History Heartwarming / Theater

* I don't remember much about the book, but the stage version of lord of the flies had one for me, in the third act. Piggy has spent the entire play being, for all intents and purposes, an annoying know it all, or just plain useless at times. However, after his glasses get stolen, he tries his best to face up to the more savage tribe, and remind them who they were before they came to the island.

* The entire conclusion to ''Coram Boy.'' In the play, Aaron is finally united with [[spoiler:Alex and Melissa, his parents -- although Alex had just learned of his existence recently and Melissa had believed him to be long dead.]] Also, never mind [[spoiler:Meshak, who has had a crap existence (beaten mercilessly by his father in his childhood and forced to help him bury dead babies his father has told desperate mothers he is taking to the Coram Hospital in London in order to extort money from them), finally dies saving Aaron, his "angel child."]] Sure, it's not how [[AdaptationDecay the book]] ends, but if you honestly care after sitting in that theatre for two and a half hours and aren't in tears... I feel sorry for you.

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* The moment in [[A Year With Frog and Toad]] when the letter Frog has written to Toad the previous spring finally arrives after a big fight between the two of them. If this letter isn't the true definition of heartwarming, I don't know what is. [[spoiler: "Dear Toad: Today when you told me that you were sad because you had never received a letter, it made me sad too. I suppose that is how it is with you and me. I am writing this letter, hoping that it will make you feel happy, knowing all along that unless you are happy I cannot be. Your friend, Frog."]] One time when I saw it, the entire audience erupted into a collective "Awwwww!!"

* The moment in [[AYearWithFrogandToad]] when the letter Frog has written to Toad the previous spring finally arrives after a big fight between the two of them. If this letter isn't the true definition of heartwarming, I don't know what is. [[spoiler: "Dear Toad: Today when you told me that you were sad because you had never received a letter, it made me sad too. I suppose that is how it is with you and me. I am writing this letter, hoping that it will make you feel happy, knowing all along that unless you are happy I cannot be. Your friend, Frog."]] One time when I saw it, the entire audience erupted into a collective "Awwwww!!"

* The moment in "A Year With Frog and Toad" when the letter Frog has written to Toad the previous spring finally arrives after a big fight between the two of them. If this letter isn't the true definition of heartwarming, I don't know what is. [[spoiler: "Dear Toad: Today when you told me that you were sad because you had never received a letter, it made me sad too. I suppose that is how it is with you and me. I am writing this letter, hoping that it will make you feel happy, knowing all along that unless you are happy I cannot be. Your friend, Frog."]] One time when I saw it, the entire audience erupted into a collective "Awwwww!!"

* For this troper, to be more specific, my favorite part of the song is a spoken line between verses when Wilbur says, "Baby, dance with me!" If you think back to one of Edna's lines from Welcome to the 60's, when she says, "Tracy, it's been years since someone's asked me to dance," the line takes a whole new meaning.

* "A Little Fall of Rain" is probably the most heartbreaking duet in musical theatre history.
---> Eponine: "Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius, I don't feel any pain, a little fall of rain, can hardly hurt me now, you're here, that's all I need to know."

[[folder:MeAndMyDick]]
* In TeamStarkid's musical MeAndMyDick there is a LOT of these.
* The entire "Ready to Go" sequence, minus the Flopsy's and the Old Snatch's part, thats a CrowningMomentofFunny.
* Tiffany, despite being TheLibby and a DumbBlonde, genuinely cares about Vanessa.
* Miss Cooter standing up for the Old Snatch
* The song "Even Though" especially when Joey and Sally realize [[spoiler: They're in love]]
* The reunion between [[spoiler: Joey and Dick]] and [[spoiler: The Old Snatch and Big T]]
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[[folder:AVeryPotterMusical]]
* AVeryPotterMusical's final lines melt this troper so bad. I would post the WHOLE MONOLOGUE if not for length and spoilers.
* I had something much more specific in mind, so I'll do that.
-->[[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': And when everyone else is dead, you're all alone. And I would sit there, alone. And I would think to myself: "Maybe with Quirrel, everything would be. . . okay."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Quirrel''': Is okay. . . good?]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': ''Quirrel!'' . . . Okay is ''wonderful!'']]
* Also (Warning, '''MAJOR''' spoilers)
--> [[spoiler:'''Quirrel''': You came back?]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': I came ''home'']]
* Also, after Harry and Ron [[spoiler: destroy the Zac Efron horcrux]]. "I will ''never'' do anything to hurt you... because I love you." Considering Ron's [[{{Jerkass}} personality]], and that [[spoiler:the poster was trying to manipulate Ron into killing Harry]], it makes it extra sweet.
* In the sequel, Harry's speech regarding Hogwarts, which for many fans, especially ones who grew up with the series, doubles as a take on the whole Harry Potter universe as a whole. This troper couldn't stop smiling. And, uh, [[SandInMyEyes something else.]]
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[[folder:{{Wicked}}]]
** The song "For Good" in ''{{Wicked}}'' and its subsequent reprise.
--> Who can say if I am changed for the better, but, because I knew you, I have been changed...
** I think it's important to note that the heartwarming comes not just from the song, but from the fact that Glinda, who has every reason to resent Elphaba still comes to try and save her, despite what her discovery in Kiamo Ko might mean. Definitely leads to a TearJerker.
** It's not so much the song as it is when Chistery goes up to Glinda after [[DisneyDeath Elphaba dies]] and says his only line in the play that gets [[Tropers/RitiTroll this one]] going. (And then Glinda gets a scene where [[Main/CrowningMomentofAwesome She politically kicks ass and chews bubblegum, with no lack of either.]])
** After the Wizard's scapegoating and fearmongering, Glinda's declaration that there ''will'' be other frightening things, but that she will try to ''genuinely HELP her fellow Ozians through them,'' sets this troper sniffling for some reason.
** Right in the middle of the ''pure, unremitting awesome'' that is "[[IAmBecomingSong Defying Gravity,]]" there's a beautiful moment when Elphaba asks Glinda to accompany her. Even though she [[RefusalOfTheCall turns her down,]] Glinda's "I hope you're happy" as she wraps Elphaba's signature cloak around her shoulders is clearly meant to be a sincere well-wishing for her friend as she goes on the greatest adventure of her life. Gets [[{{Ingonyama}} this troper]] every time. And just a moment after:
--->'''Elphaba & Glinda''': I hope you're happy in the end... I hope you're happy...my friend.
** Subverted in the song 'Dancing Through Life' when Boq asks Glinda to dance, and she says (obviously to get rid of him) that she would be much more grateful if he were to dance with the disabled Nessarose. When Nessarose challenges his motives, he can't bring himself to confess and declares that he thinks she's beautiful, and helps her to dance - at least to the best of her abilities.
** There's no way to know if this is in the stage directions or not, short of looking up the script, but: In at least one version, after Elphaba declares, "So if you care to find me, look to the western sky!" Glinda nods immediately--you can just ''hear'' her thinking, "Every day."
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* LegallyBlonde TheMusical - The song "Legally Blonde Remix" in its entirety. Where to begin? First we get Vivienne admitting that she's wrong and making up with Elle, which was great. Elle decides to [[BeYourself be herself]] in her truly awesome pink suit. Then Paulette gets her Irish Step Dancing UPS Man - ItMakesSenseInContext, I swear! Then Brooke fires Callahan and hires Elle... That seen is one moment of heartwarming after another!

* [[{{Heartwarming/LesMiserables}} Les Misérables]]

* Heartwarming/PhantomOfTheOpera

* The late reprise of "Dulcinea" in ''ManOfLaMancha'', followed by the reprise of "Man of La Mancha."
** "The Impossible Dream", in which Don Quixote expresses his inherent desire to make the world a better place, even if it's impossible. It's customary to applaud and cry during this song.
** There's also Cervantes' speech in the prison. He's being mocked for being a poet and refusing to see "life as it really is." He responds:
--> [[spoiler: I have lived for over forty years, and I've ''seen'' life as it is. Pain. Misery. Cruelty beyond belief. I've heard all the voices of God's noblest creature. Moans from bundles of filth in the street. I've been a soldier and a slave. I've seen my comrades fall in battle, or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I've held them at the last moment. These were men who saw life as it is. Yet they died despairing. No glory, no brave last words. Only their eyes, filled with confusion... questioning why. I do not think they were asking why they were dying... but why they had never lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash... too much sanity may be madness! Perhaps to be practical is madness. And maddest of all... ''to see life as it is and not as it should be''! '''I am I, Don Quixote'''/The lord of La Mancha/Destroyer of evil am I/I will march to the sound/Of the trumpets of glory/Forever to conquer or die!]]
* The song "For Good" in ''{{Wicked}}'' and its subsequent reprise.
--> Who can say if I am changed for the better, but, because I knew you, I have been changed...
** I think it's important to note that the heartwarming comes not just from the song, but from the fact that Glinda, who has every reason to resent Elphaba still comes to try and save her, despite what her discovery in Kiamo Ko might mean. Definitely leads to a TearJerker.
** It's not so much the song as it is when Chistery goes up to Glinda after [[DisneyDeath Elphaba dies]] and says his only line in the play that gets [[Tropers/RitiTroll this one]] going. (And then Glinda gets a scene where [[Main/CrowningMomentofAwesome She politically kicks ass and chews bubblegum, with no lack of either.]])
** After the Wizard's scapegoating and fearmongering, Glinda's declaration that there ''will'' be other frightening things, but that she will try to ''genuinely HELP her fellow Ozians through them,'' sets this troper sniffling for some reason.
** Right in the middle of the ''pure, unremitting awesome'' that is "[[IAmBecomingSong Defying Gravity,]]" there's a beautiful moment when Elphaba asks Glinda to accompany her. Even though she [[RefusalOfTheCall turns her down,]] Glinda's "I hope you're happy" as she wraps Elphaba's signature cloak around her shoulders is clearly meant to be a sincere well-wishing for her friend as she goes on the greatest adventure of her life. Gets [[{{Ingonyama}} this troper]] every time. And just a moment after:
--->'''Elphaba & Glinda''': I hope you're happy in the end... I hope you're happy...my friend.
** Subverted in the song 'Dancing Through Life' when Boq asks Glinda to dance, and she says (obviously to get rid of him) that she would be much more grateful if he were to dance with the disabled Nessarose. When Nessarose challenges his motives, he can't bring himself to confess and declares that he thinks she's beautiful, and helps her to dance - at least to the best of her abilities.
** There's no way to know if this is in the stage directions or not, short of looking up the script, but: In at least one version, after Elphaba declares, "So if you care to find me, look to the western sky!" Glinda nods immediately--you can just ''hear'' her thinking, "Every day."
* The ending of ''{{RENT}}'' is as [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] as it is inspiring and warming and meaningful. "No day but today."
** ''"Life goes on, but I'm gone, 'cause I die without you... I die without you..."'' After everything that the group's been through, they still manage to forgive whatever flaws they have, and it shows with how damn ''awesome'' this song is. This troper cried after watching her high school perform the finale.
* The stage musical of ''[[{{Theatre/ptitlenjisnv3p}} Les Misérables]]'' has several, most notably
** Fantine's death scene,
---> Fantine: "For God's sake, please stay till I am sleeping -- and tell Cosette I love her and I'll see her when I wake..."
** As well as [[spoiler: Valjean's death]], which leads to a reprise of "Do You Hear the People Sing."
---> Chorus: "And remember the truth that once was spoken: to love another person is to see the face of God."
*** Special emphasis should be put on that reprise of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" What was formerly a rallying cry to revolution is turned into a hopeful appeal for peace on earth, [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome beautifully ending the show]].
** "Bring Him Home" always puts this Troper to tears.
** "A Little Fall of Rain" is probably the most heartbreaking duet in musical theatre history.
---> Eponine: "Don't you fret, Monsieur Marius, I don't feel any pain, a little fall of rain, can hardly hurt me now, you're here, that's all I need to know."
* [[ThePhantomoftheOpera "Christine, I love you."]] Both times.
** And also:
---> Christine: Say you love m--
---> Raoul: You know I do.
** The entirety of "All I Ask of You" could count as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming , really.
** At the end, the Phantom has finally let Christine go, and the mob is descending upon his lair. He plays the monkey musical box and sings a few lines from "Masquerade", before sitting down on his throne, pulling a blanket over him and disappearing forever (or at least until Love Never Dies). A TearJerker of an ending that will have everyone feeling for the Phantom, at least a little.
* The final scene of the CirqueDuSoleil show ''KOOZA'', [[spoiler:culminating in that kite finally staying up in the air.]]
** Another Cirque one: ''KA'', where the Court Jester comforts the Twin Brother by teaching him shadow puppets. All the SceneryPorn is admittedly awesome, but this simple scene is arguably the most effective in the show.

** Very heartwarming, in this troper's opinion. "The Money Song," too, just because 'charity will get you out of your self-absorbed nonsense and help you find REAL purpose' is probably the best lesson an adult Sesame Street could give.
** For this troper, it was "There's A Fine, Fine Line" that got him. The actress's delivery was so powerful, how could it not? For such a funny musical, it certainly had its fair shares of CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* The end of ''Spamalot''. Yeah, I know.
** YourMileageMayVary, but this Troper thought that scene with Lancelot and the Prince became this with the "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" line.
*** Oh yes, definitely. And [[spoiler: Herbert finally getting to sing later on, with Lancelot knocking his father over the head with a shovel when he shows up and tells everyone to stop.]]
*** "Well, yes, but... Patsy's ''family.''"
* The caretaker's speech in ''TheMysteryPlays''.
* ''Misha'' by Adam Pettle.

** "No, my dear love, I never loved you." ''Buckets''. Especially the Kevin Kline production.
** The balcony scene -- the moment Cyrano has been waiting for but never thought he could have, where he can tell Roxanne how much he loves her, under the blissful cover of darkness where his perceived ugliness doesn't matter.
** Cyrano's last [[strike:lie]] words to Christian: "[[LetThemDieHappy I have told her. She chose you.]]"
** When the dying Cyrano tells one of the nuns in Roxane's convent that he finally gives her permission to pray for him tonight, she responds that she never waited for his permission.

** That song is one hell of an Act 1 Finale. And then when Fiona joins in, and she's in her ogre form singing about how she still believes the stories she's read despite everything wrong that's happened so far...oh lord. Heartbreaking.
** Not to mention the song "When Words Fail" from the second act, where Shrek is trying to get up the courage to tell Fiona how he feels about her and worried that he won't be able to phrase just right and she won't know how he feels . It's a rare moment of nervousness, anxiety, and personal insecurity from a character who has kept up this appearance that he doesn't care what the world thinks of him. And by the end of the song, he decides that it doesn't matter if words fail him, because Fiona will understand all the same.
* "No One Is Alone" in {{Stephen Sondheim}}'s ''{{Into the Woods}}'', where the characters sing about how sometimes people leave and you have to make your own decisions, but you're still not alone.
** Similarly, [[GhostSong "No More"]].
** At the end, when Red Riding Hood and Jack ask the Baker if they can come live with him now, he tells them no. The two children both look upset, until the Baker finally gives in and says, "''Yes!'' Yes, of course you can live with me!"

** Also, in the final scene, after Tevye's disowned Chava and acts as though she is dead and her pleas for him to accept her marriage fail, he finally cracks and lets out a quiet "God be with you" before she departs.
** "Do you love me?" gets me every time
** "Miracle of Miracles" deserves a mention.

* Belinsky's monologue on the meaning of art and literature in the first [[TomStoppard Coast of Utopia]] play, ''Voyage''. Billy Crudup (who played Belinsky in the New York production) got a very deserved Tony for the role.
* Though this crosses over into commercial territory, this troper always wells up at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JGgNzUl2mk "this commercial"]], which aired after 9/11 to encourage people to come back to New York.
* There's something very wonderfully bone-chilling about the full-voiced finale to ''Hair,'' "Let the Sun Shine In."
* The entire conclusion to ''Coram Boy.'' In the play, Aaron is finally united with [[spoiler:Alex and Melissa, his parents -- although Alex had just learned of his existence recently and Melissa had believed him to be long dead.]] Also, never mind [[spoiler:Meshak, who has had a crap existence (beaten mercilessly by his father in his childhood and forced to help him bury dead babies his father has told desperate mothers he is taking to the Coram Hospital in London in order to extort money from them), finally dies saving Aaron, his "angel child."]] Sure, it's not how [[AdaptationDecay the book]] ends, but if you honestly care after sitting in that theatre for two and a half hours and aren't in tears... I feel sorry for you.
* The song "Boys and Girls like You and Me", sung by the King and Queen, from the RodgersAndHammerstein version of {{Cinderella}} has been known to elicit "awww"s from both audience and cast members.
** "Do I love you because you're beautiful/Or are you beautiful, because I love you?"
** "I may never come down to earth again..."

** For this troper, to be more specific, my favorite part of the song is a spoken line between verses when Wilbur says, "Baby, dance with me!" If you think back to one of Edna's lines from Welcome to the 60's, when she says, "Tracy, it's been years since someone's asked me to dance," the line takes a whole new meaning.

** For this troper, it's when Dan says [[spoiler: Gabriel's name]] which the audience has not heard before that point.
** And when Natalie decides to go to the dance with [[DoggedNiceGuy Henry]].
*** "You're like number four on my list of issues." "You keep a list?" "But you're my favorite problem."
* Basically the entire ending of ''Equivocation'', but especially Judith's monologue about her father's death, and ''especially'' especially her MeaningfulEcho of her father's comment about "stories that little girls tell to themselves when they think no one is listening."
-->'''Judith''': And I believed them, too.
* AVeryPotterMusical's final lines melt this troper so bad. I would post the WHOLE MONOLOGUE if not for length and spoilers.
** I had something much more specific in mind, so I'll do that.
-->[[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': And when everyone else is dead, you're all alone. And I would sit there, alone. And I would think to myself: "Maybe with Quirrel, everything would be. . . okay."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Quirrel''': Is okay. . . good?]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': ''Quirrel!'' . . . Okay is ''wonderful!'']]
** Also (Warning, '''MAJOR''' spoilers)
--> [[spoiler:'''Quirrel''': You came back?]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Voldemort''': I came ''home'']]
** Also, after Harry and Ron [[spoiler: destroy the Zac Efron horcrux]]. "I will ''never'' do anything to hurt you... because I love you." Considering Ron's [[{{Jerkass}} personality]], and that [[spoiler:the poster was trying to manipulate Ron into killing Harry]], it makes it extra sweet.
** In the sequel, Harry's speech regarding Hogwarts, which for many fans, especially ones who grew up with the series, doubles as a take on the whole Harry Potter universe as a whole. This troper couldn't stop smiling. And, uh, [[SandInMyEyes something else.]]
* The ending of Karel Capek's ''R.U.R''. "Life will not perish!"

* The end of {{Tom Stoppard}}'s ''Rock N Roll'', when Jan, about to leave England for what is probably the last time, finally gets up the courage to ask out Esme.
-->'''Jan''': I came to ask you, will you come with me?
-->'''Esme''': Yes.
-->'''Jan''': To Prague.
-->'''Esme''': Of course. Yes. Of course.
* A rather sad example of heartwarming: the end of Francis Poulenc's opera ''Dialogues of the Carmelites''. The nuns are being led to the guillotine, and are being executed one by one. Sister Constance, the youngest of the nuns and last in line, is soon left alone, and it is her turn. Just then, Sister Blanche appears out of the crowd and walks to the scaffold, meaning that Constance and Blanche will die together, just as Constance had fervently hoped.
* I don't remember much about the book, but the stage version of lord of the flies had one for me, in the third act. Piggy has spent the entire play being, for all intents and purposes, an annoying know it all, or just plain useless at times. However, after his glasses get stolen, he tries his best to face up to the more savage tribe, and remind them who they were before they came to the island.
* The ending of ''You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown''. After the very touching song "Happiness," after everyone else leaves the stage, out of everyone in the cast, it's ''Lucy'' - the one who always believes the world is ending when Chuck does something right - who faces Charlie Brown and speaks those very words that make up the title of the show.
* The moment in "A Year With Frog and Toad" when the letter Frog has written to Toad the previous spring finally arrives after a big fight between the two of them. If this letter isn't the true definition of heartwarming, I don't know what is. [[spoiler: "Dear Toad: Today when you told me that you were sad because you had never received a letter, it made me sad too. I suppose that is how it is with you and me. I am writing this letter, hoping that it will make you feel happy, knowing all along that unless you are happy I cannot be. Your friend, Frog."]] One time when I saw it, the entire audience erupted into a collective "Awwwww!!"
* The song "No Matter What" from the BeautyAndTheBeast musical.
-->'''Maurice''': ''No matter what the pain we've come this far. I pray that you remain exactly as you are. This really is a case of father knowing best.''
-->'''Belle'''': ''And daughter too.''
--> '''Maurice''': ''You're never strange.''
--> '''Belle''': ''Don't ever change.''
-->'''Both''': ''You're all I've got no matter what...''
** And the transformation at the end, where Belle thinks the Beast is dead, and he transforms back into his human form. The special effects also make it a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* LegallyBlonde TheMusical - The song "Legally Blonde Remix" in its entirety. Where to begin? First we get Vivienne admitting that she's wrong and making up with Elle, which was great. Elle decides to [[BeYourself be herself]] in her truly awesome pink suit. Then Paulette gets her Irish Step Dancing UPS Man - ItMakesSenseInContext, I swear! Then Brooke fires Callahan and hires Elle... That seen is one moment of heartwarming after another!
** Then of course there's the finale - particularly Elle's [[spoiler:proposal to Emmett]]. So cute!
* StarlightExpress has the song "There's Me", sung by C.B to Dinah. The fact that C.B [[spoiler:(who later would be revealed as a psychotic serial killer who crashes trains for simple enjoyment)]] cares so much about Dinah and can't bear to see her so heartbroken is probably one of the sweeter things in the musical.
* The last ten minutes of the 1992 musical adaptation of TheSecretGarden. First there's the TearJerker "How Could I Ever Know?" where Archibald Craven comes to understand that he can still love his deceased wife without obsessing over her. His reaction to seeing his sickly son Colin running and playing in the garden with Mary is moving enough, but his response when she more or less asks if she's going to be sent away for doing everything she was told not to do is even moreso: "Mary Lennox, for as long as you shall have us, we are yours, Colin and I. And this is your home. And this, my lovely child, is ''your garden.''"
* It may just be the production this troper saw, but at the end of The Master Singers of Nurenberg by RichardWagner, Sixtus Beckmesser, DesignatedVillain, DoggedNiceGuy, MagnificentBastard turned ButtMonkey, had absolutely failed at a song and got laughed off. He pulled his lute back to his bench and simply sat there, looking miserable for about seven minutes or so as Walther sang it ''properly'', looking back at him occassionally, before taking his glasses off, just looking down for about five minutes more... ... ...and then, at the end, when a cameraman (seen before, but paid not much attention to -- [[ChekhovsGunman Chekhovs]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Camera Man]]) brings the camera in, one of the masters taps him on the shoulder, giving him his hat and leading him along to a chair. It wasn't much, no, but after being loathed by more-or-less everyone, Beckmesser just up and ''hugged'' the guy. This troper openly awwed.
* SouthPacific's Finale Ultimo. Just...that finale. Nellie promises Amil's children that she'll look after them, because she loves them, and then singing with them. And the second time she forgets the words, there's Amil, alive and well. This troper always gets a good feeling when she listens to it.
* Green Day's AmericanIdiot. [[spoiler:When Tunny and Will see each other again for the first time in at least a year, Will, having been left alone for that year, first violently lashes out at him, desperately trying to punch and kick him, then breaks down completely and grabs Tunny into a crushing hug, burying his face in his neck. And Tunny just stood there, hugging him back.]] This troper was torn between tears and ''"awwww!"''
* "Iolanthe, thou livest?" near the end of Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe". The Lord Chancellor learns that his wife (who he thought dead but actually was a fairy banished for marrying a mortal) is alive. I get misty-eyed each time.
* How could this one be so far down?: [[PeterPan "Don't let Tinkerbell die! CLAP! CLAP IF YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES!"]] Cue thunderous applause from ''everyone in the audience''.
* In TeamStarkid's musical MeAndMyDick there is a LOT of these.
** The entire "Ready to Go" sequence, minus the Flopsy's and the Old Snatch's part, thats a CrowningMomentofFunny.
** Tiffany, despite being TheLibby and a DumbBlonde, genuinely cares about Vanessa.
** Miss Cooter standing up for the Old Snatch
** The song "Even Though" especially when Joey and Sally realize [[spoiler: They're in love]]
** The reunion between [[spoiler: Joey and Dick]] and [[spoiler: The Old Snatch and Big T]]
* ''{{Sunday in the Park with George}}'': "We will always belong together."

* The stage musical of ''LesMiserables'' has several, most notably

* Maybe it's just this troper, but the part in Act III, scene ii of ''{{Hamlet}}'', when Hamlet expresses just how much Horatio means to him is pretty damn sweet. Also a TearJerker in light of how [[SoleSurvivor Horatio ends up]].

-->Give me that man

** As well as [[spoiler: Eponine's death scene,]] and most of all [[spoiler: Valjean's death]], which leads to a reprise of "Do You Hear the People Sing."

* The Act One finale of ''Shrek the Musical,'' where the eponymous {{DeadpanSnarker}} reveals in the span of two minutes that he's adventurous, poetic, sentimental, desperately lonely, and aching to be one of the heroes he's read about. Describing his fantasy rescue of the maiden of his dreams, only to end in a moment of silence when he gets to showing his face, is like a gutpunch. This troper didn't even like the movie all that much...

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* The final scene of the CirqueDuSoleil show ''KOOZA'': [[spoiler:The Innocent, alone with the Trickster, the King, and the Jesters, realizes he's about to return to the real world. He returns the magic wand to them. The King knights him with it, and even gives him his crown. As they disappear, the Innocent realizes he never found the kite he started the story with (it was lost in the frenzy early in the second act) - then the friendly Mad Dog shows up to return it to him, although it's now colorful when it was once black-and-white. The dog leaves, and now alone, the Innocent finally manages to fly that kite and the lights fade to black as he laughs.]]