Top 20 Broadway Songs That Make Us Ugly Cry

[@MsMojo]

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[@voltrongirl28]

Just watching this list makes me ugly cry. 😢

[@dragondracen511]

well, "for good" made me emotional but "she used to be mine" really made me cry, because of the personal meaning behind it for me, that something so magical can sweep you of your feet and make you forget who you were when it's gone i know you only added songs that originate from Broadway but another song that will always make me cry is "heart of stone" from the musical SIX

[@chrisraisin5587]

This was a boring list of many WOKE flavoured "songs". The quality of Broadway productions is certainly deteriorating.

[@ashleyhoops5306]

the one song called endless night from the lion king on broadway makes me ugly cry

[@NYChica23]

@@chrisraisin5587 If you call this one boring, you have no heart at all, because a lot of these songs are very relatable to anyone who has faced the same struggles as the characters, and that's where the emotion/ugly crying comes in

[@DanGamingFan2406]

Almost every song in _Les Misérables_ is a tearjerker, but "Do You Hear The People Sing?" is definitely the hardest to get through without crying.

[@henriklindholm7007]

les Miserables started in West end, not Broadway, so it's probably not on this list

[@Patrech]

I dunno - ‘a little fall of rain’ gets me every time.

[@equusquaggaquagga536]

@@Patrech I can never take it serious onstage but the movie musical nailed it Brava Samantha Barks

[@heatherpayne1995]

I can't make it through empty chairs and empty tables.

[@PS-DLMA]

​@@henriklindholm7007its number 3....

[@kisskiss6866]

It's Stay Alive (Reprise)/Quiet Uptown for me, from Hamilton. I don't cry easily but this one gets me every single time

[@rubysoho4033]

SAME!!!

[@pollypiasecki840]

Oh yes...

[@spoiltdiva]

Every single time!

[@scottrabie]

Kelly Clarkson doing that one kills me. She puts so much emotion into it.

[@heatherpayne1995]

It's quiet uptown gets me every time. It's every parent's worst nightmare.

[@bip4all]

For Good, definitely. Do You Hear The People Sing? The line "to love another person is to see the face of God" my goodness it gets me every time. But to dissent...Hamilton? It has to be It's Quiet Uptown. Can't even get through it, not once. 💗💗 Honorable mention: Me and the Sky, I'll Be Here (Ordinary Days ❤)

[@aidansheehan7777]

I remember when I saw Hamilton live, “It’s Quiet Uptown” and “Burn” absolutely tore me to shreds. Seriously moving performances.

[@NWLangel]

who lives, who dies, who tells your story is another tear jerker from Hamilton

[@marisaledesma4068]

Quiet Uptown is so hard to listen to

[@____username____]

Great song in a not so great musical (my opinion)

[@coco2.2]

@@____username____lol you’re the only one

[@____username____]

@@coco2.2 not really but if that makes you feel better 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@christiancruz967]

That last gasp by Phillipa Soo never fails to make me cry, okay? 😢

[@oliviaunicorn7000]

Literally same..

[@LokiMartin]

That last gasp affected me so much, I had to show a video to my Nana and then she cried too.

[@SConArt87]

The Phantom singing “Christine, I love you.” at the end of the show will always get me. The PAIN in those notes!

[@apparition668]

I totally agree- there are small lines scattered throughout the musical that just tear your heart out- when the Phantom sings, "I gave you my music, made your song take wing..." during "All I Ask of You (Reprise)" and his final lines during "Past the Point of No Return" after he's unmasked. But you're right. When he plays the music box and sings "Christine I Love You" I am a total wreck.

[@phantom4ever13]

I agree ramin's interpretation of all I ask of you if just the best so soulful and sad

[@jwindsor6274]

I sobbed the first time I saw She Used to Be Mine performed

[@RandiBeeman]

Sara Bareilles is EVERYTHING. I love her!

[@chelseacanales8763]

The I’ll Cover You reprise from Rent still makes me cry. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@CarolinaMouse]

I bawled when they sang it in the movie, so did the friends I saw it with. Honestly, I still do whenever I watch it.

[@stephaniel2850]

I'm pretty sure the video is still out there somewhere of Jesse L Martin singing it in the performance the night after Jonathan Larson died, and it's SO much, but such a thing to witness 💜

[@SnailReader]

I can't get through any version of the song without bursting into tears. It's one of those songs that always resonates with people, regardless of the walks of life we have.

[@CatherineDupuis87]

Jesse L Martin hitting those low notes gets me right in the heart every time.

[@NYChica23]

@@SnailReader So very true, because no matter whether we're living in poverty, luxury, or everything in between, the one thing we'll all have to face eventually is the loss of those close to us, and this song does an amazing job at capturing/bringing to the surface the universal feelings of grief

[@lolacorinne5384]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for not forgetting “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Does it to me every time.

[@andrewkohler3707]

The last time I legit ugly cried was hearing Renée Fleming sing this.

[@NatrixHasYou]

Cynthia Erivo's version of "I'm Here" from the Tony Awards never fails to give me chills. Just incredible.

[@Adri_Unsung]

Watch the bootleg of her last performance of it you’ll cry so much you turn to dust

[@marins.8702]

“I’ll cover you (reprise)” never fails to make me cry. Another song that deserves to be added: “All You Wanna Do” from Six the musical (performed by Samantha Pauly). Absolutely devastating. Also, “Burn” from Hamilton. Gets me every time.

[@theskylooksabitgray]

Rent and Falsettos have literally changed me so drastically as a person they are heart wrenching and unforgettable. My life will never ever be the same.

[@RandiBeeman]

Who was the guy in the Falsettos clip? The one who wasn't Andrew Rannells, I mean.

[@theskylooksabitgray]

@@RandiBeeman it’s probably Christian borle or Brendon uranowitz

[@octopiinouterspace]

I balled my eyes out at least 3 times when I saw Come From Away. That musical was written so beautifully.

[@SaharaLayne-ne1hu]

“You will not touch him/ I’d give my life for you” from the Tony Awards. No tears, just silence. Eva Noblezada’s cry give me chills like I’ve never had before. Amazing vocal talent and acting

[@just_al0128]

Even if it isn’t broadway, Come What May (Reprise) from Moulin Rouge gets me crying everytime. It is beautiful and no other musical movie scene will top it.

[@gordongraham7]

It is Broadway. The stage production is phenomenal.

[@jaxelyn2261]

I got that tattooed on me I love it so much

[@barb-jm7990]

I would add to this list "Sunrise, Sunset" from Fiddler on the Roof. My Dad used to sing that one as we were growing up. He died when he was just 55. (I'm crying now.)

[@CarolinaMouse]

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom of the Opera is another one I would have added to the list cause I admit to crying during that song cause it makes you think of those or some of those you've lost and would love to see again.

[@seansilence2697]

That song is always meaningful to me because I lost my dad when I was 19

[@cuttlefishagain]

I was thinking that'd be on here. Then again it didn't exactly make me cry. I think more stuff at the end of that one does, like the "Christine...I loveeee you" etc.

[@mariasaenz3524]

Phantom didn’t premier on broadway, but rather London’s West End, so is not eligible for this list.

[@KyleHamel21]

"When I Grow Up" makes me tear up EVERY SINGLE TIME, and I'm an 18 year old male. 😢😂 "She Used to Be Mine" also thoroughly destroys me.

[@simonessays]

Bro when I first heard “She Used to be Mine” i sobbed for a good 20 minutes. Then i was okay. Then i remembered the line “and gets used by a man who can’t love” i cried again.

[@jennief7648]

I'm with you there. Every time.

[@marisaledesma4068]

Revolting Children also gets me.

[@bee-of2we]

I was in a childrens' choir when Matilda the musical was first big, and so, of course, we sang When I Grow Up. 10 years later, I'm leaving the choir to go to university and was asked to learn one of the harmony lines last minute, and I CRIED because it was all so full circle

[@suzannemenuet947]

So glad to see Rent getting recognition! Another song that gets me is "Goodbye Love"😢

[@SnailReader]

Honestly, "Halloween" chokes me up when I hear it. As if I wasn't already sad for Mark by that point, just hearing the end hurts. "Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that it's the end, and I'm alone?"

[@dmctgrlly]

Same. I am a total Renthead and "Goodbye Love" always gets me.

[@coco2.2]

one of my faves for sure ❤

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

Respectfully, it does not need recognition

[@WraythSkitzofrenik]

Ugly sobbing every time

[@MarcioDAstrain]

"Suddenly Seymor" from "The Little Shop of Horrors" always makes me cry. Ellen Greene was born for that role. Without a doubt one of my fav broadway songs of all time! 💙

[@deedee67888]

Somewhere That's Green is the one that does it for me

[@csh]

​@@deedee67888YEESSSSS!!!! And current Audrey Joy Woods' rendition of it is absolute magic!!!

[@allisonjohnson6399]

@@deedee67888 I am Team STG too!! Goodness at the end of her daydream...."as the sun sets in the west...." that part makes me ugly cry! She realizes it's a fantasy she may never achieve, but still hopes. Of course, the movie makes it come true while the musical...well, she is still somewhere that's green and that part may even be sadder.

[@alexandersean4708]

My heart personally shatters during Somewhere That’s Green (Reprise) when she sings “I’m feeling strangely tranquil now. Contented and serene.”

[@SheilaRough]

Ellen Green had such a high pitched and little girly voice for Audrey but when she belts out her notes when she sings Suddenly Seymour. It's wow, that girl can really sing

[@voltrongirl28]

A couple years ago, when I was in my school choir, we had perform "Make Them Hear You." Man, that's a powerful and emotional song.

[@orionalexandersummers]

My house from Matilda the Musical is also a tearjerker! I also get emotional at Quiet and When I grow up! I'm in love with Matilda the Musical and Tim Minchin's songwriting

[@KingdomHeartsFan3211]

“Dear Evan Hansen” is a show that’s full of tearjerkers. It was bad enough with “Words Fail”; but then you have “So Big / So Small”, which hits really close to home for me. Those two songs being performed back-to-back results in me being left a weeping mess.

[@HoloManHands]

Wait... NOTHING from MISS SAIGON? I Still Believe; I'd Give My Life for You; Bui Doi; The Fall of Saigon; Now That I've Seen Her/Her Or Me... So many BEAUTIFUL and emotional songs!

[@amie9588]

I thought there would at LEAST be Bui Doi and/or Movie in My Mind from Miss Saigon.

[@edwardreilley5869]

I was surprised there was nothing from this too

[@alib8819]

I’d add “Sunrise, Sunset” (Fiddler on the Roof) and “Where Did The Rock Go?” or even “If Only You Would Listen” (School of Rock). Probably something from Little Shop too. “Somewhere That’s Green” is so vulnerable and honest. So glad that Next to Normal made it on here!

[@peggyknecht5551]

Sunrise, Sunset always makes me cry. It is that pause in the chorus at the end. I was in the chorus of Fiddler, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house. when we sang it.

[@gabrielasaldivia7923]

I've known "I'll cover you (Reprise)" was number 1 since I watched the movie "Rent" in 2005.... Absolutely gut wrenching!!!

[@Alex_Aus09]

There are musical songs that make me cry more, but a memorable moment was when I saw the Dear Evan Hansen tour in my city with my father. I held back my tears during ‘Words Fail’, but I lost it and burst into tears during ‘So Big/So Small’. I think that what I will always remember is turning to face my father, and he was in tears, too.

[@I.tap.dance.abitlololol]

We sang For Good for our superintendent that retired last year in our choir and it had almost half of the audience tearing up including him.

[@tjhendrix4507]

“Neverland Reprised” killed me when I saw the show live! I was not prepared and cried so hard! “You Will Be Found” still makes me cry. “She Use To Be Mine” hits so hard and was a song I related to when I went through my last break up before I met my husband!

[@erinlizzie09]

"She used to mine" will never not make me cry if it's done right.

[@Arianna1500]

I sobbed my eyes out during Words Fail then completely lost my mind during So Big/So Small. Dear Even Hansen is still the best live performance I’ve ever seen. And it wasn’t even the original cast

[@vickicole4787]

I've seen "Wicked" half a dozen times, and "For Good" leaves me a sobbing mess every single time.

[@peggyknecht5551]

A friend and I sang For Good in my college choir. There wasn't a dry eye in the house, not even on stage. We were both crying as we sang it because we were thinking of what we would say to our best friends if we knew we would never see them again. It just made us cry.

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

Me and one of my best friends got to sing part of that song as a duet a few years ago, I still love it

[@samanthasherlock7763]

Miss Saigon would be a good honorable mention… “I’d give my life for you,” “the fall of Saigon,” and “Finale” are all tear jerkers

[@Solambe6]

"As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver! does it for me.

[@jzurka]

#1 and #2… get me every time. My child, before her transition, played Angel in high school. Having to know the character, my daughter played, was being sung about at a funeral. Destroyed! And, while she was transitioning, we saw KinkyBoots… I will never listen to that song without crying and remembering the conversation I had with her after the song was over. She’s 25 and absolutely fabulous.

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

That’s lovely.

[@anchorskid]

Rodrick Dixon's "Make Them Hear You" is epic. I know few of these songs and fewer of the musicals, but "She Used To Be Mine" is a favorite. Eddie Redmayne's "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" is extraordinary. I'm surprised to not hear "It's Quiet Uptown" here. Musicality, a high school group, did a powerful version of it.

[@echevarriajrsamuel]

They're all good songs but I honestly wish that Why from Tick Tick Boom and Being Alive from Company would have made it to the list because those two songs just hits you in the heart.

[@stephaniel2850]

Why gets me every single time 💔

[@WelcomeApathy]

Yes, Being Alive! That one hits me so hard. I love that musical.

[@ducktalesstan]

I clicked on this video hoping Being Alive would be on the list -- Sondheim is a visionary.

[@malkessler9185]

"I Know Where I've Been" always gives me chills

[@iliketea1427]

Tbh I think it's quiet uptown should replace who lives who dies who tells your story. IQU is a really upsetting song that I would ugly cry to everytime it played. Especially since the songs about losing loved ones, having to deal with the aftermath, and finding forgiveness. I just never saw WLWDWTYS as sad though, maybe a little depressing but it's also sort of hopeful, but idk anyone who actually cries to it. Also glad you included the finale of les mis cause I just start sobbing whenever Cosette desperately tells her adopted dad he's has to live right to the end. Empty chairs at empty tables is also really heartbreaking.

[@stephaniel2850]

Agreed, It's Quiet Uptown is the one that gets me the most... hell, just the piano alone gets me every time!! 💔

[@stormyjlb]

Something’s Missing! My new favorite show is Come From Away! I was a brand new Army officer stationed in the Military District of Washington on 9/11. EVERYTHING changed that day! This song is so spot on to that feeling!

[@mariaclaranovais6365]

My girlfriend was on a school production of In The Heights and I watched it 6 times in a row, there was not a single time I didn't cry to Alabanza!! Just like Everything I Know!!

[@mykalimba]

This had me in tears when I saw Hadestown on Broadway: "Show the way so we can see. Show the way the world could be. If you can do it, so can she. If she can do it, so can we. Show the way the world could be. Show the way so we believe. We will follow where you lead. We follow with you." - Wait For Me (Reprise)

[@oliviaunicorn7000]

The scream Eliza makes at the end of Stay Alive -reprise gets me literally every time… 😭😭😭😭 such an amazing actress and such a heartbreaking scream

[@ceyoshesgurl29]

Used to be mine absolutely BROKE me when I first heard it. Buried myself in the song completely. I actively try to stay away from it because I’m afraid I’ll get buried again

[@peggyknecht5551]

Angel is my favorite character in Rent. It doesn't matter that I know he dies. It tears me up every time I see a production. I cry through three songs. I saw it six times.

[@jubop7996]

I'd give my life for you from miss saigon makes me cry every time!.

[@Pearl226]

My personal musical tearjerker is Tell Her I Love Her from Urinetown. It's the only song without a trace of comedy in the entire show, and it's just...God. Rips my heart out every time.

[@Justice237]

I remember that it was the Top 10 version of this list that shoved me headfirst into my musicals phase and eventually led to me meeting my lover

[@jammytyme]

How could you leave out."I'll give my life for you" from Miss Saigon?

[@gordongraham7]

When the curtain closed my first time seeing Miss Saigon, I sat in my seat sobbing so hard that people around me had to ask if I was ok. That show is devastating. (And one of my favorites)

[@apparition668]

@@gordongraham7 Agreed. Leave it to the Les Mis folks to follow up with a crusher like Miss Saigon.

[@andrewkohler3707]

@@gordongraham7 Madama Butterfly, the source material, is also thoroughly devastating. It's interesting that Miss Saigon made Chris into a good guy who was also victim of American imperialism, whereas Pinkerton in Butterfly is its embodiment.

[@brentprim1]

how can "Maybe" from Annie not be on this list? The version in the 1999 Disney movie never fails to break my heart!

[@RandiBeeman]

Thanks, Ms. Mojo. I'm crying now. (It's all good -- "crying while watching Broadway clips on KZbin" is one of my main moods.)

[@Leah-xu2fd]

Memory from Cats gets me every time. Used to listen the soundtrack in the car but the kids said it was a driving hazaed because no matter whay I cry listening to that song so its no longer on the driving playlist.

[@deenadallas2802]

I'm actually shocked that "We Raise Our Cups" or "Doubt Comes In" from Hadestown is not on this list at all. "Doubt Comes In" is the moment where Orpheus turns around and Eurydice goes back to the Underworld, which gets us sobbing too much because we all know the story doesn't end well. But "We Raise Our Cups" gives me the waterworks because it comes on somewhere I didn't expect. The cast sings it after the curtain call to honor Orpheus and Eurydice, and I will say, almost every song in Hadestown's second act gives us a gut punch, because Anaïs Mitchell is such a genius.

[@laurissa1790]

This!

[@olvialee7221]

Honestly, For Good didn’t make me cry since I first saw it as a kid but seeing it four times, it made my mom and dad cry for sure

[@scottibrown3274]

All I Ask of You (Reprise) sung by the Phantom and the last final moments in Phantom Of The Opera when Erik says goodbye to Christine before destroying his lair, singing “It’s over now the music of the night” and going into hiding has always made me cry. I would also recommend adding the song Prayer from Come From Away on here; all the different religious prayers and chants in harmony is something beautiful to hear.

[@dkrattrap1802]

It's quiet uptown from Hamilton always gets me

[@matth3w2002]

I remember seeing the Dear Evan Hansen national tour and violently sobbing during, “You Will Be Found”. Dear Evan Hansen and Matilda are definitely my emotional stability kryptonite.

[@sjdrjh]

I feel you. 100% with YWBF.

[@dantecrossroad]

I saw it earlier this year with a friend. I'd been listening to the album for about a month or more at that point, yet I still was not prepared for how it would make me weep. It was specifically the moment when Connor's dad finally shows his true emotions and breaks down. That was where I just lost it. Now, I can't listen to that song without tears welling up.

[@one-onessadhalf3393]

No matter how much I hate Dear Even Hansen, it still has some good songs when they’re removed from context, and You Will Be Found is one of them

[@magicallykairi]

Send in the Clowns (Glynis Johns) should be on this list LOL

[@freshPrincess626]

"Alabanza" had me literally ugly crying in the movie theater. Sobs. Tears. And I'd heard it a bunch of times on the ocr, but getting it within the full story context and visual was a WHOLE other thing...

[@OwenBlacker]

I saw Come From Away on the stage in person for the first time last week and I started ugly-crying at the moment the spotlights came on Beulah and Hannah in Something's Missing 😭

[@bridgetdart5545]

I'm surprised that Being Alive from Company is not here! Gets me every time.

[@myrtlem6503]

Those You've Known is beautiful but Don't do Sadness is so much more heartbreaking

[@camilla8129]

I always say that I never cried for something like I did for Falsettos. It's just, it's the most human musical I've seen and it makes you feel so involved in the relationships between the characters that it destroys you even more than you'd think at the end

[@Olivia-zg5hj]

Fr

[@briannapinkney4966]

The first time I had the opportunity to see Les Mis was in theaters and I was literally sobbing and feel like I was the only one lol. And I really feel they cast the film well especially with Anne and Eddie. Anne’s I Dreamed A Dream makes me sob every single time. I’ve heard others sing it, while fantastic technically, didn’t hit me emotionally. Empty Chairs….I mean there’s nothing more heartbreaking. And Eddie is incredible.

[@meghansaemann537]

I'm currently in Little Shop of Horrors and "somewhere that's green (reprise)" gets me every time. 😭

[@olvialee7221]

148: I just love the actress’s performance while singing I Know Where I’ve Been in 2007’s Hairspray. I find it outstanding, spoken clearly and powerful

[@kimsullivan]

Oldie, but the reprise of "There's a Place for Us" when Tony dies in West Side Story. There's the whole ballet sequence there too... I weep

[@apparition668]

Oh gawds, I had forgotten about this-- totally agree!

[@catsundre2904]

"Wait for Me" from Hadestown always makes me cry. Not only because of how desperate and heartbroken Orpheus sounds, but (being a Greek Mythology buff) I also know he is going to fail.

[@graceburns9019]

Any song from Les Miserables- i start crying at 'I Dreamed A Dream' and pretty much don't stop until I'm on my way home after the performance. 'I'll Cover You' from Rent makes me blub as well, and 'You'll Never Walk Alone' although I will admit that one is more football-related than musical theatre!

[@rutha1464]

Oh, Ms. Mojo! When you started all I could think was that sure doesn't make me cry. But the closer you got to #1, the more the tears flowed. Bravo!

[@andrewsherman6193]

The end of the broadway performance of phantom of the opera gets me every time-I’m not sure what the song is called but when he starts with masquerade the tears begin

[@juliemills9222]

Will I? Is the first song that came to mind when I think of musical songs that make me cry. So heartwrenching

[@6cbrilhante]

Edelweiss (reprise if you're thinking of the movie) always destroys me when the Captain can't go on anymore because of the implications of his situation, and Maria, the children and (in the movie) the entire festival audience join him to help finish the song. Most epic and heartbreaking moment in The Sound of Music imo

[@dominiccruz4523]

'Everywhere that you Are' from 'James and the Giant Peach' always brings me to tears!!!!

[@sarahvenable4710]

Either Don't Do Sadness, Left Behind, or Those You've Known from Spring Awakening. They're even more powerful in the Deaf West version.

[@KiaraMykie]

YES THEY ARE! Thank you! Thank you for bringing the Deaf West production up!

[@DaniElleRF]

And The Dark I Know Well

[@napili00]

"The Letter" from Billy Elliot, The Musical. All three young actors playing Billy deservedly won Tony's for Best Actor in 2009!

[@AtarahDerek]

My top five: 1. It's Quiet Uptown (Hamilton) 2. Something's Missing (Come From Away) 3. Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story (Hamilton) 4. Chavelah (Fiddler on the Roof) 5. Shadowlands (the Lion King)

[@luckybulldogATL]

WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW HERE AGAIN from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA...Ms. Mojo how dare you!!

[@NancyHansen-l6d]

There were so many people in the audience audibly weeping during many of the songs in the Broadway show Dear Evan Hansen! At the end of the show when Evan's mom performs, So Big So Small, I just let the tears fall because I had already given my tissues away to the lady sitting next to me!. So Big/ So Small definitely makes my list of tearjerker theater songs!

[@JGLevy-wg8mn]

By My Side (Godspell), Somewhere (West Side Story), Anatevka (Fiddler)...

[@olvialee7221]

150: I love it that you mention Finding Neverland the Musical. Watching the movie as a kid, I cried my heart out and seeing it as a musical. It was beautiful

[@shannonflahertycardo1163]

this is the first time I even realized there was a musical of this! Finding Neverland is one of my absolute favorite moves! I hope the musical gets another chance with a good producer behind it.

[@melanithebooknerd]

It is one of my favorite plays. It's definitely better than the movie in my opinion, but I think it's just because the soundtrack is amazing and the movie has no songs.

[@apparition668]

Finding Neverland is right there as my favorite musical of all time. The music is sensational and the story is brilliant. And when Sylvia flies away to Neverland at the end, I totally lose it. Just writing this and thinking about the scene, I'm in tears...

[@Becinneverland]

"Edges of the World" from Fun Home rips my heart out

[@dannysimion]

Excellent list here. A lot of great modern and classic musical tunes here. For me personally, Words Fail always put tears in my eyes. Even though I haven't seen the entirety of the broadway, just hearing Evan Hansen's emotive presentation of the song just breaks my hearts.Very personal. Second song of course is I'll Cover You. That one definitely hits you in the guts towards the second half.

[@mybeautyfilledlife]

That scene in Rent at Angel's funeral is definitely emotional - the movie didn't hold up to the musical but that one scene was done beautifully. Also "Without You" - the movie montage was just incredible. I think there are a few from Miss Saigon that should've made it on here, and really so many others from Les Mis would've fit as well ❤

[@XxMissZodiacxX]

What Would I Do? and pretty much the last 5 songs in Falsettos make me sob hysterically.

[@kendalledwards6898]

Msmojo, can you make a Top 20 Broadway Musical Villians? Btw, “Father Time” from Kimberly Akimbo is very hauntingly beautiful.

[@ellensweigert754]

Broadway songs that makes us ugly cry These are couple Broadway songs that makes me ugly cry. Till there was you- Music Man ( the song my grandfather and I used to sing together sadly he passed away this year now whenever I hear it just makes me ugly cry) Mr Cellophane- Chicago Legally Blonde- Legally Blonde the musical One hand one heart- West side story I will never leave you- Side Show I’m not that girl- Wicked There are worst things I could do- Grease

[@seanhorace925]

I can think of a few others you might’ve missed: .If Only (Quartet)-The Little Mermaid .If I Can’t Love Her-Beauty and the Beast .The More You Ruv Someone-Avenue Q .Just A Simple Sponge-SpongeBob the Musical .Home-The Wiz .Endless Night-The Lion King

[@BirdieGreenstone1313]

"It's Quit Uptown" from Hamilton made me cry

[@ashleyhall6098]

I can't listen to It's Quiet Uptown if I plan to be around anyone in the next hour or so. It takes that long to recover.

[@RidiculousPod]

The thing that has always gotten me about "I'll Cover You Reprise" is that it's a duet being sung by one person, and then when he turns around, he sees that the rest of his family is there to cover Angel's absent voice.

[@olvialee7221]

149: I’ll Cover You (Reprise) never fails to have me cry. I know it’s normal to loose a loved one but for me, it’s so sad. Except being beautiful when I remember life like a old movie

[@debbiedajko7272]

HOW COULD I EVER KNOW from THE SECRET GARDEN. It makes me "ugly cry," but only because the glorious Rebecca Luker is no longer with us.

[@lilibetp]

Oh, yeah. That one too...

[@jennief7648]

YUP

[@courtneyl1024]

Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells your story? makes me cry EVERY. SINGLE. TIME!

[@TalanJosef]

The fact that none of the songs from Miss Saigon is on this list, even honorable mention is a gag.

[@blossomzoie7269]

The fact that "What's Next/How This Ends" or "I Don't Need a Roof" from Big Fish isn't on here blows my mind. No matter how many times I watch, I am SOBBING during Edward's final song.

[@JPCoralz]

For good from Wicked had me SOBBING when I first watched it

[@mrsloveable36]

‘who are you now’ from funny girl is literally heart wrenching and beautifully sung.

[@christinapagan8177]

"Bui Doi" from Miss Saigon gets me every time. So haunting, so painful the story of those poor children. And "you gotta die sometime" from Falsettos is also moving