Tear Jerkers

[zannafan]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 11:35am

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

[Cadriel]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 11:38am

Few and far between...

"There is a Fountain / It Don't Make Sense" from Parade is probably the only one worth mentioning, actually...very little has the overwhelming effect of that song for me.

-Wayne

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 11:39am

"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

[RobbO]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 11:39am

one of my all-time favorite tear jerkers when simba sings "endless nights" about his father in the lion king. more recently, when greg sings "honestly, i love you" to peter in the boy from oz.

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 12:44pm

On My Own - Les Mis

Stupid Eponine is so damn sad.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 12:55pm

"Quiet Pease, There's a Lady on Stage" from The Boy From Oz.

"For Good" from Wicked.

There's one from the second act of Taboo that really gets to me, but I can't remember the name of it right now.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 2:46pm

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.

[Belasco07]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 2:52pm

ROSABELLA from The Most Happy Fella
"She think maybe I'm a young man with a handsome kind of face..."

[Daisy Head Maisy]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 3:17pm

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....

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 3:18pm

well usually I don't cry at CD'S but some songs that made me cry at the shows were
For Good-Wicked
Opening Of Lion King
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again-Phantom
and i'm a dork and always cry at the end of Beauty and The Beast

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 3:24pm

Finale from Rent
Finale from Les Mis
Finale from Blood Brothers

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 3:37pm

Cadriel - Also love that song, but was disappointed when they cut some of it in the tour - specifically, the section where they all say what they remember about her (she laughed when I put ribbons in her hair). But yes, that was a very tearful moment. One of the best shows of the decade.

Also - We'll Meet Tomorrow from Titanic

[ChristineDaae]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 3:37pm

The finale from Phantom

and I cryed once during the finale of Rent

[BroadwayGal]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 4:18pm

DEFINITELY For Good from Wicked, as you said- also the finale of Wicked. And the finale of Les Miz, along with A Little Fall of Rain and at times On My Own.

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 4:56pm

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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 5:56pm

your eyes from Rent
on my own from Les Miserables
written in the stars from Aida
defying gravity from Wicked
the finale from Cabaret

[Becky]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 6:00pm

~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

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 7:17pm

what would i do? - falsettos
fathers and sons - working
leavings not the only way to go - big river
why - tick tick boom
little people reprise (the death of gavroche) - les miz
if prayin were horses - civil war
I'll cover you reprise - rent
elaborate lives reprise (jail scene) - aida
fall of saigon (Kim's nightmare) - miss saigon

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 7:23pm

"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

[Hello Gorgeous]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 7:35pm

Finale from Rent
"defying Gravity" WICKED
"For Good" WICKED
"Act 1 Finale" from MOVIN' OUT (the trumpet solo)
Finale from MOVIN' OUT
"Goodbye Love" RENT
"Small World reprise" GYPSY

[WhatDoINeedWithLove?]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 7:39pm

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

[LC]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 7:58pm

"There's one from the second act of Taboo that really gets to me, but I can't remember the name of it right now"

Il Adore

[Hello Gorgeous]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 8:05pm

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

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 8:22pm

il adore from taboo...didnt cry but its a real try jerker

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 12/22/03 at 8:26pm

--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...