Tear Jerkers- Page 3

[TheBalladeer]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 11:44am

A New Life - Jekyll & Hyde
No One Is Alone - Into The Woods
On My Own - Les Miserables
As Long As He Needs Me - Oliver!
Your Daddy's Son - Ragtime

Cheers,
The Balladeer

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 11:57am

Yes, I forgot about Ragtime.... "Till we reach that day" after Sarah is killed and Colehouse screams "noooooo"... wow... tears!

[dotmarie]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 12:06pm

Brian Stokes Mitchell's rendition of The Impossible Dream always makes me cry. It is so moving! *sniff* I can cry at A Little Fall of Rain from Les Mis if I'm actually seeing the show & watching it happen onstage. Otherwise I've heard the song way too many times to cry at it anymore. Wah. But I get upset every time I see Eponine die.

[CharityHope924]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 1:14pm

Back to Before-- Ragtime
See I'm Smiling and the finale from Last Five Years

Posted: 12/23/03 at 3:25pm

IF WE ONLY HAVE LOVE -- Jacque Brel is Alive and Well -- the OCR and Laurie Beechman's rendition on her Broadway Songs of Hope and Inspiration album. In fact that whole album gets to me.

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 3:49pm

Back to Before is definitely a heart tugger. good choice!

[dotmarie]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 3:56pm

Ooh yes... Back to Before. Another moving one. I love that song. There are a lot of sad songs from Ragtime, or rather, a lot of them are very touching.

[Broadwaylilhead]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 3:59pm

I really wish I could have seen Tic Tic Boom. I have the soundtrack but never made it to the city in time to see it. I love some of the songs...but some like "Green Green Grass" made me gag.

[Chrisdude83]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 4:54pm

ENTIRE final of Miss Saigon....wow nver cried so much

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 5:11pm

Oh my gosh I am loving all you Ragtime fans. I woul dhave to go with:

"Back To Before" Ragtime
"Act I finale" Ragtime
"There is a fountain/It don't make sense" Parade, reminds me of the exact feeling and how I wanted to but couldn't express them when my friend Jenny died 5 years ago.
"For Good" Wicked
"Not a Day Goes By" Merrily We Roll Along

Okay well that's all I can think of right now..who knows a few more might pop in later.

~*~Katie~*~

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 5:21pm

i'll agree about CATS as first presented in London, loved it. Haven't seen it since, though have been tempted by many fine singing Grizabellas. And "Memory" was very moving in context, beautifully acted.

Forgot about "No One is Alone" and other moments in INTO THE WOODS. Well-acted, there are several characters from that show who can use the mood of the wonderful scoring and the ambiguity of the brilliant lyrics for empathy.

A similar effect can happen with "Not a Day Goes By," but i find it personally harder to achieve with "Our Time." i do find it a tribute to Sondheim's brilliance that Mandy Patinkin and (believe it or not) Madonna can achieve some emotional import with the composer's help in even the film of DICK TRACY. Bernadette Peters usually delivered it during "Move On" in SUNDAY.

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 5:40pm

For Good and THE FINALE from Wicked. When I saw it boths times and Kristin hit that note in the finale, I was crying like a baby. And Defying Gravity always gets me.

One Day More and the Finale from Les Miserables ALWAYS, always get me. And On My Own and A Little Fall of rain usually get me all choked up.

I'd Give My Life For You from Miss Saigon is another tear jerker.

I knwo there are other songs that get me, I just can't think of them right now.

[TxTwoStep]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 6:28pm

speaking of JACQUES BREL, the two other songs that get to me in that admittedly melancholy revue is "The Desperate Ones" (which in a production i saw in Iowa City, accompanied by slides of the Quilt Project and the Vietnam Memorial) and "My Death" (again, in that production, sung by a man instead of a woman, with the entire company turning at the last harmonic chord---him flipping up his coat lapel---to reveal AIDS awareness ribbons). The production also had "Fannette" sung by a woman, instead of the traditional man, as an abandoned lover recalling a girlhold lesbian crush...as well as "Timid Frieda" with imagery of runaway teen prostitutes. Lest you think it was all downers, "Madeliene" was done with a ventriloquist dummy and straw boaters (vaudeville/burlesque/music hall style), while "The Bulls" was updated to be about TV sports, and "Middle Class" was performed by a trio of GYPSY-like strippers. "Amsterdam" and "Old Folks" were amazingly sung and beautifully staged as well. "If We Only Have Love", as mentioned before, was a simple but elegant finale.

For some of our younger readers, i'd recommend seeing or listening to JACQUES BREL. Very potent stuff for singing actors!

[Benzy92]

Posted: 12/23/03 at 8:17pm

Il Adore-- Taboo
For Good-- Wicked
I Will Never Leave You-- Side Show
Leavings Not the Only Way to Go-- Big River
Make Them Hear You-- Ragtime
The Impossible Dream-- Man of La Mancha
All the Wasted Time-- Parade
Funeral Song..(forget the name)Parade
A New Life.. Jekyll and Hyde

**many many more.. these are the ones that stick out.. Updated On: 3/2/04 at 08:17 PM

[aurora1958]

Posted: 12/24/03 at 8:47pm

Oh I have to agree with On My Own and also I Dreamed a Dream. but actually, that whole damn musical is just one sob fest after another..LOL

[NomoreDisenyorALW]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 12:42am

as a poor college student that lives in Idaho I don't get to see many shows
unless come here usually 2 years after they close

I buy most the recording though and so many have touched my heart but only one had made me cry

"all the wasted time" Parade (SO SAD)

all though "with so little to be sure of" (ANYONE CAN WHISTLE) Came really close and I still mnatain it's the most depressing finale ever in Theater(KNOWING WELL THAT THAT FANS OF LES MIZ AND MISS SAIGON WILL SAY IT DOESN"T EVEN COME CLOSE) bUt OH WEll

[bially082]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 1:11am

I think the finale of Man of LaMancha is pretty good. The last time I saw the show where was a group of 5 guys that were crying so loud it was very distracting.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 8:58am

Louise Pitre did a production of Jacques Brel here before she started w/Mamma Mia! that was great. LOVE all those songs! esp Carousel. Tears the last lines of Camelot ( one of what we all are less than a drop in the great blue ocean of life but some of the drops do sparkle) Every Thing is Beautiful @ The Ballet after the climb of the the 3 at the Ballets. Ball like a baby!

[wickedfan]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 4:07pm

"finale"-wicked
"no one is alone"-into the woods
"a fine fine line"-avenue q (its supposed to be a funny show but its a sad song)
"dreamed a dream, on my own, bring him home"-les mis. u know wat? the entire show made me cry

[bernadette88]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 5:44pm

Bernadette Peter's "Rose's Turn"...Gypsy

"For Good"...Wicked

"Defying Gravity" (this doesn't really choke me up, but whenver I hear it, it gives me the chills so bad, that tears start to form in my eyes)

And then many songs from Aida!

[Phantom05]

Posted: 12/25/03 at 6:56pm

The Finale.....Phantom of the Opera

All the Wasted Time.....Parade

Bui Doi.....Miss Saigon

Oh, and whenever Elaine Paige sings "Memory" from Cats!

See Ya!
Phantom05

Updated On: 12/25/03 at 06:56 PM

[sopranostar]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 1:01am

Nobody Needs to Know - The Last Five Years
All The Wasted Time - Parade (first show ever that I left the theater, still crying)

[BroadwayBaby3]

Posted: 12/26/03 at 3:04am

"Small World reprise"- Gypsy (Only if the previous scene is acted well.)

Bernadette's "Rose's Turn"- Gypsy (It's so amazing. You really feel what Rose is feeling.)

"We Do Not Belong Together"- Sunday in the Park With George

"Move On"- Sunday in the Park With George

"For Good"- Wicked

"I Know Him So Well"- Chess

"I'm Not That Girl"- Wicked

"Time Heals Everything"- Mack & Mabel

[WestEndBird]

Posted: 2/29/04 at 1:09pm

On the Willows.....Godspell..
I am a very tough woman..ask my friends it takes a WHOLE heck of a lot to make me cry and I VERY seldom do. No matter how many times I see the show or listen to the song I cannot help but be reduced to a sobbing mess. That song honestly touches me in a way nothing else has. I'm almost crying now thinking about it...SHEESH!

[VoiceofReason]

Posted: 2/29/04 at 1:20pm

Distant Melody-Peter Pan
For Good-Wicked
So in Love-Kiss Me Kate
Impossible Dream-Man of La Mancha
Edelweiss-Sound of Music
Till There Was You-Music Man
I Loved You Once in Silence-Camelot