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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?

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#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

 


...is a puzzlement.

broadwayliz22
#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

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#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
#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 

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leighmiserables
#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.  

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 06:49 PM

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luvcaroline
#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
#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
#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

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ggersten
#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.   

 

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oncemorewithfeeling2
#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.

 

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#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?

 

Updated On: 8/30/17 at 08:47 PM

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#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

 

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#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 


Not to be confused with Dave19.

Alex Kulak2
#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

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#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

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#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
#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"

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#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

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#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.


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a-mad
#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

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#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

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#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
#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
#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 What  Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry? 

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
#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.  


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