Moments in musicals that made/make you cry

I'm not really one for crying at anything, but there are a couple of musical moments that have got me in the past.
Probably the one that got me the most was in Cats when Grizabella is singing the reprise of Memory, and falls to the ground. I always get a little emotional there, but I never cried at it until I saw Kerry Ellis in the role last April. She had both me and my friend in tears. Saw it later in the year with Beverley Knight, and while she was brilliant she didn't quite get me or my friend like Kerry did.

Also in Wicked I can get a little emotional during For Good, especially on the occasion I went to see the show with my best friend. We had to have a very teary best friend hug after that one!

Lastly I cried at the very end of the Les Mis movie when everyone who has died is on the barricade singing. I haven't yet made it to see the musical on stage, but I'm pretty sure that will get me! 

Parts of the Love story cast recording still make me cry. I cry at loads of shows.

"Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George especially if sung by a big cast, not because it is sad but it is such a wonderful song.

A couple of places in The Color Purple.

Wicked when I saw it on Broadway but that was because it was my first Broadway show and I was a bit in awe with the whole experience

Les Mis 25th Anniversary concert at the o2. The whole thing was so spectacular and Alfie Boe amazing.

The show might be pretend, but that doesn't mean the emotions are.

As a major cryer, I'm just going to abstain from this question. Assume I cry at everything, and you won't be far off.

"Sunday" - SITPWG
"The Letter" - Billy E - way too close to home

Strangely, seeing Jenna Russell singing "Stars and Moon" from Songs for a new world, reduced me to tears. I had always only connected with it really as a comedy piece but the heart break in the final verse through Ms Russell, floored me.

Defying Gravity & Finale in Wicked (and Rachel's I'm Not That Girl)
The ending of Matilda
A Little Fall of Rain in Les Mis
death in The Bodyguard
The ending of Ghost

+ basically any cast change

I will generally have a bit of a cry at most things really but recently, I did have a little tear and a half during 'Kinky Boots' when Charlie leaves the voicemail for Lola.

But in all honesty, it may have been the gin.

Or the excitement from the routine with the travelator.

But probably the gin.

The complete 2nd act of Billy Elliot

I cried through most of War of the Worlds when I realised how much I'd paid to watch such drivel.

I went to watch the original production of "Ghost The Musical" for the first time on what would have been my dad's birthday if he was still alive. I couldn't remember Caissie Levy from Hair ad her voice blew me away.

Then she sat down next to the sofa and sang "With You". Easily the most emotional experience I've ever had in the theatre. I didn't move, I didn't sob. I just sat there and tears silently crept down my cheeks.

I'm not talking full on wail and blub and stuff but...most shows I've seen have caused a stifled/silent brief sobby-type cry or at the very least an eye well-up and a lip wobble!

Sometimes all it takes is for the curtain to go up...but that's unusual, to my credit.

I rarely cry, and have never cried at a live theatre show.

That said, I have witnessed people cry.

The first time was in the original production of Miss Saigon. When the little boy was revealed and at the end of the show, I have never seen people cry lime that.

When I took my parents to see Blood Brothers there was a group of students and the guy in from of use was bawling. His girlfriend was shocked.

I also saw a guy who needed consoling after the film version of Les Mis

I think the usual suspects in Les Mis, Wicked and Miss Saigon have got me but Feed the Birds in Mary Poppins the other week made a few tears leak out!