Top 10 Broadway Songs to Listen to When You're Sad

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  • Опубликовано: 20 янв 2023
  • Forget your worries, c'mon get happy! For this list, we’ll be looking at the songs we play when we need to sing out our feelings. There are spoilers ahead regarding characters’ romances, deaths, and lifetime regrets, so this is your warning. Our countdown includes tunes from "Wicked", "Cabaret", "Hamilton" and more! Which show tune has you teary-eyed? Tell us in the comments below.
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  • @bellabrownlee1685
    @bellabrownlee1685 Год назад +53

    Who lives, who dies, who tells your story is amazing.

  • @StLProgressive
    @StLProgressive Год назад +53

    I was in no way prepared for ‘So Big/So Small’ when I took my son, who was 20 at the time to see Evan Hansen. He was home from college that weekend, and I was still reeling from getting divorced about 8 month before after 26 years of marriage. The song captured how I felt so well, even though he was 17 when his father walked out right after he graduated high school, especially after my son went off to college and the house was empty. I was a wreck during that song, years streaming down my face. My son just held my hand and didn’t let go.

    • @dannysimion
      @dannysimion Год назад

      The emotive lyrics and the delivery of a storyline. It’s a theme a lot of parents I’m sure who suddenly become a single one can react to. My mom is one of them. So it hits home for me.

  • @chelseacanales8763
    @chelseacanales8763 Год назад +54

    On My Own is breathtaking and heartbreaking at the same time.

    • @trinaq
      @trinaq Год назад

      Preach, my heart breaks on Eponine's behalf every single time, as she knows that Marius will never love her back, but she's loyal to him anyway.

  • @lillykennedy2135
    @lillykennedy2135 Год назад +38

    You Will Be Found and Words Fail from Dear Evan Hansen always sends shivers down my spine. I was bawling my eyes out when I saw the movie in theaters.

    • @dannysimion
      @dannysimion Год назад

      Heck yeah! This album got me teary eyes in a couple of their tracks. And this is coming from listening to the album without even watching either the Broadway play or the film

  • @davidworobec1673
    @davidworobec1673 Год назад +26

    Other great ballads: "This Nearly Was Mine" (South Pacific), "Send In The Clowns" (A Little Night Music), "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" (Les Miserables), "Losing My Mind" (Follies), "No More" (Into The Woods), "Left Behind" (Spring Awakening), "Gethsemane" (Jesus Christ Superstar), "No One Knows Who I Am" (Jekyll & Hyde), "Evermore Without You" (The Woman In White), "Lesson #8" (Sunday In The Park With George).

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +1

      I would add "If I can't Love Her" (Beauty and the Beast).

  • @jessc.994
    @jessc.994 Год назад +23

    I’ll Cover You (Reprise) from Rent makes me cry every time.

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад

      Me too. I cry from Without You all the way through to I'll Cover You (reprise).

  • @SConArt87
    @SConArt87 Год назад +8

    My friend and I sang “For Good” at our high school graduation. Holding back tears the entire time.

  • @peggyknecht5551
    @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +11

    I love On My Own, Memory, It's Quiet Uptown, and I Dreamed a Dream. Whenever I need a good cry, I just listen to one of those songs. Then, I have a good ugly cry.

  • @glenncross4987
    @glenncross4987 Год назад +20

    A song not on here that I love from Broadway was Memory (Reprised) from Cats. Anytime I hear it, I shed a few tears

    • @Fumi007
      @Fumi007 Год назад +2

      Cosign on the reprise version. That’s actually the only one I really listen to.

  • @morena.abdala
    @morena.abdala Год назад +12

    I actually think “a little fall of rain” so much sadder 😢

    • @CloTricots
      @CloTricots Год назад

      "Ce n'est rien, Monsieur Marius, qu'un peu de sang qui pleure" 😭

  • @jamesmoyner7499
    @jamesmoyner7499 Год назад +29

    This is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde.

    • @aalflyguy1184
      @aalflyguy1184 Год назад +2

      Someone like you…. Linda Eder is iconic!

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +1

      Once Upon a Dream, and Someone like You are the ones that make me cry. In His Eyes is a good song, too.

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад

      @@aalflyguy1184 I totally agree!

    • @wincubs1
      @wincubs1 Год назад

      A New Life....another gem from Jekyll and Hyde!

  • @lovehaley_xo
    @lovehaley_xo Год назад +20

    These are all great! I also love Lily's Eyes from The Secret Garden, I Am the One (Reprise) from Next to Normal, If Only (Quartet) from The Little Mermaid, and Tell Me Why from Amazing Grace!

    • @jaylayson69
      @jaylayson69 Год назад

      So glad to see someone else mention Next to Normal!

  • @mashudumunyai5654
    @mashudumunyai5654 Год назад +9

    I feel like the most saddest song in les miserables is empty chairs and empty tables 😭the feeling of loosing everyone
    On my own is also very sad but empty chairs and empty tables is the most saddest 💔

  • @annek1226
    @annek1226 Год назад +61

    No one does Wicked better than these two!

    • @perryjones7771
      @perryjones7771 Год назад +5

      The OG’s are UNTOUCHABLE IN MY EYES

    • @user-PuppyDan
      @user-PuppyDan Год назад +5

      India Menzel is Elphaba the power and passion in her voice is just wow.

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +2

      @@user-PuppyDan IKR! Her Elphaba is so iconic!

  • @peggyknecht5551
    @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +8

    Another song that makes me cry is The Winner Takes it All from Momma Mia. It's just such an emotional song.

  • @lyannassauro
    @lyannassauro Год назад +4

    "It's quiet uptown" knocks me down everytime...

  • @allegramae11
    @allegramae11 Год назад +10

    ‘Seventeen’ from Heathers is a great one, as well as the death scene songs from Hamilton - especially Hamilton’s death speech in ‘The World Was Wide Enough.’
    Also, when I first saw Moulin Rouge, it did cause me to completely lose it when Christian turned the gun on himself and Satine was dying in ‘Your Song (Reprise).’

  • @seanhorace925
    @seanhorace925 Год назад +7

    How's about:
    .Why from Tick Tick Boom
    .Maybe from Annie
    .If Only (Quartet) from Disney's The Little Mermaid
    .If I Told You from The Wedding Singer: The Musical
    .Another Suitcase in Another Hall from Evita
    .Home or If I Can't Love Her from Disney's Beauty and the Beast

  • @Alphawolf2017
    @Alphawolf2017 Год назад +11

    I admit to 3 songs for sadness: For Good (Wicked); Purely because I just need to belt out something sad to get it out my system: I Dreamed a Dream (Les Miserables): Sometimes I find myself thinking about a...unfortunately toxic relationship I was in and how it ended. Ergo, sometimes I have to sing it; Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again (Phantom of the Opera): Well...honestly I've always loved this solo from the musical, however I recently lost my dad in an unfortunate car accident and this song has actually help me whenever I got uber-depressed merely thinking about him.

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +1

      My friend and I sang For Good in a concert. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, not even on stage. I was just thinking about my best friend that is in jail. What would I say to her if I knew that I was never going to see her again?

  • @caseydant6536
    @caseydant6536 Год назад +4

    "Legally Blonde" is one of my favorites. It hits me every time I hear Laura Bell Bundy's voice break singing "some girls were just meant to smile"

  • @amyartlover
    @amyartlover Год назад +7

    In Hamilton, there was supposed to be a reprice of Dear Theodosia where Burr tells his daughter through tears that her mother, his wife has passed away and how he will continue to love her and care for her until she's grown up. It's on RUclips if you want to listen to it but LET ME TELL YOU, IT DESTROYED ME.

  • @haleylafferty9870
    @haleylafferty9870 Год назад +6

    The I'll Cover You reprise is number one for me

  • @KittiesofEvil
    @KittiesofEvil Год назад +5

    "On My Own" from Les Miserables, "There's a Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q, and "Pretty Funny" from Dogfight for me. "Meadowlark" from a Baker's Wife is also a tearjerker.

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Год назад +10

    The Bee Gees also wrote a special song for “Saturday Night Fever Musical” in 1998 called “Immortality”, they later dueted with Celine Dion on it, it’s a breathtaking song

  • @idied16
    @idied16 Год назад +3

    Those You've Known from Spring Awakening and a lot of songs from Next to Normal make me cry

  • @waittillfamewtf2385
    @waittillfamewtf2385 Год назад +8

    Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
    🎭 "The Phantom of the Opera"

  • @FandomFox94
    @FandomFox94 Год назад +3

    There are some songs from "Carrie: the Musical" that make me teary-eyed
    It's such an underrated musical

  • @scottyarbour2570
    @scottyarbour2570 Год назад +3

    Pretty good list, but should’ve had “Finale” from Phantom on here

  • @mystikceleste
    @mystikceleste Год назад +3

    I have a playlist titled ‘Broken - Broadway Version’ for just this purpose. Some of my favs that weren’t on your list are
    One Song Glory - Rent
    If I Didn’t Believe In You - The Last 5 Years
    The Dark I know Well & Don’t Do Sadness - Spring Awakening
    Superboy & The Invisible Girl - Next 2 Normal

    • @jaylayson69
      @jaylayson69 Год назад +1

      Superboy and the invisible girl is fantastic. Also from that show is You Don’t Know

    • @mystikceleste
      @mystikceleste Год назад +1

      @@jaylayson69 You don’t know is a good one, for sure

  • @rachelvallery6730
    @rachelvallery6730 Год назад +3

    I agree, when I performed in Rent when I was a Sophomore our last show especially, we were all crying singing that song

  • @gabbytheartfriend
    @gabbytheartfriend Год назад +4

    _If I Didn’t Believe In You_ or _Nobody Needs to Know_ (heck, even _Still Hurting_ ) from The Last Five Years are all great contenders!

  • @Bakerlongisland87
    @Bakerlongisland87 Год назад +2

    The only times I got weepy in watching a broadway show was in Les Miz when I heard the song "Bring Him Home".

  • @dannysimion
    @dannysimion Год назад +2

    Oh that #1 spot is definitely up there. Such a sad song. As for the male side, Ben Platt’s Words Fail, gives me a good cry. Emotive singing that gets me.

  • @bellarc321
    @bellarc321 Год назад +1

    For Good holds a special place in my heart because me and my best friend played Glinda and Elphaba during camp and we sang For Good. Everyone cried. It was so emotional.

  • @barrellracer
    @barrellracer Год назад +5

    Send In The Clowns 💔
    What I Did For Love 💔
    Memory🐱
    Bring Him Home 🇲🇫
    A House Is Not A Home🏠
    Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again🌹

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Год назад +5

    I recommend “I want to Hold your Hand” from “Across the universe” movie musical (2007). Fantastically reworked Beatles song to be slow and sad

  • @viicristina
    @viicristina Год назад +4

    This made me cry half way through... And I wasn't even sober

  • @jenniferedwards1752
    @jenniferedwards1752 Год назад +8

    I feel like "She Used to be Mine" is my theme song.

  • @edwardauerbach8036
    @edwardauerbach8036 Год назад +4

    What about "There's a Place for Us" from West Side Story

  • @LonelyStar831
    @LonelyStar831 Год назад +3

    I used to sing On My Own while riding alone in the crowded city during New Year's eves. I don't sing that anymore. I'm already used to being alone.

    • @joejoe5673
      @joejoe5673 Год назад

      This is me in NYC daily but I realize it's just the Music on My Mind lol! No but really, sometimes music transforms me within the MTA!

    • @LonelyStar831
      @LonelyStar831 Год назад

      @@joejoe5673 Yep, I suppose music has such power in controlling our emotions, which is probably why my therapist recommended me on trying instrumentals only to avoid being influenced by the lyrics.

  • @simply.mollyhwlf8130
    @simply.mollyhwlf8130 9 месяцев назад +1

    “My Child Will Forgive Me” from Parade gets me every single damn time. It just leaves me broken.

  • @log5388
    @log5388 Год назад

    my school did The 25Th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee this year. and i swear i will never get over The I Love You Song. its so pretty and the harmonies r EVERYTHING

  • @sup7761
    @sup7761 Год назад +1

    Tell Me It's Not True from Blood Brothers is absolutely heartbreaking and definitely shouldn't have been missed off this list

  • @MagTheSag90
    @MagTheSag90 Год назад +3

    I dreamed a dream and Epilogue from Les Miserables

  • @joejoe5673
    @joejoe5673 Год назад +2

    Memory not being on this list is tragic and I'm extremely surprised😔! Also The Movie in My Mind makes me cry in the ugliest way possible!

  • @johnchandajr6452
    @johnchandajr6452 Год назад +6

    Memories from Cats and Home from BeetleJuice

  • @moostoonz
    @moostoonz 2 месяца назад +1

    I wasn’t prepared for falsettos I watched it with my friend yesterday and we’re still crying the next day

  • @sarahgibb1735
    @sarahgibb1735 Год назад +2

    I'm here from Matilda, was bawling my eyes out

  • @GamerFunOriginallyAarush
    @GamerFunOriginallyAarush Год назад +2

    That’s helpful to know!

  • @katejanes4724
    @katejanes4724 Год назад +2

    "I'd Give My Life for You" from Miss Saigon??

  • @sallysimpson7
    @sallysimpson7 Год назад +1

    Even though it had a very short run on Broadway, Bonnie and Clyde's "Dying Ain't So Bad" always makes me sob.

  • @elenagtz.glz.7049
    @elenagtz.glz.7049 Год назад +1

    Also "Being Alive" is sad for me hahaha I will now listen to them fully and cry, just for fun 🎶💙🥂

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Год назад +1

    “Easy to Be Hard” from Hair and also “Flesh Failures/ Let the Sunshine In” from Hair. I recommend the 1979 movie by Milos Forman

  • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
    @Jeremiah_Rivers76 Год назад +1

    #9 was my high school’s spring concert senior song. Madison Comprehensive misses me, I suppose. I miss it, too. If there are any Rams out in Mansfield, Ohio’s Madison Local School District who see this, let me just say that you’ll never walk alone.

  • @jwindsor6274
    @jwindsor6274 Год назад +14

    i love she used to be mine!! i believe they're doing a waitress proshot but i hope to one day get a movie adaptation

    • @kalimile1917
      @kalimile1917 Год назад

      Girl... Waitress is the musical adaptation of the film with Kerri Russel.

    • @jwindsor6274
      @jwindsor6274 Год назад +1

      @@kalimile1917 I mean a movie musical adaptation...like with hairspray or mean girls. those started as movies then were turned into musicals and then the musicals were turned into movies

    • @kalimile1917
      @kalimile1917 Год назад

      @@jwindsor6274 lmao that makes more sense xD. Tbh I doubt it'll happen though. Adrian Shelly's husband owns the movie since she died and he's made it a mission to preserve her legacy.

    • @kalimile1917
      @kalimile1917 Год назад

      @@jwindsor6274 The musical only was approved bc of the all female creative team. In a documentary he said that the spirit of female empowerment and quirkiness was something he felt Adrian would want so he approved the musical.

    • @jwindsor6274
      @jwindsor6274 Год назад

      @@kalimile1917 oh i didn't know all that. but at least we'll have the proshot :)

  • @musicalsingingboy
    @musicalsingingboy Год назад +3

    Watch team starkid musicals and do a list of their songs musicals

  • @KissKrys
    @KissKrys Год назад +2

    I Don't Care Much from Cabaret and Wicked Little Town get to me. After having heart break from not only past lovers but friends i considered family, it got to a point where I don't care who i have to lose so long as it saves me from the hurt. And Wicked Little Town is such a powerful song to anyone gender queer, myself included

  • @tommydevito4105
    @tommydevito4105 Год назад +4

    Songs not on this list that deserve a mention:
    Words Fail - Dear Evan Hansen
    I Know the Truth - Aida
    Elaborate Lives Reprise - Aida
    If I Can’t Love Her - Beauty and the Beast

  • @Jules751
    @Jules751 10 месяцев назад

    Seeing renee fleming in the carousel singing you'll never walk alone was tear jerking for sure!

  • @chloecondlin2252
    @chloecondlin2252 Год назад

    you will be found from dear Evan Hanson always gets me crying!

  • @BethMDowney
    @BethMDowney Год назад +1

    I would add a couple from Hedwig and the Angry Inch... "Wicked Little Town" and "The Long Grift."

    • @KissKrys
      @KissKrys Год назад

      Someone said it. Wicked little town is such a sad and powerful song to any one who is gender queer. And i love it with all my heart

  • @jaylayson69
    @jaylayson69 Год назад

    A pretty good list. But my number one song to listen to when I’m sad is “You Don’t Know” from “Next to Normal”. Heck almost any song from this show could be on this list.

  • @bestnameeverf
    @bestnameeverf Год назад +1

    Sarah Brown Eyes from Ragtime makes me sob!

  • @sarahvenable4710
    @sarahvenable4710 Год назад +1

    Those You've Known from Spring Awakening is heartbreaking, especially in the Deaf West production...

  • @cameronjr8
    @cameronjr8 Год назад +3

    Top 10 song mashups in movie trailers that broke the internet?

  • @emilydiveley9661
    @emilydiveley9661 Год назад

    Not a Day goes by is emotional song and i saw Bernadette Peters feel a little bit sad and it happens to Chuck Wagner and he got one tear of his eyes and he sang No one is Alone from Into the Woods and he sang that song at Pensacola Beach at Florida around 2010s

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Год назад +1

      No one is Alone, Children Will Listen and No More make me cry so hard.

  • @HaleyRadiant
    @HaleyRadiant Год назад +1

    GOD I love me a good sad musical theatre song!! 😅😭🎶

  • @snowylyssa
    @snowylyssa Год назад

    hadestown spoilers ahead
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    kinda surprised that road to hell (reprise) or raise our cups aren't on this list. the absolute pain you can feel during the reprise after orpheus loses eurydice and the solemn feeling from raise our cups knowing that orpheus is essentially alone after losing her just makes my heart ache.

  • @Melissent
    @Melissent Год назад

    It's not a big show, but I'd suggest "If I Sing" from "Closer than Ever", where a man sings how he became the artist he is because of his father, gaining in skill while his father wanes. I sang it at my father's celebration of life.

  • @ellenpcwang
    @ellenpcwang Год назад +5

    It should of been 20, not 10 broadway songs.(There are too many.)

  • @natsbigfall
    @natsbigfall Год назад

    THE I LOVE YOU SONG YESSS

  • @icarsu127
    @icarsu127 Год назад

    "Stronger" from Finding Neverland (sung by Jeremy Jordan pre-Broadway)

  • @alysiarose9344
    @alysiarose9344 Год назад

    One song that always gets me is heart of stone from six

  • @eriksokolowski1701
    @eriksokolowski1701 Год назад

    Left behind from Spring Awakening would've been a good choice.

  • @evilisabelle
    @evilisabelle Год назад +1

    Your Daddy's Son from Ragtime. What could be more sad than that??

  • @soearadirimovie2685
    @soearadirimovie2685 Год назад

    I love myself because I love this kind of songs. Not TikTok songs, not Rap, not Taylor Swift, not K-Pop. But this Marvelous songs

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia7949 Год назад

    Yea, I love #1

  • @CorieCupcakes
    @CorieCupcakes Год назад +1

    anybody got the spotify link to the list?

  • @ariaocean7942
    @ariaocean7942 Год назад

    What would I do is such a underated song

  • @BurrShotHam711Jenna
    @BurrShotHam711Jenna Год назад +1

    i knew It's Quiet Uptown made it on the list

  • @mrgrantmshs
    @mrgrantmshs Год назад

    I completely get the love for "On My Own," but the "I Love You Song" from Putnam is a no-brainer for #1 instead of an honorable mention.

  • @sophieirwin3497
    @sophieirwin3497 Год назад

    You’ll never walk alone is also Liverpool FCs anthem

  • @andreasiliceo898
    @andreasiliceo898 Год назад

    Big miss with Losing my mind from Follies!!! When I saw Bernadette Peters I thought it was there...

  • @thomasbradley4505
    @thomasbradley4505 Год назад +1

    We Do Not Belong Together/Move On
    And
    Back To Before

  • @jasmineo7608
    @jasmineo7608 Год назад

    Ooh what about Doubt Comes In from Hadestown!!!

  • @Ecko110
    @Ecko110 Год назад

    Mine is literally the entire album of Next To Normal

  • @schannstewart9385
    @schannstewart9385 Год назад

    Samantha Barks! Enough said

  • @rogermerhan818
    @rogermerhan818 Год назад

    You Must Love Me from the movie version of Evita starring Madonna

  • @LaLayla99
    @LaLayla99 Год назад

    "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods

  • @bestnameeverf
    @bestnameeverf Год назад

    Let the sunshine in from Hair.

  • @luislozano6073
    @luislozano6073 Год назад

    Most people are gonna hate be but, Stephen Sondheim has only like 3 songs that repeats over and over again. Love those 3 songs, tho

  • @SomeRandomNewsiesFan
    @SomeRandomNewsiesFan Месяц назад

    first thing i thought of was she used to be mine, santa fe, on my own, i dreamed a dream, and something to believe me

  • @cannoligrimes6067
    @cannoligrimes6067 Год назад

    Miss Saigon “ I’d give my life for you “ should have at least been an honorable mention.

  • @2034916
    @2034916 3 месяца назад

    “Somewhere” from “West Side Story”

  • @Genevieve-uq7hr
    @Genevieve-uq7hr 3 месяца назад +1

    im suprised its not. 'I dreamed a dream', 'empty chairs at empty tables' or ' a little fall of rain' from Les Mis tbh

  • @angel665b
    @angel665b Год назад

    So sad not to my friend Betsy Wolfe in the Waitress compilation, but atl least I saw a glimpse of her in Falsettos.

  • @JohnAdams_NotQuincy
    @JohnAdams_NotQuincy Год назад +1

    Bro, Your Daddy’s Son from Ragtime should have been on here

  • @What_Makes_Climate_Tick
    @What_Makes_Climate_Tick Год назад

    The intro included a snippet of Fine, Fine Line from Avenue Q. From a silly and irreverent show, it might actually belong on this list. Even Fantasies Come True from the same show deserves some consideration.

  • @Kristian179
    @Kristian179 Год назад

    What about Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story & Dear Theodosia

  • @rileyecheverria7131
    @rileyecheverria7131 Год назад +2

    Home from Beetlejuice should've been in this