What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?- Page 3
What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
jessepp
Chorus Member Joined: 11/28/11
#50What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 4:38pm
"There is a Fountain/It Don't Make Sense" - Parade
"Doatsy Mae" - Whorehouse
"Walk with Me" - Full Monty
"You okay, Honey?" - rent
"What More Can I Say?" - Falsettos
broadwayliz22
Swing Joined: 8/4/17
#51What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:34pm
"It's Quiet Uptown" HAMILTON
"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" HAMILTON
"For Good" WICKED
"Words Fail" DEAR EVAN HANSEN
"You Will Be Found" DEAR EVAN HANSEN
#52What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:42pm
So Big/So Small- Dear Evan Hansen
Move On- Sunday in the Park with George
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story- Hamilton
(My top two (technically three) don't make me cry from sadness perse, but definitely from nostalgia)
A tie between Journey to the Past- Anastasia, and Put on Your Sunday Clothes- Hello, Dolly!
It Only Takes A Moment- Hello, Dolly!
JVJ93
Featured Actor Joined: 3/27/16
#53What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 6:34pm
1. Sunday-Sunday in the Park with George
2. Flying Away-Fun Home
3. Some Things Are Meant to Be-Little Women
4. Wheels of a Dream (reprise)-Ragtime
5. Finale B-Rent
Honorable Mention: Falsettoland (reprise)-Falsettos
leighmiserables
Broadway Star Joined: 4/26/17
#54What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 6:49pm
(I had to put six, sorry!)
1.) "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables
2.) "The Great Comet of 1812" from Great Comet
3.) "The Proposal/The Night was Alive" from Titanic
4.) "What More Can I Say?" from Falsettos
5.) "How Could I Ever Forget?" from Next to Normal
6.) "Days and Days" from Fun Home
Special mention isn't a Broadway show, but I had to put it here because no musical I've ever seen has made me cry so much. It's called Stop and I saw it at the Edinburgh Fringe a couple weeks ago, and it was unequivocally one of the most emotional shows I've ever seen. I don't think there was more than a couple of minutes where there weren't tears running down my face.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#55What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 7:01pm
1. I Hate the Bus - Caroline, or Change
2. Its Quiet Uptown - Hamilton
3. I'll Cover You (reprise) - Rent
4. Love Like That - Passing Strange
5. At the Ballet - Chorus Line.
Cesare2
Stand-by Joined: 2/13/15
#56What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 7:05pm
1. Till There Was You (THE MUSIC MAN)
2. Somebody Somewhere (THE MOST HAPPY FELLA)
3. This Nearly Was Mine (SOUTH PACIFIC)
4. When Did I Fall In Love? (FIORELLO!)
5. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (MY FAIR LADY)
6. Her Face (CARNIVAL)
LindaSmyth
Chorus Member Joined: 7/24/14
#57What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 7:30pm
Losing my mind, Follies
Unlikely lovers, Falsettos
Wheels of a dream, Ragtime
Beautiful, Sunday in the Park with George
No one is alone, Into the Woods
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#58What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 7:58pm
Caveat: Of course, it depends a lot on the performer...
The Letter - Billy Elliot
The Impossible Dream (reprise) - Man of La Mancha
What's Next/How it Ends - Big Fish
I'd Give My Life For You - Miss Saigon
Wheels of A Dream or Till We Reach That Day - Ragtime
and if the mood is right, Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler
Not a full song - but Shema in Parade.
#59What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 8:07pm
The one song that always reduces me to tears is "Sunday" from SITPWG. It just hits something in me so intensely and it hits again at the very end with the reprise of Sunday, from the bow to George to those last words. Oh, the feels.
Runners up?
--The World was Wide Enough/Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story from Hamilton
--Finale B from Rent
--Go Back Home from The Scottsboro Boys
--Make Your Garden Grow from Candide
Special mention to the a cappella version of Gold from Once and What Would I Do from Falsettos.
And about a million more.
#60What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 8:47pm
Send in the Clowns - especially by Jean Simmons. Streisand is a close second, followed by everyone else (including Sinatra).
New Ways to Dream - Patti Lupone. You can hear the vulnerability in her voice, and I feel for her - especially when she closes with "They can't see where the future lies...they don't recognize a star..." - guaranteed to make my eyes tear.
No One Is Alone - Mandy Patinkin (1990).
When There's No One - Betty Buckley. Pass the tissues.
"Eva's Final Broadcast" -Patti Lupone. "I want to tell the people...of Argentina..I've decided I should decline..." I choke up every time I hear that, and start bawling by the time she's finished. Even in the car. While I'm driving...a 50+ year old man. What can I say?
Show2n
Chorus Member Joined: 11/13/12
#61What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 9:29pm
Sunday - Sunday in the Park With George
Another Winter in a Summer Town - Grey Gardens
If Love Were All - Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Black and Blue - Ain't Misbehavin'
Every Day a Little Death - A Little Night Music
#62What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:30pm
Who lives, who dies...-Hamilton
Words fail-Dear Evan Hansen
So Big/So Small-Dear Evan Hansen
The Letter-Billy Elliot
The World was Wide Enough-Hamilton
Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#63What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:56pm
In no order:
1. Words Fail from Dear Evan Hansen
2. Sunday (Finale) from Sunday in the Park with George (specifically, the part where all the people from the painting bow to George)
3. When the Earth Stopped Turning from Elegies
4. The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee
5. Finale from Come From Away
#64What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 12:57am
dust and ashes TGC
disappear DEH
for good Wicked
#65What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 3:49am
A few more than 5, but still a fairly small subset:
Everything I Know - In The Heights
Someday/God Help The Outcasts - Hunchback of Notre Dame (paper mill stage version)
A Light In the Dark/Maybe/I Am The One (Reprise)/How Could I Ever Forget - Next to Normal
You'll Never Walk Alone/If I Loved You (Reprise) - Carousel
Anthem/Anthem (Reprise) - Chess
Me And The Sky - Come From Away
The Man I'll Never Be/I Couldn't Know Someone Less - Daddy LongLegs
Do You Love Me? - Fiddler on the Roof
This Nearly Was Mine - South Pacific
Back to Before - Ragtime
chewbaca
Chorus Member Joined: 10/3/04
#66What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 7:28am
1a. With One Look 1b. As If We Never Said Goodbye. Both from Sunset Boulevard. The first one because of its melody and powerful score, the second due to the drama of the moment.
2. Ring of Keys- Fun Home. This affected me more than "Telephone Wire"
#67What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 8:32am
I really can't limit myself to 5:
Carousel - You'll Never Walk Alone
DEH - Words Fail
Waitress - She Used to Be Mine
Merrily We Roll Along - Our Time
Great Comet - Great Comet of 1812
Show Boat - Ol' Man River
Follies - Losing My Mind
Fun Home - Flying Away
#68What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 9:06am
In no particular order...
1. "We Do Not Belong Together" (Sunday in the Park with George) Dot's heartache is so palpable, and I've felt those feelings before.
2. "Being Alive" (Company) Hell, I even cried when Michael Xavier sang it during Prince of Broadway.
3. "Flying Away" (Fun Home) So wistful and touching and relatable.
4. "No More" (Into the Woods) One of the most underrated songs in the Sondheim canon.
5. "She Used to Be Mine" (Waitress) Cliche, but it really does hit me hard.
a-mad
Featured Actor Joined: 8/25/11
#69What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 11:13am
Also in no particular order...
1) With You - Ghost
2) Till We Reach That Day - Ragtime (and throw in Wheels of a Dream and Make Them Hear You as well...)
3) Gold - Once
4) Who Lives Who Dies... - Hamilton
5) Being Alive - Company
#70What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 8:09pm
1. What I Did For Love - A Chorus Line
2. For Good - Wicked
3. Memory - Cats
4. You Learn To Live Without - If/Then
5. Always Starting Over - If/Then
#71What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 8:40pm
Hamilton - It's Quiet Uptown (Forgiveness . . . Can you imagine?)
Fun Home - Flying Away (Every so often, there was a rare moment of perfect balance . . .)
In the Heights - Alabanza (Alabanza means to raise this thing to God's face . . .)
A Little Night Music - Send in the Clowns (I thought that you'd want what I want. Sorry, my dear . . .)
Dear Evan Hansen - Words Fail (No one can really see. 'Cause I've learned to slam on the brakes . . .)
Great Comet - Sonya Alone (I will stand in the dark for you. I will hold you back by force.)
Okay, so that was six. As y'all can see, my love of musical theatre is new. Please feel free to reply/PM with shows you think I might like!
rattleNwoolypenguin
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/11/11
#72What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 8:48pm
No One is Alone- Into the Woods
"Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood" I hear that lyric and I'm choking up almost immediately. That song resonates with you if you've had loss.
Sunday- Sunday in the Park with George
Someday- West Side Story
I Have a Love- West Side Story
Finale B- Rent
mpkie
Broadway Star Joined: 6/21/15
#73What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 8/30/17 at 11:59pm
I cry at most of the songs in Les Miserables 
1. The Letter - Billy Elliot
2. On My Own - Les Miserables
3. Midnight Radio - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
4. Left Behind - Spring Awakening
5. Empty Chairs and Empty Tables - Les Miserables
I don't know why I'm surprised by Midnight Radio hitting other people's lists. I thought I was weird that this song made me tear up while singing along to it... I just start crying in the middle of it LOL.
Honorable mention to "Hello, Dolly" making me cry with unexpected, overwhelming joy.
QueenTwinnied
Broadway Star Joined: 6/16/17
#74What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?
Posted: 9/1/17 at 3:42pm
I don't usually cry when listening to Broadway songs, but these are a few that will definitely put me in my feelings:
-Stay Alive (Reprise): "Mom, I'm so sorry for forgetting what you taught me"; "I taught you piano". Those lyrics send chills down my spine every time I hear them. On top of that, Eliza screaming at the end destroys me.
-Sonya Alone: It's just such a beautiful, haunting song. I saw TGC with Ingrid and she seemed physically pained while singing this song. Her emotion was insane and the song really stuck with me.
-Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story: "While she's alive we tell your story, she is buried in Trinity Church near you". I recently visited Alexander, Eliza, and Angelica's graves at Trinity Church, so that lyric always gets me. Also, "The orrrrphanage" :'/
-For Good: I graduated high school a little over a year ago and that song is especially poignant now considering I said goodbye to quite a few people knowing I would likely never see them again (friends going their separate ways and going to college all over the country).
-Waving Through a Window: As someone who has struggled with an anxiety disorder for several years, this song always speaks to me. The lyric "Before I make the mistake, before I lead with the worst of me" always hits hard. I think DEH's portrayal of mental illness is problematic, but that song is very, very good. This also applies to Words Fail.
Videos