Help finding a 1st dance song for my wedding

[musicaltheatreman2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:10pm

Hello everyone, I need your help finding a song for my partner and I to dance to at our wedding for our first dance (we are gay men). I want to use a Broadway song but all the ones I have listened to are ballads and are kinda hard to dance to. Right now we are thinking about use the song The Music that Makes Me Dance from Funny Girl, but we are having trouble slow dancing to it. I would greatly appreciate your suggestions!
Thank you :)

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:36pm

My cousin used "So In Love" from KISS ME KATE.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:36pm

I'm a little confused. You want to slow-dance, but not to a ballad? What style of music are you looking for?

The first time my boyfriend and I slow-danced together was rather spontaneously in the living room as a song was playing on TV and we found it rather fitting to be "our song". It was The Man I Love by Gershwin. There are loads of lovely recordings of it.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 1:54pm

Strictly speaking, this is not a Broadway song, but I would recommend using the song written for Lea Salonga's wedding.


Salonga

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:05pm

You guys don't have a special song? (My significant other and I do-maybe we're weird that way, but we have a special song.)

[ILuv2shop531]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:08pm

What about "Till There Was You"? Could work depending on the arrangement.

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:09pm

"With You On My Arm" from La Cage?

"Married" from Cabaret? Updated On: 10/16/14 at 02:09 PM

[dreaming]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:28pm

I love "With You on My Arm"

I also love "Song on the Sand".

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:43pm

How about:

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:46pm

"Hit Me With Your Best Shot"

[After Eight]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:56pm

"It's Love" from Wonderful Town is upbeat.

Have a wonderful wedding.

[madbrian]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 2:59pm

Though not originally written for the stage, Could I Have This Dance (from Urban Cowboy) is a great wedding song. In fact, my wife and I danced to it at our wedding in 1985.

[Replacement Cast]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:01pm

"I Have Dreamed" from the King and I. That will be the song should I ever be fortunate enough to marry. Great lyrics for a couples wedding song.

[willep]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:10pm

"Falling Slowly" from Once?

[musicaltheatreman2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:36pm

thank you everyone for your suggestions!

madbrian do you know the title of the song that Lea Salonga is singing?

[musicaltheatreman2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:36pm

thank you everyone for your suggestions!

madbrian do you know the title of the song that Lea Salonga is singing?

[BroadwayFan1231]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 3:48pm

Almost Like Being in Love - Brigadoon

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 9:15pm

We didn't plan our first dance, but when the guest vocalist began singing "Can't Help Lovin' That Man of Mine", I grabbed Mr. Gaveston and we improvised.

It was the ballad version of the song and it worked beautifully.

[theatregeek6]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 9:24pm

2 both from company


Marry me a little.

Or (we used this for our 25th) being alive

[jo]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 9:35pm

Talking about possible wedding songs --

Has anyone ever thought of SUDDENLY from the film adaptation of Les Miserables? It was precisely written for Valjean to sing to his adoptive child, Cosette, but the lyrics could be appropriate for a wedding. The song from the film was meant to highlight the epiphany of finding love! Listen to Michael Ball's cover of the song on YouTube - sorry, this must be an unofficial version from a concert ( audio not too great) but the romantic sentiment is quite obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra-9338IVao

In his latest DVD release ( Both Sides Now), Michael performs SUDDENLY among many other musical theatre gems - it is the perfect version for a wedding!







Updated On: 10/16/14 at 09:35 PM

[KathyNYC2]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 9:53pm

I go with what was noted above..."Married"....from Cabaret. It's simple and to the point..and lovely.

[Feste]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 10:25pm

Human Heart from Once on This Island. I sang it at my sister's wedding!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk2UBr-k5SM

Updated On: 10/16/14 at 10:25 PM

[Fantod]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 10:39pm

I would say "Kiss Her Now" from Dear World.
EDIT: I just reread your original post and realized that you were two men. I will try to think of a different song.


Updated On: 10/16/14 at 10:39 PM

[gfaustswa]

Posted: 10/16/14 at 10:39pm

What about "How 'Bout A Dance" from Bonnie and Clyde. It's a beautiful song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7EpcYCqHB4
Updated On: 10/16/14 at 10:39 PM

[Pasdechat]

Posted: 10/17/14 at 4:01am

Congratulations! What kind of dance do you want to do (waltz or just "slow-dancing"...)? How about: "Shall we Dance" from The King and I or "Isn't it romatic" by Ella Fitzgerald?