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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?

BroadwayConcierge

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#1
Posted: 8/29/17 at 2:15am

A bit of a personal thread question, I know, but we've had plenty of threads about workout songs and "I want" songs, and the like... now I'm curious to hear which songs from any Broadway musical are guaranteed to make you cry (and try your best to limit yourself to five, just for a fun challenge!). Here's mine:

5. "It's Quiet Uptown," Hamilton

4. "Wicked Little Town (Reprise)," Hedwig and the Angry Inch

3. "Move On," Sunday in the Park with George

2. "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story," Hamilton

1. "Being Alive," Company

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Updated On: 8/29/17 at 02:15 AM

Cfried

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#2
Posted: 8/29/17 at 2:23am

Interesting question!

1. "Sunday" - Sunday in the Park With George

2. "For Good" - Wicked

3. "I Will Never Leave You" - Side Show

4. "Finale" - The Hunchback of Notre Dame

5. "Those You've Known" - Spring Awakening

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 02:23 AM

ABB2357

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#3
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:03am

1. "Ring of Keys," FUN HOME

2. "Sunday," SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

3. "What I Did for Love," A CHORUS LINE

4. "I Hate the Bus," CAROLINE OR CHANGE

5. "Ready for Charge," THE FIRST WIVES CLUB (tears of laughter)

TenuousBond

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#4
Posted: 8/29/17 at 5:08am

"No One Is Alone"- Into the Woods

"Flying Away"- Fun Home

"Words Fail- DEH

"For Good"- Wicked

"Who Lives..."- Hamilton

Yasmin2

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#5
Posted: 8/29/17 at 9:05am

1. The Sacred Bird/ Little God of My Heart - Miss Saigon

2.Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton

3. Finale - Rent

4. For Good - Wicked

5. I Still Believe - Miss Saigon

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#6
Posted: 8/29/17 at 9:21am

1) Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom of the Opera (this was sung at my father's funeral)

2) Bring Him Home - Les Miserables

3) Empty Chairs at Empty Tables - Les Miserables

4) It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

5) Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story - Hamilton

A Canadian in NYC

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#7
Posted: 8/29/17 at 9:49am

So Big/So Small - Dear Evan Hansen

its Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

She Used to be Mine - waitress

You are Not Alone - Dear Evan hansen

Who Lives Who Dies - Hamilton

henrikegerman

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#8
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:01am

Effie Sing My Song DREAMGIRLS

It's Quiet Uptown HAMILTON

Fathers and Sons WORKING

Unlikely Lovers FALSETTOS

Hey Girlie TWO BY TWO

Updated On: 8/29/17 at 10:01 AM

henrikegerman

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#9
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:01am

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Updated On: 8/29/17 at 10:01 AM

Jshan05

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#10
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:02am

Sunday-Sunday In The Park With George

Flying Away-Fun Home

What Would I Do-Falsettos

Losing My Mind-Follies

How Could I Ever Know-The Secret Garden

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#11
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:03am

5. So Big/So Small - Dear Evan Hansen

4. It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

3. 10 Years Later/Finale - Come From Away

2. Unlikely Lovers - Falsettos

1. What Would I Do - Falsettos

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#12
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:08am

I don't cry much, and there's certainly no song that's guaranteed to make me cry, but these songs have elicited a few tears in the context of their shows:

"21 Guns" in American Idiot
"True Colors" in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
"Morning Glow" in Pippin
"Please Let Me Tell You" in The Most Happy Fella
"Somewhere" in West Side Story

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#13
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:29am

I literally shed at least 1 tear every single time I hear these songs

I'll Cover You (Reprise) - Rent

Something's Missing - Come From Away

Hold Me In Your Heart - Kinky Boots

The Next Ten Minutes - The Last 5 Years

Growing Dimmer - Inappropriate the Musical

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#14
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:31am

(Not in any particular order)

1. So Big/So Small from DEH

2. You Will Be Found from DEH

3. I Dreamed a Dance from Next to Normal

4. I Miss the Mountains from Next to Normal

5. Stay Alive (reprise) from Hamilton

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#15
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:46am

Passover - Elegies

The I Love You Song - Spelling Bee

Something Just Broke - Assassins

Tevye's Denial - Fiddler

Telephone Wire - Fun Home

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#16
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:51am

Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George

Unlikely Lovers - Falsettos

Midnight Radio - Hedwig

Self Portrait - A Class Act

You Don't Know This Man - Parade

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#17
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:54am

Reaching back:

"Never Will I Marry" from GREENWILLOW.

"Once Upon a Time" from ALL AMERICAN (even in a piano bar)

"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#18
Posted: 8/29/17 at 10:54am

My number one will be a cheat, since it's off-Broadway.

5. Who Lives, Who Dies - Hamilton

4. What Would I Do? - Falsettos

3. Natasha and Pierre - Great Comet

2. It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton

1. I'll Be Here - Ordinary Days

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#19
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:06am

i gotta run, but this question screams this one reply from me for now;

Another Winter In A Summer Town ; I was melted by Christine Ebersole...burned in my memories forever!

I Can Has Cheezburger With This?

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#20
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:12am

No More - Into the Woods

I Know the Truth - Aida

Who Lives, Who Dies - Hamilton

Make Them Hear You - Ragtime

For Good - Wicked

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#21
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:19am

"No One Is Alone," Into the Woods

"Prayer," Come From Away

"At the Ballet," A Chorus Line

"A Surprising Phone Call," The Lion

"Back To Before," Ragtime

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#22
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:20am

words Fail and so small/so big- dear Evan hansen

telephone wire- fun home

beautiful city- godspell

And I remember this musical I remember their brilliance And I might never sleep again...

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#23
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:22am

Was in the middle of typing and I accidentally hit post.

two more

anything can happen- mary poppins

The great comet of 1812- the great comet

And I remember this musical I remember their brilliance And I might never sleep again...

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#24
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:24am

I didn't necessarily love Bandstand, but I can't get even 5 seconds into the reprise of "Welcome Home" without actively crying.

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What Are Five Broadway Songs Guaranteed to Make You Cry?#25
Posted: 8/29/17 at 11:30am

No song is guaranteed to make me cry, but here are five that have at one time or another:

1. "Paciencia y Fe" - In the Heights

2. "Solidarity" - Billy Elliot

3. "Pity the Child" - Chess

4. "If Only You Would Listen" - School of Rock

5. "Goodbye Love" - Rent

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