Dancing under the Stars
As our guests were enjoying the wonderful buffet provided by Yianni and his family, Neil and I crept back aboard the boat and changed into our tap shoes. At the appointed time, we called the feasting to a pause and announced the first dance. Traditionally this is the happy couple in some smooch number that raises a lot of ahs from the audience but, as you might have noticed, we were not having a traditional wedding.
I introduced the song. It was one from a musical I wrote in 1996 that was staged in 1997 with choreography by Neil. The recording was sung by my good friends Kinny Gardner and Jo Lee and the song needed setting in context. In it, She wants to marry Him for his money. He wants to get his end away and She will do; He will even agree to marry Her for his own naughty ends. What He doesn’t know is that, once married, She is planning to do away with Him and become a wealthy widow. The song is called ‘I’ll Love you to Death,’ and involved a dance section.
There is a video and maybe, one day, I’ll see it on You Tube and you can watch it. It went well, got a few laughs and neither of us broke anything or anyone, and came out of it unscathed. Then we started the dancing proper with ‘Eternal Flame’, and others joined in.
After that it was what you might call a free for all.
