Moments in musicals that made/make you cry

[Mr Wallacio]

I never used to cry, but in recent years I've found myself welling up a lot more often.

All Les Mis deaths I have a well up

I'll Cover You (Reprise) usually sets me off

Not My Fathers Son from Kinky hit me the first time I heard it

Cynthia Erivo singing 12 Children from Dessa Rose right in my face was emotional

The ending of Blood Brothers

The ending of The Father (aware this is a play)



Probably loads I can't think off the top of my head

[Someone in a tree]

The whole of Donmar's Merrily and MCF's Sunday
Bridewell's Sweeney Todd

The whole of Wendy's end Lovestory. Both times. I was a wreck

I think my biggest cry was the film of Le Miz

Also,
Does anyone cry at a big fat camp finales? Crazy for you, Hello Dolly, Anything Goes the list goes on. The more hoofers and revolving staircases the better!

[couldileaveyou]

- Paul's monologue/What I Did fro Love? - A Chorus Line
- Love Who You Love - A Man of No Importance
- Nothing More Than This - Candide
- When There's No One - Carrie
- You'll Never Walk Alone + Reprise - Carousel
- Holding To The Ground - Falsettos
- Losing My Mind - Follies
- Days and Days + finale - Fun Home
- The last 15/20 minutes of Grey Gardens, from before "Choose to Be Happy"
- No One is Alone - Into the Woods
- Loving You - Passion
- Back to Before - Ragtime
- Climb Every Mountain - The Sound of Music
- Sunday - Sunday in the Park with George

[Deleted]

Sheridan Smith having a bash at the 'Funny Girl' score made me weep. Does that count?

[PhantomNcl]

Far too many - I'm just one big weepy mess in the theatre. Stand-out moments though are:

Les Mis - Little Fall of Rain, Gavroche's death, the revolve of the barricades that shows Enjolras hanging from the top, then everything from 'Alone I wait in the shadows...'

Miss Saigon - Last Night of the World, the Fall of Saigon, and Kim's "No!!!!!!!!!!" during 'This is the Hour' when she's holding Thuy's body. And the ending of course.

Phantom - if it's a good Phantom then the 'Angel of Music' orchestral bit as Christine is kissing him, plus the "It's over now, the music of the night"

Blood Brothers - the ending, especially when Mrs J takes the 2 brothers' hands and clasps them together. I've seen this show more times than I care to remember, and it still has me sobbing every time.

Lion King - can't stand the show on the whole, but I normally get a tear during the opening when the two giraffes walk onto the stage with the sun rising behind.

Billy Elliot - The Letter (and reprise). These both get me even if I'm just listening to the cast recording!

Martin Guerre - Bethlehem (not so much the reworked The Holy Fight)

One of my former colleagues used to cry any time it snowed on stage. I know it's not a musical as such, but the Ice Dance in Matthew Bourne's Edward Scissorhands (and the snow at the curtain call) used to get me a bit sniffly too.

[danb]

Despite having never seen it before, not knowing an awful lot about it and knowing only one song, the end of 'Matilda' was very emotional for me; especially as I'd taken my 'nearly-leaving-home' aged daughter for a Christmas present...likewise 'Slipping Through My Fingers' in Mamma Mia. 'Finale B' in Rent always gets me as I just want to soak up every last second before it finishes. And of course the sense of dread you get in both 'Miss Saigon' and 'Blood Brothers' when you remember what's going to happen...sniff.

[Deleted]

Oh, I was a mess after Blood Brothers!

[missmelon]

I'm not really one for crying at anything, but there are a couple of musical moments that have got me in the past.
Probably the one that got me the most was in Cats when Grizabella is singing the reprise of Memory, and falls to the ground. I always get a little emotional there, but I never cried at it until I saw Kerry Ellis in the role last April. She had both me and my friend in tears. Saw it later in the year with Beverley Knight, and while she was brilliant she didn't quite get me or my friend like Kerry did.

Also in Wicked I can get a little emotional during For Good, especially on the occasion I went to see the show with my best friend. We had to have a very teary best friend hug after that one!

Lastly I cried at the very end of the Les Mis movie when everyone who has died is on the barricade singing. I haven't yet made it to see the musical on stage, but I'm pretty sure that will get me! 

[anita]

In "Whistle down the Wind" when Swallow says "and I just want my mother back". Also my eyes filled at the "my daddy" line in "The Railway Children".

[jaqs]

Parts of the Love story cast recording still make me cry. I cry at loads of shows.

[richey]

The main ones for me are
1) Les Mis finale
"...to love another person is to see the face of God" then the building up of the chorus.
2) in the new production of Miss Saigon when Kim shoots Thuy and that split second before we get her horrified reaction at what she's done and her crying out.
3)Julie Atherton ' "It's a Fine Fine Line " in Avenue Q

[bulletproof]

Definitely more prone to this as I get older. Literal, unavoidable, tears at;

Les Mis - "Alone I wait in the shadows..." and during the finale "they will live again in freedom in the garden of the lord" (an odd one given as an atheist I believe they won't - the sentiment is touching though).  Empty Chairs At Empty Tables can sometimes get me, depending on the performance.   I haven't seen the show since becoming a father, I suspect the all the Cossette as a child stuff might be more moving for me next time around.

Lion King - Can't make it through He Lives In You with a dry face.

Miss Saigon - I've only seen this the once, but remember welling up a lot at scenes involving the young child.

[bulletproof]

Mar 3, 2016 0:19:46 GMT @parsley said:

Don't think I have ever cried in the theatre or film

They are pretend

Would have had some sympathy for this position 10 years ago, but I've found both crying at fictional media and real life news events has increased as I've gotten older.  Strange.

This is no doubt not a unique theory, but I've found that generally, when I really analyse it, I'm not crying for others, but for myself. Something about whatever triggers the tears resonates with something deep down.  That's why it doesn't matter whether the situation is fictional - if a particular situation resonates and hits a nerve, say the fear of losing a parent, it just triggers those emotions.

[alece10]

"Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George especially if sung by a big cast, not because it is sad but it is such a wonderful song.

A couple of places in The Color Purple.

Wicked when I saw it on Broadway but that was because it was my first Broadway show and I was a bit in awe with the whole experience

Les Mis 25th Anniversary concert at the o2. The whole thing was so spectacular and Alfie Boe amazing.

[juliem]

I'm welling up reading this thread!! Most of what everyone else has said really - Les Mis from 'She was never mine to keep' onwards and most of the way home, Parade, Blood Brothers, Spend x 3, Color Purple I thought was named cos that was the colour of your eyes at the end. There's always a 'moment' in a Sondheim that creeps up and slaps you in the face.

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Mar 3, 2016 0:19:46 GMT @parsley said:

Don't think I have ever cried in the theatre or film

They are pretend

The show might be pretend, but that doesn't mean the emotions are.

As a major cryer, I'm just going to abstain from this question. Assume I cry at everything, and you won't be far off.

[danb]

Mar 3, 2016 12:43:15 GMT @baemax said:

Mar 3, 2016 0:19:46 GMT @parsley said:

Don't think I have ever cried in the theatre or film

They are pretend

The show might be pretend, but that doesn't mean the emotions are.

As a major cryer, I'm just going to abstain from this question. Assume I cry at everything, and you won't be far off.

'Countdown'?

[Deleted]

"Sunday" - SITPWG
"The Letter" - Billy E - way too close to home

Strangely, seeing Jenna Russell singing "Stars and Moon" from Songs for a new world, reduced me to tears. I had always only connected with it really as a comedy piece but the heart break in the final verse through Ms Russell, floored me.

[Raven]

For me it's "A Little Fall of Rain" and the epilogue of Les Mis. I also cried at Ghost when Caissie Levy sang "With You" and the whole final scene.

[wicked]

Defying Gravity & Finale in Wicked (and Rachel's I'm Not That Girl)
The ending of Matilda
A Little Fall of Rain in Les Mis

SPOILER: Click to show

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Nikki's

death in The Bodyguard
The ending of Ghost

+ basically any cast change

[Deleted]

I dunno if this counts, but the closing night of Made in Dagenham was incredibly moving... I am sure anyone would agree with that one. Especially the final The Letter and Stand Up.

[Deleted]

I will generally have a bit of a cry at most things really but recently, I did have a little tear and a half during 'Kinky Boots' when Charlie leaves the voicemail for Lola.

But in all honesty, it may have been the gin.

Or the excitement from the routine with the travelator.

But probably the gin.

[theatre-turtle]

Mar 3, 2016 16:13:25 GMT @ryan said:

I will generally have a bit of a cry at most things really but recently, I did have a little tear and a half during 'Kinky Boots' when Charlie leaves the voicemail for Lola.

But in all honesty, it may have been the gin.

Or the excitement from the routine with the travelator.

But probably the gin.

How about in the finale when the kids come up and hug the dads? *wipes tear *

[DebbieDoesDouglas(Hodge)]

The complete 2nd act of Billy Elliot

[musicallady]

Last scene of Carousel, The Anthem in Chess, i know it's a ballet but the final scene in Romeo and Juliet, all of Les Miserables, Defying Gravity........