I don't get weepy much in life, but music really has the power to bring it out of me, so there's quite a few musicals that do it. Off the top of my head: (this list gets long so I stopped writing explanations at a point)
-Merrily We Roll Along, "Our Time" - especially once the "years from now, we'll remember and we'll look back" and then all the way to the end of the finale graduation scene and "Hills of Tomorrow" reprise.
-Pacific Overture, "Next" - a weird one I'm sure, but the song is so overwhelming to me, the way the song just bulldozes and undoes the beauty of the world we've been in.
-Sunday in the Park with George, "Sunday - end of act 1", "Move On", "Sunday - end of act 2" ... this show really kills me. In fact i might even shed a tear in "It's Hot Up Here" when Dot sings "and for the hat." The subtlety of emotion in this show, and the build of it, is just tremendous to me. But outside of the obvious relationship emotion, the "Sunday" songs move me to tears... the tear up point is often once the trumpet comes in. The beauty of the art coming together and the choral work just does it. Also might shed a tear in "Finishing the Hat"
-Parade, "All the Wasted Time" - gotta agree on that one. And also the "Finale", and also "Factory Girls/Come Up to My Office" and "That's What He Said" for the twisted power of them
-Floyd Collins, "How Glory Goes" - if I haven't gotten to a tear in the beginning of it, it will come for "will my mom be there waiting for me, smiling like the way she does and holding out her arms as she calls my name? She will hold me just the same" and will continue/kick in more once he starts the echoing after "I can see so far!" A stunning and emotional expression of death and an incredible way to end the show.
-Into the Woods, "Stay with Me" sometimes, almost always "No One Is Alone" -- but not in the movie. "Stay with Me" brought a tear or two in the movie, but they made the unforgivably stupid choice of cutting the last and best verse of "No One Is Alone", the one that finally brings me to tears. And also, if the actor does it right, "Your Fault" when the Baker says "no it isn't" in response to Jack blaming his recently dead wife... almost no one I've seen playing the Baker has taken advantage of this very very pregnant moment, including Corden. Oh, and if things are going well, "No More" and "Lament"... but only the full Lamet on the CD.
-Hair, "Flesh Failures/Let the Sun Shine In"
-Rent, "I'll Cover You reprise" and "Without You/No Day But Today reprise/finale"
-Man of La Mancha, "Impossible Dream reprise"
-Les Miserables, "Come to Me/Fantine's Death" but maybe only when sung by Ruthie Henshall (certainly not as sung by Randy Graff)
-Grey Gardens, "Around the World" and "Another Winter In a Summer Town"
-Carousel, "What's the Use of Wonderin" and "You'll Never Walk Alone" and maybe "Soliloquy"
-The Lion King, "The Circle of Life" and "Endless Night"
-Dessa Rose, "12 Children" and "At the Glen" and "In the Bend of My Arm"
-West Side Story, "Somewhere"
-Damn Yankees, "Goodbye Old Girl"
-Little Shop of Horrors, "Somewhere That's Green" and "Suddenly Seymour"
-Evening Primrose, "I Remember"
-Anyone Can Whistle, "Anyone Can Whistle" and "With So Little to Be Sure Of"
-Follies, "In Buddy's Eyes", "The Road You Didn't Take", "Who's That Woman?", "Too Many Mornings", "The Right Girl", "One More Kiss" and the chaos part of "Live, Laugh Love"... and, cut from the show, "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
-Camelot, "Camelot reprise"
-Once, "Falling Slowly"... the song just moves me
-Blood Brothers, "My Child" - there's just something about when Mrs. Johnston sings "I'll keep him warm in the winter, and cool when it shines" that kills me.
-Bernarda Alba, the finale... I mean, the entire show is one pulsing nerve building to the end, and it does make me cry
-Company, "Being Alive" and "Another Hundred People"... I know that's a weird one, but when the music explodes it takes me.
-Kiss of the Spider Woman, "She's a Woman"
-Caroline Or Change, "Lot's Wife" and the finale when Emmy sings "I'm the daughter... of a maid..."
-Spring Awakening, "Left Behind" and "Touch Me" and "Whispering" when she says "See the father bent in grief" and on.
-1776, "Momma, Look Sharp" and "Compliments"
that's all I can think of for now. but surely there are many more.
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