Moody Musicals
| Moody Musicals | |
| Created by: | bottledmystery |
| Tracks: | 12 |
| Length: | 00:49:04 |
| Keywords |
1. sadness 2. broadway 3. musicals |
| Created on | 5/10/09 12:35am |
| Level | 2 |
| Points | 1353 |
| Total visitors | 12 |
| Unique visitors | 9 |
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Ahh, the Great White Way. Musicals are thought of as the ultimate in happy endings, but take a look at some recent shows like Wicked and Spring Awakening and you will see that isn't true. Some sad songs from musicals, whether they end happily or not.
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| 1 | Stephen Schwartz : No Good Deed |
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Elphaba (the 'wicked' witch of the West), after losing her love, decides that maybe she *should* be what Oz expects of her—evil and cunning.
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Track 1 from Wicked (Original Broadway Cast)
Length: 00:03:32 Year: 2003 |
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Elphaba (the 'wicked' witch of the West), after losing her love, decides that maybe she *should* be what Oz expects of her—evil and cunning. SHOW LESS
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| 2 | Jonathan Larson : Without You |
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Title is pretty much self-explanatory. "The earth turns, the sun burns, but I die, without you."
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Track 2 from Rent (Original Broadway Cast) (disc 2)
Length: 00:04:21 Year: 1996 |
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Title is pretty much self-explanatory. "The earth turns, the sun burns, but I die, without you." SHOW LESS
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| 3 | Claude-Michel Schönberg : I Dreamed a Dream |
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Fantine's dreams are shattered.
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Track 3 from Les Misérables
Length: 00:04:16 |
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Fantine's dreams are shattered. SHOW LESS
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| 4 | Marvin Hamlisch : What I Did For Love |
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What do we all do for love? Too much and too little. "Won't forget, can't regret, what I did for love."
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Track 4 from A Chorus Line
Length: 00:03:46 |
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What do we all do for love? Too much and too little. "Won't forget, can't regret, what I did for love." SHOW LESS
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| 5 | Fiddler on the Roof : Sunrise, Sunset |
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The lilting, melancholy tune just ratchets up the tissue-box factor.
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Track 5 from Fiddler on the Roof (Soundtrack)
Length: 00:03:50 Year: 1971 |
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The lilting, melancholy tune just ratchets up the tissue-box factor. SHOW LESS
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| 6 | Jerome Kern : Ol' Man River |
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The Mississippi keeps flowin' as life grows harder.
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Track 6 from Showboat
Length: 00:06:35 |
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The Mississippi keeps flowin' as life grows harder. SHOW LESS
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| 7 | Stockard Channing : There Are Worse Things I Could Do |
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Rizzo just can't cover up that she actually has feelings, and that those feelings are aching.
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Track 7 from Grease
Length: 00:02:23 |
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Rizzo just can't cover up that she actually has feelings, and that those feelings are aching. SHOW LESS
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| 8 | Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx : The More You Ruv SOmeone |
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"The more you love someone, the more you want to kill them."
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Track 8 from Avenue Q
Length: 00:02:23 |
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"The more you love someone, the more you want to kill them." SHOW LESS
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| 9 | Billie Holiday : Summertime |
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My mother sang this to me as a lullaby as a young girl, but its swoony, sweepy tune makes me think of break-up songs, and Billie Holiday's voice can melt anyone's heart.
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Track 9 from Quintessential Vol 2 (1936)
Length: 00:02:55 Year: 1936 |
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My mother sang this to me as a lullaby as a young girl, but its swoony, sweepy tune makes me think of break-up songs, and Billie Holiday's voice can melt anyone's heart. SHOW LESS
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| 10 | Jason Robert Brown : Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You |
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Cathy is remembering the beginning of her relationship with Jaime and their first date, whereas Jaime is at the end, writing her a letter goodbye. The last, sad song in "The Last Five Years."
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Track 10 from The Last 5 Years
Length: 00:07:27 Year: 2002 |
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Cathy is remembering the beginning of her relationship with Jaime and their first date, whereas Jaime is at the end, writing her a letter goodbye. The last, sad song in "The Last Five Years." SHOW LESS
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| 11 | Lea Michele : Whispering |
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"Sorrow doing a new dance, through their bones, through their skin." Spring Awakening is simply tragic. Wendla sings what I find to be the most beautiful, moving song in the show.
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Track 11 from Spring Awakening
Length: 00:03:39 Year: 2006 |
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"Sorrow doing a new dance, through their bones, through their skin." Spring Awakening is simply tragic. Wendla sings what I find to be the most beautiful, moving song in the show. SHOW LESS
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| 12 | Stephen Sondheim : No One Is Alone |
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"No One Is Alone" never fails to bring me to tears. It would be a lovely song if you just read the lyrics. As it is, it's one of the most melancholy songs I have ever heard.
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Track 12 from Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast)
Length: 00:03:57 Year: 1988 |
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"No One Is Alone" never fails to bring me to tears. It would be a lovely song if you just read the lyrics. As it is, it's one of the most melancholy songs I have ever heard. SHOW LESS
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5/24/09 9:37pm
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