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saddest songs
#50re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:21pmOh, I also think "Why" from Tick Tick Boom is really sad...but only in the context of the show. And "The Fire Within Me" from Little Women really gets me.
***It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-- William Shakespeare***
#51re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:24pm
Broadway:
"Memory"
"My Dogs" from "Elegies"
"Drink With Me" from Les Mis
"Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music"
"Caoneidh Cu Cuchulainne" and "Lift The Wings" from "Riverdance"
"Do You Know What It's Like?" and "I Could Write Books" from "Zanna Don't"
"Mama Look Sharp" from 1776
"I'm Coming Home" from RHS
pretty much anything in TL5Y
Non-Broadway:
"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
"Comfortable" by John Mayer
"Just My Imagination" by the Temptations
"Into The West" by Annie Lennox
"Home Sweet Home" from Lady and the Tramp (the song playing at the start of the pound sequence)
"Baby Mine" from "Dumbo"
"Kathleen Mavourneen" and "The Parting Glass" traditional Irish folk songs
"Saying Goodbye" from The Muppets Take Manhattan
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#52re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:25pm
Sarah Brown Eyes from Ragtime - Especially Audra singing 'Dance' by herself at the end
Bare from BARE - the flute at the end is just killer
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#53re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:47pm
Broadway:
Chavaleh and Chavaleh Ballet- Fiddler.
For Good- Wicked.
Memory- Cats
The Fire Within Me and Somethings Are Meant to Be and Days A Plenty- Little Women
There's Always Me and It Hurts Me- ASU
There's A Fine, Fine Line- Avenue Q.
Non Bway:
"Mother Thats What I Need"- Chimpmunk Adventure.
"Where You Are"- Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.
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DanaeB
Swing Joined: 8/23/05
#54re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:48pm
"Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love
"Memory" from Cats
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita. Not sure why I think that one's so sad, but I do.
Updated On: 8/28/05 at 10:48 PM
#55re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:20pmThe finale from Godspell--2001 revival recording! So sad!! And "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods!
***It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-- William Shakespeare***
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#56re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:30pm
No Voice from Bare
Elegy from Movin Out (theres no lyrics, but being there in the moment just made it one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking things ive seen)
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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#57re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:33pm
"Il Adore" from Taboo
"Do You Know What It's Like" from Zanna, Don't (for personal reasons, I cry every time)
Of course the ICY:R from Rent
"Goodbye, Love" from Rent, but only live.
"From This Day On" from Brigadoon
"Cabaret" from Cabaret, but only if done properly.
"You Must Love Me" from Evita
"Chavelah" from Fiddler
"I am special, I am special! Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!" ---Louisa, The Fantasticks
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Intolerant of intolerance.
#58re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:49pm
Pretty much any song from "Follies". "Losing My Mind" is devastating.
"If I Loved You" from "Carousel"...also "You'll Never Walk Alone", both could be uplifting depending on the way you perceive them.
The list is endless. And so are the perceptions of each and every song written.
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#59re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:10am
The entire finale of Sweeney Todd
Anatevka from Fiddler
Memory from Cats
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom
Most of Les Miz
Children Will Listen (the one after Rapunzel dies) from Into The woods
Soliloquy from Carousel when you know what's going to happen.
I Am What I Am from La Cage (Bittersweet)
#60re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:15amIt's Hard To Speak My Heart from Parade
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#61re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:43am
i honestly love you (olivia newton john version)
ps. just as a general warning to everyone...if u love someone and u havent told them, tell them. i prolly just lost my opportunity.
random, cheery thought for your enjoyment jeje.
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
holden
Understudy Joined: 5/20/04
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
flirtandflounce
Understudy Joined: 8/10/05
#64re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:57am
"Memory" -Cats
"Slipping Through My Fingers" -Mamma Mia
"The Winner Takes It All" -Mamma Mia
"For Good" -Wicked
"Some Things Are Meant to Be" -Little Women
"Days of Plenty" -Little Women
wickedkiwi
Stand-by Joined: 8/5/04
#65re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:01amcome to mee!!! good one!
Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!
#66re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:02am
From A Musical:
-Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Les Mis
-Bring Him Home, Les Mis
-Il Adore, Taboo
-There's Always Me, All Shook Up
-I'll Cover You (Reprise), Rent
From Elsewhere:
-Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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vgd07
Swing Joined: 11/8/04
#67re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:53amLes Mis valjean's confession / epilogue, that whole sequence is amazing. And I second the notion to Godspell's finale..and By My Side.
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#68re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:14am
"I'm All Alone"-SpamAlot(somewhat)
"Don't Cry Out Loud"-The Boy From Oz
"Love Don't Need A Reason"-The Boy From Oz
"Quiet Please, There's A Lady Onstage"-The Boy From Oz
"I Honestly Love You"-The Boy From Oz
"Tell Her I Love Her"-Urinetown
"Somewhere That's Green"-LSOH
"Somewhere That's Green(reprise)-LSOH
"Fools Fall In Love"-All Shook Up
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#69re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:40am
"Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" From Last 5 Years made me break down and cry the first few times I heard the CD.
"Written in the Stars" from Aida
"Your Eyes" from RENT
"I Honestly Love You" from BFO
Updated On: 8/29/05 at 11:40 AM
#70re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:51am
Non-Broadway:
"I Can't Make You Love Me"--Bonnie Raitt
"Jolene"--Dolly Parton
Broadway:
"If I Didn't Believe in You"--Last 5 Years
"I'm Not That Girl"--Wicked
"I'll Cover You"-Rent
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#71re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:04pmI don't know if this would be as sad on its own, rather than listened to with the whole show, but I always cry for "Finale" of Passion. Thinking about it right now makes me want to cry.
You promised me poems. ~Tricky
Creative Lunatic
Leading Actor Joined: 5/9/05
#72re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:05pm
TheatreBabe,
You didn't say if you are limiting list to certain years---but I can remember my mother always playing cast recordings and I remember a song from Stop The World I Want To Get Off. It became the signature song for its gifted star Anthony(Tony) Newley
What Kind of Fool Am I.
Does anyone else know it?
It was about a man who when taking stock of his so called successful life realized he had nothing because he had discarded the people who cared about him and never really experienced love.
Now that's a sad song!
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#73re: saddest songs
Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:16pm
Love to Me [Light in the Piazza]
and also In Whatever Time We Have
Updated On: 8/29/05 at 12:16 PM
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Understudy Joined: 6/2/05
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