Songs that give you chills- Page 2
Songs that give you chills
goober1632
Understudy Joined: 7/29/07
#25re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/15/09 at 11:36pm
"Anything But Lonely" - Ann Crumb (Aspects of Love)
"Why" - Raul Esparza (Tick Tick Boom)
"Gethsemane" - Steve Balasmo (JCS)
"Dance of the Robe" - Heather Headley (AIDA)
"Meadowlark" - Patti LuPone (Baker's Wife)
Maceman91
Stand-by Joined: 3/15/09
#26re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:07am
I'm a grade A sucker for huge chorus numbers featuring rich harmonies and high notes!
-"Make Our Garden Grow": Candide
-"Circle of Life": The Lion King
-"The Flesh Failures": HAIR
-"Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling": Next to Normal
-"The I Love You Song": The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
To name a few. :]
#27re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:15am
The I Love You Song- Spelling Bee
No One is Alone- Into the Woods
That is, these give me chills when I don't get misty-eyed by them.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#28re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:41am
Too many songs to list all of them! But...
What I Did For Love
I'm Wishing/One Song, from On The Record
Someone Like You, In His Eyes, A New Life form Jekyll and Hyde
Blue Skies, from White Christmas (Brian d'Arcy James' ending is PHENOMENAL!)
The ENTIRE Light In The Piazza and South Pacific Score
A lot of Little Women
Who I'd Be & Build A Wall, from Shrek
Lippa's The Wild Party
Shiimall2
Swing Joined: 8/2/09
#29re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:53am
Wheels of a Dream- Ragtime
If I Loved You- Carousel
You'll Never Walk Alone- Carousel
A Way Back to Then- [title of show]
Who Will Love me as I am?- Sideshow
#30re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 1:17am
I only remember one song giving my chills constantly, which was the end of "My Friends" on the 2000 concert CD with George Hearn, the "AT LAST MY.." followed by the Ballad Reprise directly after was pretty thrilling I think
But since I've listened to that so many times now (well 102 according to iTunes, not sure what is considered 'many' here), I don't get the same effect anymore at all.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#32re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 1:50amThis is gonna sound weird, but the first time I ever got real, live chills in a theatre was during Chitty when Raul sang "Hushabye Mountain."
#33re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 4:02am
Also:
Say It Somehow - Piazza
Sheer Perfection - King David
Funny - City Of Angels
The Money Tree - The Act
Astonishing - Little Women
Be On Your Own - Nine
The entire OBCR of Parade
....but the world goes 'round
#34re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 8:28am
Meadowlark (The Baker's Wife)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
Sunday (Sunday In The Park with George)
Electricity (Billy Elliot)
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#35re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 8:32am
Till we reach that day -- RAGTIME
Something wonderful -- THE KING AND I (esp. Marilyn Horne's version on Julie Andrews/Ben Kingsley recording)
The Phantom of the opera -- TPOTO
Rebecca (Act II rep.) -- REBECCA
Hilf mir durch die nacht -- REBECCA
#36re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 8:44am
Lots of the ones already mentioned have that affect on me, especially This is the Hour from Miss Saigon and a few song in Les Miserables.
The Act 1 finale and The Asylum in Woman in White are pretty emotionally charged and moving, especially seeing them performed live. No Matter What from Whistle Down the Wind (NOT the Boyzone version!!!) has a huge affect on me and is a very moving piece with the innocence of youth and the anger and fear of the adults playing off each other and elements of earlier songs incorporated from both sides.
#37re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 8:45am
Off the top of my head:
Overture from Gypsy
You Have To Be Taught from South Pacific
Losing My Mind from Follies
On My Own from Les Miserables
One from A Chorus Line
Quintet (Tonight) from West Side Story
As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Updated On: 10/16/09 at 08:45 AM
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#39re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 12:03pm
One I forgot to mention before was "He Lives In You (Reprise)" especially when performed by Phindile McKize.
Not to mention, "Endless Night" by Jason Raize. What a shame he's gone. His rendition of that song is so beautiful and hopeful that it really is hard to comprehend the way his life ended. A really tragedy.
#40re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 2:53pmYES! I completely forgot about both of those Lion King songs. Chills ahoy... He Lives In You Reprise is one of my favorite musical theatre songs, especially when Simba comes in on the descant.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#41re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 3:02pm
"If done right ... and please no stupid comments,
Defying Gravity"
I concur. I saw the show in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and that damn song is still stuck in my head!
Donna Vivino is a GODDESS.
#42re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 3:05pm
Oh and may I add
"The Light in the Piazza" and "The Beauty Is" - Kelli O'Hara brings tears to my eyes every time.
#43re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 3:10pm
"Dear Friend" from She Loves Me
"Who's That Woman" from Follies
#44re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 3:25pm
wickedfan, I definitely agree with "Love Can't Happen".
The overtures for "Gypsy" and "South Pacific" really get me. So does "In Buddy's Eyes".
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#45re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 4:04pmLiving in the Shadows from Victor Victoria, sung by Julie Andrews.
"Curse you, Lady Glyde!"
#46re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 4:15pmI'm not going to mock anybody for getting chills from "Defying Gravity." It's not the greatest show ever, but the music swell right before "So if you care to find me" IS stunning. I'm glad they didn't put the stupid "It's meeeeeeee" on the cast recording, so you can hear the orchestrations.
snarkywannabedreamer
Leading Actor Joined: 2/12/09
#47re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 4:51pmI know it's kind of an obvious choice but I remember seeing the original production of "A Chorus Line" when I was little and really got choked up with the original "What I Did For Love." That song still gets me.
#48re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 5:09pmThere's a World from N2N
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
#49re: Songs that give you chills
Posted: 10/16/09 at 8:02pm
Being Alive- Raul Esparza-Company
We Do Not Belong Together- OBC (NOT revival)-SITPWG
Meadowlark-Alice Ripley-The Baker's Wife
Say it Somehow- OBC- Piazza
Touch Me- OBC-Spring Awakening
Perfect for You-OBC-N2N
Children and Art- Bernadette- SITPWG
Breathe- OBC- In the Heights
Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I'm Falling- OBC- N2N
Plus Maggie's part of At the Ballet... when she repeats At the Ballet 3 times, the third one (the belted E or F I think) gets me every time, especially the one in the movie (only part of the movie I like better than the show).
Give me a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and I'll conquer the world!
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