depressing and sad BDWY songs- Page 2

[pajamaboy]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 8:22pm

thanks everyone!

i think the compilation will now exceed 2 cds...lol

xoxo
pjboi

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 9:04pm

OK, one more but I won't recite the lyric

"Where Are You Now That I Need You?"

Frank Loesser

from a film, not a muscial play.

The most depressing songs with lsophisication, style and class were written well before 1990.

Bulldog. Updated On: 2/15/04 at 09:04 PM

[TheGirlinTheFrock]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 10:55pm

A New Life -- Jeckyll & Hyde
A little Fall of rain -- Les Miz
--Everything else in Les Miz--
Enchantment Passing Through/Elaborate lives Reprise -- Aida
I'm not that girl -- Wicked
I'll Cover You (Reprise)-- Rent
Finale A -- POTO
I'd Give my Life for you -- Miss Siagon
Close Every Door -- Joseph...
Gethsamane -- Jesus Christ Superstar
Wishing -- POTO

[StraightToHeaven]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 11:15pm

Someday You Might Love Me- Zanna, Don't!
See Her Smile- ttB
One Song Glory- Rent
I'll Cover You Reprise- Rent
Nobody Needs to Know- The Last 5 Years
Lots of Les Miz especially
A little Fall of Rain and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 11:20pm

You gotta have "Til We Reach That Day" and "Coalhouse's Soliliquey" (I am not sure how that is spelled) from Ragtime. Gets the audience every time.

[DefyingGravity2]

Posted: 2/15/04 at 11:52pm

Tell me its not true --- Blood Brothers!!!!!!!

[elmore3003]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:01pm

"Oh please, "Artificial Flowers" has to be the most depressing song ever written! Its lyric concerns an orphaned waif who freezes to death while trying to earn her keep by making artificial flowers. It has a nice melody, but it tells a really unsavory little tale!"

The song is a joke. it's a parody of all those tragic late 19th century parlor songs like "In the Baggage Car Ahead." The giveaway is "waxing and wiring, she waned."

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:04pm

Fifty Percent - Ballroom
There Goes My Life - A Mother's Kisses - Closed Out Of Town
But You Go On - Annie 2/Annie Warbucks

[Fantod]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:05pm

I have no idea what the context is, but All The Children in a Row from The Rink is an extremely tragic song, beautifully performed by Liza.

[Xxxbroadway]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:11pm

How could I ever know from the secret garden
The long grift from hedwig
Santa Fe from newsies
Wishing you were somehow here again from phantom
I miss the mountains from next to normal
The hill from once
Send in the clowns from a little night music

[Elfuhbuh]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:13pm

"How Could I Ever Forget?" -- Next to Normal
"With You" -- Ghost

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:18pm

Once Upon A Time - All American
Almost - I Had A Ball
The Other Half Of Me - I Had A Ball
I Wanna Be With You - Golden Boy

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:44pm

Losing my Mind- Follies
What Would you do?- Cabaret
Without you- Rent
I'll Cover You- Rent
My House- Matilda
most of the score of Les Miserables
No One is Alone- Into the Woods
We do not belong together- Sunday in the Park with George
Johanna reprise- Sweeney Todd
Pretty much everything in Passion
Send in the clowns- A Little Night Music
Still Hurting- The Last Five Years
The Lament- Evita
Not a Day Goes By- Merrily We Roll Along
Wishing you were somehow here again- Phantom of the opera

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 8:48pm

No More - Golden Boy

[Michael Kras]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 9:33pm

Dividing Day - The Light in the Piazza
Days and Days - Fun Home
Our Mornings/That Thing - Giant
Come to Jesus - Myths and Hymns
Sh'ma/The Old Red Hills of Home (Reprise) - Parade
Parade of Souls - Eastland
You Learn to Live Without - If/Then
So Anyway - Next to Normal
No More - Into the Woods
Nobody Needs to Know - The Last Five Years
Come Down Now - Passing Strange



And perhaps the most tearjerking song of any musical ever written: How Glory Goes - Floyd Collins

[broadwaytbay]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 9:39pm

the one that always gets me is "Could We Start Again Please" from JCS

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 10:51pm

Lonely Room - Oklahoma
We Do Not Belong Together - Sunday in the Park with George
Losing My Mind - Follies
I Read - Passion
With You - Ghost

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 12/28/14 at 11:11pm

Some that haven't been mentioned:

Hello Young Lovers -- The King and I
Learn to be Lonely -- POTO Movie (sung by Minnie Driver during the closing credits)
A few from Carousel, but I can't think of them offhand
Anatevka -- Fiddler on the Roof
A few from West Side Story
A few from Porgy & Bess

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 12/29/14 at 4:51am

Some more not previously mentioned:

Easy to be Hard from Hair
I Am The One (reprise) from Next to Normal
Maybe from Next to Normal
Everything Else, I've Been, There's a World, A Light In The Dark, Aftershocks from Next to Normal
I Dreamed a Dream (Les Mes) (Yes, Les Mis overall was mentioned)
What's the Use of Wond'rin'? from Carousel
The Gentleman Is A Dope from Allegro
But Not For Me from Crazy For You