Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
LitesofBway89
Swing Joined: 3/11/11
#1Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:16amSo I recently got engaged at Disneyland this past Wednesday night and I am thrilled!! But Disneyland was my boyfriend's back up plan. His original idea was to come to an audition I was at or a rehearsal for one of my plays or something and sing "Shiksa Goddess" from "The Last Five Years". It would have meant alot to me because my boyfriend isn't exactly what you'd call a musical theater enthusiast. But the fact he learned the song with a voice teacher and was trying to get someone to play the piano for him meant that he really wanted to make it special. Of course it was special regardless. But I thought of the idea that he could sing to me at the reception and I would sing to him. The question is, what would I sing? I don't want anything cliche like "Someone Like You" from Jekyll and Hyde or anything. Any good ideas? Thanks for your input!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 5:32am
Are you sure he even WANTS to sing in front of everyone? If performing isn't his thing, I might think not. To do it for you, from his heart is one thing. To perform in front of everyone at a wedding is a bit different.
THAT being said, I think this kind of thing is incredibly personal -- YOU need to find the song that has the right words. We don't know you, your fiance or what makes your relationship work. A song from you that would be perfect, might not be something traditional about love or marriage.
Congrats.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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Updated On: 8/15/11 at 05:32 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 5:33am
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If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Updated On: 8/15/11 at 05:33 AM
Gaveston2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/11
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#6Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 7:53am
(I'm Not) Getting Married Today!
From Company.
...if you have second thoughts beforehand!)
Only joking,
All the best!
How about...One! From A Chorus Line?
Matt
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#8Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:18am
What about "My White Knight" from The Music Man?
If you want to have a showtune be part of your ceremony, though, there's a gorgeous string quartet version of "One Hand, One Heart" that I saw on youtube a few months ago.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#9Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 9:18am
Not a show tune, but the song Two Words was written for Lea Solanga's wedding. See the video. Seems like a perfect fit.
Two Words
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#10Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 10:45am
Love Changes Everything
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#11Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 10:54am
"A Man and a Woman" - 110 in the Shade
"Starting Here, Staring Now" - Malby & Shire
mamaleh
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#12Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:00am
"Almost Like Being in Love" was the showtune I wanted played as my new hubby and I walked into the wedding reception. But the rock-heavy band we had back in '76 had never heard of it. (At least they played the "Star Trek" theme as the Viennese table was wheeled out.)
ALBIL is still my all-time favorite love song.
You're welcome. :)
Updated On: 8/15/11 at 11:00 AM
#13Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:03am
My friend and her husband had their first dance to "I've Never Been In Love Before" from GUYS & DOLLS. It's a duet, so you could sing it to each other.
Best wishes!
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#15Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:19amMy Cup Runneth Over from I Do! I Do!
addamsfamily#1fan
Chorus Member Joined: 12/9/10
#16Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:20amFor slow dance Happy/Sad from Addams Family.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#17Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:38am
cracks me up:
Ilona (Barbara Baxley) to Amalia (Barbara Cook): Supposing he's a knucklecracker, Amalia!
breaks my heart:
C.C. (Obba Babatunde) to Effie (Jennifer Holliday): Effie, I've got a song I want you to sing!
These are not the most striking bars of the scores of She Loves Me or Dreamgirls, but they are gotcha moments.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#18Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 11:41am
OH, NO! MAJOR FAUX PAS! DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON!
Above post was meant for small moments to cherish from original cast recordings thread; and certainly not for songs to sing at one's own - or anybody else's for that matter - wedding.
ggersten
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#19Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 12:28pm
He could still sing Shiksa Goddess at the party... You'd have to have a responsive number. Although, you'd have to gauge whether it would be appropriate for those in attendance....
Instead of My White Knight, I would choose "Till There Was You" from The Music Man. This is a personal favorite. We had our wedding band and singer play/sing this - and in retrospect, maybe it should have been first dance as married couple.
"Something Wonderful" from The King and I.
You could probably change "Now I Have Everything" from Fidder into a duet - alternate verses.
For a fun number - "Just in Time" from Bells are Ringing
Eponine3
Understudy Joined: 12/7/06
#20Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 1:38pmCongratulations on your engagement Lite! I was MOH for a friends wedding and she is also a huge theater person. She and her husband wanted to sing to each other and decided to do so just in front of close friends and family at their rehearsal dinner. They sang "You are my home" from The Scarlet Pimpernel, and it was lovely.
MusicalComedyMan
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/03
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#22Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 2:34pm
"'Til There Was You" is perfect for a wedding solo.
For duets, I love "The Next Ten Minutes."
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
LitesofBway89
Swing Joined: 3/11/11
#23Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 2:56pmThese are all great ideas!!! Thanks everyone!!
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#24Showtunes appropriate for a wedding
Posted: 8/15/11 at 3:55pmI love the song "Believe" from "The Scarlet Pimpernel". (Don't know if it was in the second version, but it's a gorgeous song.)
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