Tear Jerkers

What theater songs make you cry or choke up you up when you hear them?
Some of mine are:
"Anytime" and "Goodbye/Boom boom" from Elegies: A Song Cycle
"Defying Gravity" and "For Good" from Wicked
"Heroes All Around" and "Learning To Let Go" from Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
most of the john and jen cast recording
most of The Last Five Years recording
and finally most of tick tick boom.

Let me know what you think,
Nick

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"For Good" from Wicked.. teh CD gets me, but I have a recording of that song from opening night and you can hear Cheno crying and it gets me every time

"on My Own" from Les Miz
"A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miz

On My Own - Les Mis

Stupid Eponine is so damn sad.

the benediction/eulogy song that Sarah Uriarte Berry's character (Nicola) sings about Leigh Bowery is probably the one you mean, which is accompanied by a projection sequence of the actual Bowery. i also forget the title, i believe it's in a foreign language or Latin...lovely song, beautifully acted and staged. TABOO got a very bad rap, IMHO.

Nothing in the musical theatre can tear me up quite like the "saying goodbye to the sons" sequence of TERMS OF ENDEARMENT...but there are moments in SOUTH PACIFIC ("Carefully Taught" and Liat's goodbye to Cable) that can come close. The same thing can happen in smaller productions of MISS SAIGON, for instance when it is presented in the round...there is something about that "saying goodbye even though i can't bear it" dynamic that just gets me.

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I get choked up a lot at musicals, but thats probbly becuase im such a sap...some choice moments would have to be..
"Daddy's Hands" from Ragtime
"Cover You Reprise" from Rent
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Mis
oh and I agree with Miss Saigon, but the song "I'd give my life for you" in particular

and the list goes on....

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Finale from Rent
Finale from Les Mis
Finale from Blood Brothers

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The finale from Phantom

and I cryed once during the finale of Rent

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Being Alive - Company
The Music Still Plays On - A New Brain
I Know The Truth - Aida

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~Rent Finale

~Leo's Statement: "It's Hard to Speak My Heart" and the Finale of Parade

~"Why" from tick, tick...BOOM!

~"For Good" from WICKED

~"Our Time" from Merrily We Roll Along

"My Friend" from The Life

"Happiness" from Your A Good Man Charlie Brown

"Freedom's Child" from Civil War

Updated On: 12/22/03 at 06:00 PM

"Goodbye Love"- RENT
"I'll Cover You:Reprise"-RENT
"Finale B"-RENT
"Could We Start Again Please"-J.C. Superstar
"Why"-Tick Tick Boom
"On My Own"- LEZ MIZ

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For Good (WICKED), Ill Cover You Reprise (RENT), and On My Own

Wait do they have to be songs that you heard live of can they be cast recordings that make you cry?

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--RENT Finale and I'll Cover You Reprise (RENT)

--In L.A. (Fame)

--For Good (Wicked)

--Why and Louder Than Words (Tick, Tick...BOOM!)

--More to come...

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