The Lion King- I lose it everytime the giraffes make their entrance during circle of life. Billy Elliot- Billy's final exit through the audience. Giuseppe Bausilio received a minor standing ovation during this moment when I saw the show on tour. Mary Poppins- Spoon Full of Sugar Reprise, her final flight, and curtain call bow.
Any production of "Guys and Dolls" I choke up during "My Time of Day" which I think is the most beautiful melody I have ever heard and also whenever I hear the slow dance portion of "On Your Toes" which I think is the most evocative music of the 1930s, my favorite decade. I wake up with a smile on my face everyday knowing I'm working on a film set in that period.
The final scene of "Camelot" gets me every time. From Guinevere's goodbye to the knighting of Tom of Warwick as the Offstage Chorus is singing the title song and Arthur is shouting "RUN".......I am a weepy mess.
The final scene of "Camelot" gets me every time. From Guinevere's goodbye to the knighting of Tom of Warwick as the Offstage Chorus is singing the title song and Arthur is shouting "RUN".......I am a weepy mess.
Earliest in a show: The Bishop giving Valjean the candelsticks in Les Miz.
Best Act I Finale tearjerker: The final tableaux of "Sunday" in SITPwG.
Most Melodramatic: Sweeney's "OH NO!" on discovering the identity of the Beggar Woman.
Shmaltziest: The end of The Fantasticks: Fathers: "Look! They've come back! Leat's tear down the wall!" Narrator: "No! Leave the wall. You must always leave the wall." ... folowed by reprise of Try to Remember.
Typically for me, if I see something in a show that makes me tear up, and then revisit it I don't tear up again. I think that this is because part of what makes me tear up is the element of surprise that is lost when I revisit something.
However, there are two things that come to mind that made me tear up multiple times despite knowing that they were going to come.
Those two moments were Paul's Monolauge in A Chorus line as well as the final scene of Ghost.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
The last time I remember crying at one moment in a show was the end of "Still" from Titanic.
Curtain calls can still choke me up.
"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation."
PRS
"Anyways" is not a word. Using it makes you seem stupid.
Quiche2: I was also at Andrew Rannells' last performance, and oh man, that was a tear-fest. It was Rory O'Malley who was totally bawling on stage; I felt so bad for him since he was pretty much doing the same thing a few days earlier at Josh Gad's last performance.
To answer the OP's question, I didn't like Ragtime all that much and found myself surprised that I was tearing up at little Coalhouse's entrance!
"you know what I quit this board, you all can go **** yourselves." - thismyshow
The end of TITANIC gets me every time. Even just listening to the cast recording makes me tear up.
"I think Glee is way too sharp, smart, witty, clever and emotionally confronting for the masses." - Dave19 -
"What's next? Snow Black and the 7 Swaggers? Shasquirta and the Beast? 101 Weavematians?
Willis in Ghettoland?" - Dave19, in reference to the new ANNIE remake.
Marvin singing "What More Can I Say" from Falsettoland. Michael Rupert brings tears to my eyes as he sings about his lover Whizzer. There's a YouTube clip that I've seen. from RC in Austin, Texas
Visiting New York City for the seventh time from June 7-10, 2013. Shows I'll be seeing: Friday, June 7th: "Chicago", Saturday, June 8th @ 2pm: "The Nance", "Pippin": 8pm and Sunday, June 9th: "Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike": 2pm.
"Eiffel Tower" in The Blue Flower (as sung by Teal Wicks rather than the version on the CD, which was not a cast recording). The pain of Maria's loss was felt with every step she took up the stairway.
In GYPSY (or the recent revival atleast), Gypsy beginning to laugh as Patti stares up at the ROSE sign, and bulb by bulb, it begins to fade
Pretty much all of the second act of ONCE, for sheer beauty of the staging, the music, and Cristin Milioti's heart-wrenching performance.
However, the sinlge moment that gets me every. single. time.: the Swan Lake ballet in BILLY ELLIOT. One of the most beautiful moments in theatre today. Period.
Yes, the last performance and the final moments in the last revival of SITPWG, as the audience was screaming, we were all sobbing, as was Steve Sondheim across the aisle from us, and Daniel Evans, tears streaming down his face, holding up his hand to the audience to get out his final line (White, a blank page or canvas...)
I cried during "Gold" in Once and pretty much lost it during the ending, though I agree a lot of the second half had me teary-eyed throughout, even as somebody who saw the film and knew what was going to happen.
I teared up in many parts of Billy Elliot though it has been a while to pick out a particular part except when Billy reads his letter for his mother.
A.LOT. of the Color Purple. Seriously, I prepared and was still unleashing buckets of tears.
I cried when George 'killed' Martha's son and all was revealed. I cried when Honey found out through George what Nick has said behind her back, the betrayal is so palpable.
Fiddler when Tevye feels betrayed by Chava being with Fyedka and when he says goodbye to Hodel when she leaves for Kiev.
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Posted: 11/4/12 at 11:23pm