Songs that make you openly weep...- Page 3

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:26pm

Can't believe I forgot the Elegies triple whammy:

14 Dwight Ave, Natick, Mass ("and then, before I'm too exhausted, I say 'Michael, take me home'")
The Day The Earth Stopped Turning ("'The truth is that you made my life superb' she said")
Anytime (I Am There) ("I'll be there on the baseball field, though I'm well concealed I'll be out there cheering")

[theatreboi11]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:27pm

It never fails....I always cry so hard when I listen to disc 2 of Miss Saigon!

Also, I will never leave You- side show
Defying Gravity- it has been therapy for me!

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:28pm

Still Hurting--The Last 5 Years
Your Eyes--RENT

[kas]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:46pm

children will listen
for good
the next ten minutes (or whatever it is called) - bittersweet crying
in whatever time we have - bittersweet crying
the ending of a heart full of love when eponine watches them
empty chairs at empty tables - only when michael ball sings it

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 5:48pm

i believe it was MEF who said "anyone who does not shed a tear during Getting Tall [from Nine] is obviously not human"

i could not agree more

[freeadmission]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 6:05pm

Like, with ACTUAL tears, the only three I can think of are:

"Nobody Needs To Know" - TL5Y
"A Little Fall Of Ran" - Les Mis
"The Fire Within Me" - Little Women

[emo_geek]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 6:19pm

I heard it for the first time last night- The I love you song from spelling bee

[Stick]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 6:22pm

Tell me it's not true!!!
Nobody has mentioned this classic song!!
"Tell me it's not true" from Blood Brothers!
Not that big on crying (being a guy and all) but this one brings me the closest along with
"Chavaleh" from Fiddler on the Roof

[EVIE]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 6:44pm

Il Adore (obc)
Les Miz Finale

[BWLVER34]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 6:51pm

In Rent I basically cry form the end of contact through Finale B

I totally agree with For Good

And almost ANYTHING from Side Show

And the finale form Les Miz

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 7:49pm

"The House That I Grew Up In" and "Museums" by Steve Lutvak

"I Won't Mind" by Jeff Blumenkrantz, Annie Kessler & Libby Saines

"Hold My Hand" by Jeff Blumenkrantz

"The Night You Decided To Stay" by Steve Marzullo & Mark Campbell

[keatonbynumbers]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 8:54pm

"This is Not Over Yet" - Parade (I think they might be happy tears, though... Happy, ironic tears)
"You Don't Know This Man" and "It Don't Make Sense" - Parade. Most of Parade... makes me cry.
"I Never Wanted to Love You" - March of the Falsettos
"Sunday" - Sunday in the Park with George
"Why" - Tick Tick Boom
"Nobody Needs to Know" - The Last Five Years
"I Know the Truth" - Aida
"Stars & the Moon" - Songs For a New World

[Mythus]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:20pm

"Goodbye Love" - Rent
"When the Earth Stopped Turning" - Elegies: A Song Cycle (this song kills me every time I listen to it, wagh)
"No One Is Alone" - Into the Woods
"Final Sequence" - Man of La Mancha

And...that's all I can think of right now.

[RuprechtJr.]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 9:20pm

Ariadne-The Frogs
No More (DVD)- Into the Woods (the cd was kind of flat for me and it lacked emotion with the Mysterious Man/Baker's Father)
Being Alive-Putting it Together (Really it's from Company but the version on the DVD Putting it Together I favor more)
(edit)Fear No More-The Frogs
All For Laura (1st one)-The Woman in White)
Close Every Door-Joseph...
I'll Cover You Reprise-RENT

I look back and see that no other composer can make a person cry like Stephen Sondheim.
Updated On: 12/17/05 at 09:20 PM

[Stage Addict]

Posted: 11/4/05 at 10:39pm

Goodbye love...


and pretty much everything from the last 5 years...

[defying_gravity2]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:01am

I cry very easily, so this may be a long list. I'll just list the ones that make me bawl like a baby.

Elobarate Lives- Aida
Elaborate Lives (reprise)- Aida
I Know The Truth- Aida (esp. when Idina sings it)
Home- BATB
No One Is Alone- Into The Woods
Dividing Day- Piazza
Some Things are Meant To Be- Little Women
The Fire Within Me- Little Women
Life Support- RENT
Will I- RENT
Seasons of Love- RENT
I'll Cover You(Reprise-RENT
Goodbye Love- RENT
Finale B- RENT
Who Will Love Me As I Am?- Side Show
I Will Never Leave You- Side Show
The I Love You Song- Spelling Bee
Defying Gravity- Wicked
Wicked Witch of The East- Wicked
For Good- Wicked
Maybe I Like It This Way- The Wild Party(Lippa)

[SirLiir]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:09am

Hmm I dont like to openly weep but I agree with Cathy with "Goodbye Till Tomorrow- I Could Never Rescue You" from the Last Five years. By the time that song is over, there's always a tear in the eye.

[Radioactiveduck]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 2:47am

"Defying Gravity" is uaualy my power song, but the 1st time I saw the show, I had gone across the country, and was seeing Idina during her last few weeks in the role, after listening to my OBC recording for almost a year. I cried just because I couldn't believe it was really happening.

"For Good" gets me every time I see the show, esp because I have lost many people in my life, and it gets me all sentimental.

The Final Lair scene in Phantom, if done by the right man the right way, can turn me into a blubbering mess when it gets to the final section. When I saw the tour with Gary Mauer, I had to stiffle my sobs, because I was about to loose it.

It's not a song, but the last 10 minutes of "NIGHT MOTHER had me crying like a baby.

[Kass983]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:38am

DEFYING GRAVITY--as someone mentioned, it's a power song or a very melancholy one depending on current life circumstance.

FOR GOOD--both the song alone, and at the end of the finale when Kristin strikes that higher cord and the cast in the background "no one mourns the wicked"-I'm a total faucet. I've lost people too.

DADDY'S HANDS--WHEELS OF A DREAM--TILL WE REACH THAT DAY--MAKE THEM HEAR YOU--Ragtime

HOME--From The Wiz

I KNOW THE TRUTH--Aida

WILL I?--YOUR EYES--GOODBYE LOVE--Rent OBC

CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN--Sound of Music

HUSH-A-BYE MOUNTAIN--Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE

And MEMORIES by Barbara Streisand...I know I have others but I'm tired now.

[Composer9]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 3:55am

Fable-LITP
Everything from Passion
Being Alive-Company (tears of joy)
Time Heals Everything-Mack and Mabel
Everything from Sunday in the Park with George
Somewhere- WSS
Make Our Garden Grow-Candide (Just cause it's sooo beautiful)
Something Wonderful-King and I

And more...but yeah...those...

[tbrady]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 4:23am

"Rose's Turn" (Gypsy)
"All The Wasted Time" (Parade)
"I'd Rather Be Sailing" (A New Brain)
"The I Love You Song" (Spelling Bee)

[Stick]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 6:09am

"Chavaleh" From Fiddler on the Roof
Brings you right to the edge with it's beautiful music and then the following dialogue pushes me over and the floodgates open!

[Practically Perfect]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 6:48am

"Being Alive" - Company
"Children Will Listen" - Into The Woods
"Anything Can Happen" - Mary Poppins
"For Good" - Wicked (I'm not going to justify it, just deal with it...)
"Say It Somehow," "Clara's Interlude," "Love To Me," "Fable" - Light In The Piazza
"I Still Believe," "I'd Give My Life For You," 'I still taste your kisses...' from "The Confrontation" - Miss Saigon
Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer/Finale - Phantom Of The Opera
"Beauty And The Beast" - Beauty And The Beast (holds a special place in my heart due to the circumstances in which I first heard it)
"As If We Never Said Goodbye" - Sunset Blvd.
"The "I Love You" Song" - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (I just think the harmonies are great, and the original cast nail it)
"Somethings Are Meant To Be" - Little Women

I cry in everything, I even cried a bit in Hairspray... Music just has a major emotional effect on me.

Mary P x

[greenegirl87]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 8:47am

For Good-Wicked
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables-Les Miz
A Little Fall of Rain-Les Miz
Goodbye Love- Rent

[Shilo_Bway]

Posted: 11/5/05 at 9:13am

Some things are meant to be- Little Women
A little fall of rain- Les Miserables
Finale- Les Miserables
For Good- Wicked