DofB5
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#25re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 8:28pm
If you know the story, the Phantom is ill and going to die alone very soon. It breaks my heart to even think about it.
Erik was a product of his mistreatment through no fault of his own. Yes, he was a killer but he never knew love or the smallest kindness either. How can one help but feel something for him?
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#26re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 8:30pm
Since no one has mentioned it, I'll throw in "The King and I."
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#27re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 8:30pm
Darnit!! I always have this way of ruining shows for people!! Last time it was Romeo and Juliet!! gosh... lol
The book Ragtime is so much more sad than the show, because much more is explained, but in the musical, you see the family and how they have come together after Coalhouse is gone, so it ends on an up note.
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#28re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 8:35pm
Mack and Mabel
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TheGirlinTheFrock
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#29re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 8:41pm
What show doesnt make me cry?
AIDA: I was hysterical seeing it, even though it ends happy its still heart wrenching
POTO: How can you not cry! If the Phantom you see does the part right, you feel for him in the end. AND then when Christine comes back, but its not to be with him! you just want to slap her!!
CABARET: SO sad!! not much more i can say about it. I cried.
MISS SAIGON: wow, that is an emotional show.
and lastly
Godspell: I saw this when i was around 7 for the first time. At the end where he was crucified, and then the disciples carried him off and brought him down the isle of the audience and sang. I completely lost it. Everytime since i have done the same.
Though scattered and divided we are still its heart...AIDA SEPTEMBER 5th, 2004...one more longing backward glance...I AM NOW "TGIF!"
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#30re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:24pm
I agree about the book of Ragtime, it is much more sad the ending of the show. How could i forgot AIDA and The King and I! Also Carousel is pretty depressing at points (i.e. when Billy dies, I always tear up)
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#31re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:26pm
Fiddler on the Roof makes me cry at the end...
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#32re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:30pm
Depending on the actress playing Mama Rose, GYPSY has an INCREDIBLY sad ending. As I said, it depends on who is playing her, but the show ends with this woman who's been in the background her entire life realizing that she has no chance of fulfilling any of her life's dreams. It's very moving.
Also, the last act of INTO THE WOODS gets me every time. Very emotional stuff there.
-Matt
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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#33re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:37pm
it isnt my favorote, but "miss siagon" is pretty sad, kind of contrived (sp?- i dont want to be called out 
but what can you do...
les miz is sad but the finale just lifts me up and gives me goosebumps... oh god, i just remembered that it closed! AH! i need to put the cast recording on
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#35re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:47pm
I'm glad someone said Gypsy. I always start to feel it when Louise makes the transformation in the dressing room. Before her first strip. Rose is running around going ninety to nothing and Louise is almost moving in slow motion. Wow. Gr8 moment ~ and then she say's "Mama, I'm pretty..." Fuh-ged-about it.....I'm gone. Wheel me out.
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#36re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 10:48pm
Totally! From that moment on the show is just SO depressing!
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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#37re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 11:02pm
I hated Miss Saigon, so the only part that was sad was the entire show...I felt a glimpse of happiness when it ended though . Well, to each his own.
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#38re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 11:05pm
Aida definitely. Not really sad, per se, but moving. And damn if Wicked didn't make me tear up at the end for the same reason. Ditto w/ JCS. Miss Saigon non-equity tour left me underwhelmed, so I didn't find it all that sad. POTO w/ Howard McGillin left me teary.
I cried at the end of Blast! too.
Wait, that could have been because I wasted 2 hours of my life just to lose half my hearing.
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#39re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 11:10pm
Ok, listening to the ending of WICKED makes me cry horribly. Its awful.
You've gotta have heart AND music
Matt_G
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#40re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/5/04 at 11:26pm
I know it's not the ending of the show, but the scene in AVENUE Q where Rod tries to come out to Christmas Eve and asks why he doesn't have anyone to love him was just brutal to me. It could be because I've been there before, but it was a really sad scene. Just wanted to mention it.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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#41re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 1:02am
oh man, definitely Parade, Gypsy (even the Bette movie version) as soon as Rose starts on "Rose's Turn" yikes!, Aida was actually the first show to reduce me to tears so yes I agree with that...ummmm...let's see - totally Into the Woods, really as soon as people start dying but especially right at the end when we see the Baker's Wife again (what can i say - i love her!) and she and the Baker sing about their son, get the friggin box of tissues out! Ah yes, King and I (especially w/ Carolee Carmello as Anna...melts your heart) and I would also have to say Secret Garden - i only have seen one production but as soon as Lily appears right at the begining of "How will I ever know" I was crying...every time i saw it
i guess that's about it
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#42re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 1:15am
The end of Wicked made me cry. Aida is semi sad but kinda turns out happy. Funny Girl has a very sad ending.
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#43re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 1:46am
Falsettos.
I have seen this show umpteen times, every time I see it I think, "I'm not going to cry this time" and every single time by the time Jason finishes "Another Miracle of Judaism" I'm done for. *sigh*
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#44re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 2:41am
Carousel...Billy saying goodbye to Julie and Louise as he walks up the plank to heaven...ahhh! Sob!
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#45re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 5:50am
I'd have to go with King and I, Miss Saigon and Jekyll and Hyde.... but what about Camelot? To me, it is completely heartwrenching to see Arthur, Jenny, and Lance to all go their seperate ways at the end... !!
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#46re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 9:14am
Changed my mind about what I was about to post here.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Updated On: 5/6/04 at 09:14 AM
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#47re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 9:32am
Blood Brothers hands down!
Chess a close second. Poor Florence, her heart is ripped to shreds.
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#48re: The Saddest Ending Musicals Of Our Time
Posted: 5/6/04 at 10:42am
West Side Story
Phantom of the Opera
Miss Saigon
Carousel
Les Miserables
Cabaret (kinda)
Jekyll & Hyde
Parade
Into the Woods (kinda...like, halfway thru the second act)
Ragtime
Plince! Plince! Nein! T-Rex!!
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