Super Duper Sad Songs

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Leaf Coneybear
#26Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 7/22/16 at 11:26pm

"The I love you song" from Spelling Bee. Not a solo but if done well it's heartbreaking 

BroadwayMan5
#27Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 7/23/16 at 12:22am

I Know the Truth from Aida

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henrikegerman
#28Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 7/23/16 at 3:34am

It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous. 

Updated On: 7/23/16 at 03:34 AM

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valerie3058
#29Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 4:28pm

henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous. 

 

Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.  

 

rangersrule132
#31Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:01pm

valerie3058 said: "henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous. 

 

Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.  

 


 

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I second both of these and add "so big/ so small" from Dear Evan Hansen.

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icecreambenjamin
#32Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:29pm

rangersrule132 said: "valerie3058 said: "henrikegerman said: "It's Quiet Uptown from HAMILTON. "Unimaginably" sad and equally gorgeous. 

 

Agreed! Also from Miranda, "Everything I Know." That song can make me openly cry.  

 


 

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I second both of these and add "so big/ so small" from Dear Evan Hansen.


 



So big/so small is the saddest fricking song I've ever heard. 

 

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MichelleCraig
#33Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:44pm

Anyone Can Whistle...

rangersrule132
#34Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:45pm

i have always been good at controlling my crying but during so big/ so small I just could not contain myself. 

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Call_me_jorge
#35Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 8:49pm

Hasa Diga Ebowai reprise. It should be on the cast recording...


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jessepp
#36Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/5/16 at 10:12pm

I Don't Care Much


...is a puzzlement.

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AHLiebross
#37Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/6/16 at 10:12pm

All from The King & I:

Hello, Young Lovers

I can't remember the title, but the main wife's song with the line, "This is a man who stumbles and falls, but this is a man who tries."

We Kiss in the Shadows


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

broadwayguy91
#38Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/6/16 at 10:56pm

Amalia's song in she Loves Me that closes Act 1.

For Good from Wicked.

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DramaTeach
#39Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:10am

I agree with "For Good," and will add:

"Feed the Birds" - simple message that so many of us seem to overlook

"Safer" from First Date - maybe it's my own place in life that makes it hit home

"Out There" from Hunchback (along with pretty much the whole score - gorgeous, but so sad)

"A Piece of Sky" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me" (I know they're not Broadway, but Barbra is close enough to Broadway, no?  They get me every time)

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ethan231h
#40Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:12am

So Big/So Small from Dear Evan Hansen

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BroadwayConcierge
#41Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:51am

Leaf Coneybear said: ""The I love you song" from Spelling Bee. Not a solo but if done well it's heartbreaking"

People need to talk about this song and the Spelling Bee score overall way more frequently. This song in particular can make me bawl.

TerriP3
#42Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 1:33am

Not sure if this song qualifies......but in all my years of theater going, I sobbed the most during "Papa's Gonna Make It All Right" from Shennandoah.

Other songs that affected me:

Momma, Look Sharp from 1776

Not While I'm Around

Love Who You Love from Man of No Importance

 

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hork
#44Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 12:11pm

I find "Pity the Child" from Chess to be very sad.

funhamilton_rent
#45Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 4:00pm

"I'm Here" from The Color Purple

"It's Quiet Uptown" from Hamilton

"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton

"She Used to Be Mine" from Waitress

"For Good" from Wicked

"Everything I Know" from In The Heights

"Inutil" from In The Heights

"Alone In The Universe" from Seussical

"Underwater" from Caroline, or Change

"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from Rent

"Goodbye Love" from Rent

Just to name a few...

kreichelt
#46Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 7:58pm

You'll need to wait a few months for this one, but saddest song ever:  "So Big, So Small" from Dear Evan Hansen.

"It's Quiet Uptown" from Hamilton - you have to not be human to get through that without tears

"Goodbye Until Tomorrow" always gets me from The Last Five Years, but you kind of need that to be in the context of the show.  Same for "Finale" from Les Miserables.

I do love a good cry...

rangersrule132
#47Super Duper Sad Songs
Posted: 8/7/16 at 9:29pm

I'll cover you (reprise) and finale B from RENT


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