saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

#1

saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:29pm

The letter (dear billy) - billy elliot
A Spoonful of sugar (mary poppins leaves) - mary poppins
wishing you were somehow here again - phantom of the opera

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#2

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:46pm

I;m sorry if this sounds rude but I;ve noticed that every answer you give is always the same! Mary Poppins or Billy Elliot. You might want to expand your Broadway/west End horizons.

Anyways, to answer the question:

When Coalhouse Walker Jr. is shot in Ragtime. I always get choked up.

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#3

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:00pm

The eulogies in Rent and Collins' ICY: Reprise
For Good in Wicked
The finale of Cabaret
Il Adore and Petrified from Taboo
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again -- Phantom

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#4

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:03pm

The Final Lair (the last line "It's over now, the music of the night), but...only when I saw it on stage (Hugh Panaro) and when I listen to him sing it....I get choked up..

Rent. (I always found the Mark/Roger fight sad--"Goodbye Love". "I'll Cover You (Reprise)", and the Finale A on to the end.)

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#5

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:07pm

I don't know how if I've ever listened to "Petrified" or "Il Adore" from Taboo without crying.

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#6

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:12pm

Fantine and Valjean's deaths in "Les Miserables"
Final Lair in Phantom

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Updated On: 11/15/05 at 09:12 PM

#7

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:13pm

So many sad moments...

I always cry during the "Elaborate Lives" reprise, right before Aida and Rademes die.
"Till we reach that day" in ragtime.
"Anytime (I am There)" in elegies. The Best moment of the show.
When the bakers wife apears and sings "No one is Alone" in into the woods.
When any Marius sings "empty chairs at empty tables"
Miss Saigon, the whole damn thing.

Ahh...so depressingly beautiful.

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#8

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:25pm

Eponine's death, Les Miserables

The whole kaboodle, Phantom of the Opera

The whole kaboodle, Carousel

Memory, Cats

I'll post more as I think of 'em.

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#9

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:28pm

The final lair scene from PHANTOM
No Good Deed and For Good from W*CKED
So many moments in LES MIZ
Endless Night from THE LION KING
Rose's Turn from GYPSY

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#10

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:31pm

christine i love you........you alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the music of the night POTO

#11

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 9:55pm

The last scene in Les Miserables is pretty sad. I always get choked up with "Come with me, where chains will never bind you, all your grief, at last, at last behind you..."

#12

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 10:00pm

I echo Wickedone's comment about Angel's Eulogy segment in RENT and I'll Cover You: Reprise.

I'd also like to add: the Lifeboats scene in Titanic, the Thayer family part is heart breaking!

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#13

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 10:39pm

I'd like to repeat that Angel's eulogy's is one of the saddest part of a show. It ALWAYS gives me chills.

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#14

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 10:51pm

POTO both versions the whole thing but mostly Music of the Night, Point of No Return (big time) when he sings "anywhere you go let me go too christine thats all I ask of and she pulls off the mask) the end and All I ask of you (R and C and the phantoms ending to ir)

Rent- Angel's eulogy, ICY reprise and WYO because it has special meaning to me

Wicked- For Good (I just graduated last year Im allowed!

Spelling Bee- The I Love You Song

L5Y- If I Didnt Believe In You

and that is all I cna think of right now

#15

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 11:00pm

Last Five Years--

"Still Hurting" because it's so raw
"Next 10 Minutes" because it all seemed so perfect
"Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" because it was doomed from the start.

#16

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/15/05 at 11:00pm

Definitely I'll Cover You Reprise. Just saw Destan Owens on Sunday and I loved what he did with that song. Beautiful.

Not mentioned yet....I Hate the Bus, from Caroline, or Change. Anika Nani Rose was crying at the end of that song, at the performance I saw. Chilling.

Updated On: 11/15/05 at 11:00 PM

#17

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 7:58pm

I think that the Funeral Sequence is Parade is quite sad, no?
Goodbye/Boom Boom is gorgeous and sad.
In Sweeney, when he realizes that he killed his wife.
All that were said before I agree with, totally.

#18

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 8:39pm

Too many times!
For some reason, at the end of the original cast album of Follies when the young four go "Hi, girls, Ben, Sally" I always get choked up.
I cry durring Piazza in "Dividng Day" and "Fable."
"You Can Never Shame Me" and "Mama It's Me" from Kiss of the Spider Woman make me bawl. "The Day After That" is very moving.
"Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag" in the FILM of Mary Poppins is so moving, just...too moving. It made Walt Disney cry! On stage, it seems bleh.
"Soliliquy" from Carousel is a tear jerker.
"Gliding" and "Our Children" of Ragtime get me choked up too,

#19

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 8:41pm

Audrey's death-LSOH
Max's speech before Leo comes into the courtroom-The Producers
Peter Allen's father commiting suicide-The Boy From Oz
For Good-Wicked
Fools Fall In Love-All Shook Up
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#20

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 8:43pm

Keiths funeral in spend spend spend (the song is heart breaking!)

When Higgins is congratulating himself on his success and Eliza is standing alone.

The scene when Sally tells Clff about the abortion... you just know they're gonna be messed up for life!

Fantines death in Les Mis

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#21

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 8:47pm

Just popped into my head.
The scene in Music Man when Harold Hill has to admit to Winthrop that he's a con and liar. Just before he gets arrested. I cried while I was doing that scene.

#22

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 8:49pm

I'll cover you (reprise) in Rent and the end monologs of Jersey Boys choked me up...but I'm just an emotional person. =p

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#23

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/16/05 at 10:16pm

For Good in Wicked.
Eva's final scenes in Evita where she waltzs with Che, does her final message and when collapses at the end of Dice are rolling.
Fantine's Death in Les Miz.
Miss Saigon when she committs suicided.
Roses turn in Gypsy.
End of Act I in Elaine Stritch at Liberty because we all feel like that.

#24

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:11am

A Shooting Star - Mary Poppins
The Letter - Billy Elliot
For Good - Wicked
The Sacred Bird - Miss Saigon
Final scene of Phantom of the Opera
The last 10 minutes or so of Light in the Piazza
Finale to The King And I

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#25

re: saddest part in the show (westend and broadway)

Posted: 11/17/05 at 8:57am

"There is a Fountain" from Parade. (And Leo's death from that same show.)

Roger screaming "Mimi!" at the end of Rent.

Molina begging Valentin to look at him before the Warden shoots him.

Just about every scene towards the end of The Normal Heart.

The final "Goodbye" seperated by five years and a world of change in The Last Five Years.

"This is where we take a stand. Welcome to Falsettoland."

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