The number in a musical where a character faces their Darkest Hour and undergoes a Blue Screen of Death of some sort. Usually involves less singing and more speaking/shouting. Compare Sanity Slippage Song and Melancholy Musical Number, or Villainous Lament if the character singing is a bad guy. Sometimes doubles as a Grief Song. Can be a Dark Reprise for a much more cheerful "I Want" Song from earlier. Alternatively, this song can be followed with an uplifting Triumphant Reprise.
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Epiphany (Sweeney Todd)
Santa Fe (Newsies)
Monster (Frozen: The Broadway Musical)
Javert's Suicide
All You Wanna Do (Six the Musical)
Isabela Madrigal (Lydia the Bard's Villain Songs)
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