That musical that you love so much but can't listen to often cause it makes you way to sad.

[broadway guy]

I feel like everyone has the one musical that you just LOVE but it's hard to listen to the soundtrack alot or see the show cause it makes you feel things you dont want to feel.

Mine is Next to Normal.Its one of my favorite shows and is beautiful in every way but I dont listen to My CD of it often just because that whole show is just heart breaking, and than you realize there are real people who have to go through that experience.

If i am ever listening to that the soundtrack I always have to skip "how could i ever forget" the lyrics are just to painful to hear.

Anyone else have a show like that?

[themysteriousgrowl]

Maybe a weird answer, but john & jen.

[After Eight]

It's something of a paradox that our happiest moments are often the saddest to remember. So I find it with the shows that gave me the most joy-- they're at the same time the happiest and the saddest to return to.

[Jordan Catalano]

The ones that make me the saddest are the ones I listen to the most.

[kooky]

for me it is ... "The Light In The Piazza"

[tazber]

The Glorious Ones.

Don't know why, but it puts me in a deep funk.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

[It's a fine life!]

Next to Normal

and I know it will sound very odd, but THE WIZ. Some of the music makes me sad.

Also THe SEcret Garden which I've been listening to.

[Wynbish]

We'll Meet Tomorrow - Titanic

[Auggie27]

Melodrama pushes buttons for a reason, and on that point, the Celtic-tinged instrumental music in the background of BLOOD BROTHERS (as opposed to a lot of the somewhat overstated pop songs) is unspeakably sad. The counterpoint that plays under much of the open sequence is just devastatingly forlorn. That said, "Sunday Afternoon" is a standout, one of the most searing snapshots of childhood loneliness ever written. If the rest of score had that simple, unassuming eloquence, it would be a better show. Not that they need my vote.

[sondheimfan2]

"To, Too, and Two"

The preposition to refers to a place, direction, or position. To is also used before the verb in an infinitive. The adverb too means "also" or "excessively." Two refers to the number 2.

[broadway_show_fan]

I've been known to cry while driving in the car listening to show tunes, namely the following:

In the Heights, Billy Elliot, The Light in the Piazza, Next to Normal, Ragtime

[broadway guy]

I totally bawled my eyes out the first time I listened to act 2 of next to normal.

The finale of into the woods always gets me also.Ecspecially "no more"and "wicthe's lament".The witche's line: "ask a wolf's mother" is one of the best spoken lines ever!

This is going to sound really stupid but "solla sollew" in suessical breaks My heart.The lyrics are very touching and they all just want to find there own little heaven.

other shows that come to mind are:
-BARE finale
-west side story "now i have hate" that line is amazing.
-Rent "without you"
One of the cirque du soleil shows:Quidam.One of the acts has an aerial act and the performer commits suicide.
- Gypsy .

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

[perfectlymarvelous]

For me it's Ragtime without a doubt. I can't sit through the show without sobbing, and listening to the cast recording doesn't have quite the same effect but it's close. It's my favorite show ever but I just can't listen to it very often.

[Playbilly]

Billy Elliot.

[LYLS3637]

"Goodbye Until Tomorrow" from Last 5 Years is a killer. The complete joy and optimism that you know will come tumbling down.

"No Voice" from Bare is full of such loss and sorrow with no hope in sight. The build up to the final "no voice..." that just ends.

[little_sally]

I actually find it easier to listen to sad musicals than it is to see them. The score of Parade is one of my favorites and I listen to it often but I don't think I'll want to sit through the whole show.

[broadway guy]

"I am the one who loved you,I am the one who stayed.I am The one and you walked away....." god i was a mess when i heard those words LOL

[newintown]

I cry whenever I hear anything from Lestat, but only because I'm reminded of 2 and a half hours of my life that were needlessly wasted.

[Wynbish]

broadway guy, I'll correct you on the hunch that you may legitimately think that that is how it is spelled. The term is "bawled" instead of "balled".

[Born in a Ditch]

I completely agree with Next to Normal. Gets me sad every time. Also, I have a hard time listening to "No One Is Alone" from the 2003 Into the Woods revival without getting misty eyed. Damn you Laura Benanti.

[bwaymizfit]

I'm glad somebody else mentioned Parade. The score is stunning, but I have a hard time listening to it straight through.

[broadway guy]

LOL thankyou Wynbish.Im going to change it now lol.I was never great in grammar lol

[sondheimfan2]

^Can you correct the thread title as well?

[broadway guy]

I just thought of a few more:

"Not while im around" from Sweeney todd. It's so sad cause of what happens to toby at the end.

also "eva's final broadcast" from EVITA.

The first time I watched it I said to myself "there is no way im going to feel sorry for this biotch" but when that song played I actually felt myself feeling really sorry for eva.She is a biotch but she is a biotch with a cause and tried to help many people.

"Though it May get harder
for you to see me.Im Argentina.
and aways will be".

so sad....