History TearJerker / Theatre

* ''BloodBrothers'': The first song, 'Marilyn Monroe', and there's always that reprise that makes it 50 times worse.

* ''TearJerker/TheLionKing''

* ''{{TearJerker/Heathers}}''

* TearJerker/CirqueDuSoleil

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdic5HLb-U Dido's Lament]]'', from Purcell's'' Dido and Aeneas, ''which Dido sings right before committing suicide.''

* ''Film/42ndStreet'', while being a happy musical, also has some moments.
** In a meta sense, the musical takes place during 1930, the year that Vaudeville shows disappeared and lost popularity. If Peggy Sawyer (who before auditioning for broadway was a vaudeville dancer) returned to Allentown, she would've been out of a job.
** The song ''Sunny Side to Every Situation'' is sad if you look at it, since the whole cast of the Pretty Lady are being threatened with homelessness and they're trying so hard to find a bright side to their current predicament.

* Billy Bigelow's death is one HUGE tearjerker. He dies in a robbery go mad in a desparate attempt to provide money for his pregnant wife. The film version is sad enough with the death an accident. However, the original theatre production takes it UpToEleven, [[spoiler:with Billy committing SUICIDE]]! If that's not enough, the death is followed by the famous song "You'll never walk alone", with Julie beginning the song but unable to continue, and her cousin, who is the maternal figure, then singing it.

* ''TearJerker/LOrfeo''