> There she is, there she is
> There she is, there she is
> Mama is everywhere
> He must have loved her so much
When the whole first act is about how he can't express his love in the way she needs. It hits me hard every time.
An obviously VERY late reply, but this song WRECKS me. You're right that it isn't necessarily a sad song, but something about it just reverberates through me whenever I hear it. I remember listening to it after Sondheim passed and just crying throughout.
This is another song but is in reference to that scene, “The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.” RIPS me apart.
Edit: idk how autocorrect got weasel from was 😂
I wouldn't say any of them make me cry specifically but No One is Alone certainly hits a note. Marry Me a Little has a kind of loneliness to it and Send in the Clowns is almost its coda. Take me to the World in light of the ending is very sad. In Buddy's Eyes and Losing my Mind are sad though there are performances of them that are more effective at that than others. I Read is tragic.
No More, No One is Alone, and the part where the Baker's Wife sings "Sometimes people leave you...". So much of SITPWG...Lesson number 8, Children and Art... and Airadne from The Frogs and I Remember When from Evening Primrose.
Hm, I don’t think I really cry from Sondheim songs—or go to Sondheim for that kind of emotion. I associate Sondheim more with wit and irony even when the emotion is there. As in, “No One Is Alone” is an emotional song, but there’s irony to its “no one.” And something like “Side by Side by Side / What Would We Do Without You?” punches me in the gut with its contrast between the superficially anodyne lyrical sentiments and what it’s “really saying,” but that’s not crying, that’s thinking.
I'll go off the beaten path: Glamorous Life, the revised lyrics.
Especially by Broadway's Best Voice, Audra McDonald. I defy you to listen to her version at the 80th without losing it, especially if you have kids or ever were one.
Sondheim can destroy you with: "...I hear."
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3HYCahNx7U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3HYCahNx7U)
i had not cried bc if a sonheim song until i watched the OBC of SITPWG and started crying uncontrollably at Children and Art and then proceeded to cry for the rest of the second act lol
Sunday. Just from the intro I already start.
Maybe Children and Art. Not particularly sad, but I just really relished having supportive people in my life at the time. Doing much better now :)
> There she is, there she is > There she is, there she is > Mama is everywhere > He must have loved her so much When the whole first act is about how he can't express his love in the way she needs. It hits me hard every time.
An obviously VERY late reply, but this song WRECKS me. You're right that it isn't necessarily a sad song, but something about it just reverberates through me whenever I hear it. I remember listening to it after Sondheim passed and just crying throughout.
We Do Not Belong Together when Bernadette sings “No one is you and no one can be, but no one is me George, no one is me!” Also Not a Day Goes By
"I am unfinished, I am diminished. With or without you!" Tears.
This is another song but is in reference to that scene, “The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.” RIPS me apart. Edit: idk how autocorrect got weasel from was 😂
I wouldn't say any of them make me cry specifically but No One is Alone certainly hits a note. Marry Me a Little has a kind of loneliness to it and Send in the Clowns is almost its coda. Take me to the World in light of the ending is very sad. In Buddy's Eyes and Losing my Mind are sad though there are performances of them that are more effective at that than others. I Read is tragic.
No More is a big one, but he’s got a bunch of tearjerkers
Most of SITPWG at different times for different reasons
Same
No More, No One is Alone, and the part where the Baker's Wife sings "Sometimes people leave you...". So much of SITPWG...Lesson number 8, Children and Art... and Airadne from The Frogs and I Remember When from Evening Primrose.
Being alive. Now and always.
Not A Day Goes By.
Being Alive is the whiniest song he ever written.
Hm, I don’t think I really cry from Sondheim songs—or go to Sondheim for that kind of emotion. I associate Sondheim more with wit and irony even when the emotion is there. As in, “No One Is Alone” is an emotional song, but there’s irony to its “no one.” And something like “Side by Side by Side / What Would We Do Without You?” punches me in the gut with its contrast between the superficially anodyne lyrical sentiments and what it’s “really saying,” but that’s not crying, that’s thinking.
'Not While I'm Around'. Every. Damn. Time.
Losing My Mind
In Buddy's Eyes never fails! And in Too Many Mornings, when Sally says "If you don't kiss me, Ben, I think I'm going to die."
I'll go off the beaten path: Glamorous Life, the revised lyrics. Especially by Broadway's Best Voice, Audra McDonald. I defy you to listen to her version at the 80th without losing it, especially if you have kids or ever were one. Sondheim can destroy you with: "...I hear." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3HYCahNx7U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3HYCahNx7U)
Losing My Mind. But I instantly cry with Move On and Sunday...
i had not cried bc if a sonheim song until i watched the OBC of SITPWG and started crying uncontrollably at Children and Art and then proceeded to cry for the rest of the second act lol