Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
#0Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 4:54pm
Haha I know the title's kind-of weird...what showtune *isn't* danceable...but anyways, I have a meeting with the DJ person tomorow and I despise rap...so I'm thinking of songs I want him to play...and as much as I'd love to play my chorus line cast recording and be done with it...grinding to the montage just wouldn't work lol...So what would you guys suggest? The only thing I could think of is "Today 4 U" The theme is "backstage at a drag show" (and its copyrighted hehe) if that helps any.
Thanks so much!! <33
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FosseBoi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
#1re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 5:45pm
That is SUCH an AWSOME theme! haha! I wish I could help, but I cant think of anything... Cher and Modonna(they were both on bway..I think...I know Cher was)
hehe! Good luck!Happy Bday!
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#2re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 5:45pmWild Wild Party from Lippa's?
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#3re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 5:47pm
Time Wrap- Rocky Horror
You Can't Stop the Beat- Hairspray
La Vie Boheme (B?)- Rent
#4re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 5:50pmAlmost anything from MAMMA MIA!
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UsherMJD
Swing Joined: 1/19/05
#5re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 5:55pm
Well I'm not sure if your example is based on the techno/dance club feel of the song, or the "dragshow" theme.
I'm not too sure how many other showtunes have that type of musical style. . . but if its the theme you're going for, I'd say that a few songs from the Rocky Horror Show are danceable. That is to say . . . more like swing dancing than night club dancing.
Some powerful upbeat songs are "Sensation" from TOMMY or even pinball wizard (not that those songs fit ur theme), "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray is good. . . That's a hard request there. . . you could always take ANY song and add a techno beat to the background to turn it into a dance mix. (ask the DJ if he/she knows how to do that kinda thing)
#6re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 6:24pmLinda Eder has a Dance remix of "I Am What I Am" out. I prefer her "Vienna" dance remixes, though. Hedwig and the Angry Inch also has a dnace remix single. And let's not forget Harajuku - but their dance mixes are awful.
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#7re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 6:25pmyou can all do the time warp!!!!!!
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musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#8re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 6:36pm
Vienna dance remix -- that sounds...interesting.
I like this thread, because I have those moments that I want to dance around, but I want to do it with showtunes (as my friends simultaneously roll their eyes). Most of them have several songs that could work...they're my guilty pleasure shows :)
- Footloose (the *musical*) love it.
- Hairspray (You can pull some others besides "You Can't Stop the Beat".)
- Starlight Express
- Zanna Don't
- Tommy
- Rocky
- When Pigs Fly (staying with the theme :) )
- Disney's Hercules movie :)
- Joseph has a megamix...but I'm not sure that's what you're going for 
Musicals lose some of their fun if others are unfamiliar with them, but that's for you to figure out :)
The Queer Eye Boys have a mix out that could also work quite nicely :)
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#9re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 7:37pmOne Night Only from Dreamgirls.
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#10re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 7:57pmHedwig.
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#11re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 8:03pmGet Eartha Kitt's, "I'm still Here" CD. It features 'Cha Cha Heels' a favorite amongst drag queens. Also, another suggestion may be Ethel Merman's disco album (name, anyone?). Definitely would set the mood for "backstage at a drag show."
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#12re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 8:03pmGrease, Movin Out, all the big rock or pseudo-rock `musicals. Hairspray's GREAT for that stuff. hmm Ill get back to you...
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#13re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 8:07pm
If you like Anthony Rapp's music.."Out Out Damn Spot" and "Goodbye" are GREAT!
That is such a great idea you have for your sweet 16! Lucky you!
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What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
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#14re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 8:12pmfor some reason im hearing "One Night Only" from Dreamgirls lol
SeptemberKel
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#15re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 8:23pm
You might be able to use "Shakalaka,Baby" from Bombay Dreams. It's the one song from my Broadway Mix that always makes me groove in my driver's seat. Not too sure I'd recommend anything else from that show, though...
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Updated On: 3/28/05 at 08:23 PM
#16re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 9:13pm
zippy- I was at a rocky horror themed sweet 16 about a month ago...we tried to time warp...didn't work...yay! Everyone has such good ideas!!!! It's taken sooo long to settle on the theme...we've been through every idea possible 'cause I have to be a pain in the ass and not go with the cliche'd broadway theme. With the playbills on the table and stuff...gives me hives...Merman has a techno album?! Niccceee..I don't care so much about the theme as I do having songs that represent me and what I like. We're giving out footballs as a favor!! (my mom flipped out lol) I love this site!! You've all helped so much!
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Updated On: 3/28/05 at 09:13 PM
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#17re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 9:36pm
Hairsparay
Footloose!!! (awesome)
tommy
the wiz (ease on down the road)
Bwaybaby109
Broadway Star Joined: 6/28/03
#18re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/28/05 at 10:23pmi know it's lame....but everyone loves GREASE songs at parties...I sure do!
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#19re: Danceable Showtunes...(sweet sixteen crap!)
Posted: 3/30/05 at 10:17amHey, so we went to the place yesterday (omg it's going to be insane...my gayspiration Sean and I are going to turn that place upside down.) Anyways, the DJ was shm*cky...So I was wondering if anyone knows a DJ in the NY area (I'm on Long Island) who doesn't think that he's g-d's gift to earth?? hehe thanks so much for all of your help!!
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