Most Powerful and Emotionally-Charged Songs from Musicals

The Top Ten
1 The Beauty Underneath - Love Never Dies

Yes! Nobody ever talks about Love Never Dies! Erik finally finds somebody who's interested in what he is, and calls Gustave beautiful at one point, and it's one of my absolute favorite songs from Love Never Dies.

Had to crown "The Beauty Underneath" The lyrics, the vocals, the music...

2 The Phantom of the Opera - The Phantom of the Opera

The duet between The Phantom and Christine... You can't tell me this doesn't snatch your heart...

3 A Little Fall of Rain - Les Misèrables

I vote for this one. I love this song. And the moment in the movie is amazing.

The duet between dying Eponine and the love of her life, Marius. So emotioanal.

4 Gethsemane - Jesus Christ Superstar
5 Memory - Cats

Oh, I love this list! But I love more the creator of it!

6 Don't Cry for Me Argentina - Evita
7 Burn - Hamilton
8 Bring Him Home - Les Misèrables
9 Love Never Dies - Love Never Dies

Christine's very last song...

10 I Dreamed a Dream - Les Miserables
The Contenders
11 As If We Never Said Goodbye - Sunset Boulevard
12 Final Lair - The Phantom of the Opera

The final scene in Phantom. The most emotional lines: Christine- "The tears I might have shed for your dark fate, grow cold and turn to tears of hate! " Raoul- "Christine, forgive me, please forgive me! I did it all for you and all for nothing! " Christine- "You deceived me! I gave my mind blindly! " Christine- "Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, you are not alone! " Phantom- "Christine, I love you..." Phantom- "You alone can make my song take flight! It's over now the music of the night! "

13 Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Phantom of the Opera

Christine's voice is packed so full of emotion, how does one NOT get shivers when she sings "Why can't the past just die? " and then when the Phantom begins to sing to her afterward just gives me even more chills. It's an amazing song, and I can't believe it's not higher on this list!

14 Beneath a Moonless Sky - Love Never Dies
15 Cabaret - Cabaret
16 Out There - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
17 Epilogue (Finale) - Les Miserables

The end of the show. The part that always gets me is the Do You Hear The People Sing reprise.

18 Down Once More - Phantom of the Opera
19 Those You've Known - Spring Awakening
20 Close Every Door - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
21 The Music of the Night - The Phantom of the Opera
22 Wait For It - Hamilton
23 Pity the Child - Chess
24 I'm Here - The Color Purple
25 The Impossible Dream - Man of La Mancha
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