a Summer Town" - GREY GARDENS
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#105re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:23pm
I didn't read through the whole thread, but I'm sure some of these are repeats.
-"Another Winter In a Summer Town" - Grey Gardens
-"Around the World" - Grey Gardens
-"You Will Always Be a Part of Us"/"Why We Tell This Story" - Once On This Island
-"Come To Your Senses" - Tick, Tick... Boom
-"I'll Cover You (reprise)" - RENT
-"If I Didn't Believe In You" - The Last Five Years
-"The Fire Within Me" (not so much the whole song, as the dialogue in the middle) - Little Women
-"Here Alone" - Little Women
-"I'm Here" - The Color Purple
-"Bring Him Home" - Les Miserables
-"Finale: Children Will Listen" - Into the Woods
-"I Wanted New Shoes" - The Screams of Kitty Genovese
I'm sure there are others that aren't popping into my head right now.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride.
I love you because I know no other way than this.
I believe in fate
But it's up to us to follow through
#106re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:31pm
The number one song that I cannot get through without tears is With So Little To Be Sure Of from Anyone Can Whistle.
From Sunday In The Park With George there is Children and Art, We Do Not Belong Together, and Move On.
From Into The Woods we have Children Will Listen and No One is Alone.
Sondheim makes me feel.
Also, from [Title Of Show], A Way Back To Then gets me everytime. For Good from Wicked, I'll Cover You (Reprise) from RENT, Left Behind from Spring Awakening, Our Time from Merrily We Roll Along, What I Did For Love, Lesson #8.
There's more of course. So many of them aren't really sad either. I just connect to them in a way that makes me feel so deeply.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#107re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:33pm
"How Glory Goes" from Floyd Collins
"No One Has Ever Loved Me" from Passion
"Finale" from Passion
"The Next Ten Minutes" from the Last Five Years
"All The Wasted Time" from Parade
"You Should Be Loved" from Side Show
"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime (and the reprise during the Epilogue)
"Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime
"I'd Give It All For You" from Songs for a New World
All of the "Back in Town / Thuy's Death" or whatever it's called from Miss Saigon
"I'd Give My Life for You" from Miss Saigon
"The Confrontation" from Miss Saigon
"The Bargain" from Les Mis - the part where Valjean goes "I have a promise I have made, I have a duty I must heed" and it goes into that goooorgeous "I Dreamed a Dream" melody
"Meadowlark" from The Baker's Wife
"You are My Home" from The Scarlet Pimpernel (can you tell that I'm so all about the schmalz?)
#108re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:34pm
I agree with Foster on "Left Behind". It made me more emotional the second time I saw SA, especially when Jonathan hits the high notes near the end.
When performed right, "I Know Where I've Been" from Hairspray really resonates with me.
#109re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 2:46am
*I Know The Truth - Aida
IThe I Love You Song - Spelling Bee (um, cried first time i listened, full out lost it bawled when i finally saw it, then i listened to it on the plane on the way home and cried myself to sleep. I can only imagine what the three of them in front of the microphone thought, watching some boy in the front row crying...)
*Anything Can Happen - Mary Poppins (not so much the recording, but actually seeing it, the spectacle and the lighting and the scene right before.... I was still bawling as I left the theatre)
*A Change In Me - Beauty and the Beast (I havent seen BATB but I love the Disney's On The Record recording...)
*You Walk With Me - The Full Monty
*What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line
*All Grown Up - Bare: A Pop Opera
*How Did We Come To This? - Lippa's Wild Party
#110re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 3:06am
Lot's Wife is the only thing that's made me cry on a recording.
In live theatre, the only thing that's made me cry was the scissors monologue in "Intimate Apparel." Not a song but mentionable, since it beats quite a few songs and that's what this thread is about. :P
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#111re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 3:19amAnytime from Elegies: A Song Cycle and The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee are just fantastic, in my opinion.
#112re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 5:04am
I admit to crying during "Music of the Night" from Phantom of the Opera"... especially when I saw it live. I bawled my eyes out.
"I Don't Care Much" [from Cabaret] always is a song that connects to me. I've heard numerous recordings of this song, but nothing beats seeing it performed live. I had that privilage over the summer and every night, it brought tears to my eyes.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#113re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:09pm
Fire Within Me-Little Women
Some Thing's Are Meant To Be-LW
basically ever other song in LITP
Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You-Last5Years
Danielm
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#114re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:19pmHow Glory Goes from Floyd Collins, Anytime, 14 Dwight Ave and When the Earth Stopped Turning from Elegies.
#115re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:23pmRecently, almost every song in the second act of Grey Gardens. If I had to pick one, I guess it would be Around the World.
#116re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:27pm
I've got a few:
Maybe This Time (Cabaret)
For Good (Wicked)
I'll Cover You Reprise (Rent)
What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line)
Petrified (Taboo)
Fallen Angel (Jersey Boys)
No One is Alone (Into the Woods)
On My Own (Les Miserables)
Fable (Light in the Piazza)
#117re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:29pmFinale A thru B from Rent. Just listening to those songs makes me teary eyed.
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#118re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:42pm
How Glory Goes - Floyd Collins
Temporary - Urban Myths
The Light in the Piazza - Well..
Fable - Piazza
Send in the Clowns (especially the Reprise) - A Little Night Music
Somewhere That's Green - Little Shop of Horrors
#119re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 2:00pm
Another Winter in a Summer Town - Grey Gardens
Around the World - Grey Gardens
On My Own -- Les Miserables
A Little Fall of Rain -- Les Miserables
The Fall of Saigon -- Miss Saigon
I'll Be There - The Pirate Queen
I Loved You Once in Silence -- Camelot
Sabbath Prayer - Fiddler on the Roof
Do You Love Me? -- Fidler on the Roof
Lament -- Evita
Somewhere That's Green - Little Shop of Horrors
I'll Cover You (Reprise) -- Rent
Thank Goodness -- Wicked
~Jacob.
rubyslippersxo
Understudy Joined: 7/15/06
#120re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 2:09pm
The Music and the Mirror - A Chorus Line
Finale B - RENT
Hysteria, Octet - The Light in the Piazza
WellIfYouInsist
Featured Actor Joined: 12/20/06
#121re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 12/28/06 at 2:11pm
"Right Before My Eyes" - LESTAT
"The Crimson Kiss" - LESTAT
"I'll Never Have That Chance" - LESTAT
"Beautiful Boy" - LESTAT
#122re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 1/10/07 at 2:49pmLeft Behind from Spring Awakening.
Mooo
Understudy Joined: 11/12/06
#123re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 1/10/07 at 3:19pm
Tell Me It's Not True - Blood Brothers (Petula Clark)
Great version of a tear jerker.
#124re: Songs from shows that *tear* at your heart-strings.
Posted: 1/10/07 at 3:39pm
"Left Behind" SPring Awakening
"I'll Cover you Reprise, Good Bye Love, Your Eyes, Finale B" Rent
"For Good and Defying Gravity"( i dont know i always feel proud of her hehe) Wicked
"Sante Fe" Newsies ( i know i know but its sad)
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