Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance#1
Posted: 1/9/12 at 4:32amHey everyone!! I got engaged back in August and our wedding is going to be in October of 2013. My fiancé loves musicals just as much as I do and I am trying to think of a great first dance song for us. No Phantom of the Opera. I really wanted to dance to The Music That Makes Me Dance from Funny Girl. Any other thoughts out there? Thanks!!
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #2
Posted: 1/9/12 at 5:57am"How Bought A Dance" from Bonnie and Clyde? I don't know when the CD is coming out but you can probably find it on YouTube.
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #2
Posted: 1/9/12 at 5:57am"How Bought A Dance" from Bonnie and Clyde? I don't know when the CD is coming out but you can probably find it on YouTube.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #3
Posted: 1/9/12 at 5:58amDance With Me / The Last Girl - Steel Pier?
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #4
Posted: 1/9/12 at 6:33amMy wife and I danced to Could I Have This Dance, from Urban Cowboy. However, we were married in 1985, long before the stage show.
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #5
Posted: 1/9/12 at 8:46am"Shall We Dance?" From The King and I
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #6
Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:02am
Kern and Hammerstein
"All the Things You Are" from Very Warm for May
Rodgers and Hart
"My Heart Stood Still (I Took One Look At You)" from A Connecticut Yankee
"I Didn't Know What Time It Was" from Too Many Girls
Styne and Cahn
"Time after Time" from the film It Happened in Brooklyn
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #7
Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:39amWe used Bernadette's "Being Alive."
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #8
Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:13am
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #9
Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:50amLove Changes Everything... Aspects of Love. We used it at our Handfasting and it was perfect
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #10
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:09amMy Cup Runneth Over from I Do! I Do!
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #11
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:15am
"Marry Me a Little"
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #12
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:30am"De Lovely" from Anything Goes
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #13
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:59am
Till There Was You - Music Man.
October 2013? - don't you think you are rushing things a bit?
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #14
Posted: 1/9/12 at 1:37pm
Ok, I'll bite, metropolis.
What's a handfasting?
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #15
Posted: 1/9/12 at 1:43pmI've always thought "All I Need is the Girl" could be made into quite a first dance number.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #16
Posted: 1/9/12 at 1:48pm
How about a showtune for the last dance?
"And I'm here!
Look who's here!
I'm still here!"
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #17
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:10pm
In my family it's become a tradition to use Jerry Herman's "Loving You". I don't know why; it's far from my favorite Herman ballad.
But if you're going to use "His Is the Only Music..." (one of my favorite songs), you might check out the Mimi Hines recording, if you can find it. I'm not saying she's "better than Barbra", just that there's a lushness to that recording you might like for your wedding. And it would give you a version fewer people have heard.
If you prefer a Streisand recording, she revisits the song on a later album with Kenny G's accompaniment. Yeah, I know it's heresy to suggest anything but the OBCR; yet Kenny G doesn't go overboard and, again, there's romantic quality that says "wedding" to me.
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #18
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:17pm
October 2013? - don't you think you are rushing things a bit?
You've obviously never planned a wedding. 
It's never too early to start.
Not a showtune, specifically, but if I were getting married, I'd love to have my first dance to Patti LuPone's "Heaven."
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #19
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:22pmI was listening to Anything Goes on my way to work this morning and was thinking that "Easy to Love" could be a great song to dance to.
Swing Joined: 5/10/11
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #20
Posted: 1/9/12 at 2:24pmI just performed the first dance at my cousins wedding. She and her betrothed rearranged Brown's "Next Ten Minutes" replaced all the "Jamie"s with Ooooos and then took out some of the non-specific and self-depreciating dialogue that Kathy says. Also they changed the "I want to bear your child" to something less... high pressure. It was definitely a magical moment.
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #21
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:11pm
My parents used Bernadettes "Unexpected Song" FTP
Song and Dance. It's really a fantastic song. Congrats, by the way!
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #22
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:29pmUnexpected Song is a great choice. Never thought of it.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #23
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:45pm
"You Are Love" from Show Boat... I don't know how festive of a first dance song you want.
I like "Our Love Affair" by Judy Garland.
"Just in Time" from Bells are Ringing.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance #24
Posted: 1/9/12 at 4:42pm
Bernadette's rendition of "Happiness" is glorious. I highly recommend it.
Also, her rendition of "Something Good" is actually very good, too. (Or any version of that song-I love it.)
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