Bringing Dirty Dancing Back
The 1987 movie classic starring Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze about a sheltered girl’s summer romance with her camp dance instructor was adapted for the stage as a musical in 2004.
Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage was written by the original author of the movie, Eleanor Bergstein. It has the same songs as the film but with a couple extra scenes. The show has sold-out runs in Germany and London’s West End. The show is scheduled to run in London’s West End through April 2009 and has opened in the Netherlands in March 2008.
more The show plans to tour in Chicago, followed by Boston, Los Angeles, possibly San Francisco, and then on to New York’s Broadway.
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