#26
Posted: 7/22/16 at 11:26pm
"The I love you song" from Spelling Bee. Not a solo but if done well it's heartbreaking
Super Duper Sad Songs — Page 2
#28
Posted: 7/23/16 at 3:34am
It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous.
Updated On: 7/23/16 at 03:34 AM
#29
Posted: 8/5/16 at 4:28pm
henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous.
Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.
#30
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:01pm
valerie3058 said: "henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous.
Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.
"
I second both of these and add "so big/ so small" from Dear Evan Hansen.
#31
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:29pm
rangersrule132 said: "valerie3058 said: "henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous.
Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.
"
I second both of these and add "so big/ so small" from Dear Evan Hansen.
"
So big/so small is the saddest fricking song I've ever heard.
#33
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:45pm
i have always been good at controlling my crying but during so big/ so small I just could not contain myself.
#34
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:49pm
Hasa Diga Ebowai reprise. It should be on the cast recording...
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
#36
Posted: 8/6/16 at 10:12pm
All from The King & I:
Hello, Young Lovers
I can't remember the title, but the main wife's song with the line, "This is a man who stumbles and falls, but this is a man who tries."
We Kiss in the Shadows
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#37
Posted: 8/6/16 at 10:56pm
Amalia's song in she Loves Me that closes Act 1.
For Good from Wicked.
#38
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:10am
I agree with "For Good," and will add:
"Feed the Birds" - simple message that so many of us seem to overlook
"Safer" from First Date - maybe it's my own place in life that makes it hit home
"Out There" from Hunchback (along with pretty much the whole score - gorgeous, but so sad)
"A Piece of Sky" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me" (I know they're not Broadway, but Barbra is close enough to Broadway, no? They get me every time)
#40
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:51am
Leaf Coneybear said: ""The I love you song" from Spelling Bee. Not a solo but if done well it's heartbreaking"
People need to talk about this song and the Spelling Bee score overall way more frequently. This song in particular can make me bawl.
#41
Posted: 8/7/16 at 1:33am
Not sure if this song qualifies......but in all my years of theater going, I sobbed the most during "Papa's Gonna Make It All Right" from Shennandoah.
Other songs that affected me:
Momma, Look Sharp from 1776
Not While I'm Around
Love Who You Love from Man of No Importance
#42
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:11pm
I find "Pity the Child" from Chess to be very sad.
#43
Posted: 8/7/16 at 4:00pm
"I'm Here" from The Color Purple
"It's Quiet Uptown" from Hamilton
"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton
"She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress
"For Good" from Wicked
"Everything I Know" from In The Heights
"Inutil" from In The Heights
"Alone In The Universe" from Seussical
"Underwater" from Caroline, or Change
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from Rent
"Goodbye Love" from Rent
Just to name a few...
#44
Posted: 8/7/16 at 7:58pm
You'll need to wait a few months for this one, but saddest song ever: "So Big, So Small" from Dear Evan Hansen.
"It's Quiet Uptown" from Hamilton - you have to not be human to get through that without tears
"Goodbye Until Tomorrow" always gets me from The Last Five Years, but you kind of need that to be in the context of the show. Same for "Finale" from Les Miserables.
I do love a good cry...
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