About the Show

The Story

On vacation in New York's Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, Frances "Baby" Houseman shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles upon the staff quarters when an all-night dance party is in full swing. Mesmerized by the sensual dance moves and the pounding rhythms, Baby can't wait to be a part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle, the resort's dance instructor. Baby's life is about to change forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny's leading lady both on-stage and off with breathtaking consequences.

Did You Know?

THE SHOW

  • Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage currently has productions running in London (UK), Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Toronto (Canada).
  • The Fall of 2008 will see Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre host the USA premiere of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage. Following this, the show will play in Boston (from February 09), Los Angeles (from April 09); and then to Broadway.
  • Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia on November 18, 2004. Following this, the production went on a national tour of Australia and New Zealand, visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland. In total, the show had a sell-out season of 18 months throughout Australia and New Zealand.
  • A new production opened at the Theater Neue Flora in Hamburg, Germany in March 2006 where it broke records for achieving the highest advance sales in European history. The show ran for over two years in Hamburg and played to over 1 million people. The show will continue to delight German audiences when it opens in Berlin in April 2009.
  • Following this success, Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage broke more records in London where it opened on October 24, 2006 at the historic Aldwych Theater. Before it even opened in London, the show had sold out for the first six months of its run. The production began previews with £11 million in advance sales - a West End Theatre record. In an unprecedented move, the theatre had to add additional seats into the auditorium to accommodate the demand for tickets. Over 1 million people and counting have now seen the London production.
  • When the show went on sale in April 2007 at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto it achieved the highest daily sales in the history of the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It continues to delight Canadian audiences night after night.
  • On March 9, 2008, a new production of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage opened at the Beatrix Theater in The Netherlands to fantastic reviews. The Utrecht production is performed in Dutch with the hit songs sung in English.
  • The pre-Broadway production has a cast of 40 exceptionally talented performers including 10 in the band, who perform 55 songs, in over 100 scene changes. The show is lit by 200 moving lights, includes multiple LED screens and over 200 automation cues with state-of-the-art surround sound.
  • Baby alone has 21 costume changes; each ensemble girl has 10 dresses. There are 3 watermelons.

THE FILM

  • Kellerman’s Mountain House in the film was actually shot in two states - Virginia and North Carolina. The filmmaker carried fences by truck from one state to another to make the location appear continuous.
  • At the start of Jennifer Grey’s dance preparation for the film, the filmmakers video taped her early mambo lessons so that after she had learned the routines, she could refer to them and recreate her original mistakes. The actress playing Baby in all productions of Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage repeated this process.
  • Eleanor Bergstein, the writer of the film and the stage show, makes a cameo appearance in the movie playing a guest who dances with Johnny Castle.
  • Eleanor Bergstein picked the music for the original film from her record collection before she even started writing the script. She made a cassette entitled EB Dirty Dancing which she sent to movie execs to sell the film. Every major studio turned her down. The original soundtrack has sold over 44 million copies and still counting!

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