Songs that make you openly weep...

#1

Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:20am

Now I'm not talking about a little tear, I'm talking about open sobbing.

Me:

Mary Testa singing "I am Wearing a Hat" on the In Trousers cast recording.

Most versions of Move on (Bernadette and Mandy/ Carolee and Greg/ Bernadette solo).

Meadowlark (Patti on the original cast recording).

All the Wasted Time (Parade: Original Broadway Cast).

The Story Goes On (Liz Callaway on the OBC). I have no real connection to childbirth but her version of this song gets me everytime.

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Updated On: 11/4/05 at 11:20 AM

#2

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:22am

Loosing My Mind, FOLLIES
Not a Day Goes By, MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
What's the Use of Wondering, CAROUSEL

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#3

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:24am

"For Good" from Wicked (Don't make fun. You know it's a touching song the first time you hear it.)
"Quiet, Please, There's a Lady on Stage" from Boy from Oz

The "Transformation/End Duet" from BATB gave me chills the first time I heard that...
I'm thinking of osbcure songs...but I can't think of any at the moment...

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#4

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:26am

When Kim sings "I'd Give My Life For You" at the end of Act I in Miss Saigon. What a tear-jerker.

#5

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:26am

"Joanna" from Sweeney Todd
"Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables
"Losing My Mind" from Follies
"No One is Alone" from Into the Woods
"Loving You" from Passion
"Be On Your Own" from Nine


I cry a lot

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#6

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:27am

Pretty much anything from "Sunday..."

Act I finale of Ragtime

#7

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:28am

Till we reach that day - Ragtime
I will Never Leave You - Side Show

#8

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:29am

"New Music" from Ragtime...I'm not sure WHY it makes me weep...but it's a beautiful song.
Oh, and definitely "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from RENT.

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No one is alone.

#9

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:33am

"Losing My Mind" - FOLLIES. (Tears were rolling down my eyes when Donna Murphy sang it during Wall To Wall...)

"I Wish I Could Forget You" - PASSION
"Not A Day Goes By"- MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" - SIDESHOW
"And I'm Telling You..." - DREAMGIRLS

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#10

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:34am

No One Is Alone, INTO THE WOODS
Small World (Reprise), GYPSY
You'll Never Walk Alone, CAROUSEL

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Updated On: 11/4/05 at 11:34 AM

#11

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:41am

This isn't a whole song, but...
towards the end of Goodbye Love (RENT- OBC) when Roger says, "You heard?" and Mimi weakly sings back, "Every word."

I can't express how disappointed I was when I heard Rosario speak the line on the new soundtrack.


In general I only go into full-blown bawling when I see things live

#12

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:42am

Sirens - Jane Eyre
Without You - Rent
It's hard to speak my heart - Parade

#13

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:42am

i'm a big crybaby, but here are some

Children Will Listen - Into the Woods
A Little Fall of Rain - Les Mis
actually a lot from Les Mis, when i'm feeling sentimental - some personal connections

I saw Wicked 2 weeks after I lost a good friend, so the line (in For Good) "it well may be, that we will never meet again, in this lifetime..." just does me in.

Goodbye Love - Rent
Somethings are Meant to Be - Little Women
just a few that came to mind

#14

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:43am

Ellen Greene singing "Somewhere That's Green." (Actually Ellen singing almost ANYTHING live, because she's SO invested in her performance.

"Dividing Day" from Light in the Piazza
"Love To Me" from LITP
"My Friend" from The Life
"I Will Never Leave You" from Side Show

I could probably come up with 1000 others . . . I also cry a lot. (Especially when I break my foot . . . LOLOLOLOL!!!)

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Updated On: 11/4/05 at 11:43 AM

#15

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:47am

Almost anything from PIAZZA.

Last time I saw it (Tuesday,) as soon as The Beauty Is stared, I was done for.

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#16

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 11:49am

I, too, openly weep when I hear "For Good." It's a weepy sort of song and reminds me of my best friend, with whom I saw Wicked. The finale from Passion does it as well.

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#17

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:08pm

I'm not generally a really one to cry during shows, so the only song that ever really gets to me is Halloween from RENT.

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#18

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:09pm

Bring Him Home - Les Miz
Why - Tick Tick Boom
I'll Cover You (reprise) - RENT

Updated On: 11/4/05 at 12:09 PM

#19

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:17pm

The first show I ever saw a huge production of was Les Miz with my Grandmother when I was 10. Before it closed on Broadway I went with a close friend, because although I had seen it on tour a couple of times, I had never seen it on Broadway. I immediately got this flash of seeing it with my Grandma who is now gone and I openly wept throughout most of the show. The guy playing Marius that night was the understudy or swing Edward Juvier (SP?), whom i'd met once before. He was magnificent. It was a great catharsis. I'm so glad I got to see it, on Bway.

#20

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:20pm

Songs I cry to literally EVERY frickin' time I hear them:

"No More" -Into the Woods
"Sunday" - SITPWG
"Act I Finale" - Ragtime
"Lot's Wife" - Caroline, Or Change
"Could We Start Again, Please" - Jesus Christ Superstar
"Marry Me/The Night Was Alive" - Titanic
"Send in the Clowns" -A Little Night Music
"A Little Fall of Rain" - Les Mis
"Fable" - Light in the Piazza

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#21

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:39pm

14 Dwight Ave Natick Massachusetts
Make Them Hear You
so many more...

(i openly weeped during the song "The Color Purple" yesterday)

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#22

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:49pm

anything from RENT turns me into a blubbering fool
For Good, Wicked
Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music
Before I gaze at you again, Camelot
Anyone Can Whistle, Anyone can Whistle

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#23

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:53pm

Il adore from Taboo
See me from Bare

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"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q

"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical

#24

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 12:53pm

I wish I could say it, but peggyandvelma took mine.

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#25

re: Songs that make you openly weep...

Posted: 11/4/05 at 1:00pm

"The Impossible Dream"--I don't care for the show, but the song always gets me, no matter who sings it.

"Another National Anthem"--the desperation and fury written into it is just wrenching.

"Johanna"--no explanation needed.

And, sorry, but the various death songs from LES MIZ always get me giggling--the whole how-can-people-sing-with-bullet-wounds-in-their-chests thing. My mind always fills in with the "Forbidden Broadway" lyrics.

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I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."