Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
#1Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:15pm
I am currently writing an essay about how theater has made an emotional impact on me. Whether it was "A Normal Heart" because it made me see the toll that AIDS has on the individual but their family and friends as well or Jersey Boys during "Fallen Angel" because my friend recently lost her child. There are shows that have made me so happy I have cried as well. Here are a few other shows that have made me tear up. Some I am embarrassed to share
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Billy Elliot
Sondheim Celebration
La Cage
Wicked
Mary Poppins
August Osage County
Hair
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
#2Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:19pm
Blood Brothers
Love Story
All My Sons
Once Upon A Time At The Adelphi
And came very close at:
After the Dance
Umbrellas of Cherbourg
next to normal
#2Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:22pm
Angels in America
The Coast of Utopia
Passing Strange
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#3Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:23pm
Jersey Boys and Next to Normal. Yeah, I said it.
My mom cried at Les Miserables.
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Updated On: 3/20/11 at 08:23 PM
#4Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:25pm
Next to Normal
A Chorus Line
Passing Strange
Grey Gardens
Sunday in the Park With Georg
A Tale of Two Cities
Billy Elliot
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#5Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:25pmThe Scottsboro Boys.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#6Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:44pm
In order of when I saw them:
1) RENT
2) NEXT TO NORMAL
3) NEXT FALL - This was f'ing brilliant!
4) SOUTH PACIFIC
5) A LIFE IN THE THEATRE - the one section at the end when Patrick Stewart's character attempted suicide by slashing his wrist, but pass it off as an accident.
My mother cried at WOMEN ON THE VERGE primarily because the day before, she found out my father was cheating on her, and the Patti LuPone character (sans the insanity) was the state my mother was in, verbatim.
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claruga
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#7Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:54pm
1) RENT
2) Spring Awakening (all time fav show)
3) Mary Poppins
4) Les Miserables
#8Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 8:57pm
I'm an unapologetic crier. I won't count 'misting up' -- only downright sobbing. The top criers for me have been:
THE GOAT or WHO IS SYLVIA? (Los Angeles)
LES MISERABLES (London, before it was a 'sensation')
THE PRIVATE MESSAGE WHERE BRDWYPHREAK TOLD ME TO NEVER CONTACT HIM / HER (or HIMHER) VIA PRIVATE MESSAGE AGAIN
Okay, that last one admittedly didn't evoke tears.
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#9Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:09pm
Angels in America, A Chorus Line, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Crucible, Othello, Hairspray, Rent, Into the Woods, Les Miserables, Cirque du Soleil's "O", Wit, The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Aftermath, Cirque Eloize's "Rain", Hair, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, tick... tick ... BOOM!, Well.
Just off the top of my head.
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#10Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:10pm
I tend to tear up a lot when I go to the theatre. Not outright cry but definitely tear up. It won't even have anything to do with the plot. I think it's my pure love for the theatre and just being there.
The first show that comes to mind for me is South Pacific. The first time I saw it I cried from the moment that sweeping overture touched my soul to the moment where Emil & Nellie's hands clasped under the table.
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#11Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:10pm
I cried like a baby after Act 1 the first time I saw Children of Eden...the show is flawed, but damn is (some of) that score beautiful...
Les Mis, Sunday in the Park (Lesson 8/Move On/Finale), Secret Garden, Passion, Ragtime.
Close to tears: Night Music finale (I think you know what I'm talking about...when Frederik confesses his love for Desiree, the music swells, and they embrace), Camelot finale, Music Man (when Harold sings Til There Was You).
And there's something about Betty Buckley...every time I hear her I get chills/almost tears.
#12Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:11pm
Next to Normal-So Anyway always gets me
Ragtime-Sarah's Death/'Till We Reach That Day made me choke up, along with the fact that it was the closing night of a show very near and dear to my heart
A Little Night Music-When Bernadette Peters looked me square in the eye, while weeping during Send in the Clowns, I completely lost it
Les Misérables-Honorable Mention: The first and (so far) only time I saw the show, I began to tear up at the end of 'One Day More'. I was blubbering like an idiot and asking my mom "What the hell did I just see?!" out of sheer amazement
#13Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:18pm
I have only cried 3 times during a show.
The final performance of Next to Normal
and the last 2 times I saw HAIR (Thursday before closing, and closing performance).
It takes a lot to get to me
#14Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:33pm
wow- where to begin?
My first broadway show, Titanic. Then followed by many but the ones I remember without going through my playbills: Ragtime, (Even more in the revival, but it's because the show has grown so close to me over the years, Beauty and the Beast, Les Mis- not the first time, but every time I've seen it since then, I cry at least 3 times. The Scottsboro Boys (balled both times, both at the Vineyard and Broadway), Sunday in the park revival, Rent, Next to Normal.
Special mention to Journey's End. My brother was in Afghanitstan at the time, and we were so unsure about what was going to happen to him, And then that last two minutes followed by the final tableux (you know what I mean if you saw it) had me literally convulsing. I hugged my boyfriend, and just sobbed and sobbed. I've never had such a reaction to a piece of art than I did at that theater.
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#15Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:36pmI think you meant "bawled" unless Scottsboro boys really turned you on, and having seen the commercial I can see how that might happen.
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#16Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:37pm
West Side Story
The Phantom of the Opera
Les Miserables
Love Never Dies
A Little Night Music
Merrily We Roll Along
Sweeney Todd
RENT
Fiddler on the Roof
All for different reasons...
#17Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:40pm
Next To Normal - I cried at several scenes, and as said above, "So Anyway" get's me too.
Billy Elliot - yeah...quite embarassing but true.
Gypsy - Gypsy shouting at Rose (especially in the recent revival) shock me up.
La Cage - Douglas Hodge, sitting in the corner, while Kelsey sang "Look Over There", really struck me and was very poignant (spelling? Sorry!)
Spamalot - More of a sentimental reason, "The Song That Goes Like This" is the iconic song between me and a friend, who i'll never see again, and when i seen the show, i cried at it... yikes! haha
#18Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:41pmOh yes, I'll agree with Gypsy. That bow that Angela Lansbury did after Rose's Turn makes me cry everytime.
Hannahbelle
Understudy Joined: 9/20/08
#19Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:45pmI very rarely cry at anything. Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby made me cry when I was in high school, because I felt I was growing up too fast and couldn't stop myself. Rent made me cry because I had recently lost a friend and identified with Tom Collins, particularly when he sang, "I'll Cover You".
#20Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:50pmBilly Elliot, Ragtime, Next to Normal, The Book of Mormon, Angels in America.
#21Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:53pm
LES MISERABLES is the only show that made me CRY.
There have been MOMENTS in other shows that have caught me off guard the first time I saw it live and performers in roles that brought me to tears with their brilliance, but LES MIZ is the most emotional theatrical experience I have experienced... Um... Yeah. Did that make sense? *lol*
THE PRODUCERS made me cry with laughter.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#22Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 9:54pm
It takes very little to get me to cry. I tear up at pretty much everything, and I'm moved to tears by many.
Next to Normal- I sobbed
Rent- Angel's funeral and the end
Ragtime- ends of act 1 and 2
Yank
Shrek- Who I'd Be; I'm ashamed, but Brian d'Arcy James' voice gets me at that moment
La Cage- Douglas Hodge's "I Am What I Am"
Hair- the end
The Scottsboro Boys
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#23Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:06pm
Beauty and the Beast-I cry. Every. Time.
RENT
Mary Poppins- Step in Time and the ending flying sequence.
The Color Purple
Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan
Cats- With Stephanie J. Block and Ken Page
Wicked
Shrek
South Pacific
9 to 5
I'm a sucker for Overtures too. The minute an overture starts, I usually start tearing up.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#24Full Disclosure: Shows that have made you cry
Posted: 3/20/11 at 10:09pm
I've never actually cried during a show, but I teared up during:
Grey Gardens
110 in the Shade
Light in the Piazza
Gypsy
ALNM
Ragtime
Fiddler
