MsMojo I sobbed like a BABY at the end of Come From Away when Hannah called Beula after finding out her son was dead and then started singing “I Am Here” I cried SO MUCH
I can't speak on behalf of everyone but I cry at that mostly because I think it's sweet that, having married an orphan and probably having heard from him how tough it was to survive on his own, she then created an orphanage after his death, almost as if she's honoring him while also providing the opportunity for orphaned kids to have a safe place to stay and someone to rely on and have a slightly better start to life than Hamilton did. Plus, not to mention, Eliza went through the pain of losing her son, so the fact that she decides to take even more kids under her wing is super sweet.
She literally said at the beginning, it's not just sad songs, but meaningful songs, too. Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story is tear-enducing not because it's sad, but because it's meaningful, powerful, and reflective!
First time I heard Used To Be Mine on Spotify I had to pull over. I was crying so hard because I too suffered from an abusive relationship and was still trying to figure “who” I was after leaving that relationship. Hands down that song has been the most profound song in my whole life.
A few summers ago I heard this song for the very first time I can't remember what I was doing at the moment but I completely collapsed in tears, downloaded the song and the sheet music, learned to play it, I'm obsessed.
Me: Ok this is the 50th time I'm listening to Hamilton I'm not gonna cry this time- Hamilton: The Orphange Me (tearing up): Ok come on you can pull through without crying- Hamilton: in there eyes I see you Alexander, I see you every time Me: *bauling my eyes out while scream crying*
The firsts acts are almost always lighthearted and sweet and trick you into thinking the second act will be just as lighthearted but then the angst just hits you like a brick in the first song of act 2 and keep it up for the rest of the musical
@@sr98851Even better if the start of act two is all perfect and they have a moment which could’ve been a perfect ending where everyone remains happy, then right after everything just goes downhill (no this is not aimed at falsettos no way, but that musical should’ve ended after a day in falsettoland so I could live thinking everything was alright)
Bro when Phillip died during the "stay alive reprise" and "it's quiet uptown" I cried my eyes out and just when I thought that the sad part is over, NOPE Alexander died and I completely lost it, I sware I never cried so much over a show in my life I was shaking it was so freaking sad, then my parents heared me crying and I'm sure they had thoughts of giving me up for adoption when I said that I'm crying over the death of Alexander Hamilton, even I myself was asking myself "wtf why are you crying so hard over a founding father!?" Haha
"I'm Here" from The Color Purple is heartbreaking! A woman, who is abused and neglected all her life, finally realizes her beauty. Cynthia Orivo kills this song!!
Agreed! It's so haunting and also relatable. It's basically the Ode to Survivors's Guilt and is usually so powerful with it's stark presentation on stage. The shades of his deceased companions in the background turn already sad song into something harrowing and yeah, it kills me every time. (As does the finale, so, I don't fault MsMojo for her choice.)
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom of the Opera Someday - Hunchback of Notre Dame Without You - Rent When You Believe - Prince of Egypt and It's Quiet Uptown - Hamilton
In defense of the Wicked Witch in the original movie, a house falls on her sister, killing her. She wants her sisters magical shoes, a family heirloom. Then, the girl, whose very house killed her sister, gets to walk off with the shoes that should rightfully be hers... Tbh I'd be pissed too
Really though Wicked DOES excuse what she does because she didn't actually do anything wrong? Created the Tin Man? Did it to save him after her sister removed his heart. Same with the Scarecrow she did it to save him. Really the only bad thing she does in the whole story is lock Dorthy up while trying to get back Nessa's shoes.
I did wonder. When I both read the books and see the show together.. I kinda questioned whether Elpheba was actually the "good" one and Glinda just got taken up in all the publicity since Elphaba was still trying to stay true and stand up for rights of others. Glinda seemed happier in the spotlight, even if she used it to let her friend go, she still remained in charge? Few years since I have seen/read so please correct if wrong. :)
Fun fact: "the world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me" was an actual quote that Aaron Burr would say whenever someone would ask him about killing Hamilton
I love Sara's version. It's so real. And that song basically describes the life of my best friend. I remember her being pregnant and scared and, thankfully, everything worked out. But I send her this song all the time. "Have you heard this?!?!" She's always like, "Yes, every time you send it to me." LOL
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables just makes me ugly cry. As does Satisfied from Hamilton because Angelica loves Eliza so much and I love that. Also The Movie In My Mind from Miss Saigon. And Alabanza from In The Heights. Tbh there’s probably one song in every musical that makes me cry. EDIT: I feel betrayed that Atención/Alabanza is only an honourable mention. It broke me when I saw it performed live.
Evan though Dear Evan Hansen is on this list, I feel like "So Big / So Small" needs to be mentioned. "Is there another truck coming in the driveway? a truck that will take mommy away" is the line that broke me. T_T
I saw a production of it in Minneapolis a year ago and that bit had my mom weeping. I should also note that while I was holding her hand and consoling her, I dropped my program and audibly went "Aw, beans" during an extremely emotional part of the show.
"In the Bedroom Down the Hall" from Dear Evan Hanson was eliminated from the show...but if you've lost a child to addiction or suicide...it breaks your heart. I actually think it was blessing that it was cut...it's almost too much. I lost a brother in November to alcoholism, and even as a sister, I relate. I agree, though with your pick, too. I cry just listening to that bit.
Basically the whole of Hamilton makes me cry. There are certain phrases in most of the songs that set me off. In It's Quiet Up Town it's when Alexander says "and I pray...that never used to happen before".
“If I could spare his life If I could trade his life for mine He'd be standing here right now And you would smile, and that would be enough.” Having a family makes this so much more potent. I would gladly die to protect my son. Can’t keep it together when this part plays.
Omg!!! Yes girl!!!!!!! And when he says, “ Philip, you would like it uptown. It’s quiet uptown.” My mom always asks why I’m crying and I’m like because Philip died and he was only 19 trying to defend his fathers honor!!!!
Santa Fe - Newsies Bring Him Home - Les Miserables All of Hamilton Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom of the Opera Fight the Dragons - Big Fish
A Girl and Two Cats that will always make me bawl. It was a very special song in my high school choir. My choir teacher made me discover broadway and literally changed my world so she means a great deal to me. So before graduating I made her a painting with that quote on it and used my own handprint on it and then it was the last song I ever sang with my choir so I can’t listen to it without ugly crying, I love the song so much
for me it's "who can say if I've been changed for the better - " " - i do believe i have been changed for the better" not entirely sure why but i always feel like I've been punched in the stomach when i hear that part
I start bawling at, "Just to clear the air, I ask forgiveness for the things I've done you blame me for..." Whenever I feel I've hurt a friend, I have the urge to fix it.
I absolutely love Les Misérables. My late mother watched the movie and I absolutely loved it. I didn’t understand at first but after she passed, I watched it way later and I fucking bawled at the end and I cried when Fantine got arrested and spat on Jean Valjean. I also love Falsettos and it was my own discovery because I was obsessed with Andrew Rannells.
beth fieldew to me, it seems that Les Misérables is just so underrated these days. Everyone likes Ham., Heathers, and DEH and those are the only musical they like but Les Misérables is one of my favorites
@@nonignorantsatis True, but that is not the case for Dear Evan Hanson. Connor and Evan had different types of depression, but both had suicidal thoughts. Only one was successful in his suicide attempt.
One song per musical and "Do you hear the people sing?" Beat out "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" "On My Own" or "A Little Fall of Rain" for Les Miserables?
Hiding in your hands - DEH Dissapear - DEH Words fail - DEH Good for you - DEH In the bedroom down the hall - DEH So big/ so small - DEH You will be found - DEH Sante Fe - Newsies Michael in the bathroom - BMC Loser geek or whatever - BMC Its quiet uptown - Hamilton Burn - Hamilton What's wrong with me - Mean girls I am damaged reprise - Heathers She used to be mine - Waitress You matter to me - Waitress Dead mom - Beatlejuice Home - Beetlejuice
@@malinpeh You should listen to Death Note NY DEMO Concept Album. Jeremy Jordan is the main character there (a killer to be exact). If you know the story (cause its from an anime). The song "The Way It Ends Now" will make you cry 😭💔🎶
The holy trinity of crying in Hamilton: 1. Stay alive (reprise) 2. It’s quiet uptown 3. Who lives, who dies, who tells your story These songs are the death of me
If you don't cry during I'll Cover You (Reprise), I don't know what's wrong with you. (Two other songs that make me ugly cry is After All Of This and Everything from Freaky Friday and When Your Feet Don't Touch The Ground from Finding Neverland)
I still can’t listen to #2 without feeling so emotional, it’s just such a universal song that anyone can get behind. & #1 is truly so heartbreaking any version I listen to. This list is truly why I love broadway, musical theatre & music so much 💙🥺😭🥰
They honestly could have gone with a ton of Les Mis' songs. For me, it's actually "Valjean's Death" that always gets me. I love the line, "To Love another person is to see the face of God." You really feel the weight of his years, and that last line just hits home that despite everything, Valjean lived a blessed life, one full of purpose and meaning.
I was kind of mad they left that line off of the clip on this list. I know it's technically part of a different song, but it's the most powerful line in the whole musical and it was RIGHT there.
That lyric had a profound affect on me. Years later, as I sat by my sister's bedside while she was dying from cancer, I recalled that lyric while taking what I knew were my last looks at her sweet face. "To love another person is to see the face of God." For me, there is nothing but truth in that lyric.
Sophie Brown true. It is super sad too. But personally I feel like on my own is super sad because that’s where u find out what she sees as her purpose. A little fall of ran is when u see her “fulfill her purpose”. But I totally agree. It’s super sad. She’s my favorite character
Michael in the bathroom is widely consider to be one of if not the best song in BMC and it’s sad because it show a panic attack and a kid getting abandon and having suicidal thoughts. George Salazar beautiful portrayal through his gesture is great and is up there on the musicals great songs list
Your Daddy's Son - Ragtime Memory - CATS The Flesh Failures/Let the Sunshine In - Hair Maybe This Time - Cabaret I'd Give My Life For You - Miss Saigon Judas's Death - Jesus Christ Super Star Fantine's Death - Les Miz Still Hurting - The Last Five Years See I'm Smiling - The Last Five Years As Long As He Needs Me - Oliver!
"One Last Time" from Hamilton. I ball every time I hear it, especially if I watch the video of the cast singing it at the White House in front of President Obama, then I ugly cry.
Somewhere that's green reprise- Little Shop of Horrors Memories- Cats Santa Fe- Newsies A Little Fall of Rain- Les Mis Lily's Eyes- Secret Garden Not While I'm around- Sweeney Todd
Hold Me In Your Heart from Kinky Boots makes me cry every time. The feeling of not living up to your parent's expectations to the point of not accepting you, but still loving them and longing for them to love you for you speaks to my life and is a tear jerker for me.
I saw Falsettos on my 18th birthday, which was also closing night of the musical. And when I tell you the sniffles of the audience (including mine), were part of the moment. It defintely deserved better than 8th
songs that get me are: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables- Les Mis Ring of Keys-Fun Home Memory- Cats We Do Not Belong Together- Sunday in the Park with George
So Big/So Small had a hopeful tone, even as the mother regrettwd all her decisions, she promises to be there from then on Words Fail is Evan trying to say that, no matter what happens next, he will never be able to make things better, and he will never be able to explain why he did what he did It seemed to me that Evan was more broken than anyone else in the musical, possibly even Connor
@@lancepineda293 Of course! I cried at So Big/Small, the first time I heard it. Words Fail is awesome! Probably the climax of the musical (or close to it.)
Me: I'll Cover You Reprise better be in this list..... *List only has one spot left and it wasn't in honorable mentions* Me: I swear to whatever god you believe in!....... *Jesse L Martin doesn't even get the word live out before I start crying* Me: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 yup.... there it is 😭😭😭😭😭😭
OMG! I fortunate enough to see Rent during it's opening week. I'd just left my little "comfortable & safe bubble" in Georgia & moved to NYC to attend theatre school the week before. To say I was struggling would be putting it lightly... lol. But that show renewed my everything. I bawled through the entire performance, I think. But, that reprise, killed me & still does.
I think It's Quiet Uptown is the saddest Hamilton song by far and I genuinely can't listen to the end of Les Mis without crying. I know it's West End but Heart Of Stone from Six makes me weep every time.
3 songs you missed: I DREAMED A DREAM! I DREAMED A FKING DREAM!- les mis Stay alive reprise-Hamilton Wait for me and/or wait for me II- Hadestown Also BLESS YOU for including Micheal in the bathroom! I saw it on broadway I was sitting up in the balcony and I heard people laughing during the song down in the ground seats and it took everything within me to not scream SHUT UP at them
bruh i started crying when i was watching and my mum who didn’t listen because she was literally deaf and couldn’t process anything was like ARE YOU OKAY
I wasn't super moved by the song during the show (probably because Stay Alive (Reprise) is absolutely the most tragic thing ever) but Kelly Clarkson's cover of it on the Mixtape makes me cry every time.
I still can't get through the ending of Les Miz without sobbing. Like, literally as soon as Cosette says "you will live, Papa you're going to live", I start weeping.
Back in High School, we sang a medley from it and shortly after I saw Miss Saigon on the stage. Thing is, I KNEW what would happen to her in the end, but the moment she does what she does make me cry so bad!
Songs you missed Left behind - Spring Awakening It’s quiet uptown - Hamilton Stay alive reprise - Hamilton Burn - Hamilton Also Michael in the bathroom should be much higher.
NormalIs AIllusion michael in the bathroom shouldn’t have even made the list in my opinion. it’s just not that sad. compared to these songs, and even some songs that weren’t even included.
My grandma said that at the end of Les Mis is happy cause they all come back and all survived to sing a song. We've tried to tell her that not what happened but she won't change her mind.
Oh same. For like an entire year I had to skip So Big So Small everytime I listened to the soundtrack because I would sob openly every. single. time. To this day I still can only listen to it once in a while and I'll still cry, but at least its not super loud sobbing anymore!
I haven't cried in a very long time, but So Big So Small almost got me there. The bit about a truck for mommy was too much. Moreover, So Big So Small stands on its own. Words Fail kind of needs the context provided by the rest of the musical (and considering he put himself in that position, I couldn't connect).
@@abbigailc.b2239 Several songs from Elegies would make the list, 14 Dwight Ave Natick Massachusetts and When the Earth Stopped Turning tear me up to hear
Carousel was the very first show I ever saw performed on the stage and if I hadn't already been a fan of musicals, I would have been after seeing that.
The end of Phantom Of the Opera when she finally kisses him and he tells her to go! And he disappears when the mob arrives. It absolutely breaks my heart since I was a kid!
Me and the Sky ALWAYS gets me! She spends the whole song describing her love of airplanes and flight, then just crushes you with that ending. Pure devastation to my emotions.
Mine are- It’s Quiet Uptown (Hamilton) I’ll Cover You Reprise (Rent) Words Fail (Dear Evan Hansen) For Good (Wicked) But I also cry at basically cry at every show because live theater is so emotional 😭
what would i do gets me every time! especially because it implies that marvin dies as well :/ not to mention andrew rannells and christian borles chemistry on stage
Colleen Andrawis Because of the conviction I hold (namely that Christine OUGHT TO HAVE CHOSEN to be with Eric RATHER THAN to go with Raol, That particular song which is sung by Eric - only him - at first), REALLY touches me (& afterwards - when Christine is shown as having SUCH love toward “The Phantom” (& she demonstrates - almost - overwhelming compassion toward Eric by initiating a kiss with him. Repeatedly (& almost without exception) when I hear this song, it “cuts me” to the heart ! EACH time I hear Eric sing this song to her - near the end of the show/movie/etc. (when they both return - again - to his lair) Raol - ultimately - finds them & joins together with them in singing the very last “ complete” song in the show/movie/etc. EACH time I am able to watch my DVD of the Joel Schumaker movie (OR via a video of the show on “broadway” OR a video of the “stage production”), this specific song - GENUINELY - affects me !
Colleen Andrawis my ex saw me bawling at “pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known?” and yelled at me for crying because a pretty girl was kissing an ugly man. I turned and said “I’m crying for the compassion, you halfwit!” This was two days before he broke my wrist over monopoly and I decided to get rid of that relationship.
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" starts my waterworks in Phantom, if it's done well. Sierra Boggess, Rebecca Caine, and Sarah Brightman have all had in in tears over that one.
Honestly think some of the spring awakening songs should be on this list properly like Michael in the bathroom is sad to an extent but the way spring awakening portrays depression and loss makes me cry so much
Absolutely! And Satisfied. I actually don't care for the slow songs in Hamilton as much (ie: Quiet Uptown). I'm totally with Jefferson and Madison at the start of Election of 1800 when they say "Can we get back to politics?" "Please??" "Yo." :-D
I think Dear Theadosia reprise is sad. Stay Alive reprise hurts so bad. It’s Quiet Uptown was too much. Who Lives Who Dies is the saddest in my opinion tho. It legit made me bawl
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" gets me every single time, as do "Your Eyes," "One Song Glory" and "Will I?" I'd also like give a shout-out to South Pacific for "This Nearly Was Mine," specifically the one with Paulo Szot. I should buy stock in Kleenex for that one alone. 😭😭😭😭
AshErika Michaela I saw RENT on stage for the first for the first time after hearing the music for 19 years and I always cry at I’ll cover you reprise. When I saw it live, I started crying at the beginning of the scene because of the guy playing Collins and I couldn’t stop crying for three songs.
AshErika Michaela I work as an arts reviewer and have been to see wicked and rent in exchange for my opinions and publicity. I got offered tickets to Les mis, but was out of town that weekend. Best job ever.
I think “ I’ll Cover You (Reprise)” deserved the number one spot. I mean, Angel just had one of sweetest souls out of all musical theater characters, and when her death came, it was all tears for everyone watching. Plus the song itself is extraordinary.
Do you know Goodbye love (the extended version)? It kills me every time I listen to it and makes me angry the song isn't in the movie... It is such an important and beautiful scene...
