Dirty Dancing

Synopsis

Beloved coming of age film, Dirty Dancing comes to the stage to take you back to 1963... ....when everybody called me Baby and it didn’t occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy got shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn’t wait to join the Peace Corps and I thought I’d never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman’s’ Experience the excitement and romance of the blockbuster film - live on stage. Featuring the hit songs from the best selling movie soundtrack of all time including; Time Of My Life, Hungry Eyes, Hey Baby and Do You Love Me? First dance. First love. The 1987 film starred Jennifer Grey as the teenaged Baby who falls in love with the camp's working class dance instructor, played by Patrick Swayze.

Our Review:

13 October 2012

Having cleaned up as a film, like many others, this has been adapted for the stage: a musical with a heart AND a plot – which everybody knows, surely? Interesting that when bad boy meets good little girl (think Grease, Michael Hutchence and Kylie), we are more intrigued by her converting him than blossoming, shall we say, through knowing him.

The staging has scenery which veers from the splendours of the Great Outdoors to the intimate bed room (‘very saucy’ I overheard), but the somewhat patchworked story wanders about, heavy on coincidence, light on explanation (Robbie? What Robbie?) and skimming over the tricky bits, strands set up that led nowhere. But perhaps it's churlish to comment on the orchestra drowning out dialogue when the audience are doing the same.

Ah yes, the audience – never seen anything like it: gladiatorial comes to mind, or Singalongasomethingorother; I am informed the X Factor should be taken into account; ra...

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Latest User Review

Lyn - 28 October 2012:

Too loud. Couldn't hear the spoken dialogue. Dancing amazing. Why were women screaming? Confusing!...

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