What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry? — Page 3

"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

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!

(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

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)

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.

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

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

dust and ashes TGC

disappear DEH

for good Wicked

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"

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.

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

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

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.