What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry? — Page 4

- "One Last Time", Hamilton. I didn't cry at all when I heard it on the CD, but when I saw it, and Christopher Jackson got to the line, "They'll be safe in the nation we've made", I started to bawl, and now EVERY TIME I listen to the song, I cry. Especially now, when I think of all their sacrifices, and how I don't feel all that safe in the nation they made.

- I'm embarrassed to admit I cried, off and on, almost all the way through "Come From Away", but the first line that got me was in "Welcome to the Rock", when Bonnie, Annette, and Beulah say simultaneously, "And I turn on the radio." All of a sudden I was RIGHT BACK THERE in that day, and all the emotions started coming back. (It's even more powerful because they never actually really say what happened.)

- And I admit: In "Joseph and the Amazing..." etc., in "Jacob In Egypt", when the ensemble sings, "So Jacob came to Egypt, no longer feeling old - And Joseph came to meet him in his chariot of gold". This father-son moment hits me hard, especially since my dad isn't alive any more, and I would kill for just one more hug from him.

Great, now I'm starting to tear up, just writing this post.    I better leave it at these three!

5. Happiness - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (happy tears)

4. Night Will Come - Groundhog Day

3. I'll Cover You (Reprise) - RENT

2. Being Alive - Company

1. No One is Alone & Children Will Listen - Into the Woods

(in no particular order)

1. Fable - The Light in the Piazza

2. Finishing the Hat - Sunday in the Park With George

3. Dust and Ashes - Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812

4. Losing My Mind - Follies

5. Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton

"At the Ballet" - A Chorus Line

"Telephone Wire" - Fun Home

"The Music Still Plays On" - A New Brain

"When I Grow Up" - Matilda

"Happiness" - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Updated On: 9/6/17 at 10:39 AM

This is not like me, but I'm listening to "Before The Parade Passes By" and just the thought of Bernadette singing it has made me an absolute mess. I'm so excited haha.

 

Let's see, five...

"Flying Away" from Fun Home

"One Last Time" from Hamilton

"I Am What I Am" from La Cage Aux Folles

"I'm Here" from The Color Purple (Cynthia Version)

"So Big/So Small" from Dear Evan Hansen

 

Just one.

"What Would You Do?" from Cabaret.

 

I'm not a big crier, but the two that have made me actively cry in the theatre are:

1) Another Winter in a Summer Town (Grey Gardens) - I will never forget the way that song made me feel sitting in the theatre watching the show for the first time.  No other theatrical experience has come close, and I don't expect one to.

2) A Way Back to Then ([title of show]) - for some reason this song just really hits me.  I'm not even sure why.    

I don't cry at all. I mean I feel emotions but crying never comes to me. I happy cry all the time thought. I can only think of two examples that got me the closest to actually crying. 

Most of Next to Normal( it's not even one song it's the entire plot killed me)

last 15 mins of Dear Evan Hansen ( Words Fail, So Big So Small) 

 

Betsy Wolfe's "Not A Day Goes By" from the Encores Merrily recording really hits me in the heart. 

Anthem (Chess)

Sunday (Sunday in the Park with George)

Love Never Dies (Love Never Dies)

You Will Not Touch Him/This Is the Hour (Miss Saigon)

Prayer (Come From Away)

Finale B (RENT)

I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables)

There Will Be Sun (Groundhog Day)

Night Will Come (Groundhog Day)

When I Grow Up (Matilda)

Updated On: 9/28/17 at 02:20 PM

Count me in the group who has been holding off on writing because this requires deep thought.

In no particular order:

1) "One Last Time" - Hamilton - To echo the sentiment someone else had, it didn't initially impact me on first listen, but when Christopher Jackson did it live in the theatre, I was a damn mess at the end. That ending when he riffs on that last note hits me right in the feels. (Special mention to Kelly Clarkson's "It's Quiet Uptown" for explaining how exactly I felt after #45 was elected.)

2) "How Could I Ever Forget" - Next To Normal -  *Spoiler Alert* This is the moment where you find out that Gabe (as a teenager) has been a figment of Diana's imagination the whole time, and that he died when he was only 18 months old. This plot twist ripped my damn 15-year old heart out at the time and it was the first time I openly sobbed in the theatre.

3) "True Colors" - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - I was 17 when I saw this show and I was still struggling with being out. This is right after the scene in Broken Hill when their bus was vandalized and Tick states "No matter how tough you are, no matter how immune you think you've become, it still hurts." That was earth shattering to me, and Tony Sheldon's comforting maternal voice really helped drive this home for me. (I had the opportunity to tell him so at the Flea Market this year and he was very touched.)

4) "I'm Here" - The Color Purple - In Cynthia Erivo's capable hands, she turned this otherwise generically lyrical song into a cathartic event and my face was soaking wet at the end when she sold the last three words.

5) "Stronger" - Hands on a Hardbody - I loved this show, and I remember this song hitting me right in the feelings because the character (a former soldier) finally was able to express his inner feelings about his struggles with PTSD and readjusting to life after the service. Working in mental health, it's something I've seen many times, each time as upsetting as the time before.

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Updated On: 9/29/17 at 03:19 PM