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re: Songs that make you weep

Posted by: RoriStevens 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: Songs that make you weep - Zelgo 10:42 am EST 01/20/15

Great topic!

"Requiem for Evita" tends to leave me weeping whenever I see it performed (I've seen an amateur staging, a professional tour, and the film).

Despairing tears: "The Bells of Notre Dame" and "Hellfire" in Disney's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" make up some of the most moving stretches of animated features I've seen. Similarly moving songs for me include "The Mob Song" ("Beauty and the Beast", though I was unmoved by its stage counterpart) and "Deliver Us" ("The Prince of Egypt").

I'm one who was fine with the film adaptation of "Sweeney Todd"; when I first saw it there were long, long stretches that left me awash in tears, including the entirety of the final 10 minutes.

Surprisingly, the "My Eyes Adored You" and "Fallen Angel" sequences in "Jersey Boys" made me cry (and hard too) when I saw it in Las Vegas.

And the only song that made me cry just from listening to it on a cast album would be "I Am What I Am" as performed by Douglas Hodge on the "La Cage Aux Folles" revival cast recording.


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re: Songs that make you weep

Posted by: audienceguy 06:02 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Songs that make you weep - RoriStevens 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15

While we're talking Disney:
From "Aladdin"
"Proud of Your Boy"


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re: Songs that make you weep

Posted by: RoriStevens 12:54 pm EST 01/20/15
In reply to: re: Songs that make you weep - RoriStevens 12:49 pm EST 01/20/15

Also, the final reprise of "With One Look" in "Sunset Boulevard" was a perfect match of song and staging, at least in the U.S. tour staging (which was more or less what they did in the big cities, wasn't it?), and I did shed a tear.


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