Top 10 Broadway Songs That Are Beautifully Powerful 

Gravity, Lilly’s eyes, children of Eden, My Man.

My mom raised me on Rodgers and Hammerstein and NOWHERE was ANY mention of the King and I'd Shall We Dance? I'm shocked!

I think your picks are awful 😵‍💫

I mean I think that Make Them Hear You from Ragtime shoulda made it in

Hey guys, congrats! Please, make a a top 10 list of the most difficult Broadway/off Broadway/ Hollywood musicals songs best sung, will you? I would include Getting Married Today / Putting it Together and Supercalifragilistiexpialidocious/Mary Poppins, both by the great Julie Andrews, as well as Don't Rain on My Parade, by Streisand! The rest is on you, thanks a bunch.

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Good choice

Yes indeed! "South Pacific" was highly controversial when it premiered and still challenges the prejudices of many.

My favorite musical and a very powerful song!

@@mdeysenroth great musical. Younger than spring time. And this nearly was mine. Are also very moving.

"Younger than springtime" anyone?

Oh yes!!

I love Do You Hear the People Sing. Such an emotional song.

Heart wrenching beautifil!

Agree, some very questionable songs on the list

But didja ever hear Angela Lansburys version? They're both great. But nobody could ever beat Dame Angela as an actress.

Most now haven't ever heard that.

It takes more to sing powerfully than just being able to carry a tune, mic or not. Problem is, when you're trying to sing over an entire orchestra without a mic then the type of music you can do remains very limited.

@@sdigf3167 I know, and that's a shame. It's so thrilling to hear a performer do that and only those with a truly powerful voice can do it.

Mine is Once Upon a Dream.

Yes! Jekyll and Hyde doesn't get the love it deserves!

@@jenniferczerniawski9177 Absolutely! I fell in love with it when I heard the song The First Transformation. I was so impressed because the song is so physical.

It was a fantastic show!

i was outside ready to do my exercise for the day and I put my earphones on to listen to my just received special order of the west end original cast recording of Miss Saigon. I did not move for almost 3 hours. The show was still 2ish year away from its Broadway opening. I have accepted the fact that even though Miss Saigon is my favorite show very few come close to agreeing.Les Misérables, the casting in lead roles in productions including on Broadway where Chris(male lead) was off key throughout the whole show. Yes we all have our favorites but was there ever cast boring Thenardiers nope but boring The Engineer yep. And the Miss Saigon ending( rewritten numerous times) with different music and words was never anything but heartbreaking as it was meant to be. and with the various amazing Kim's how could your heart not break. There was little in the show to raise your spirits. But the Score the Score the Score so magnificent. There was no attempt to sugar coat it (Broadway It) you could leave the Theater feeling good. These were not the best of times for humankind. How brave the creative team allowed this to be.Cameron Mackintosh Producer Nicholas Hytner Director Bob Avian staged the musical numbers. Alain Boublil Book - Lyrics Claude-Michel Schonberg Book- Composer and RICHARD MALTBY JR. ALL THE WORDS SPOKEN AND SUNG IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

I have so many great shows and Feeling Good is not in my top 10 but the above remark is spot on Mr Price stopped the show in a way I had never seen before or since!

Especially some of the great 6-7 songs from Phantom!

@@TiVoMan66 I like all three shows I mentioned.

Masquerade always gets me...

I agree!

I lose it when I hear "Think of Me" from Phantom...I'm just a big puddle!

I was just coming to mention nothing from the Phantom...which is my all time favorite. Masquerade...The Music of the Night...Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again...

Andrew got the money. He didn't care about source. Im sure he's OK with that...

Do You Love Me? makes me tear up every time

My father used Sunrise, Sunset in the speech he made at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding. Still brings tears to my eyes remembering it.

My father sang it at my wedding also. It brings me to tears. What a wonderful memorable moment I will treasure especially since he passed.

Same! My bestie is doing Chorus Line but I'm not in it sadly 😢 It's the PG version but it's still fun

Agreed! Goosebumps just thinking about it!

Should be #1

Agreed. Back in '92, I took part in an Aids benefit at St. Malachy's (The Actors' Chapel) in NYC. I read "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," by W.B.Yeats, and pretty much blew people away. Then Colm Wilkinson sang bring him home. After that, I'm sure no one in the audience remembered what I'd done except, possibly, my son.

@@conroche1535 Great post. ☺️

​@@conroche1535I mean, it could've been worse. You could've gone after Colm.

Three great additions.

Absolutely agree

Also, "Somewhere" from "Westside Story. and "Where is Love" from "Oliver."

"Memory"

Love Susan!

Barbra Streisand did a great version

Betty Buckley!

@@Beowulfie Betty Buckley, the master. No one can compare.

I’m surprised the Les Mis song wasn’t higher on the list

so is I dreamed a Dream, so is On My Own, So is Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, So is Bring Him Home, so is the red and the black...pretty much all bangers!!

Agree 💯 %. Best version of Company ever.

Far too few people even know Paul Robeson's name, but everyone should know his name, his voice, and his story.

Agreed.

NPH does a pretty good job imho

He's awesome🥹❤️

Maybe it was left out because Porgy and Bess is officially an opera (though I've often thought that's how Les Mis should be classified...but isn't). I have to admit, though, that if P & B had been included, I would have been hard-pressed to choose between "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now"--the latter never fails to give me major goosebumps.

Honestly, the most powerful song in Porgy and Bess is It Ain’t Necessarily So, but Porgy and Bess is an opera, not a musical. In contrast, Les Mis was absolutely written for the Broadway stage.

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Empty Chairs for one.

Maybe more people's choices would have been included if the list had been expanded to 20.

Yes, I thought the same thing.

Nobody but nobody sings it like Richard. Kylie, I could listen to it over and over and over all day long. I love it so much!!

I agree!!! I saw him on Broadway and it was magical.

I saw him on Broadway, he was stupendous.

Or, from the same show: "Some Enchanted Evening"; "This Nearly Was Mine", and "Carefully Taught"--and SOUTH PACIFIC isn't even my favorite Rodgers & Hammerstein! (Don't get me started on CAROUSEL and THE KING AND I!)

It's a great song, but it would not have been my #1 either. You would appreciate it in the context of the show.

I never heard of it either. Bring Him Home would be my top Pick.

A fantastic Sondheim show! If you ever have the chance to see it - go!!

funny, I just posted the same comment. Glad I'm not alone.

I agree, and when I listened to the excerpt was not impressed. So many more powerful, meaningful songs.

Like Ms Mojo lists, this was made by some 20-something who doesn't know anything about the genre.

@@essaboselin5252 if that was a stab at me, my 3 theatre degrees prove otherwise (but thank you for calling me a 20-something, I’m actually in my 30s). If you were saying that Ms Mojo know nothing about what real powerful musical numbers are, you are correct.

Oh, good call. The way Nancy defends her cruel and abusive paramour; by making herself believe he needs her and so it's OK for him to hit her breaks my heart.

@@essaboselin5252 There's definitely a recency bias here! I would not have included anything from RENT. Not a single Jerry Herman song - nothing from Hello Dolly or Music Man? Guys and Dolls (Sit Down, you're Rockin' the Boat)? Nothing from Funny Girl?

There is a fantastic version of this song at the concert where women sing men's songs and men sing Women'ssongs.

So simple yet so powerful, definitely agree with you here!

Same! I don't usually listen to DEH(I'm more of a Beetlejuice girl)but that song is so amazing!

Oh GOD YES ! I HAD FORGOT ABOUT THAT ONE,ONE OF THE BEST.

I guess I'm not familiar with this, but it made me think of "This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific, which might have made the list.

Absolutely

She used to be mine is from Waitress

YES. That one breaks me every time.

SO so SO so good.

Also "For Good" from Wicked. Both songs make me cry every time.

No more from into the woods as well

I not even joking when I say that I thought of both of those songs while watching the video! for good and no one is alone are on my daily playlist for forever!

Thank you!!

Oh, my goodness, yes. As I commented earlier, I found this list much too slanted to the more recent musicals.

Jennifer Holiday . You know the play and her showstopper ❤

Everything's coming up Roses from Gypsy.

Impossible not to or the list would be a mockery which it is anyway! Actgually in all fairness there is no right or wrong and this is ART so the Beauty is in the EAR of the Listener.

Thank you!! My thoughts exactly! Who do you think sings it best?

Absolutely agree. I was bitterly disappointed when a snippet from "Make Our Garden Grow" was shown in the introductory material and then didn't even make it into the Honorable Mentions.

I love that moment too. It's like time is suspended for a shimmering moment.