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#26

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/4/12 at 11:23pm

Act 2 of Les Mis. "On My Own", "A Little Fall of Rain", the Barricade, and the finale to be exact. I cry like a baby EVERY TIME.

Also, "For Good" from Wicked

"Finding Wonderland" from Wonderland (Don't know why, it just happens)

#27

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/4/12 at 11:30pm

When Princeton hugs Christmas Eve and says "I miss Nicky". Also the very last line of the show.

The last part of "Lot's Wife"

For Good

Bring Him Home

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#28

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 12:04am

"The I Love You Song" always gets me.

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#29

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 12:43am

Les Miserables from about 15 minutes in, on.

#30

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 12:52am

The Lion King- I lose it everytime the giraffes make their entrance during circle of life.
Billy Elliot- Billy's final exit through the audience. Giuseppe Bausilio received a minor standing ovation during this moment when I saw the show on tour.
Mary Poppins- Spoon Full of Sugar Reprise, her final flight, and curtain call bow.

#31

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 1:01am

I'll cover you reprise. RENT.

Kills me .

#32

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 5:53am

Any production of "Guys and Dolls" I choke up during "My Time of Day" which I think is the most beautiful melody I have ever heard and also whenever I hear the slow dance portion of "On Your Toes" which I think is the most evocative music of the 1930s, my favorite decade. I wake up with a smile on my face everyday knowing I'm working on a film set in that period.

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#33

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 6:42am

The final scene of "Camelot" gets me every time. From Guinevere's goodbye to the knighting of Tom of Warwick as the Offstage Chorus is singing the title song and Arthur is shouting "RUN".......I am a weepy mess.

#34

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 6:42am

The final scene of "Camelot" gets me every time. From Guinevere's goodbye to the knighting of Tom of Warwick as the Offstage Chorus is singing the title song and Arthur is shouting "RUN".......I am a weepy mess.

#35

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 6:58am

Earliest in a show: The Bishop giving Valjean the candelsticks in Les Miz.

Best Act I Finale tearjerker: The final tableaux of "Sunday" in SITPwG.

Most Melodramatic: Sweeney's "OH NO!" on discovering the identity of the Beggar Woman.

Shmaltziest: The end of The Fantasticks:
Fathers: "Look! They've come back! Leat's tear down the wall!"
Narrator: "No! Leave the wall. You must always leave the wall."
... folowed by reprise of Try to Remember.

#36

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 8:04am

So many scenes from FIDDLER, including the first and second act curtains and "Chavale".

#37

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 9:20am

Typically for me, if I see something in a show that makes me tear up, and then revisit it I don't tear up again. I think that this is because part of what makes me tear up is the element of surprise that is lost when I revisit something.

However, there are two things that come to mind that made me tear up multiple times despite knowing that they were going to come.

Those two moments were Paul's Monolauge in A Chorus line as well as the final scene of Ghost.

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#38

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 9:32am

The last time I remember crying at one moment in a show was the end of "Still" from Titanic.

Curtain calls can still choke me up.

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#39

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 9:38am

We Do Not Belong Together - Sunday in the Park
No One Is Alone - Into the Woods
Finale of Les Miserables
Finale of Phantom of the Opera

Not quite a musical, but the last scene of End of the Rainbow had me in tears.

#40

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 9:39am

Quiche2: I was also at Andrew Rannells' last performance, and oh man, that was a tear-fest. It was Rory O'Malley who was totally bawling on stage; I felt so bad for him since he was pretty much doing the same thing a few days earlier at Josh Gad's last performance.

To answer the OP's question, I didn't like Ragtime all that much and found myself surprised that I was tearing up at little Coalhouse's entrance!

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Updated On: 11/5/12 at 09:39 AM

#41

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 9:40am

The end of TITANIC gets me every time. Even just listening to the cast recording makes me tear up.

#42

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 10:13am

Titanic, definitely. As soon as they come in with "We'll Meet Tomorrow", instant chills

#43

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 10:59am

@justoldbill, I remember that production of ALLEGRO and that ending was a killer! The whole thing was remarkable for such a "troubled" show.

"Move On" invariably has me in tears.

#44

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 11:10am

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it but if not I'd like to add LaChanze pouring her heart out with "I'm Here". I bawled.

#45

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 11:45am

Beautiful City from Godspell, the end of the second act of Next to Normal, and The I Love You Song in Spelling Bee all get me every single time.

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#46

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 11:58am

Marvin singing "What More Can I Say" from Falsettoland. Michael Rupert brings tears to my eyes as he sings about his lover Whizzer. There's a YouTube clip that I've seen. from RC in Austin, Texas

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#47

Tear jerking moments in shows

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

"ill cover you" reprise in rent
end of "if you were gay" Ave q
war scene and end of Cyrano de bergerac
Bess leaving in Porgy and bess

#48

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 12:08pm

"Eiffel Tower" in The Blue Flower (as sung by Teal Wicks rather than the version on the CD, which was not a cast recording). The pain of Maria's loss was felt with every step she took up the stairway.

#49

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 7:50pm

Oh, where to begin:

In GYPSY (or the recent revival atleast), Gypsy beginning to laugh as Patti stares up at the ROSE sign, and bulb by bulb, it begins to fade

Pretty much all of the second act of ONCE, for sheer beauty of the staging, the music, and Cristin Milioti's heart-wrenching performance.

However, the sinlge moment that gets me every. single. time.: the Swan Lake ballet in BILLY ELLIOT. One of the most beautiful moments in theatre today. Period.

#50

Tear jerking moments in shows

Posted: 11/5/12 at 11:26pm

Yes, the last performance and the final moments in the last revival of SITPWG, as the audience was screaming, we were all sobbing, as was Steve Sondheim across the aisle from us, and Daniel Evans, tears streaming down his face, holding up his hand to the audience to get out his final line (White, a blank page or canvas...)

Never to be forgotten.