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* ''Theatre/Frankenstein2014'', when Henri goes to the guillotine in Victor's place. He tells Victor not to regret his sacrifice. "I will live on [[https://youtu.be/cF14pD0BpKA?si=cw8P-hd7j_hHvxr4 In Your Dreams]]". There's a reason this song is becoming a musical theatre standard.
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[[folder:Cross Road]]
Act 1 sets up the story. Violinist Niccolo Paganini makes a DealWithTheDevil of Music, Amduscias, for one million songs of genius in exchange for his life. The [[https://youtu.be/90MZUQgekSg?si=z1B0npfdBeXOJLTX introductory title song]], sung by Amduscias, is tear-jerkingly ''beautiful'', but the context is yet to come.
Then in act 2...
* When the number of songs he has left gets lower and lower, Niccolo starts to break down. In [[https://youtu.be/XxdKsvnr2yQ?si=vmp8K2xgE-DB0Swb "Ancora"]], he starts to express regrets about the contract.
--> "Don't worry, when you get close to the end\\
It's better than living out life as an ordinary man\\
Or, that's what I thought..."
* Niccolo's mother, [[spoiler: who was always an important part of his life, and who he regretted leaving behind in Genoa when he went out into the world and became famous, dies. He's with his student, Asha, when he gets the letter about her death. When Asha tells him that the letter is from his hometown, he asks her to read it. She does so, and her face changes, and she tells him he needs to read it himself, but he cuts her off, guessing what it says. He tells her he needs to be alone. Then, his mother appears in a flashback, singing [[https://youtu.be/XkGqCnVhLFY?si=mfSISX0uztT3z1lP "Casa Nostalgia"]], the song she sang to him as a baby. He joins her in a duet version, where he sings that his mother is in heaven, but he knows he's going to hell, so he won't be able to see her.]]
* Elisa Bonaparte, Niccolo's patron and lover, finally got her brother, [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte the emperor]], to come to Niccolo's concert, and the show was a success. But in the midst of Elisa's excitement, Niccolo faints. As Elisa holds his hand, Amduscias comes and tells her about the contract, saying she's killing Niccolo and they must part. Elisa has Niccolo thrown out. [[https://youtu.be/cjqdRxguicI?si=rdMf86dELgyD07SD She sings that he was the only true thing in her life]]. "All I did was love him..."
* Music/HectorBerlioz had come to Niccolo, asking him to perform in a concert in honor of a singer. Niccolo feared that it would be against his contract with Amduscias, so he rudely refused, insulted Berlioz and threw him out. Later he goes to Berlioz' concert, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold makes it up to him]], and gives him advice to have more confidence in his music, and not to stop AtTheCrossroads, or a devil might come for him. He leaves, and Berlioz [[https://youtu.be/PJ9-05eszu4?si=GKhKaGNOU-G6cvsm puzzles over the advice]], and decides that no, it wasn't a demon that came to him, but a friend with beautiful melodies hidden in his soul.
* Niccolo's butler, Armand, sees him becoming sicker and sicker, and sings [[https://youtu.be/A70D9sBOSuU?si=PwGcTHoPBqDIK991 "Prayer of Rage"]], asking God to spare him. Niccolo isn't an angel, but he isn't a devil, either. He's just a flawed human like anyone else. Look at him, so cute, sleeping there like a child. Is that a devil? Humans are flawed, and that's why they're precious.
* Niccolo [[spoiler: plays the last song of the contract, returns home with a smile and no regrets, holds his violin, sings a reprise of the beginning of "Ancora"... and dies. Then Amduscias comes in, closes his eyes, sings a hauntingly beautiful reprise of the title song, and kisses him on the head before making his final exit]]. The "Deal with the Devil" ends up being pretty subverted here, as Amduscias truly cared for Niccolo, and never tricked or hurt him. The contract, which says that if he violates it, some calamity will occur, seems to act on its own, without Amduscias directing it. He even protects Niccolo from breaking the contract, except for when he thinks that what Niccolo would call a "calamity" would actually be good for him. His [[spoiler: last farewell to Niccolo]] shows his feelings so well.
* When Armand, comes back into the room with tea, he puts in down on the table, and when Niccolo [[spoiler: doesn't respond, Armand touches his shoulder, and realizes that he's dead. He drops the tray he was holding, and if you weren't already crying, the sound of it hitting the floor will do it for you]]. The full cast, aside from Niccolo and Amduscias, sings a reprise of "Ancora" as the finale.
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Act 1 sets up the story. Violinist Niccolo Paganini makes a DealWithTheDevil of Music, Amduscias, for one million songs of genius in exchange for his life. The [[https://youtu.be/90MZUQgekSg?si=z1B0npfdBeXOJLTX introductory title song]], sung by Amduscias, is tear-jerkingly ''beautiful'', but the context is yet to come.
Then in act 2...
* When the number of songs he has left gets lower and lower, Niccolo starts to break down. In [[https://youtu.be/XxdKsvnr2yQ?si=vmp8K2xgE-DB0Swb "Ancora"]], he starts to express regrets about the contract.
--> "Don't worry, when you get close to the end\\
It's better than living out life as an ordinary man\\
Or, that's what I thought..."
* Niccolo's mother, [[spoiler: who was always an important part of his life, and who he regretted leaving behind in Genoa when he went out into the world and became famous, dies. He's with his student, Asha, when he gets the letter about her death. When Asha tells him that the letter is from his hometown, he asks her to read it. She does so, and her face changes, and she tells him he needs to read it himself, but he cuts her off, guessing what it says. He tells her he needs to be alone. Then, his mother appears in a flashback, singing [[https://youtu.be/XkGqCnVhLFY?si=mfSISX0uztT3z1lP "Casa Nostalgia"]], the song she sang to him as a baby. He joins her in a duet version, where he sings that his mother is in heaven, but he knows he's going to hell, so he won't be able to see her.]]
* Elisa Bonaparte, Niccolo's patron and lover, finally got her brother, [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte the emperor]], to come to Niccolo's concert, and the show was a success. But in the midst of Elisa's excitement, Niccolo faints. As Elisa holds his hand, Amduscias comes and tells her about the contract, saying she's killing Niccolo and they must part. Elisa has Niccolo thrown out. [[https://youtu.be/cjqdRxguicI?si=rdMf86dELgyD07SD She sings that he was the only true thing in her life]]. "All I did was love him..."
* Music/HectorBerlioz had come to Niccolo, asking him to perform in a concert in honor of a singer. Niccolo feared that it would be against his contract with Amduscias, so he rudely refused, insulted Berlioz and threw him out. Later he goes to Berlioz' concert, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold makes it up to him]], and gives him advice to have more confidence in his music, and not to stop AtTheCrossroads, or a devil might come for him. He leaves, and Berlioz [[https://youtu.be/PJ9-05eszu4?si=GKhKaGNOU-G6cvsm puzzles over the advice]], and decides that no, it wasn't a demon that came to him, but a friend with beautiful melodies hidden in his soul.
* Niccolo's butler, Armand, sees him becoming sicker and sicker, and sings [[https://youtu.be/A70D9sBOSuU?si=PwGcTHoPBqDIK991 "Prayer of Rage"]], asking God to spare him. Niccolo isn't an angel, but he isn't a devil, either. He's just a flawed human like anyone else. Look at him, so cute, sleeping there like a child. Is that a devil? Humans are flawed, and that's why they're precious.
* Niccolo [[spoiler: plays the last song of the contract, returns home with a smile and no regrets, holds his violin, sings a reprise of the beginning of "Ancora"... and dies. Then Amduscias comes in, closes his eyes, sings a hauntingly beautiful reprise of the title song, and kisses him on the head before making his final exit]]. The "Deal with the Devil" ends up being pretty subverted here, as Amduscias truly cared for Niccolo, and never tricked or hurt him. The contract, which says that if he violates it, some calamity will occur, seems to act on its own, without Amduscias directing it. He even protects Niccolo from breaking the contract, except for when he thinks that what Niccolo would call a "calamity" would actually be good for him. His [[spoiler: last farewell to Niccolo]] shows his feelings so well.
* When Armand, comes back into the room with tea, he puts in down on the table, and when Niccolo [[spoiler: doesn't respond, Armand touches his shoulder, and realizes that he's dead. He drops the tray he was holding, and if you weren't already crying, the sound of it hitting the floor will do it for you]]. The full cast, aside from Niccolo and Amduscias, sings a reprise of "Ancora" as the finale.
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* ''BloodBrothers'': The first song, 'Marilyn Monroe', and there's always that reprise that makes it 50 times worse.
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-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdic5HLb-U Dido's Lament]]'', from Purcell's'' Dido and Aeneas, ''which Dido sings right before committing suicide.''
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-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePdic5HLb-U Dido's Lament]]'', from Purcell's'' Dido and Aeneas, Theatre/DidoAndAeneas, ''which Dido sings right before committing suicide.''
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* ''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.
** 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.
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* ''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.
**''Film/42ndStreet''. 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.
** 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.
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* 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.
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* 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, up to eleven, [[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.
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