What is the musical that just makes you cry?

[broadwaywriter]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:38pm

What musical(s) do you leave awestruck and crying? What musicals are moving to you?


For me:

The Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens
Sunday in the Park With George

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:39pm

Sunday in the Park with George, without a doubt.

[heathurrr]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:41pm

Sunday in The Park With George. <3!
(I'm sensing a trend here...)

[lesmis]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:41pm

Les Miz and Miss Saigon

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:41pm

(please don't attack me)
Spring Awakening. I start crying in the beginning because I'm just so excited I am there, and then it keeps me going because it gets so sad.

EDIT: Paul's monologue in A Chorus Line made me sob!

Updated On: 6/29/08 at 12:41 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:43pm

Company, Sunday, Rent.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:45pm

When done right I will cry during A Chorus Line at:
"At the Ballet"
"Music and the Mirror"
"Paul's Monologue"
"One (Finale)"

[ashley0139]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:48pm

Grey Gardens
Sunday In the Park

Only 2 musicals that have ever made me cry.

[parislover87]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:50pm

The current revival of Grease (tears of pain)

No, but seriously... The Color Purple got me on Fantasia's last night... it was amazing

[balletandbroadway]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 12:51pm

Spring Awakening, Company, Sunday in the Park, Light in the Piazza

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:13pm

RENT. Every time.

[jennyish]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:22pm

I was all set to be the only person to say SUNDAY and GREY GARDENS.

[winston89]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:23pm

Spring Awakening made me cry. Not in a good way. I cried because I realized that there were a dozen other things I could have done instead of seeing that show and was upset that I waisted my time and money on it.


But to actually answer the question. I would say Paul's monologue in A Chorus Line made me cry the two times I have seen the show. And, I cried last night at Sunday In The Park With George.

[scott68]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:26pm

Falsettos, Falsettos, Falsettos.

[A Grey Spring]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:29pm

Grey Gardens
Sunday in the Park with George
Spring Awakening
Gypsy
Sweeney Todd (When Mrs. Lovett sings: I love you I'd make twice the wife she was, ect. Gets me everytime)

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:31pm

Parts of Les Mis made me cry. Other than that, I usually don't cry at musicals (I must sound so insensitive now, haha).

[luke-h***]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:32pm

the very end of Gypsy with Bette Midler is always a tear-jerker to me. How she reaches out longingly to teh spotlight, and then gives up shrugs and exits! How beautiful! LOl!

Also Miss Saigon. Although when I saw it Kim was crap, so I actually cried in Bui-Doi. And Drew Sarich's version of the LesMiz finale made me cry.

[philly03]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:36pm

Miss Saigon and Sunday in the Park with George are the only ones that truly left in mixed emotions. Both are beautiful and at times depressing.

"A Little Fall of Rain" always gets me at Les Mis, as does "I'll Forget You" from The Scarlet Pimpernel.

[DG]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:38pm

THE KING AND I breaks my heart every time.

I was crying tears of happiness each time I saw PIAZZA.

I hold it together pretty well through LES MIS, but when Eponine and Fantine come for Valjean, I'm done.

[bundy5000]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 1:46pm

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[roquat]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:30pm

MAN OF LA MANCHA and ASSASSINS. Both shows are very flawed (I don't like most of LA MANCHA) but the "Impossible Dream" and "Dulcinea" reprises at the end always get me, as does "Another National Anthem" and the Oswald scene in ASSASSINS. Something about broken dreams...

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:39pm

Sunday in the Park With George
Gypsy

[scaryclowns223]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:41pm

I'll admit it.

I cried the first time I saw Rent.

Not anymore though, not since.

[defyingonbroadway]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:46pm

RENT, Spring Awakening, during For Good in Wicked, West Side Story.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:49pm

Miss Saigon I can cry just listening to the cast recording. Parade also had me bawling just from the cast recording, though I've never seen the stage show.

And, honestly, I cried during the end of Aida when I saw it.