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:

John Dixon - 20 September 2012

Never having seen the iconic movie Dirty Dancing, I approached the stage musical without any preconceived ideas. Apart from knowing it would finish with the couple dancing to Time of My Life and include the well known lifts, also the immortal line about “nobody puts Baby in a corner” would be greeted with delight by the audience. I was right on all accounts.

The story follows the Houseman family as they spend their holidays at a very upmarket resort hotel, where the entertainment staff are only meant to entertain and provide dance lessons. But, of course, far more goes on and their youngest daughter Frances, known as Baby, comes involved with dancer Johnny Castle, much to her parents’ angst. However, as we know it will, everything works out by the finale.

While all the cast are very talented, it is Paul-Michael Jones, as Johnny who stands out. Oddly Jill Winternitz, as Baby, comes across as very cold and there is a lack of chemistry between her an...

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