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* [[Cyrano De Bergerac/Heartwarming|Cyrano De Bergerac]]
* [[Evita/Heartwarming|Evita]]
* [[Fiddler
* [[In the Heights/Heartwarming|In the Heights]]
* [[Les Misérables (novel)/Heartwarming|Les Misérables]]
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'''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 [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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* Similarly, [[Ghost Song|"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!"
* The Baker and the Baker's Wife's duet of "It Takes Two", where the Baker's Wife has realized that her husband ''can'' change, and the Baker realizes he needs his wife more than he ever knew.
{{quote|''Safe at home with our beautiful prize, just the few of us...''}}
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== [[Legally Blonde]] [[The Musical]] ==
* [[Legally Blonde]] [[The Musical]] - 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 [[Be Yourself|be herself]] in her truly awesome pink suit. Then Paulette gets her Irish Step Dancing UPS Man - [[It Makes Sense in Context]], I swear! Then Brooke fires Callahan and hires Elle... That scene is one moment of heartwarming after another!
* Then of course there's the finale - particularly Elle's {{spoiler|proposal to Emmett}}. So cute!
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* ''Misha'' by Adam Pettle.
* Belinsky's monologue on the meaning of art and literature in the first [[Tom Stoppard|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 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 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.
* [[Starlight Express]] 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 [[The Secret Garden]]. First there's the [[Tear Jerker]] "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 [[Richard Wagner]], Sixtus Beckmesser, [[Designated Villain]], [[Dogged Nice Guy]], [[Magnificent Bastard]] turned [[Butt Monkey]], 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 -- [[Chekhov's Gunman|Chekhovs]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|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.
* [[South Pacific]]'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 [[American Idiot]]. {{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.
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* ''[[Sunday in The Park With George]]'': "We will always belong together."
* The climax of Beethoven's ''Fidelio'': a happy ending [[Earn Your Happy Ending|well and truly earned]].
* How is [[Ragtime]] not mentioned here? So many, many moments, particularly Sarah's part of "New Music", "Wheels of a Dream", "Gliding," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay inc." {{spoiler|where we discover that after all his struggles, Tateh's made it in the movie industry and his daughter is living well.}} "Our Children", "Make Them Hear You", and the most heartwarming of all, {{spoiler|when a still-infant, too-cute-for-words Coalhouse Walker III runs out into Mother's arms during the Epilogue, indicating he was [[Happily Adopted]], adding already to the sweetness of Tateh and Mother's marriage,}} accompanied by a swirl of beautiful music. It was so incredibly touching that it brought tears to this Troper's eyes.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h8CH8AAE2w We're Gonna Be Ok] from ''Vanities: A New Musical'', which unfortunately became a [[Cut Song]] after the show's Pasadena Playhouse run.
* There are quite a few in the musical ''[[Top Hat]]'' (that is the 2011 stage version of the romantic-comedy film) but one early on is after Jerry tap dances loudly in a hotel room and apologises to the woman from the room below who complains (Dale, who is the love interest), he decides to help her fall asleep with a gentle sand dance. In the film it's not played as sweet and only as fun but in the stage version they certainly do take it seriously and it was so adorable.
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