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

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  • 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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  • @chelseacanales8763
    @chelseacanales8763 Рік тому +56

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

    • @trinaq
      @trinaq Рік тому

      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.

  • @davidworobec1673
    @davidworobec1673 Рік тому +29

    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 Рік тому +1

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

  • @jessc.994
    @jessc.994 Рік тому +25

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

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Рік тому

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

  • @glenncross4987
    @glenncross4987 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +2

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

  • @lyannassauro
    @lyannassauro Рік тому +5

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

  • @seanhorace925
    @seanhorace925 Рік тому +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

  • @morena.abdala
    @morena.abdala Рік тому +13

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

    • @CloTricots
      @CloTricots Рік тому

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

  • @bellabrownlee1685
    @bellabrownlee1685 Рік тому +54

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

  • @annek1226
    @annek1226 Рік тому +61

    No one does Wicked better than these two!

    • @perryjones7771
      @perryjones7771 Рік тому +5

      The OG’s are UNTOUCHABLE IN MY EYES

    • @user-PuppyDan
      @user-PuppyDan Рік тому +5

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

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Рік тому +2

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

  • @peggyknecht5551
    @peggyknecht5551 Рік тому +8

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

  • @gabbytheartfriend
    @gabbytheartfriend Рік тому +5

    _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!

  • @FandomFox94
    @FandomFox94 Рік тому +3

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

  • @mystikceleste
    @mystikceleste Рік тому +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 Рік тому +1

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

    • @mystikceleste
      @mystikceleste Рік тому +1

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

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Рік тому +6

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

  • @barrellracer
    @barrellracer Рік тому +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🌹

  • @edwardauerbach8036
    @edwardauerbach8036 Рік тому +4

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

  • @Bakerlongisland87
    @Bakerlongisland87 Рік тому +2

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

  • @bellarc321
    @bellarc321 Рік тому +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.

  • @jenniferedwards1752
    @jenniferedwards1752 Рік тому +8

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

  • @dannysimion
    @dannysimion Рік тому +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.

  • @sup7761
    @sup7761 Рік тому +1

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

  • @viicristina
    @viicristina Рік тому +4

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

  • @joejoe5673
    @joejoe5673 Рік тому +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!

  • @LonelyStar831
    @LonelyStar831 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      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 Рік тому

      @@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.

  • @MagTheSag90
    @MagTheSag90 Рік тому +3

    I dreamed a dream and Epilogue from Les Miserables

  • @moostoonz
    @moostoonz 4 місяці тому +1

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

  • @jwindsor6274
    @jwindsor6274 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

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

    • @jwindsor6274
      @jwindsor6274 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      @@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 Рік тому

      @@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 Рік тому

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

  • @sallysimpson7
    @sallysimpson7 Рік тому +1

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

  • @musicalsingingboy
    @musicalsingingboy Рік тому +3

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

  • @elenagtz.glz.7049
    @elenagtz.glz.7049 Рік тому +1

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

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Рік тому +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

  • @jaylayson69
    @jaylayson69 Рік тому

    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.

  • @theyinyang1103
    @theyinyang1103 2 місяці тому +2

    So Big, So Small made me tear up the first time i watched Dear Evan Hansen, relating it to my own Mom.

  • @Jeremiah_Rivers76
    @Jeremiah_Rivers76 Рік тому +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.

  • @GamerFunOriginallyAarush
    @GamerFunOriginallyAarush Рік тому +2

    That’s helpful to know!

  • @chloecondlin2252
    @chloecondlin2252 Рік тому

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

  • @BurrShotHam711Jenna
    @BurrShotHam711Jenna Рік тому +1

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

  • @thomasbradley4505
    @thomasbradley4505 Рік тому +1

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

  • @Genevieve-uq7hr
    @Genevieve-uq7hr 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @HaleyRadiant
    @HaleyRadiant Рік тому +1

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

  • @emilydiveley9661
    @emilydiveley9661 Рік тому

    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 Рік тому +1

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

  • @natsbigfall
    @natsbigfall Рік тому

    THE I LOVE YOU SONG YESSS

  • @2034916
    @2034916 6 місяців тому

    “Somewhere” from “West Side Story”

  • @mrgrantmshs
    @mrgrantmshs Рік тому

    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.

  • @schannstewart9385
    @schannstewart9385 Рік тому

    Samantha Barks! Enough said

  • @alysiarose9344
    @alysiarose9344 Рік тому

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

  • @eriksokolowski1701
    @eriksokolowski1701 Рік тому

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

  • @andreasiliceo898
    @andreasiliceo898 Рік тому

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

  • @sophieirwin3497
    @sophieirwin3497 Рік тому

    You’ll never walk alone is also Liverpool FCs anthem

  • @LaLayla99
    @LaLayla99 Рік тому

    "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods

  • @rileyecheverria7131
    @rileyecheverria7131 Рік тому +2

    Home from Beetlejuice should've been in this

  • @ariaocean7942
    @ariaocean7942 Рік тому

    What would I do is such a underated song

  • @rogermerhan818
    @rogermerhan818 Рік тому

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

  • @CorieCupcakes
    @CorieCupcakes Рік тому +1

    anybody got the spotify link to the list?

  • @JohnAdams_NotQuincy
    @JohnAdams_NotQuincy Рік тому +1

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

  • @annanikia7949
    @annanikia7949 Рік тому

    Yea, I love #1

  • @bestnameeverf
    @bestnameeverf Рік тому

    Let the sunshine in from Hair.

  • @What_Makes_Climate_Tick
    @What_Makes_Climate_Tick Рік тому

    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.

  • @cijmo
    @cijmo Рік тому

    Over 100 comments and I can't read them all but TELL Me I'm not the first to say "You Are Not Alone" from Into the Woods.

  • @treywhite4186
    @treywhite4186 Рік тому

    They forgot “Endless Night” from The Lion King on Broadway!

  • @sburris65
    @sburris65 Рік тому +4

    Pretty much Le Miz is one boo hoo fest. But Bring Him Home..especially if it happens to be sung by Colin Wilkinson..has me doing the double ugly cry.
    You also left out
    Memory..Cats
    Last Night of the World..Miss Saigon
    They Live in You..The Lion King

  • @Angry-Writer
    @Angry-Writer 9 місяців тому +1

    I know turning wasn’t on here because it’s not relatable, but not even a runner up? It’s about a bunch of children dying

  • @KrisWorld1806
    @KrisWorld1806 Рік тому

    You include There’s A Fine Fine Line from Avenue Q in the intro but not the actual countdown? What gives?

  • @KairosMalificus
    @KairosMalificus Рік тому

    Dear Evan Hansen always breaks me.

  • @prathamsaxena9503
    @prathamsaxena9503 Рік тому +1

    This list doesn't make sense
    If I am sad why would I listen something to cry

  • @StLProgressive
    @StLProgressive Рік тому +55

    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 Рік тому

      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.

  • @lillykennedy2135
    @lillykennedy2135 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      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

  • @jamesmoyner7499
    @jamesmoyner7499 Рік тому +30

    This is the Moment from Jekyll and Hyde.

    • @aalflyguy1184
      @aalflyguy1184 Рік тому +2

      Someone like you…. Linda Eder is iconic!

    • @peggyknecht5551
      @peggyknecht5551 Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      @@aalflyguy1184 I totally agree!

    • @wincubs1
      @wincubs1 Рік тому

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

  • @ellenpcwang
    @ellenpcwang Рік тому +5

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

  • @mashudumunyai5654
    @mashudumunyai5654 Рік тому +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 💔

  • @haleylafferty9870
    @haleylafferty9870 Рік тому +6

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

  • @waittillfamewtf2385
    @waittillfamewtf2385 Рік тому +8

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

  • @peggyknecht5551
    @peggyknecht5551 Рік тому +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.

  • @lovehaley_xo
    @lovehaley_xo Рік тому +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 Рік тому

      So glad to see someone else mention Next to Normal!

  • @allegramae11
    @allegramae11 Рік тому +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).’

  • @johnchandajr6452
    @johnchandajr6452 Рік тому +6

    Memories from Cats and Home from BeetleJuice

  • @amyartlover
    @amyartlover Рік тому +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 UA-cam if you want to listen to it but LET ME TELL YOU, IT DESTROYED ME.

  • @SConArt87
    @SConArt87 Рік тому +8

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

  • @scottyarbour2570
    @scottyarbour2570 Рік тому +3

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

  • @Alphawolf2017
    @Alphawolf2017 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +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?

  • @tommydevito4105
    @tommydevito4105 Рік тому +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

  • @KittiesofEvil
    @KittiesofEvil Рік тому +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.

  • @caseydant6536
    @caseydant6536 Рік тому +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"

  • @katejanes4724
    @katejanes4724 Рік тому +2

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

  • @idied16
    @idied16 Рік тому +3

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

  • @cameronjr8
    @cameronjr8 Рік тому +3

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

  • @saraeastman40
    @saraeastman40 Рік тому +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

  • @KissKrys
    @KissKrys Рік тому +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

  • @evilisabelle
    @evilisabelle Рік тому +1

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

  • @sarahgibb1735
    @sarahgibb1735 Рік тому +2

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

  • @rachelvallery6730
    @rachelvallery6730 Рік тому +3

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

  • @bestnameeverf
    @bestnameeverf Рік тому +1

    Sarah Brown Eyes from Ragtime makes me sob!

  • @sarahvenable4710
    @sarahvenable4710 Рік тому +1

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

  • @simply.mollyhwlf8130
    @simply.mollyhwlf8130 11 місяців тому +1

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

  • @BethMDowney
    @BethMDowney Рік тому +1

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

    • @KissKrys
      @KissKrys Рік тому

      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

  • @SomeRandomNewsiesFan
    @SomeRandomNewsiesFan 3 місяці тому

    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

  • @Kristian179
    @Kristian179 Рік тому

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

  • @DaveRambles
    @DaveRambles Рік тому

    How do you show these clips on UA-cam without being copyright

  • @blaze556922
    @blaze556922 Рік тому +2

    These are all awful

  • @Jules751
    @Jules751 Рік тому

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