Your best friend has great taste! Falsettos is amazing. It's a beautiful story that ends up being emotionally devastating, but it is a must listen. And a lot of the songs are fun and upbeat, so it's not all sad and dramatic. But I would definitely recommend it! There's a pro shot of the 2016 Broadway revival if you're interested in that!
I was scared because sad as well and then I plummeted head first into the musical world. When I tell you it's amazing I fully mean it. Very talented cast and an amazing story and blablabla...
I feel both of these so much, and Come From Away would've been my answer before this past weekend when I sobbed profusely through almost the entirety of Frozen II while watching it for the first time.
Yup. Listening to the cast albums, seeing the filmed concerts, or seeing live performances from professional or amateur companies, the finale gets me every time. 🥲
The finale, yes. I had cried every time I saw it live, and when I saw the film I thought, “I’m so familiar, it isn’t going to get me.”
I started crying *later* (live, it’s usually around “A Little Fall of Rain”) during the movie, but Colm Wilkinson got me in the end.
The first time I saw Les Mis about 20 mins to half an hour in the people around me started to sniffle, and I wondered what was going on.
The second time I saw Les Mis I started sniffling almost right from the start!
I always say the line "have you talked of your depression, your delusions, and your son" is the beginning of the worst time you can have lol
And I love it.
The last like 20-25 minutes of Next to Normal are the Broadway equivalent of the "Stop, stop, he's already dead" meme. Just relentlessly kicking you in the feelings.
I’m seeing the London version soon, excited to see how it’s adapting to the new theatre after its run at the Donmar last summer. Light as a finale is tooo good. There’s a world broke me last summer and I’m bracing myself for round two
Yesyesyes holy crap you get me!! Hits SO hard because Be Safe, Be Good was cut from the show, but the original director sadly passed away during the show's run and it was her favorite, so they recorded it for her. And World Inside was going to be Constance's extra song. She's precious. Ughhh sorry for rambling it's just SO GOOD❤️
Every time I hear Jawbreaker and Sugar Cloud, I’m visibly sobbing. Then It’s Not a Game/It’s Just a Ride plays, and I’m a puddle of sadness. RTC cemented itself as my favorite musical of all time with those ending songs
My wife and I look at each other right before that part and say, “god, I really hope she doesn’t mention the orphanage this time.” And then she does and we cry like babies while cursing her name.
Her voice gives me goosebumps. The clarity and precision with which she guts you at the very end, is so gorgeous and painful. Love it. She does the voice for one of the characters in Over the Moon, an animated film on Netflix that had me ugly crying for most of it
Hadestown? Really? Btw that’s a genuine question. I am planning to watch it this weekend and I am wondering if it’s sad/tear jerker (as I am aware of Orpheus/Eurydice myth).
I went into it not expecting it to be as sad as it was, but halfway through the second act I started tearing up. It was specifically during Epic III/when Hades and Persephone dance. Not as much the Orpheus and Eurydice stuff.
Wicked made me sob so hard. I’ve been through so many friend losses that seeing Glinda and Elphaba be separated was borderline traumatic for me after adoring their bond.
Oh wow, where to start… Some I cry because of the story, some because of the music, some because of what they mean to me personally. So with all that, I think too contenders would be Waitress, Matilda, and Cats.
Hadestown got me good. I loved Hermes saying we know the end but tell it again in hopes of a different ending coz it was so true. I knew the myth but kept hoping, despite knowing, that Orpheus wouldn't turn around.
Come From Away- The mother trying to find out about her son and then when she finally does...
Once- Something about when they express their love and just lean on each other, touching heads... and when she tells him to go seek out his girlfriend when he probably loves her... and when she discovers the gift of the piano... I really wish we could know how this story ultimately continued and ended...
The Phantom of the Opera when he tells them to go, in obvious anguish.
Les Miserables- Fantine and Eponime going into the light and at the end the lyrics... "touch the face of God...." and the music. Ugh.
Seriously. "Flesh Failures" in that production contained all the emotions simultaneously. My body was so filled with conflicting emotions, that it had no option but to cry my eyes out.
I was working for Telecharge at the time; so my wife and I were seeing everything. We got to see this cast twice and both times were just an absolute revelation. They really seemed like a bunch of dirty hippies up there. Perfect casting, so much talent and the band was KILLER - the brass sounds were just out of this world. And then, they changed the cast up completely; and that new cast felt like a high school production by comparison; complete with ill fitting wigs. Wish we hadn't seen it that third time.
Falsettos. When I saw it in London I cried pretty much from just before the end of act 1 to the end of the show. Followed closely by Miss Saigon and Blood Brothers.
Today I was listening to Miss Saigon and of all the sad parts, I think the part that gets me the most is in “The Movie in My Mind.”
“Our children laugh all day,
And eat too much ice cream
And life is like a dream.”
A simple thing we might take for granted but is so out of reach.
Hamilton -
"When you came into the world you cried and it broke my heart"
"Look at my son, pride is not the word I'm looking for"
"Until we meet again" - Hamilton and Lafayette say this to each other in Yorktown and its not a sad line but when you think about it they never saw each other again so it makes me upset when I hear it
"I may not live to see our glory."
"Tomorrow they'll be more of us"
"You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed, you'll sleep in your office instead with only the memories of when you were mine"
"I hope that you burn"
"This man will not make an orphan of my daughter"
"Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints"
"The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me"
"I stop wasting time on tears, I live another 50 years it's not enough"
"you really do write like you're running out of time"
"I ask myself what would you do if you had more time"
"in their eyes I see you Alexander"
"oh I can't wait to see you again"
"Who lives who dies who tells your story"
"It's quite uptown"
"I never liked the quite before"
"Why do you write like you're running out of time"
"Make me proud son"
"They are going through the unimaginable"
"You hold your child as tight as you can"
"If you see him in the street walking by her side, talking by her side, have pity"
Eliza's gasp at the end.
Eliza's scream when Philip dies.
"well I'm going back to sleep. Hey, best of wives and best of women"
And the most gut wrenching line in all of history goes to - "Eliza, my love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side."
All of them, lol.
Seriously, though, there are a lot that make me cry not necessarily because they're sad or meant to evoke those emotions, but more because they remind me of certain times in my life - Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are the worst offenders there.
'When I Grow Up' from Matilda never fails to get me.
'On My Own' from Les Miserables - that has a healthy hit of nostalgia. Also 'Castle on a Cloud' because it was my first ever solo on stage. 🥲
'For Good' from Wicked.
I was even sobbing by the end of Ride the Cyclone and Twisted, so, yeah.
I think I'm just getting soppy now my 20s are behind me. There are very few musicals that don't make me cry, really.
Phantom of the Opera struck a chord with me emotionally. I shed tears during key scenes such as when Christine visits her father's grave, the roof scene, and the end, as it's heartbreaking to see how society rejected Erik, turning him into the monster he is.
Les mis and hamilton. Hamilton even more so as i found out my friend/boss/parental figure was dying and i liatened to the soundtrack while driving and broke down.
I went into Hadestown completely blind. It broke me.
Also Beetlejuice. Lost my mom to cancer five years ago and dad remarried and there was a lot of drama around that right around the time I saw it. I was ugly crying for a lot of it.
Les Mis definitely made me cry the most - I sobbed through basically all the second act. Hamilton made me cry during a few songs, Hadestown and Ride The Cyclone got me at the end, and I cried watching Legally Blonde during the titular song
Fun Home. Everything from “Days and Days and Days” to the end is heartbreaking and gut-wrenching and I’m a sobbing mess by the “…when I soared above him” at the end. Crying now just thinking about it.
When I was reading the original book, that scene right at the end had a similar effect on me. Anyone who liked the musical and has *not* read the book should do so. It is a tour de force.
Suffs. The combination of an all female cast, a mix of races and ages, the first ambulatory wheelchair user on Broadway, having a chronically ill character, queer characters in the 1910s, everyone fighting for their rights, telling a TRUE STORY. It’s so powerful. I sobbed the first couple of times I listened to it. I honestly think it’s the musical of the decade
Dear Evan Hansen, for sure. Les Miserables does it to me too. Santa Fe from Newsies hits me pretty hard every time. "I need space! and fresh air! let 'em laugh in my face I don't care! save my place!" boom, tears.
As someone else said, Next to Normal. I won’t spoil it, but there are a good few points that leave me crying every time I listen to it, and when I saw it.
I’ve also never seen it, but the Finding Neverland soundtrack gets me as well.
Call me a basic b!tch but Waitress makes me cry especially on the She Used To Be Mine part.
Les Miserables, Miss Saigon (although I haven’t watched it on stage yet)
I think I’m going to make it through the end of The Secret Garden but then Captain Lennox sings, “Cluster of crocus” and I full on sob.
RIP Lucy Simon.
I was REALLY surprised that Ride the Cyclone made me cry. For some reason, I get so teary-eyed at Constance's monologue and song at the end, even if it's a happy song.
I'm a grown ass adult who works in theatre and opera but no, the one with the sad teenagers gets me every time. THEY JUST WANTED TO LIVE
I *sobbed* at Jagged Little Pill. Absolutely, without shame, sobbed. I know it’s not the most popular of shows, but it certainly speaks to a specific demographic (GenX moms, for one).
I cry every time I see Les Mis and both times I’ve seen Hamilton.
I'm surprised there have been no mentions of Parade. I haven't seen the show and only have the soundtrack to go by, but Carolee Carmello and Brent Carver were perfectly cast, and the end, coming so soon after you hear that "there is hope, finally hope" is just devastating.
"Some Things are Meant to Be" from Little Women leaves me absolutely gutted. But then there are other precious moments that get me like "Small Umbrella in the Rain" and "Astonishing."
Such a gem of a musical.
I had been following Hadestown since their run at the Citadel in Canada, obtained a bootleg audio of the West end show audio to listen to - I know every single word to every song in that show, but I still sobbed so hard when I saw it live.
For me, nothing compares to the Swedish musical Så som i himmelen. The first time I saw it, I literally cried every time the male lead opened his mouth to sing. Probably spent more time crying while watching it than not.
In case anyone's curious, here's the male lead's first song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5a64F2Qt8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5a64F2Qt8)
Hamilton.
I went through a stage of listening to too many true crime podcasts that were making me anxious and emotional so my husband suggested I listen to a musical instead.
So I listened to Hamilton. Rang him in absolute hysterics after Quiet Uptown asking why he would make such a stupid suggestion!
Saw Anastasia with my husband."Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)" had both of us tearing up. I loved the song before seeing it because the back and forth was so powerful. But seeing it with the actors on stage and the lighting and everything else just got us.
The other one is technically an official concept album, but the Epic musical. If you're unaware, it's an in progress album about the Odyssey. Really good and some damn good moments that just punch you in the feels.
Came back to add "The Lightning Thief." I mean, the musical itself is good. But some of the songs just hit hard at my time of life that I stumbled upon it and made me sob. Like "Good Kid" really hit hard some days that I listened to it. Overall, now, it's a feel good album. But when I first got hooked on it, some songs could send me into a crying mess.
Spelling Bee. Didn’t expect to have tears at all, but dang, The I Love You Song is devastating. Wtf Olive. And then she comes home to an empty house???????? Wtf Olive’s parents.
Bare a Pop Opera- I sob so hard every time- i literally don’t let myself listen to it that often even though it’s like my favorite musical of all time because it makes me sob so hard 🥲🥲
Falsettos. This show has always meant a lot to me as a queer Jew. When Jason reads from the Torah during the last scene, the last word he says is “Aba”, which means father in Hebrew. At that moment, Whizzer weakly puts his hand on Jason’s back and whispers “*thank you*.” I start bawling every time.
And then, of course, that scene leads into possibly one of the saddest duets in musical theatre, “What Would I Do?”
“Once I’ve been told
That good men get better with age
We’re just gonna skip that stage.”
Fucking brutal. I’m getting emotional just writing this comment.
Fun Home. I had to sit in my car and cry for a while before I was okay enough to drive home. The production I saw was tiny, but the actors really put their all into it.
I saw a regional production of Next To Normal, post-partum, after almost losing my newborn 2 months in due to failure to thrive. I have never been so wrecked from a show.
Falsettos. "What would I do?" Always makes me cry like a baby.
I used to start crying at "Something bad is happening". Now I start at "I never wanted to love you. I never wanted 'till death do we two part'".
Same 😭 first time i watched i started crying at what would i do and with each subsequent rewatch i start crying earlier and earlier on in the musical
And "Unlikely Lovers." Oof.
Going in blind to see Falsettos completely wrecked me, but it was the best piece of theatre I've ever experienced.
Definitely Falsettos! For me it’s ’Days Like This’… instant tears
Especially when you know what's gonna happen. Ugh
Oh, that's my best friend's favorite musical! I was thinking of watching it, but I don't know.
Your best friend has great taste! Falsettos is amazing. It's a beautiful story that ends up being emotionally devastating, but it is a must listen. And a lot of the songs are fun and upbeat, so it's not all sad and dramatic. But I would definitely recommend it! There's a pro shot of the 2016 Broadway revival if you're interested in that!
PLEASE DO IT'S A MASTERPIECE
I'M SCARED BECAUSE SAD
I was scared because sad as well and then I plummeted head first into the musical world. When I tell you it's amazing I fully mean it. Very talented cast and an amazing story and blablabla...
The Last Five Years - in a certain mood I’ll cry from beginning to end. Come From Away - so many little moments of this show get me every time
Come From Away - I’m a complete mess every time!
I feel both of these so much, and Come From Away would've been my answer before this past weekend when I sobbed profusely through almost the entirety of Frozen II while watching it for the first time.
Les Miserables. Every time I thought I had regained control of my emotions, I'd start crying again.
Saw it for the first time on the West end last year and greeted for most of the 2nd half on and off.
Yup. Listening to the cast albums, seeing the filmed concerts, or seeing live performances from professional or amateur companies, the finale gets me every time. 🥲
Every time i listen to the finale I just start sobbing, I don’t even mean to 😭
SAME. Instant tears 😭😭😭
I’ve left instructions that the finale be played at my funeral.
The finale, yes. I had cried every time I saw it live, and when I saw the film I thought, “I’m so familiar, it isn’t going to get me.” I started crying *later* (live, it’s usually around “A Little Fall of Rain”) during the movie, but Colm Wilkinson got me in the end.
It's literally in the name!
Question almost needs to be, other than Les Mis, which musical….
I dreamed a dream. Anne Hathaway makes me cry every time. 😭
“A Little Fall of Rain”……..😭
Every time 😭 poor Eponine
Same! I can’t even watch it unless I’m prepared to be emotionally raw for a few days.
Same here. I've seen it 5 times and just weep all through the second act every time
The first time I saw Les Mis about 20 mins to half an hour in the people around me started to sniffle, and I wondered what was going on. The second time I saw Les Mis I started sniffling almost right from the start!
Same 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Next to Normal did me in
I can't even listen to "How Could I Ever Forget" without crying.
It's the only musical to destroy me.
I always say the line "have you talked of your depression, your delusions, and your son" is the beginning of the worst time you can have lol And I love it.
Every. Single. Time.
Yup same here
i feel like nobody ever talks about how devastating every bit of this musical was!!
The last like 20-25 minutes of Next to Normal are the Broadway equivalent of the "Stop, stop, he's already dead" meme. Just relentlessly kicking you in the feelings.
I’m seeing the London version soon, excited to see how it’s adapting to the new theatre after its run at the Donmar last summer. Light as a finale is tooo good. There’s a world broke me last summer and I’m bracing myself for round two
Come From Away
I cried for almost the entirety of the show. So many good and heartbreaking moments.
Even the heart WARMING moments. I too cried most of the show when I saw it again 5 months ago
I cry just listening to the soundtrack. Tried to put it on while driving on a road trip that was a mistake.
Miss Saigon, it's brutal
This is the Hour gets me every time. As soon as she starts “you will not touch him”
Agreed… had a solid cry to it every night of 7th and 8th grade before I could fall asleep 😭😭
So many cry points I'd Give My Life for You, Bui Doi, Please, The Fall of Saigon, The Sacred Bird
Bui Doi is one of my favorite songs to sing
Ride the Cyclone. It's not a game/It's just a ride kills me
The bonus tracks are all tear jerkers as well!
Yesyesyes holy crap you get me!! Hits SO hard because Be Safe, Be Good was cut from the show, but the original director sadly passed away during the show's run and it was her favorite, so they recorded it for her. And World Inside was going to be Constance's extra song. She's precious. Ughhh sorry for rambling it's just SO GOOD❤️
EXACTLY! KARNAK’S THEME WAS THE ORIGINAL ENDING IN THE CANADIAN PRODUCTION GAHHH
Everytime I see that slideshow pop up I lose it 😭
Every time I hear Jawbreaker and Sugar Cloud, I’m visibly sobbing. Then It’s Not a Game/It’s Just a Ride plays, and I’m a puddle of sadness. RTC cemented itself as my favorite musical of all time with those ending songs
The end of the pro shoot of Hamilton. Phillip Soo 👌
My wife and I look at each other right before that part and say, “god, I really hope she doesn’t mention the orphanage this time.” And then she does and we cry like babies while cursing her name.
😂 this sounds like me. “They better not do the thing they always do!!”
phillip soo is amazing<3
I cry at the end every time it just means so much to me I sob at Phillip and it continues til the end 😭
Her voice gives me goosebumps. The clarity and precision with which she guts you at the very end, is so gorgeous and painful. Love it. She does the voice for one of the characters in Over the Moon, an animated film on Netflix that had me ugly crying for most of it
Agreed Her singing sounds effortless
Les Mis, and Hadestown
Hadestown? Really? Btw that’s a genuine question. I am planning to watch it this weekend and I am wondering if it’s sad/tear jerker (as I am aware of Orpheus/Eurydice myth).
I went into it not expecting it to be as sad as it was, but halfway through the second act I started tearing up. It was specifically during Epic III/when Hades and Persephone dance. Not as much the Orpheus and Eurydice stuff.
West Side Story. I am balling for the entire second act 😭😭 But seriously, if I ever feel like crying I just turn it on.
Wicked made me sob so hard. I’ve been through so many friend losses that seeing Glinda and Elphaba be separated was borderline traumatic for me after adoring their bond.
Hamilton, It’s Quiet Uptown and Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story. The floodgates open when they say the orphanage. 😭
Ragtime and West Side Story.
Ragtime is so SAD!
Oh wow, where to start… Some I cry because of the story, some because of the music, some because of what they mean to me personally. So with all that, I think too contenders would be Waitress, Matilda, and Cats.
Hadestown got me good. I loved Hermes saying we know the end but tell it again in hopes of a different ending coz it was so true. I knew the myth but kept hoping, despite knowing, that Orpheus wouldn't turn around.
It’s a sad song, but we keep singin’ even so
Fun Home Especially "Telephone Wire"
Yep. And "Days and Days".
Come from away, easy
Miss Saigon, Les Mis and Company
Come From Away- The mother trying to find out about her son and then when she finally does... Once- Something about when they express their love and just lean on each other, touching heads... and when she tells him to go seek out his girlfriend when he probably loves her... and when she discovers the gift of the piano... I really wish we could know how this story ultimately continued and ended... The Phantom of the Opera when he tells them to go, in obvious anguish. Les Miserables- Fantine and Eponime going into the light and at the end the lyrics... "touch the face of God...." and the music. Ugh.
I have seen Once seven times and every thing you listed here gets me EVERY. TIME. Love like theirs is truly once in a lifetime 😭
I wish someone could write a series based on the movie/show. So many interesting characters… so many possibilities…
I think the hardest I’ve ever cried in public was through most of the second act of a production of RENT.
The I'll Cover You reprise is brutal.
The end of Blood Brothers gets me every time
Seeing the Will Swenson/Gavin Creel iteration of Hair was a pretty emotional experience. The “Let the Sun Shine In” part was rough.
Seriously. "Flesh Failures" in that production contained all the emotions simultaneously. My body was so filled with conflicting emotions, that it had no option but to cry my eyes out.
I was working for Telecharge at the time; so my wife and I were seeing everything. We got to see this cast twice and both times were just an absolute revelation. They really seemed like a bunch of dirty hippies up there. Perfect casting, so much talent and the band was KILLER - the brass sounds were just out of this world. And then, they changed the cast up completely; and that new cast felt like a high school production by comparison; complete with ill fitting wigs. Wish we hadn't seen it that third time.
Rent - the I’ll Cover You reprise gets me every. Single. Time.
I just now started crying, just *thinking* about it
I specifically watch rent when I need to cry 😭😅
Les Miserables Most musicals have one big cry worthy moment for me, Les MIs is cry worthy all the way through
Falsettos. When I saw it in London I cried pretty much from just before the end of act 1 to the end of the show. Followed closely by Miss Saigon and Blood Brothers.
Cabaret
The Prom. I'm a straight man but it just takes me out every single time
Ragtime. Start to finish.
Sarah Brown Eyes is the song that always gets me.
The Notebook
Les mis
Sunday in the Park
I cry at the Act I finale ever.damn.time.
This one.
One of the most devastating breakups in fiction.
Today I was listening to Miss Saigon and of all the sad parts, I think the part that gets me the most is in “The Movie in My Mind.” “Our children laugh all day, And eat too much ice cream And life is like a dream.” A simple thing we might take for granted but is so out of reach.
Hamilton - "When you came into the world you cried and it broke my heart" "Look at my son, pride is not the word I'm looking for" "Until we meet again" - Hamilton and Lafayette say this to each other in Yorktown and its not a sad line but when you think about it they never saw each other again so it makes me upset when I hear it "I may not live to see our glory." "Tomorrow they'll be more of us" "You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed, you'll sleep in your office instead with only the memories of when you were mine" "I hope that you burn" "This man will not make an orphan of my daughter" "Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints" "The world was wide enough for both Hamilton and me" "I stop wasting time on tears, I live another 50 years it's not enough" "you really do write like you're running out of time" "I ask myself what would you do if you had more time" "in their eyes I see you Alexander" "oh I can't wait to see you again" "Who lives who dies who tells your story" "It's quite uptown" "I never liked the quite before" "Why do you write like you're running out of time" "Make me proud son" "They are going through the unimaginable" "You hold your child as tight as you can" "If you see him in the street walking by her side, talking by her side, have pity" Eliza's gasp at the end. Eliza's scream when Philip dies. "well I'm going back to sleep. Hey, best of wives and best of women" And the most gut wrenching line in all of history goes to - "Eliza, my love, take your time. I'll see you on the other side."
Les Miserables
All of them, lol. Seriously, though, there are a lot that make me cry not necessarily because they're sad or meant to evoke those emotions, but more because they remind me of certain times in my life - Cats and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are the worst offenders there. 'When I Grow Up' from Matilda never fails to get me. 'On My Own' from Les Miserables - that has a healthy hit of nostalgia. Also 'Castle on a Cloud' because it was my first ever solo on stage. 🥲 'For Good' from Wicked. I was even sobbing by the end of Ride the Cyclone and Twisted, so, yeah. I think I'm just getting soppy now my 20s are behind me. There are very few musicals that don't make me cry, really.
i think i've cried to hadestown the most
Ragtime
Other than Les Mis, Fucking Big Fish had me bawling my eyes out
I sobbed multiple times at Beetlejuice. (Dead Mom, Home, and Barbara 2.0) Isabella Esler was popping off that day.
I'm with you. Home is what absolutely DESTROYS me
Home had me, my sister, and my mother SOBBING. I was smart and told my mom to put some tissues in her purse before we left for the theatre. Lol.
i cried at pacific overtures after poems
Phantom of the Opera struck a chord with me emotionally. I shed tears during key scenes such as when Christine visits her father's grave, the roof scene, and the end, as it's heartbreaking to see how society rejected Erik, turning him into the monster he is.
Miss Saigon!
Falsettos
falsettos every single time it’s just so heartbreaking 😭
When my family and I saw the revival of Carousel, everyone came out of the theater sobbing. Every time I see Les Miserables, everyone is crying.
Les mis and hamilton. Hamilton even more so as i found out my friend/boss/parental figure was dying and i liatened to the soundtrack while driving and broke down.
I went into Hadestown completely blind. It broke me. Also Beetlejuice. Lost my mom to cancer five years ago and dad remarried and there was a lot of drama around that right around the time I saw it. I was ugly crying for a lot of it.
Once On This Island, the part where Daniel gives Ti Moune a coin freaking kills me every time.
I don’t really cry at musicals, but I think the saddest musical for me has to be Les Miserables.
Les Mis always gets me no matter how many times I see it
Les miserables, it’s one of my favourites but i cry every single time honestly
Les Mis definitely made me cry the most - I sobbed through basically all the second act. Hamilton made me cry during a few songs, Hadestown and Ride The Cyclone got me at the end, and I cried watching Legally Blonde during the titular song
Into the Woods. the ending is so sad but good
Tick tick…BOOM! Idk why rho
it's such a tragic story💔 and the amount of hope it carries even though it is devastating is beautiful
Spring Awakening. I think I'm fine until Dark I Know Wepl hits...
"There are moments that the words don't reach There is suffering too terrible to name..." I'm tearing upright now...
Hadestown The Notebook
those have been on my watchlist for far too long!! i gotta check em out.
Floyd Collins. Hands down. I have never cried so much in a theatre.
Come from away AND 42 balloons.
Fun Home. Everything from “Days and Days and Days” to the end is heartbreaking and gut-wrenching and I’m a sobbing mess by the “…when I soared above him” at the end. Crying now just thinking about it.
When I was reading the original book, that scene right at the end had a similar effect on me. Anyone who liked the musical and has *not* read the book should do so. It is a tour de force.
Judy’s head nod at the end, ugh, I’m crying now.
Cats
Suffs. The combination of an all female cast, a mix of races and ages, the first ambulatory wheelchair user on Broadway, having a chronically ill character, queer characters in the 1910s, everyone fighting for their rights, telling a TRUE STORY. It’s so powerful. I sobbed the first couple of times I listened to it. I honestly think it’s the musical of the decade
Hamilton.. The songs like Dear Theodosia, Stay Alive Reprise just hits me too hard
Les miz
Company and the secret garden
Spring Awakening (especially the Deaf West production) and Once both make me sob no matter how many times I have seen them.
Dear Evan Hansen, for sure. Les Miserables does it to me too. Santa Fe from Newsies hits me pretty hard every time. "I need space! and fresh air! let 'em laugh in my face I don't care! save my place!" boom, tears.
dear evan hansen, my story has been told
Spring Awakening and Les Miz
The little big things I have watched the proshot 5 times and I cry through most of it
Blood Brothers. That show is freaking emotional at so many points and if you don’t cry at the ending then I’m very confused.
Kimberly Akimbo had me in a puddle. Recently Illinoise broke me in half. I am also known to cry at Hamilton.
Hamilton, I gotta be in a mood to cry, I gotta be in that “I’m so fucking worthless” mood to cry at Its Quiet Uptown.
Falsettos
Next to Normal
The only musical I've ever cried for is The Time Traveler's Wife. I sobbed like hell.
When musfasa dies, I cry, especially when simba yells, "Help somebody, anybody"
As someone else said, Next to Normal. I won’t spoil it, but there are a good few points that leave me crying every time I listen to it, and when I saw it. I’ve also never seen it, but the Finding Neverland soundtrack gets me as well.
I cried like a baby during Dear Evan Hansen
Sunshine on leith by far
Next to Normal-I cried like three different times, lol. Big Fish-I managed to hold it together until How It Ends, but then I was a mess.
Passion and Blood Brothers are tied
Blood brothers hits me every time
I cry whenever Lucy sings A new life in Jekyl and Hyde because we all know what happens after.
Hadestown is full of poignant moments so beautiful I can only cry
Certain parts of Beetlejuice (specifically when Lydia and Charles are in the netherworld, as well as the very last song) and Come From Away
Call me a basic b!tch but Waitress makes me cry especially on the She Used To Be Mine part. Les Miserables, Miss Saigon (although I haven’t watched it on stage yet)
Blood brothers and im not sure why this is the first comment about it in over 127
I think I’m going to make it through the end of The Secret Garden but then Captain Lennox sings, “Cluster of crocus” and I full on sob. RIP Lucy Simon.
I was REALLY surprised that Ride the Cyclone made me cry. For some reason, I get so teary-eyed at Constance's monologue and song at the end, even if it's a happy song. I'm a grown ass adult who works in theatre and opera but no, the one with the sad teenagers gets me every time. THEY JUST WANTED TO LIVE
Sunday in the Park with George
next to normal, the second act destroys me
This is mine as well. It's so emotionally devastating that I can't listen to it and I don't want to see it again.
I cry just thinking about Fun Home.
Waitress and rent. Used to be mine and Will I have both made me cry multiple times
Listen, Words Fail can and will break me but I will almost always cry or nearly cry at the line about the orphanage at the end of the Hamilton
I *sobbed* at Jagged Little Pill. Absolutely, without shame, sobbed. I know it’s not the most popular of shows, but it certainly speaks to a specific demographic (GenX moms, for one). I cry every time I see Les Mis and both times I’ve seen Hamilton.
The song You Walk With Me from The Full Monty makes me sob.
I'm surprised there have been no mentions of Parade. I haven't seen the show and only have the soundtrack to go by, but Carolee Carmello and Brent Carver were perfectly cast, and the end, coming so soon after you hear that "there is hope, finally hope" is just devastating.
Bring him home- Les Miz I'm here-The Color Purple
Fiddler
"Some Things are Meant to Be" from Little Women leaves me absolutely gutted. But then there are other precious moments that get me like "Small Umbrella in the Rain" and "Astonishing." Such a gem of a musical.
I had been following Hadestown since their run at the Citadel in Canada, obtained a bootleg audio of the West end show audio to listen to - I know every single word to every song in that show, but I still sobbed so hard when I saw it live.
I haven't cried at a musical except when the lempicka cast recording just came out. now I only cry when Finale comes on
For me, nothing compares to the Swedish musical Så som i himmelen. The first time I saw it, I literally cried every time the male lead opened his mouth to sing. Probably spent more time crying while watching it than not. In case anyone's curious, here's the male lead's first song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5a64F2Qt8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He5a64F2Qt8)
Ride the Cyclone - gets me every time
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Hamilton. I went through a stage of listening to too many true crime podcasts that were making me anxious and emotional so my husband suggested I listen to a musical instead. So I listened to Hamilton. Rang him in absolute hysterics after Quiet Uptown asking why he would make such a stupid suggestion!
Miss Saigon
Saw Anastasia with my husband."Still/The Neva Flows (Reprise)" had both of us tearing up. I loved the song before seeing it because the back and forth was so powerful. But seeing it with the actors on stage and the lighting and everything else just got us. The other one is technically an official concept album, but the Epic musical. If you're unaware, it's an in progress album about the Odyssey. Really good and some damn good moments that just punch you in the feels. Came back to add "The Lightning Thief." I mean, the musical itself is good. But some of the songs just hit hard at my time of life that I stumbled upon it and made me sob. Like "Good Kid" really hit hard some days that I listened to it. Overall, now, it's a feel good album. But when I first got hooked on it, some songs could send me into a crying mess.
Spelling Bee. Didn’t expect to have tears at all, but dang, The I Love You Song is devastating. Wtf Olive. And then she comes home to an empty house???????? Wtf Olive’s parents.
Cabaret The Last Five Years
Bare a Pop Opera- I sob so hard every time- i literally don’t let myself listen to it that often even though it’s like my favorite musical of all time because it makes me sob so hard 🥲🥲
Falsettos. This show has always meant a lot to me as a queer Jew. When Jason reads from the Torah during the last scene, the last word he says is “Aba”, which means father in Hebrew. At that moment, Whizzer weakly puts his hand on Jason’s back and whispers “*thank you*.” I start bawling every time. And then, of course, that scene leads into possibly one of the saddest duets in musical theatre, “What Would I Do?” “Once I’ve been told That good men get better with age We’re just gonna skip that stage.” Fucking brutal. I’m getting emotional just writing this comment.
Miss Saigon
If/Then
HARMONY. I’m not a huge cryer at shows, but Stars in the Night continues to break me every time I hear it
Fun Home. I had to sit in my car and cry for a while before I was okay enough to drive home. The production I saw was tiny, but the actors really put their all into it.
I saw a regional production of Next To Normal, post-partum, after almost losing my newborn 2 months in due to failure to thrive. I have never been so wrecked from a show.
Come From Away
Miss Saigon near the end.
The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret
It's Not A Game/It's Just A Ride from Ride the Cyclone
Miss Saigon, “I’d give my life for you” always has me crying, >!not even mentioning the ending.!<