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Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#50
Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:06pmOh, and yes, "A Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q wouldn't be a bad idea, in my opinion.
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#51
Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:16pm
I second Losing My Mind.
Also, I Have A Love is the only song to ever bring me to tears from listening to it. By The Sea is somewhat said if you think of the context and what is to follow.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#52
Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:27pm
*The saddest musical I have ever seen was ALWebber's The Beautiful Game ( now supposedly being reworked and retitled The Boys from the Photograph), with its theme of sectarian violence and poverty in Northern Ireland and how it had affected the lives of young men who played together in their youth. The saddest song from that musical is called GOD'S OWN COUNTRY - about the plight of immigrants, a theme that is still true in real life.
*Other songs which have touched a chord --
-Anything but Lonely ( Aspects of Love)
-Just Another Love Story ( Passion)
-No One is Alone ( Into the Woods)
-Do You Hear the People Sing ( Les Miserables) - not a tearjerker but it appeals to the sense of patriotism among the downtrodden
-I Remember Sky ( not from a stage production but from a Sondheim TV show called Evening Primrose)
Updated On: 2/15/08 at 09:27 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#53
Posted: 2/15/08 at 9:50pm"I Never Know When" from Goldilocks
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#54
Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:09pm
Woe is me- Spelling Bee
Fine Fine Line- Q
Without You - RENT
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#55
Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:29pm
"If I Could Only Dream this World Away" - Woman in White
"Evermore Without You" - Woman in White
"All for Laura" - Woman in White
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" - Phantom
"Someone Else's Story" - Chess (Broadway version)
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#56
Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:29pm
"If I Could Only Dream this World Away" - Woman in White
"Evermore Without You" - Woman in White
"All for Laura" - Woman in White
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" - Phantom
"Someone Else's Story" - Chess (Broadway version)
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#57
Posted: 2/15/08 at 10:41pm
"Losing My Mind" is one of my all time favorite songs.
Also, I saw "I Remember Sky" performed in Side By Side By Sondheim
a REALLY depressing song
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#58
Posted: 2/15/08 at 11:50pm
I second:
You Should Be Loved-Sideshow
Somewhere-West Side Story
Because both make me weep. Here's more:
Every Tear A Mother Cries-HONK!
Far from the home I love-Fiddler
Chava Ballet Sequence-Fiddler
Maybe Reprise-Annie
The I Love You Song-Spelling Bee
Home-Beauty and The Beast
AIATY-Dreamgirls
Finale-Phantom (Its over now the music of the night *SOB*)
Oh Ti Moune-Once on this Island
I always think "Not While I'm Around" is sad simply because Toby is so sweet.
Lippa's WIld Party:
Maybe I Like it This Way
Make Me Happy
How Did We Come To This?
Updated On: 2/15/08 at 11:50 PM
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#59
Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:46am
Has anyone mentioned "People Like Us" from LaChuisa's "Wild Party"?
"Love Look Away" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Flower Drum Song"
"I Say Hello" from Harold Rome's "Destry Rides Again"
"Time Heals Everything" from Jerry Herman's "Mack and Mabel"
"Since You Were Here" from "Brownstone" Not sure who wrote it.
"If I Have To Live Alone" from Stephen Schwartz's "The Baker's Wife"
"Another Life" from Alan Jay Lerner and Charles Strousse's "Dance A Little Closer"
"The Nickel Under Your Foot" from Mark Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock"
"Windflowers" from Jerome Morross and John LaTouche's "The Golden Apple"
"It Must Be So" from Leonard Bernstein's "Candide"
"You Don't Know This Man" from Jason Robert Brown's "Parade"
"A Small Degree" from Jule Styne and Bob Merrill's "Prettybelle"
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#60
Posted: 2/16/08 at 4:07amThe entire score to The Pirate Queen
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#61
Posted: 2/16/08 at 10:04am"Brother, Can You Spare A Dime" by Yip Harburg.
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#62
Posted: 2/16/08 at 10:37amI can't believe no one's mentioned "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney yet. Man, I can't listen to that one without getting teary-eyed...
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#63
Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:33pm
Definately "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miz.. man I cry EVERYTIME i listen to that.
"I'll Cover You Reprise" from Rent
"Without You" from Rent
Theres a lot more, but those are just the three that immediately come to mind for me.
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#64
Posted: 2/16/08 at 12:59pmoh jeez, Maybe from Annie is also one of those that always gets me, those damn little girls!
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#65
Posted: 2/16/08 at 1:19pm
I know "How Could I Ever Know?" from The Secret Garden was mentioned, but the song that immediately preceeds it, "Where in the World?" is equally as emotional and gut-wrenching.
Also:
"I've Heard it all Before", "The Only Home I Know", and the two "Meditation" numbers from Shenandoah.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#66
Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:44pm"No One Knows Who I Am" - Jekyll & Hyde
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#67
Posted: 2/16/08 at 3:45pmAs if we never said goodbye-Sunset Blvd
Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#68
Posted: 2/16/08 at 5:19pm
Definitely "This Is What It Is" and mostly the rest of The Wild Party.
And I would second Marie Christine with nearly all of the songs being some form of agony in the second act.
Also, "Twelve Children" from Dessa Rose
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#69
Posted: 2/16/08 at 6:11pm
What about
"As Long As He Needs Me" and the reprise
and "Where Is Love?"
from Oliver?
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#70
Posted: 2/16/08 at 6:14pmThe entire score of "Menopause, The Musical"
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#71
Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:19pmThe Johanna Quartet from Sweeney has always been THE saddest broadway song to me. When I hear it my heart automatically drops into the pit of my stomach.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#72
Posted: 2/16/08 at 9:52pmDifferent parts of "The Final Scene"/Sequence from Sunset Boulevard. First, as Joe's yelling at Betty, perhaps when Joe dies, and when Norma + Max have their final conversation. But especially when Betty says "I can't look at you.."
Stand-by Joined: 10/28/07
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#73
Posted: 2/17/08 at 9:08am"Here Alone" and "Days of Plenty" from Little Women. *sniff*
Broadway Star Joined: 9/8/04
re: Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs#74
Posted: 2/17/08 at 1:41pm
"Mama, Look Sharp" from 1776 has me in tears every time I hear it.
Momma, hey momma
Come looking for me
I'm here in the meadow
By the red maple tree
Momma, hey momma
Look sharp
Here I'll be
Hey, hey momma, look sharp
Them soldiers they fired
Oh ma did we run
But when we turn around
The battle begun
Then I went under
Ah ma, am I done
Hey, hey momma, look sharp
My eyes are wide open
My face to the sky
Is that you, I'm hearing
In the tall grass near by
Ah momma come and find me
Before I do die
Hey, hey momma, look sharp
I'll close your eyes, my baby
Them eyes that can not see
And I'll bury you, my Billy
Beneath the maple tree
And never again
Will you whisper to me
Hey, hey, oh momma, look sharp
Updated On: 2/17/08 at 01:41 PM
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