Songs That Have Moved You To Tears- Page 2

[Demitri2]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:47am

"The Music That Makes Me Dance" - FUNNY GIRL
"Happy Birthday" - ZORBA
"Momma Look Sharp" - 1776

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:22pm

Yes I forgot Momma Look Sharp also from 1776. Duh.

Also, to agree with some above - Being Alive - Company & For Good - Wicked.

Adding - The finale and just about any song with Tateh, The Mother and the children in Ragtime.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:29pm

Next to Normal - start with I am the one (reprise with Dan and Gabe) through Light - I am a mess

Big Fish - How it ends/be the hero

End of the Rainbow - Tracey Bennett singing "Over the Rainbow" - just crushing



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[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:30pm

"Epilogue/Finale" of Les Miserables - when Fantine steps out and sings "Take my hand..." I just burst out in tears.

"Lament" from Evita, as well. I try to contain myself but the feeling is strong.

[followspot]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 12:37pm

I can only think of one time. "Go Back Home" — Scottsboro Boys. Lost it completely.

[broadwaytbay]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 1:55pm

though I have not seen a production "LEARNING TO LET GO" from Elegies, For Angels Punks and Raging Queens just destroys me, as does "ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS" from Tick, Tick, Boom also reduces me to a puddle every time.

[lost4616]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 2:18pm

Apparently I cry easily...

The reprise of "Falling Slowly" from Once
Move On/Sunday - Sunday in the Park With George
I Am the One - Next to Normal
How it Ends/Be the Hero - Big Fish
Good Thing Going - Merrily We Roll Along
Fifty Percent - Ballroom
How Glory Goes - Floyd Collins
Let the Sunshine In - Hair (this may have been due to the fact that I had a massive amount of vodka in my system when I saw it)

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 2:54pm

So many... but, only songs from "In The Heights" come to mind at the moment.
Breathe
and probably the only uptempo song to do so: Enough

I know "Next to Normal" had me going several times. As did "Momma" from Spelling Bee.

I think the first time I remember crying at a musical was "Where is Love?" from Oliver!

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 3:56pm

Definitely the part of the finale to MAN OF LA MANCHA where Aldonza starts singing "Dulcinea" and "The Inpossible Dream," and as the OP said, "Children & Art."

[kurt.perry41]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 3:59pm

No matter how many times I hear it, I always cry listening to "My Brother Lived in San Francisco"

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 6:25pm

While I don't identify much with the material, the last song in Fun Home, Flying Away, moved me to tears in the theater and still does today.

[gleek4114]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:15pm

A lot of mine have already been said but I would like to add:

- "Pretty Funny" among others from Dogfight
- "When There's No One" from Carrie
- "How Could You" among others from Scandalous
- "This Man" from Chaplin

I will post more if I think of them.

[veronicamae]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:22pm

oh man, ok...

"The Letter" from Billy Elliot
"Learn to Live Without" & "Always Starting Over" from If/Then
"You Must Love Me" from Evita (movie, obvs)
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" from RENT
"With You" from Ghost
"Heaven Help My Heart" from Chess

I don't necessarily sob openly whenever I hear these, but I've gotten a little misty-eyed at least once.

[AHLiebross]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:22pm

The finale of "Les Mis" and the last scene in "Carousel" get me every time. "Wishing You were Somehow Here Again" moves me to tears when I think about it at home because it makes me remember my own beloved, musical father. There's a Jewish song, I think by Doug Kotler, that they often sing in synagogue before the Kaddish Prayer -- "A Rose in December" -- that always gets me crying. I guess death stuff does it to me -- I clutched my dog and sobbed at the end of "Marley and Me." I always want to cry at the last line in "The Phantom of the Opera," the reprise of "Music of the Night," "It's over now, the music of the night." As for "Music of the Night" itself, it's my favorite song of all time, but it doesn't make me want to cry -- instead it makes me think about much happier activities.

[boggess]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:30pm

"Fable" from The Light in the Piazza always has me in tears by the end.

Many parts in Next to Normal as well, but the worst to me isn't even in one of the songs- the bit where Diana remembers Gabe and Dan finally tells her what happened. "And I was a child raising a child... we stayed up all night. Most nights you slept at his side. But still he just cried..." That part destroys me.

[promisespromises2]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 7:48pm

^The part that destroys me in Next to Normal are the lines in Aftershocks... "Your life goes back to normal now, or so they all believe. Your heart is in your chest again, not hanging from your sleeve." As someone who studies psychology (humanistic and existentialism) it hits HARD. I adore Next to Normal.

And I'm glad a lot of people are saying SITPWG. My friends think it's crazy how emotional I get over the show!

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[Gorlois]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:01pm

Bernadette Peters' has an effect on me. Her "Not a Day Goes By" and "Losing My Mind" make me a baby.

[PixelJD]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:22pm

A number of times in "Les Mis", A part that really gets me is in "Drink With Me" when Grantaire starts singing "Can it be, You fear to die?"

I am the one {Reprise} in Next To Normal

I am surprised to see that only one person has mentioned "This Man" from Chaplin; that got me!

And I'm not too sure if this counts because it's not technically in the song, but the dialogue in "Goodbye" from Catch Me If You Can also gets me.

[phantomcrazy14]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:28pm

Phew, this would normally be a long list, but I'll make it short

"The Letter" - Billy Elliot. I had a rough time coming out with my family, and my best friend sang it to me and changed the words around a bit and since then I cry.
"I Don't Care Much" - Cabaret
"Losing My Mind" - Follies
"No One Is Alone" - Into the Woods
The final scene of Ghost, especially when she sees him again
"Finishing the Hat" - Sunday...
"As If We Never Said Goodbye" - Sunset Boulevard. Especially if they can really hit that "I've come home at last"

Then, Phantom of the Opera was my first show, and I've seen it four times. Every time I cry during the Overture just because it reminds me of what's put me on my path of life. And then the end when he starts singing "Masquerade" to the monkey. Ugh the feels.

[RW3]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:53pm

For Good-Wicked
I Hate You, I Love You-If/Then
Hang the Moon-Smash
Always Starting Over-If/Then
With You-Ghost
Last Night of the World-Miss Saigon
I'd Give my life for you-Miss Saigon
All I ask of you(phantom part)-The Phantom of the Opera
Legally Blonde(I'm not kidding)-Legally Blonde the Musical
Edelweiss-The Sound of Music
Climb Ev'ry Mountain(Audra McDoanld version)-The Sound of Music Live

[veronicamae]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 8:59pm

Oh I forgot to include "Unexpected Song."

And "I'll Be Here" - that Adam Gwon song Audra sings in concert.

[hushpuppy]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 9:53pm

The list is long, but may I add two songs from two lovely shows that deserved better runs:

"The Next Best Thing to Love" from A CLASS ACT
"Promise of the Morning" from SUMMER OF '42"

and a song that always devastates me: "What Would I Do" from FALSETTOLAND

[RJ COMMUNICATIONS]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:23pm

One song interpretation that had me bawling was "Old Friend" sung by Renee Elise Goldsberry this past summer in "I'm Getting My Act Together..." at Encores. The whole audience was BLOWN AWAY.

[harris007]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:31pm

"How could i ever know" from Secret Garden

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 3/10/14 at 11:32pm

Most shows I've only experienced via the cast recording so the list of sad shows that I've seen is limited, but I remember full on sobbing at a regional production of The Scarlet Pimpernel when Marguerite sang "I'll Forget You." Up until then the show is mostly a musical comedy with lots of laugh out loud scenes that are made even funnier if the actor playing Percy throws in some improvised lines, but then that scene comes along and Marguerite is facing the guillotine sure that she will never see Percy again and that he'll never know the truth about her and she sings that song and I just lost it. It felt good though.