Songs of woe and suffering - saddest Broadway songs- Page 4

[miketron]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 4:41pm

I'm slightly surprised there have only been a couple of mentions from this show- but most of "Caroline, or Change" The first time I listen to this show all the way through it tore my heart into pieces, perhaps that is why I love it.

"Sunday morning"
"Lot's Wife"
"I hate the bus"
"Underwater"
"1943"
"16 feet beneath the sea"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 10:28pm

"Aldonza" from MAN OF LA MANCHA is (to me at least) one of the saddest songs ever in a musical.

[jwonjy119]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 10:31pm

I also thought the reprise of "Forever Yours" from Once On This Island was sad. Well, the setting of it was sad...
Updated On: 2/17/08 at 10:31 PM

[Aswatrowinkenbo]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 10:39pm

"enchantment passing through(reprise)" - aida
"left behind" - spring awakening
"those you've known" - spring awakening
"i'm here" (the first part anyway...) - the color purple
"i'm not that girl" - wicked
"on my own" les mis

[Gobstopper]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 10:49pm

This probably isn't a very popular one, but "The 'I Love You' Song" from 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee breaks my heart.

[Pascal/Menzel/Bundy]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:27pm

Aswatrowinkenbo: Thank you!

I was reading through and I was thinking, "Nobody mentions Aida?"

Maybe I missed it, but I can't believe that it wasn't mentioned until page 4. I just read the thread title and I wanted to scream Aida. That whole score is pretty much pain and suffering between Aida and Radames!

[bundy5000]

Posted: 2/17/08 at 11:47pm

one of us-Mamma Mia

[Stefrio]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 12:26am

I promised you a happy ending- Mack and Mabel

An older song but performed right, there isn't a dry eye.

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 12:42am

This one is arguable I guess, but I would put a bid in for "I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles. Although it's empowering and honest, it comes from a place of deep hurt and betrayal. Cerainly the moment is very sad, maybe not the song...

Otherwise I would second Petrified from Taboo, and nominate Il Adore.

[EganFan2]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 9:08am

Another one that gets to me is "You'll Never Walk Alone", but that's meant to be more of an inspirational song.

It was probably already mentioned, but "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver! is pretty sad, and pretty much the poster child of songs dealing with abusive relationships.
Updated On: 2/18/08 at 09:08 AM

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 2/18/08 at 10:18am

I'll Cover U (Reprise) -RENT
Without You- RENT
Legally Blonde- Legally Blonde: The Musical ( I kno its sad, but that one always gets me)
I'm Not that Girl (both reprise and original)- Wicked
Enchantment Passing Through (Reprise)-Aida
Elaborate lives (reprise)-Aida

[Ileana]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:09pm

Hmmm, a lot of mine have already been said.
Well, I can definitely agree that No Good Deed, For Good, and I'm Not That Girl from Wicked are by far some of the saddest songs to hit Broadway. I can also agree with No One Is Alone from Into the Woods. I also like:

Home - Beauty and the Beast
Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) - The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
God Help the Oucasts - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Close Every Door - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

[i*heart*fame]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 8:19pm

The end of What Would I Do? from Falsettoland gets me everytime when Marvin starts "Homosexuals, Women with Children..."The moment when Michael Rupert goes "Lovers live...and die..." I lose it

[LittlexFallxOfxRain]

Posted: 3/6/08 at 11:58pm

"Whispering" "Don't Do Sadness" Spring Awakening

"I Dreamed a Dream" Les Miserables
Or really just about anything from Les Mis...hence the title of the show...

"One Song Glory" Rent

"Still Hurting" The Last 5 Years

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 3/7/08 at 8:08pm

A good song about poverty and being discriminated against and humiliated by it: the title song in "Rags".

Love the ending:
See that handsome gent, look how smart he is
Dancing by in his fancy clothes and sneers at me down his perfect nose, his hair is clean and his skin is clear
and he wonders "what is SHE doing here?"!
And he turns his head, and the rest do too,
and I want to scream, "I'M THE SAME AS YOU!"
But it isn't true...I'm just one more JEW,
IN HER RAGS!

Sung well...like by Judy Kuhn...it can be postively devastating!

Updated On: 3/7/08 at 08:08 PM

[starzilla]

Posted: 3/8/08 at 12:14am

West End Avenue from Magic Show it is all about admitting the end of a dream.

Stay With Me from Into The Woods. a mothers lament to her child.

How could I ever Know from Secret Garden, soaring melody, heartbreaking lyric.

[shh282]

Posted: 3/8/08 at 12:37am

Without you - Rent

[bryanw3535]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 4:07am

What about "Inutil" from "In the Heights"?

[Mark_E]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 9:32am

"In His Eyes" and "A New Life" from Jekyll and Hyde
"And I am telling you" from Dreamgirls
"Close Every Door" from Joseph
"Easy Terms", "Light Romance" and "Tell me its not true" from Blood Brothers.

[Boundx2xBroadway]

Posted: 3/9/08 at 11:13pm

most of my songs have already been posted.
But i am shocked how this song has not been mentioned:

"What I Did For Love" -- A Chorus Line