Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs- Page 2

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 5:42am

I find We Do Not Belong Together to be just devastating
So is Tell Me on a Sunday from Song & Dance/Tell Me on a Sunday
(what's more depressing than telling someone how they should break up with you?)

There's A Fine, Fine Line from Ave Q
Apology to a Cow and Finale from Bat Boy
Cabaret (ironically) from Cabaret
The Long Grift and Hedwigs Lament from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
A whole lotta stuff from the Last 5 Years
Good Thing Goin from Merrily We Roll Along
As Long as He Needs Me from Oliver!
Where Am I Going? from Sweet Charity
Johnny Can't Decide, See Her Smile and Why from tick, tick...BOOM!
Maybe I Like It This Way, What Is It About Her? and How Did We Come to This? from Lippa's Wild Party
The I Love You Song and Woe is Me reprise from Spelling Bee

[Bluejay2]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 5:56am

I know it's not one of the saddest song, but I'm moved from the death of Audrey from Little Shops of horrors, probably because I didn't expect it when I saw it

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 7:04am

I Won't Send Roses - Mack & Mabel
But You Go On - Annie Warbucks

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 8:33am

Gethsemane from Jesus Christ Superstar
The Prayer from The Scarlet Pimpernel
When I Look At You from The Scarlet Pimpernel
At The Glen from Dessa Rose
Evermore Without You from The Woman in White

[madbrian]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 8:42am

Anatevka from Fiddler

[sferezy]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 8:53am

-A lot of stuff from BARE
-I Never Knew His Name-BKLYN
-Cabaret-Cabaret
-Christmas Makes Me Cry-BKLYN
-Green Finch and Linnet Bird-Sweeney Todd (Some may say it is kind of a stretch, but I think it counts)
-Movie in My Mind-Miss Saigon
-Home-Beauty and the Beast
-If I Can't Love Her-Beauty and the Beast
-I Don't Care Much-Cabaret
-If Only-Little Mermaid
-Legally Blonde-Legally Blonde
-No More-Into the Woods
-Raven-BKLYN

Along with everything said above, and Les Miserables.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:25am

All of you are amateurs. Already to the second page and nobody has mentioned THE best example.

You want songs of woe and suffering, then listen to Threepenny Opera.

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:42am

I dont know how to love him-JCS
You cant get a man with a gun(reprise)- Annie Get Your Gun
The Barber and His Wife-Sweeney
In My Own Little Corner-Cinderella
My Time of Day-Guys and Dolls

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:07am

Something Just Broke- Assassins

[mauriposa]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:12am

Woe is Me - the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

[RyToast1]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:16am

I can't believe no one's said "Losing My Mind" from Follies. This song kills me!

[Jon]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 12:47pm

"Suppertime" (written by Irving Berlin)from "As Thousands Cheer" - a song in which a mother tells her children that their father won't be home for supper - he has been lynched. originally sung by Ethel Waters.

[bwaygal1]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 1:07pm

"Around the World," "Another Winter in a Summer Town" and "Drift Away" from Grey Gardens
"On My Own" is pretty depressing
"Lost in the Darkness" from Jekyll and Hyde
"Once Upon a Dream" from Jekyll and Hyde
"If I Can't Love Her" from Beauty and the Beast
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera
"Lily's Eyes" from the Secret Garden makes me cry
"I Heard Someone Crying" from the Secret Garden
"I Don't Do Sadness" from Spring Awakening

[jwonjy119]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 1:54pm

Schadenfreude - Avenue Q

;D

I don't know, when I first heard "I Still Believe" from Miss Saigon I got pretty sad. Only because the two girls singing it were probably the two best singers at my school. It was for a dinner fundraiser. Updated On: 2/15/08 at 01:54 PM

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 2:25pm

Empty Chairs and Empty Tables

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 3:35pm

I second My Son from BLBC. I also think Are you still holding my hand is sad.

The whole second act of BARE
I Dont Care Much - Cabaret gets me everytime.
Tell her I love her from Urinetown is kinda sad

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 4:34pm

omg I can't believe I forgot Something Just Broke! I choke up every single time I hear that song.

And Gothampc is right, Solomon Song, Pirate Jenny, the Tango song, A Call from the Grave and Ballad in which Macheath Begs All Mens' Forgivness from Threepenny Opera are all pretty gloomy

[HollyImposter]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 4:45pm

"For Good (Reprise)" Wicked

[commasplice]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 5:07pm

"Lot's Wife" - Caroline or Change

[BroadwayNick]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 5:10pm

Most of Marie Christine.

[Marianne]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 5:21pm

"I Don't Care Much" (Cabaret) has been mentioned several times, but I find "What Would You Do?" just as devastating in its way.

[luvcaroline]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 7:38pm

"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"--Promises, Promises
"Lament"--Evita
"Salty Teardrops"--Caroline, or Change
"Shadowland"--Lion King
"Endless Night"--Lion King

Updated On: 2/15/08 at 07:38 PM

[Eris0303]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 7:43pm

"Little Lamb" from Gypsy has always gotten to me. When I saw it performed in the Peters revival I nearly started crying - and probably would have if the lamb hadn't spent most of the song trying to get away. lol

[alliez92092]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 7:48pm

I've got to second, "Why" from tick, tick, BOOM. I sob whenever I watch that.

[Etcy]

Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:02pm

Cages or Wings - Tick Tick Boom
Legally Blonde from Legally Blonde
Still Hurting - L5Y
Nobody Needs to Know - L5Y
How Did We Come To This - Wild Party (Lippa)
Make Me Happy - Wild Party (Lippa)
I Know Where I've Been - Hairspray
Everything That I Am - Tarzan
Times Like This - Lucky Stiff

I know there's more! Good luck!

*Charissa*