Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
#0Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:19pmWhat is your favorite musical song where somebody dies?
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#1re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:20pmJohanna Quartet - SWEENEY TODD (Sweeney's Victims)
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#2re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:20pmA Little Fall of Rain- Les Miz
The3DImaxOfMyMind
Understudy Joined: 12/29/05
#3re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:23pmWithout You- Well somebody doesnt die then and there but it is pretty close to it. So I guess I have to say Contact
I like Charlie Brown's hands...
"It's like I'm being tied to the hood of a yellow rental truck, being packed in with fertilizer and fuel oil, pushed over a cliff by a suicidal Mickey Mouse."
#4re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:24pmI never got to see it; did Beth die during Some Things Are Meant to Be in Little Women? Or was it right after? Because I love that song.
#5re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:27pm
I like Contact, and I guess The Point of No Return because Piangi dies. 
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#6re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:28pm
Have to agree with Liotte on this one...
The Rumble being second, though it's not really a song
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#7re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:31pm
MAN OF LaMANCHA!
i think it's The Impossible Dream reprise. with the dialogue. And Aldonza singing. it's very very sad. i remember it's the only time i've seen soldiers cry.
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#8re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:33pmMoments- Into the Woods
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
#9re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:35pmYou Must Love Me From Evita-but not when madonna sings it, anyone else doing it
~Now I'm standing centre stage, I'm at home at last!~
#10re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:36pm
Beth dies a little bit after some things are meant to be.
My favorite death song has to be:
"you will not touch him" from Miss Saigon!
So Amazing!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#12re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:44pmA Little Fall Of Rain- Les Mis
~Sara~
#13re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:46pm
A Little Fall of Rain
does Make Them Hear You kind of count?
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#14re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:48pmI guess.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#15re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:58pm
Not one but a few.....
Finale (Final Version)- Miss Saigon
Little God of My Heart (First Revision) - Miss Saigon
Sacred Bird (Original Version) - Miss Saigon
If I Loved You Reprise - Carousel (well, the guy was already dead when he sung the song)
Come to Me (Fantine's Death) - Les Miserables
Little Fall of Rain - Les Miserables
I Have Dreamed - King & I (Does this qualify? Luntha gets executed after this song.)
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#16re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 10:59pm
And no singing is actually involved.
But how can anyone top when The King dies during Chulalongkorn's speech at the end of "The King And I."
I DARE you to watch it and not cry.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
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JudasIscariot
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/05
#17re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:06pm
The Impossible Dream Reprise - Man of La Mancha
Funeral/There Is A Fountain - Parade
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#18re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:08pm
Somewhere/Finale in West Side Story.
Also in addition to those not mentioned:
Your Eyes(Mimi dies...momentarily)
All That Jazz
And granted it takes place right after the death, but it's about it and I love it so much so I'm putting it anyway:
Til We Reach That Day-Ragtime
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#19re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:09pmTradition deatils the death of a way of life, so I guess that would be mine...
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#20re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:09pm
Les Mis
1.Finale
2.Fantine's Death
3.Little Fall of Rain
Rent
I'll cover you (reprise)-its the funeral so I'm counting it.
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#21re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:16pmI add Javert's Suicide.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#22re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:17pm"A Good Crowd Goin'" - BKLYN
#23re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/16/06 at 11:23pmOoo good one Marguerite Chauvelin!
"You know, with the right volume, Patti LuPone can make a car bounce, too...."
-Wonderwaiter
#24re: Your Favorite Musical Song Where Somebody Dies?
Posted: 4/17/06 at 12:30am
A Little Fall of Rain. Special place in my heart. Not the best, but Oh how I was Eponine in High School.
Second place is "Something Wonderful" (reprise) and "By The Sea/Little Priest Reprise) AKA finale right before Mrs. Lovett's death.
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
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