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Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:20pm

I was just listening to Laura Benanti's Unusual Way, and I was so moved I got chills. What songs do that to you? Please list song and performer...I'm sure much of it depends on the person singing. Thanks.

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:26pm

Good choice!

I'll play:

"Ain't Got No Tears Left" cut from ON THE TOWN, Lenny at his best!

Donna Murphy's version on LEONARD BERNSTEIN'S NEW YORK and Cleo Laine's in ON THE TOWN: IN CONCERT are my two personal favorites.

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Updated On: 10/15/09 at 07:26 PM

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:27pm

SOOO MANY.

The first two that come to mind are "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park With George (especially when performed by Michael Cerveris), and "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide. "Journey On" from Ragtime and a good rendition of "One Day More" from Les Mis usually do, too.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:33pm

Every time I listen to Till We Reach That Day, Wheels of A Dream, or Back to Before from Ragtime, I get insane chills.

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:35pm

Yeah, I'll add those three to "Journey On," hahaha. "Back to Before" is my favorite song for a female singer EVER.

In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:38pm

Bernadette Peters- "Being Alive" (Live)
Lea Salonga- "This Is The Hour"-Miss Saigon
Christine Ebersole-"Around The World"-Grey Gardens
Linda Eder-"Man of LaMancha"

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 7:51pm

raul esparza being alive

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:13pm

^^^ I like it when Raul's alive as well. It's great, isn't it?

Seriously, Raul's Being Alive is wonderful. Right now Til We Reach That Day and Sarah Brown Eyes from Ragtime have been getting to me.

Also:

A Light in the Dark-Next to Normal
I Miss the Mountains- Next to Normal
The Next Ten Minutes- The Last Five Years
If I Didn't Believe in You- The Last Five Years
Nobody Needs To Know- The Last Five Years
Goodbye Until Tomorrow/ I Could Never Rescue You- The Last Five Years
Dulcinea- Man of La Mancha
The Impossible Dream- Man of La Mancha
Lesson #8- Sunday in the Park with George
Beautiful- Sunday in the Park with George
Finishing the Hat- Sunday in the Park with George
Color and Light- Sunday in the Park with George
Alabanza- In the Heights
Johanna (Trio)- Sweeney Todd
Tonight- West Side Story
Rose's Turn- Gypsy
The Music Still Plays On- A New Brain
Love to Me- The Light in the Piazza (among other songs, but mainly that one)

And a whole lot more...I just can't think of them right now.

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 8:54pm

If done right ... and please no stupid comments,
Defying Gravity

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:00pm

Baby It's Cold Outside

Poster Emeritus

#11

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:00pm

Raining Blood - Slayer

....but the world goes 'round

#12

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:04pm

"Days of Plenty". But, don't tell anyone.

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:20pm

Basically all big, fat numbers, like:

Nearly all of Les Mis
Quite a lot of Miss Saigon
The Phantom of the Opera overture & entr'acte
Suddenly Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors)
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat (Guys and Dolls)
76 Trombones (The Music Man)
You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray)

And a bunch more.

#14

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:48pm

Lot's Wife - Caroline or Change
Let the Sunshine in - Hair.

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 9:57pm

If a song doesn't give me chills, then I don't like it.

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

#16

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:02pm

Maybe This Time - Natasha Richardson

Being Alive - Raul Esparza

Touch Me - Spring Awakening OBC

Maria - pretty much anyone

#17

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:27pm

"Reflection" - A Tale of Two Cities
"If Dreams Came True" - A Tale of Two Cities
"A New Life" - Jekyll & HYDE
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain - Finale" - Sound of Music
"Waiting & Hoping" - Napoleon

#18

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:33pm

The Wizard and I
I miss the Mountains

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:38pm

"Daddy's Son" --Ragtime
"Children will Listen" -- Into The Woods
"39 Lashes"-- JC Superstar
"The Fall" -- Rent
"Forever Yours" -- Once on This Island
"Step too Far" -- Aida

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:42pm

"You Can't Stop the Beat" - Hairspray
"I Know Where I've Been" - Hairspray
"Finale B" - RENT

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 10:45pm

I get insane chills during the Phantom Of The Opera overture. Where's The Girl (especially with Rex Smith singing) from Scarlet Pimpernel also makes a few hairs stand up on my back. However, Back To Before from Ragtime, doesn't just gives me chills; it usually turns me to ice.

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re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:07pm

"The Fall" -- Rent

?????
What? I've never heard of it.

"There's nothing good on. The media hates Christmas. The media loves vampires, though. Maybe they will show a Twilight Christmas."
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.

#23

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:11pm

^ I *think* the poster might have meant to say "Goodbye Love" because of the "I hate the fall" bit, but that's just a guess. But yeah, there's not a song in the show that's actually called "The Fall."

Or perhaps they meant "Halloween?" Halloween happens in the fall! lol

#24

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:18pm

Love Can't Happen- Grand Hotel.

Both Brent Barrett and David Carroll give absolutely breathtaking performances of that song.

"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#25

re: Songs that give you chills

Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:19pm

"Move on"
"We Do Not Belong Together"
"Finishing the Hat"
"Sunday"
"Being Alive"- when sung by Patti LuPone or Bernadette Peters
"Losing My Mind"
"How Could I Ever Know?"
"The Miller's Son"

Updated On: 10/15/09 at 11:19 PM

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