Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up, and sobbing like a bitch?- Page 3
Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up, and sobbing like a bitch?
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#50re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 12:25amonce on this island. performing it and seeing it. i bawl every single time.
#51re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:29am
The original production of Sweeney Todd
Frozen
The 1974 Broadway production of Of Mice and Men with James Earl Jones and Kevin Conway
Sunday in the Park With George when Harry Groener and Maryann Plunkett were doing it
The original production of Merrily We Roll Along
The Jonathan Miller production of Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Kabuki play Sumidagawa at the Met in the early 1980s, with Utaemon and Kawabata
Twelve Dreams at Lincoln Center
The original production of Bosoms and Neglect
The Light in the Piazza
Updated On: 5/19/06 at 03:29 AM
SueleenGay
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/03
#52re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:57am
When The Color Purple was snubbed!
Who snubbed The Color Purple?
PEACE.
#53re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 3:58amPassion, the king and i
"This ocean runs more dark and deep than you may think you know...I'll be the fear of the fire at sea."
-Marie Christine
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#54re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 4:02amthe onyl time it has seriously cause me trouble in getting up after the performance was "Feeling Electric" last NYMF last year. The last 20 minutes of that show had me sobbing uncontrolably.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#55re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 5:12amI cried at Dog sees God...
#56re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 5:36am
The only time I've ever cried in a theatre was the first time I saw Les Mis, a couple of weeks after the death of my father.
That aside, the end of both acts of the recent London Sunday in the Park with George left me completely floored, as did Victoria Clarke singing Fable at the end of Piazza.
#57re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 6:49amPassion and Ragtime (end of act 1) Emotions go wild for me in these shows!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#58re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 7:15amPiazza! I was like a baby...
#59re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 7:57amRent
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall
#60re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:05amWhen Bernadette Peters sang "Stay With Me" from Into the Woods.
"I'm like a helmet without a head." - mc in Dream On's episode 65 -"And Bobby Makes Three"
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#61re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:12am
The London production of INTO THE WOODS
The revival of CABARET
CompletlyNakedStatue
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/06
#62re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:14am
The Pillowman really kicked my ass. I loved it.
The first 2 times I saw Les Miserables (years!!! ago) I cried like a baby and couldn't sleep after.
Side Show from the front row, the night after it opened on Broadway... that was amazing. Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner bawling their eyes out, everyone involved in the show was clearly very moved.
Floyd Collins. That last song "How Glory Goes" took my breath away.
#63re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:16amThe Light in the Piazza leaves me an absolute mess.
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
BKLYN_FAN
Chorus Member Joined: 5/4/04
#64re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:35amXXX
#65re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 8:37am
The first time it happened to me I was about 10 years old and it was at the end of "Miss Saigon" - I was crying so hard from "Please" through to the end that my mother made me put my head between my knees because she thought I was going to hyperventalate.
More recent... sobfests have been at Light in the Piazza, Side Show, Nine (THE END with the "you'll be forty and I'll be.." kills me.
I cry every time I see Les Mis, but not a sobfest. Except the LAST time I saw it on broadway and I knew it was going to be my last time because it was closing, I was nearly hysterical during "Bring Him Home" and the Finale.
Though if I'd known I'd have it back in 3 and a half years I wouldn't have been quite so hysterical....
Now what would you say if today I started over?
Without a thing but this taped together four leaf clover
And I'll pretend like everything is already alright
And I'll run toward the sun till the castle's out of sight
#66re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 10:45amI've gotten teary during a few shows (Ragtime and Passion)and really really excited(1st preview of Sweeney) but one that I sobbed uncontrollably at was the last performance of Gypsy. I was just sobbing during curtain call...I couldn't stop. That has never happened to me before and after.
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
#67re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:09am
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia. in-friggin-credible
Movin' Out - Act 1 Finale
The Fantasticks at Sullivan St. Playhouse
#68re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:10am
Amen to Blood Brothers. "Tell Me it's Not True" if staged correctly can be amazingly powerful.
Others:
M'lynn's breakdown in Steel Magnolias
I saw a production of Bat Boy where the show started with the deaths of Meredith, Edgar and Dr Parker as a sort of prelude. It made it all the more powerful for the audience when they finally saw how that scene came to happen.
Yes that's me. No, it's not a Rent homage.
#69re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:26am
Bash- "A Gaggle of Saints" left me immobile. It was a realization point for me.
Angels in America- Pretty much throughout the whole play... both parts. Especially Prior's ending monologue.
Secret Garden- I'm a mess on every other song basically.
Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens- You're not human if this doesn't make you collapse into sobs.
"Wickedness is a term invented by society to account for the curious attractivness of others." -Oscar Wilde
#70re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:29amI sobbed at Falsettoland at Playwrights Horizons in 1990 and Ragtime. Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman got me choked up in Phantom.
timmmmmmmmmy
TimWarp
Swing Joined: 2/22/06
#71re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:39am
Man of LaMancha--I saw it when I was a kid and it just destroyed me.
Miss Saigon
Les Mis
The middle of Lion King where they kill the father (and then they're singing "Hakuna Matata" before the intermission--wtf? I'm still blubbering, not ready for a happy jolly song!)
DG
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/05
#72re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:42am
THE ELEPHANT MAN
BENT
THE KING AND I
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
Becky
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#73re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:45amNormal Heart and Parade. COMPLETE mess of tears.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#74re: Shows that left you in a mess of tears, unable to breathe nor stand up,
Posted: 5/19/06 at 11:46am
The very first time I saw CHORUS LINE, opening month of the national tour in Chicago. Paul's monologue ends, the audience has been totally transfixed and I discover tears are just STREAMING down my face. It was an amazing monent.
Updated On: 5/19/06 at 11:46 AM
