What is the musical that just makes you cry?- Page 2

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 2:55pm

In the Heights made me cry during "Everything I Know". Beautiful song, especially because "Alabanza" leads into it.

[winter_sky]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:15pm

I cried during the I Love You Song in Spelling Bee.

In general:
A Chorus Line
Passing Strange
In the Heights
Grey Gardens

[SheepyFuzz]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:16pm

Les Miserables

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:22pm

**SPOILERS ALERT!**

I don't cry but there are things that move me

Rent, "When You're heart has expired!"
A Chorus Line, Paul's Monologue is beautiful
Sunday In The Park with George
In The Heights, when Kevin says "Abuela Claudia Passed away"
Drowsy Chaperone, The Man in the Chair's love for Musical Theater


**END SPOILER**

[fanpires]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:44pm

Passion
The Light In the Piazza
Parade (esp. during "All the Wasted Time")
Bare

[Weez]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 3:52pm

I'm an INCREDIBLY weepy person. Hell, a KEY CHANGE can set me off. I'm not even kidding. I'm listening to 'In The Heights' right now, and I predict I'll be tearing up at least three more times before its over. I cry when something's sad, when it's happy, when it's romantic, when it's tragic, when an entire company is singing in unison, when I hear lyrical foreboding, whatever. It would almost certainly be easier to list musicals that haven't made me cry. XD

If we want to narrow it down to a sensible selection:

- 'Les Miserables'. I just couldn't stop the tears POURING down my face during Lea's 'I Dreamed A Dream' or Celia's 'On My Own'.
- 'Floyd Collins'. Good lord. ;_;
- 'Rent'. Get a good Collins, and I will NOT make it through the 'I'll Cover You (Reprise)'.
- 'Sunday In The Park With George'. Add "when an entire company is singing in harmony" to my list of "things that make me cry".

I didn't cry at 'Marguerite'. I just didn't connect with it emotionally and found myself laughing every time something (melo)dramatic happened. That's the only time recently I can recall not crying at a musical.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:12pm

Jersey Boys really gets to me too, now that I think about it.

And bare, of course. Of course

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:20pm

"Get a good Collins, and I will NOT make it through the 'I'll Cover You (Reprise)'."

I got Marcus Paul James as Collins and he was incredible! He made me cry and I gave him a standing O

Parade was also very touching.

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:32pm

Ragtime because of Your Daddy's Son, and Back To Before.

GYPSY because of Bernadette's Rose's Turn

The Finale of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It was like my childhood before my eyes.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:37pm

Les Miz!

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:39pm

Just listening to parts of the BARE recording make me break down.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 4:41pm

Oh, yeah, "Everything I Know" made me cry too, but that's because my grandma had just recently died and she collected everything from people's lives, too.

[Rentheadut]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:20pm

Last 5 Years

[Select a Member Name]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:25pm

A musical has never made me cry. Though I was pretty damn close to crying during the I'll Cover You Reprise in Rent. And certain songs in Bare just break my heart.

[DrewBill]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:43pm

Like everyone else, "Sunday" can make me cry.

And I have to admit I got a little teary at the very end of "The Drowsy Chaperone" -- the part where Man in Chair says that a musical "gives you a little tune ... for when you are blue."

[[tos]fan999]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 5:49pm

Grey Gardens (Esp. during "Another Winter" when Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson harmonize on "...Ended a long time ago..." That final performance I was a wreck!)
The Last 5 Years
Sunday In The Park With George
And when I saw my boyfriend sing "Shouldn't I Be Less In Love With You" from a production I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change he was in, I was bawling.

[DottieD'Luscia]

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

Light in the Piazza
In the Heights

[jordangirl]

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

Sunday in the Park with George.

Also Side Show.

Updated On: 6/30/08 at 06:23 PM

[little_sally]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 6:25pm

Grey Gardens
Sunday in the Park with George
A Chorus Line

[thelastmidnight]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 7:16pm

Grey Gardens

A Chorus Line - I used to hear the song "One" a lot before I became interested in musicals, and thought it was a happy song. It's amazing how a song can take on a whole different meaning when you listen to it in the context of the show.

Cabaret - See above description and apply it to the title song.

[playbills]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 7:41pm

Add "when an entire company is singing in harmony" to my list of "things that make me cry". - Weez

Can I just agree with everything that you posted? Seriously.

A CHORUS LINE -- "One" just breaks me down. thelastmidnight beat me too it. It's everything that I love about theatre. I realize the point that we've learned about these characters and now we can't recognize them in the number, and that's heartbreaking in it's own respect. But I love it.

Other finales? MISS SAIGON and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. LES MIZ, but including the Act I finale as well. The way Celia Keenan-Bolger did "A Little Fall of Rain" was perfection and had me sobbing.

As for lately, I cried through the second disc of the IN THE HEIGHTS cast recording (I swear I'm winning the lotto one day) It's just really overwhelming from "Alabanza" on. But what really gets me is the finale when *SPOILER* Usnavi decides to stay. The emotion that Lin gives is .. beautiful. "I found my island / I've been on it this whole time."

Others: LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, NEXT TO NORMAL, RENT, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

edited for an extra comma.
Updated On: 6/29/08 at 07:41 PM

[winston89]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 7:45pm

Cats made me cry because it was so bad. I swear if they are looking for new ways to torture people in Guantanamo Bay. Have them sit through a production of Cats.

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 8:01pm

RENT made me cry when I saw it and since then I cannot get through I'll Cover You (reprise) without crying when I listen to it or watch the movie.

"Lot's Wife" just ripped me apart. I was in tears from that point on through the end of the show. I have posted why the show hit home with me.

I cried several times during Les Miz.

And yes, I cried during "For Good" when I saw Kristen & Idina do it in Wicked.

[Huey's Pop]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 8:46pm

Carousel does it to me every time.

[LimelightMike]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 9:03pm

Les Miserables
Sunday in the Park with George
PASSING STRANGE

... etc.

I'm a sensitive dude. Haha!