Sorry, one foray into theater-geekdom was clearly not enough. We return with a playlist of Broadway’s most stirring ballady situations, the songs that make your heart feel things like pain, loss, hope, hope against all odds, grief and love. I recommend this playlist for long drives in the rain or any time that you feel like really just wrapping yourself in a blanket of multi-colored dorkiness. Like Rachel Berry and Kurt Hummel as twelve-year-olds at a sleepover. Are you with me?
I Dreamed a Dream (Les Misérables)
Close Every Door (Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Origin of Love (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
The Letter (Billy Elliot)
Without You (Rent)
21 Guns (American Idiot)
Touch Me (Spring Awakening)
Maybe/Tomorrow (Annie)
Defying Gravity (Wicked)
The Movie in my Mind (Miss Saigon)
Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music)
Maybe This Time (Cabaret)
And I Am Telling You (Dreamgirls)
Memory (Cats)
Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime)
On My Own (Les Misérables)
Some Things Are Meant To Be (Little Women)
Where is Love? (Oliver!)
Still Hurting (The Last Five Years)
What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line)
Somewhere (West Side Story)
A Quiet Night at Home (Bare)
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Evita)
I’ll Cover You (reprise) (Rent)