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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
Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance... I AM NOW "TGIF!"
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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."
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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
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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
#43

depressing and sad BDWY songs

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
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#44

depressing and sad BDWY songs

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

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