32 Eerie Musical Theatre Songs About Death
Are you specifically looking for a showtune about death for an upcoming audition or project? Well, if it’s for an audition, you should check out our giant database of audition songs for specific musicals. But if your show hasn’t yet been covered by us, you can go through the following musical theatre songs about death, sorted by vocal type.
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Altos
“Die Vampire, Die!” – [title of show]
“Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad” – Bonnie & Clyde
“Forever Yours” – Once on This Island
“The Witch” – Big Fish
Baritones
“How It Ends” – Big Fish
“Mamaw” – Pump Boys and Dinettes
“The Legacy” – On the Twentieth Century
“They Live in You” – The Lion King
Basses
“Aftershocks” – Next to Normal
“Mama, Look Sharp” – 1776
“Night Will Come” – Groundhog Day
“This Is Not An Exit” – American Psycho
Contras
“Days of Plenty” – Little Women
“Just Around the Corner” – The Addams Family
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind” – A Tale of Two Cities
“Tell Me It’s Not True” – Blood Brothers
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Mezzo-Sopranos
“Dead Mom” – Beetlejuice
“Life Is” – Zorba!
“My Death” – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
“These Eyes of Mine” – Grind
Sopranos
“Desperate Ones” – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
“He Lives in You (Reprise)” – The Lion King
“How Could I Ever Know?” – The Secret Garden
“To Keep My Love Alive” – A Connecticut Yankee
Tenors
“He’s Not Here” – Next to Normal
“How Glory Goes” – Floyd Collins
“Sarah” – The Civil War
“The Phone Call” – Lucky Stiff
Trebles
“Big Mole” – Lost in the Stars
“Come to the Fun Home” – Fun Home
“Not While I’m Around” – Sweeney Todd
“Picture Show” – Bonnie & Clyde
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Which of these musical theatre songs about death is your favorite?
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Author: Stacy Karyn
Stacy Karyn is the founder of Theatre Trip, author of The Thespian’s Bucket List, and creator of The Cast Album List. She holds a BA in theatre, a TESOL drama certificate, and has worked and interned with Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters.