Broadway Break Up Songs?
Broadway Break Up Songs?
#1Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 7:33pm
Hi yall!
I was wondering if there were any good Broadway Break Up Songs for people who just went through a break up and are trying to move on.
I added Forget About the Boy from Millie and I Dont Need Your Love from Six to the playlist....just wondering if yall could think of any other good ones.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#2Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 7:55pm
9 To 5: Get Out and Stay Out
Follies: Could I Leave You
High Fidelity: Desert Island Top Five Breakups
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
jo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 8:41pm
I'd Rather Leave When I'm in Love ( The Boy from Oz) --
Michelle chouraqui
Chorus Member Joined: 11/25/19
#5Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 8:41pm
You oughta know! (Jagged) best breakup song ever!
Good for you (DEH), is kind of a break up song.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#7Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 10:47pm
Listen to Christiane Noll’s great album “a broadway love story”
It’s the story of a woman recovering from a breakup and finding the strength to move on.
Also “we do not belong together” from “Sunday in the park” always makes me cry.
“Be on your own” from Nine.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#9Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/6/20 at 11:33pm
We Do Not Belong Together from Sunday in the Park would be the perfect example if not for the fact that George and Dot had been separated for awhile before the song. Still, it gets the same feel and serves the same purpose, and despite the two of them already separating, the song serves as the moment where it’s clear they won’t get back together (although they kind of, sort of do in the very end).
Another example that follows the same basic outline and hits all the beats but isn’t technically a breakup song is Burn from Hamilton. Eliza and Hamilton don’t actually breakup, but this song represents all romance leaving their lives, despite the fact that they stay married.
GhostXmasPast
Understudy Joined: 11/4/16
#11Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 12:30am
Another Suitcase in Another Hall
- Evita
(Depending one which side of breakup on finds oneself on.)
Kitsune
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/06
#12Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 12:39am
These are all great. I would add "There's a Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q.
carolinaguy
Broadway Star Joined: 10/13/06
#13Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 6:50am“Take Me or Leave Me” from Rent
I'm sending pictures of the most amazing trees/You'll be obsessed with all my forest expertise
seaweedjstubbs
Broadway Star Joined: 3/21/07
#15Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 4:04pm
Thank you everyone for all the suggestions! I'll definitely add these to the playlist. <3
My boyfriend recently dumped me and left me for his best friend, so I needed some good theatre break up songs to help me get through it and help me move on and find peace !
#16Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 4:46pm
"Take Him" from Pal Joey
"Many a New Day" from Oklahoma!
"Just You Wait" and "Without You" from My Fair Lady
"What Did I Ever See in Him?" from Bye Bye Birdie
"I Wouldn't Marry You" from The Gay Life
And so many, many others. Endless list going back to early Italian and German opera and 19th and 20th century operetta. See "Der Hölle Rache" from Mozart's operatic songspiel The Magic Flute, in which The Queen of the Night places a dagger in her daughter's hand and tells her to stab her father to death. If that's not breaking up, what is?
davidbrian81
Chorus Member Joined: 8/29/13
#18Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/7/20 at 6:06pm
Half of Chess. That used to be my breakup album when I was younger. Tell Me on a Sunday (Song & Dance) also has a bunch of breakup songs. Hope you feel better soon.:)
#19Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/8/20 at 12:21am
"He's No Good" and "I'm Leaving You" from The Life. In the first song, Queen sings about her toxic relationship with Fleetwood, and in the latter, she actually breaks up with him. The first song may not really qualify as a break-up song, but it's a gut-wrenching number, especially as it was performed by Pamela Isaacs on Broadway. It certainly put things in perspective for me after I had also been in a toxic relationship and helped me to move on.
Updated On: 2/8/20 at 12:21 AM
MollyJeanneMusic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/10/19
#20Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/8/20 at 11:26am
"So Long Dearie" from Hello, Dolly definitely fits this category as a happier breakup song. As for something sadder and more cathartic, "Burn" from Hamilton works.
"I think that when a movie says it was 'based on a true story,' oh, it happened - just with uglier people." - Peanut Walker, Shucked
#21Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/8/20 at 11:06pmDefinitely “So Long Dearie “ from Hello Dolly. I’d add on “ No More Tears” from Summer - The Donna Summer Musical.
#23Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/9/20 at 11:46pm
"I'm Way Ahead" -- SEESAW
"You Want to Be My Friend?" -- CLOSER THAN EVER
"I Never Wanted to Love You" -- FALSETTOS
"The Honeymoon Is Over" -- I DO! I DO!
"Almost" -- I HAD A BALL
"In Love in Vain" -- Kern/Robin (from a film, but still...)
"Wherever He Ain't" -- MACK AND MABEL
"Two's Company" -- THE MAGIC SHOW
"Take Him" -- PAL JOEY
"I Resolve" -- SHE LOVES ME
"The Man That Got Away" -- Arlen/Gershwin (again, from a film)
"By Myself" -- BETWEEN THE DEVIL
"Never Will I Marry" -- GREENWILLOW
NightMusic3
Swing Joined: 4/12/15
#24Broadway Break Up Songs?
Posted: 2/10/20 at 1:04am"Thank You So Much" from Do I Hear a Waltz? is a sweet little heartbreaker. Always been fond of the line "Thank you so much for something between ridiculous and sublime."
