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Post by raiseitup on Sept 18, 2016 20:14:44 GMT
What are some of those songs that open the floodgates and cause you to uncontrollably sob?
A few of mine are
- It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton
- No One Is Alone - Into the Woods
- Always Better - Bridges of Madison County
- Alabanza - In The Heights
- Not A Day Goes By - Merrily
and I'm not ashamed to say I get a little misty eyed during For Good as well.
Oh God, someone pass the tissues.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 20:23:09 GMT
The entire last part of Next to Normal (from 'Maybe' onwards)
The entire last part of Fun Home (from 'Days and Days' onwards)
Hamilton: 'It's Quiet Uptown' and 'The World Was Wide Enough'. 'Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story' isn't necessarily sad but makes me cry more than anything else in the show.
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Post by greenlantern on Sept 18, 2016 20:25:02 GMT
The I Love You Song from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee - great song - really heartfelt - get's me everytime
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Post by anthony40 on Sept 18, 2016 20:29:00 GMT
Defiantly Not A Day Goes By.
I Dreamed A Dream-Les Mis
Empty Chairs At Empty Tables- Les Mis
I'd Give My Life For You- Miss Saigon
I Know The Truth- AIDA
Easy Terms- Blood Brothers
There Are Worst things I Could Do-Grease
Simple- Nine
Ill Be Here-Ordinary Days
Leo's Statement: It's Hard To Speak My Heart-Parade
Loving You-Passion
We Do Not Belong Together-Sunday in the Park with George
If I Didn't Believe In You-The Last 5 Years
Loose Ends-The Witches of Eastwick
Another Winter In Another town-Grey Gardens
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 20:35:06 GMT
'My Brother Lives In San Francisco' Elegies For Angel, Punks and Raging Queens.
In fact, most of the songs in the show having me crying.
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 18, 2016 21:04:33 GMT
The Letter from Billy Elliot will creep up on me and get me every time. EVERY. TIME.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2016 21:10:45 GMT
The finale from Les Miserables, but especially when Valjean is about to die and prays, "Take these children, my Lord, to thy embrace, and show them grace..." By the end of "...tomorrow comes!" my heart is almost ready to burst.
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Post by danielwhit on Sept 18, 2016 21:21:01 GMT
If I remember the name right - "What Happens Now?" from Love Story.
There's also Light Romance from Blood Brothers and the reprise of Falling Slowly in Once, but both of those are especially so due to the production and the way they fit into, rather than the song by themselves.
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Post by anniel on Sept 18, 2016 21:57:15 GMT
What a great idea for a discussion.
I think 'it's a fine fine line' from Avenue Q is really sad as it so honestly captures the feeling of being dumped.
"There's a fine fine line between love...and a waste of your time."
I love the fact that it comes in the middle of such a funny show as well. You're a bit knocked sideways - especially if sung by the fab Julie Atherton.
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Post by jaqs on Sept 18, 2016 22:20:53 GMT
If I remember the name right - "What Happens Now?" from Love Story. There's also Light Romance from Blood Brothers and the reprise of Falling Slowly in Once, but both of those are especially so due to the production and the way they fit into, rather than the song by themselves. Most of love story can make me cry. Nocturns gets me. |
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Post by joshb on Sept 18, 2016 22:25:17 GMT
The Letter from Billy Elliot will creep up on me and get me every time. EVERY. TIME. In full agreement with this. I barely ever blub in the theatre but this is a moment that truly gets me. |
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Post by johartuk on Sept 18, 2016 22:31:07 GMT
Easy Terms - Blood Brothers
Hushabye Mountain - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
No-one But You - We Will Rock You
Sunrise, Sunset - Fiddler On The Roof
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Post by longinthetooth on Sept 18, 2016 22:40:06 GMT
Slipping Through My Fingers - Mamma Mia
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Post by poster J on Sept 18, 2016 22:41:54 GMT
Not necessarily all sad per se, but certainly emotional:
Tell Me It's Not True - Blood Brothers
Love Will Stand When All Else Falls - Memphis
Finale - Les Mis
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom
I Know Where I've Been - Hairspray
For Good - Wicked
What I Did for Love - A Chorus Line
Send in the Clowns - A Little Night Music
I'd Give My Life For You - Miss Saigon
I'm Changing - Dreamgirls
Falling Slowly (Reprise) - Once
Finale B - Rent
As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Boulevard
No One But You - We Will Rock You
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Post by andrew on Sept 18, 2016 23:07:10 GMT
Most of the ones I'd pick have been mentioned.
For some more, I always thought that whilst it trashes phantom the longer it goes on, Beneath A Moonless Sky from Love Never Dies is quite sad.
More To The Story cut from Shrek.
Breathe from In The Heights
When I Grow Up from Matilda
And cheating a bit but I always got a lump in my throat during the final "Only Remembered" in War Horse.
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Post by littlesally on Sept 18, 2016 23:30:31 GMT
Empty Chairs.
No More.
Fine, fine line.
Another winter in a summer town.
You don't know this man.
Who's gonna love me?
Fifty percent.
Not a day goes by.
My Father.
Tell me it's not true.
Tell me... when to stop...
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Post by dippy on Sept 19, 2016 0:00:25 GMT
Bit of a random one here, doubt many (if any) people will agree. There's only one song I can think of that's ever made tears stream down my face and that was "To Much in Love to Care" the first time I saw Sunset Boulevard. I know several people on here don't like the song (while others love it) but there was something about it that obviously made me very sad.
I very very very rarely cry so I was shocked by my reaction to that, and of course, no tears the second time I saw the musical. I don't think just listening to a song could ever make me cry it has to be in the theatre in the musical and the first time I'm watching it.
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Post by junet on Sept 19, 2016 1:57:46 GMT
Anthony Newley singing Who Can I Turn to from the Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd.
I cannot hear the City from the Sweet Smell of Success. Although it doesn't make me cry The Movie in my Mind from Miss ~Saigon is very haunting.
Not from a musical but from the film Yentl, Papa can you hear me?
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Post by viserys on Sept 19, 2016 5:51:29 GMT
- Easy Terms and most of the final 15 mins of Blood Brothers
- Empty chairs at empty tables and the finale of Les Mis - shameless tearjerking but impossible to resist
- I'll cover you Reprise from Rent (Angel's funeral)
- Min Astrakan
The latter being the act one finale of "Kristina fran Duvemala", when Kristina, newly arrived in America, sings to her new-born child about the home she left behind in Sweden and wonders if her apple trees will keep blossoming. It's such a simple but perfect picture about homesickness it just gets me every time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 6:05:28 GMT
Plus some oldies we usually hear out of context these days, in concerts and such like (although they have to be with full orchestra not the stripped down versions): Climb Ev'ry Mountain and You'll Never Walk Alone.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 6:08:26 GMT
Alabanza from In the Heights I'm Not That Girl from Wicked Without You from Rent I'll Cover You (Reprise) from Rent Not My Father's Son from Kinky Boots ... there are more but to name a few.  |
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Post by mark21 on Sept 19, 2016 6:13:28 GMT
I don't think I've ever sobbed so uncontrollably as I did during Act 2 of 'Next of Normal'. The story, the music, Alice Ripley's acting, blew me all away! Absolute beauty! Will it ever come to the UK???
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Post by crabtree on Sept 19, 2016 7:20:04 GMT
No choirs of angels - The Hired Man
Make Our Garden grow - Candide
Being alive - company
The last ten minutes of Scottsboro Boys
Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George
the Umbrella Man - Underneath the Arches
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Post by Mr Snow on Sept 19, 2016 7:58:04 GMT
3 sets, six months and 34 takes is all it took
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2016 8:09:41 GMT
We'll Meet Tomorrow and the Finale od Titanic... I have never uncontrollably sobbed in the theatre like that before!
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Post by maisiem on Sept 19, 2016 9:25:46 GMT
Some Other Time from On The Town.
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Post by couldileaveyou on Sept 19, 2016 9:34:32 GMT
Plus some oldies we usually hear out of context these days, in concerts and such like (although they have to be with full orchestra not the stripped down versions): Climb Ev'ry Mountain and You'll Never Walk Alone. Are these songs really sad? Or just moving? |
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Post by dan on Sept 19, 2016 9:39:32 GMT
Given what comes after...
All The Wasted Time - Parade.
This devastates me every time. Completely.
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Post by westendcub on Sept 19, 2016 9:41:14 GMT
'The Letter' both in 'Billy Elliot' and 'Made in Dagenham'
'Easy Terms', 'Prison Song' and 'Tell me it's not true' - 'Blood Brothers'
'Come what may' - 'Moulin Rouge'
'Edelweiss' - 'The Sound of Music'
'You'll be in my heart' - 'Tarzan'
Finale song in 'Finding Neverland' 'When your feet don't touch the ground'
'Innocent Soldier' - 'Mrs Henderson Presents'
'Lady's Maid', 'We'll meet tomorrow' and the final song in Titanic'
'She used to be mine' - 'Waitress'
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Post by PhantomNcl on Sept 19, 2016 10:27:44 GMT
'The Letter' - Billy Elliot
'Little Fall of Rain' and most of the finale of Les Mis
'Who's Gonna Love Me' - Spend Spend Spend
'I Still Believe' - Miss Saigon
'Tell Me It's Not True' - Blood Brothers
'Someone Like You' - Jekyll & Hyde
'Bethlehem' - Martin Guerre, not especially sad but always makes me cry
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