Musical Theatre Mondays

I really love the idea of musicals being cathartic. I love it so much that it's crossed over into most of my non-musical music choices as well. I got a bad rap in college for only listening to "sad" music, but I stand by my argument that it is some of the best written/composed and often performed music. So of course when I stumbled upon Louis Peitzman's Buzzfeed post here , I knew I had to write about my own list of songs that never fail to make me cry. These are in no particular order because like a mom I don't have a favorite. Ten Songs That Never Fail to Make Me Cry 1. "Everything I Know" - In The Heights This song never really got to me until I saw this show live last summer. Seeing a show live always adds to the chance that I'll cry when I hear it again. 2. "Enough" - In The Heights This song is interesting because it's one single line that gets me every time. "For months you lied to us, what did we do t...

Vulture, in June 2017, did what I previously thought personally impossible: Ranked their favorite Broadway musical songs from the last 40 years. You can see their full list here and listen to it below, but there are a few I wanted to talk about (either because I agree or I don't) and a few that didn't make it that would've made my personal list. First thing to address is that the writer of this Vulture article is a huge Sondheim fan - as I find most musical theatre aficionados are, but I'm going to tell you something shocking:  I don't know Sondheim that well. I'm slowly making my way through the Sondheim hits so I can agree with most of the choices, but they sure do love  Merrily We Roll Along  and I don't really know that show. Second thing to address is that I desperately need a little bit of diversity injected into the shows that I listen to regularly. You'll see what I mean in my top 10 list below. They are all pretty new shows from a handful o...