Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
LitesofBway89
Swing Joined: 3/11/11
#1Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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!!
#2Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
#2Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#3Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 5:58amDance With Me / The Last Girl - Steel Pier?
#4Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#5Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 8:46am"Shall We Dance?" From The King and I
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#6Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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
#7Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 9:39amWe used Bernadette's "Being Alive."
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#8Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:13am
metropolis10111
Broadway Star Joined: 7/28/06
#9Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 10:50amLove Changes Everything... Aspects of Love. We used it at our Handfasting and it was perfect
WestVillage
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/05
#10Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:09amMy Cup Runneth Over from I Do! I Do!
#11Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:15am
"Marry Me a Little"
charlottekane
Swing Joined: 1/4/12
#12Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 11:30am"De Lovely" from Anything Goes
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#13Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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?
#14Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 1:37pm
Ok, I'll bite, metropolis.
What's a handfasting?
#15Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#16Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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!"
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
#17Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
#18Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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."
#19Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
CowardlyLyon
Swing Joined: 5/10/11
#20Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
bwayalltheway
Chorus Member Joined: 10/22/08
#21Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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!
#22Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
Posted: 1/9/12 at 3:29pmUnexpected Song is a great choice. Never thought of it.
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#23Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#24Show tunes appropriate for a first dance
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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