What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry? — Page 2

"Make Your Garden Grow," from "Candide"

"Sunday," from "Sunday in the Park with George"

"Ballad of Booth," from "Assassins"

"Ring of Keys," from "Fun Home"

"At the Ballet," from "A Chorus Line"

Words Fail- Dear Evan Hansen

So Big/So Small- Dear Evan Hansen

What Would I Do/ Falsettoland (reprise) -Falsettos

Why- Tick Tick Boom

A Light In the Dark- Next To Normal

How Could I Ever Know? - Secret Garden

She Used to Be Mine - Waitress

Welcome Home (Reprise) - Bandstand

No One is Alone - Into the Woods

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - Les Miserables

I'll Be Here - Ordinary Days

Till We Reach That Day - Ragtime

It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

Days and Days - Fun Home

Go Back Home - Scottsboro Boys

I'm such a crybaby. These are the songs that have made me bawl when I watched the show and everytime I listen to it thereafter.

1. Telephone Wire - Fun Home

2. Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George

3. No More - Into the Woods

4. I'll Cover You (Reprise) - Rent

5. It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

Special Mention:

6. Sleeping - Once (the movements of the cast while Guy is singing this song was so affecting)

7. Just Be / Raise You Up - Kinky Boots (tears of joy)

8. For Good - Wicked (cause I miss my two best friends)

9. Totally F*CKed- Spring Awakening (I was lucky enough to get stage seating and you really can feel the energy of these kids. It was so palpable that it made me cry)

10. Try to Remember - Fantasticks (I don't know why but as soon as the first verse was sung I was a total mess)

In no order....I may have more than 5 lol


Sad Tears:


"Words Fail" - Dear Evan Hansen

"38 Planes Reprise/Something Missing" - Come From Away

"Telephone Wire, Days and Days" - Fun Home

"Welcome Home" - Bandsrand

"The Letter" - Billy Elliot

"What Would I Do, Father to Son, Gotta Die Sometime" - Falsettos

"When Your Feet Don't Touch The Ground" - Finding Neverland

"One Last Time, Who Lives..." - Hamilton

"Everything I Know" - In The Heights

"Time" - Tuck Everlasting

"Maybe, So Anyway" - Next To Normal

"I'll Cover You Reprise" - Rent



Happy Tears:

"School of Rock (Teachers Pet)" - School of Rock

"Yorktown" - Hamilton

"Philanthropy" - Groundhog Day

and so many more

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 02:04 PM

"They Were You" from The Fantasticks

"No One Is Alone" from Into the Woods

"What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line

"It Never Was You" from Knickerbocker Holiday, both in the context of the show and, especially, as a standalone cabaret selection (see Patti LuPone or Bea Arthur's take)

"Something Wonderful" from The King and I, again, in its original context or its stunning placement in A Grand Night for Singing.

--"You Will Be Found" Dear Evan Hansen

--"The World Was Wide Enough" into "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" Hamilton

--"Welcome Home" Bandstand

--"Alabanza" In The Heights

--"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" Rent

Can't believe I haven't seen a single "Your Daddy's Son" in here. That's my go-to for when I need a cathartic moment.

KnewItWhenIWasInFron said: "Maybe because there are so many tearjerkers in that show? ("Wheels of a Dream" is another contender, given what we know is to come, as is "Back to Before)"

True... but when I think BroadwayWorld, I instantly think "people who are obsessed with Audra".

What a fabulous question!

Move On or Sunday from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: a total tie because they both get to me if well sung.

Our Children from RAGTIME - especially in the hands of the revival cast of Noll and Petkoff.

Being Alive from COMPANY.

So in Love from KISS ME, KATE, especially the reprise. I never saw Alfred Drake but there is a version from the TV production that breaks my heart.

And now for something totally obscure: Jonas' Soliloquy from LEAP OF FAITH. A cry of faith searching for an answer.

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 04:07 PM

"Days and Days" - Fun Home

"Telephone Wire" - Fun Home

"What Would I Do / Falsettoland (Reprise)" - Falsettos

"I Am The One (Reprise)" - Next to Normal

"It's Quiet Uptown" - Hamilton