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Dirty Dancing

Finished Sep 21, 2016

Sangamon Auditorium

Dirty Dancing is an explosive mix of music, romance and sensational dancing. Don't put baby in the corner!

Dirty Dancing

Finished Sep 21, 2016

Sangamon Auditorium

Dirty Dancing is an explosive mix of music, romance and sensational dancing. Don't put baby in the corner!

Why see Dirty Dancing?

You'll Have the Time of Your Life!

The 1987 movie is an untouchable musical classic, and has sealed Patrick Swayze's place in the cult movie canon. A massive box office success at the time, it has spawned numerous imitators, a sequel and "nobody puts Baby in the corner" branded merchandise for toddlers. The stage version made its debut in 2004 in Australia, before opening to millions of pounds worth of advance sales in London's West End in 2011. Yes, the power of the Swayze was still strong.

Adapted by the movie's original scribe Eleanor Bergstein, this North American touring production hews closely to the plot of the film, packing in all its anthemic songs ('I Had the Time of My Life', 'Hungry Eyes') and cheesy one-liners with aplomb. It delivers everything the audiences can hope for - lots of sexy dancing and rock 'n' roll. Taking on the unenviable task of replicating Swayze's charm (and hunky good looks) on this tour is Aaron Patrick Craven with Kaleigh Courts as Baby.

What is Dirty Dancing About?

17 year old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is on holiday with her family in the Catskill Mountains in the summer of 1963, and bored out of her mind. That is until she encounters charismatic Johnny Castle, who teaches dance at the resort. When Johnny takes her back to the staff's after-hours secret party, she discovers a vibrant underworld of 'dirty dancing'. This rock 'n' roll music is totally at odds with the kind of music that Baby has so far experienced and certainly wouldn't meet with approval from her conservative parents. It's exciting and fresh, and she begins to fall for Johnny.

When Johnny's regular dance partner Penny has to pull out of the annual Sheldrake Dance competition, Baby steps in to help. The two embark on an intense period of practise to master the routine, during which the romance between the pair blossoms. However, it seems their relationship is not to be as Baby's father discovers their love affair and orders an immediate end to it. But Baby and Johnny must find a way...

Did You Know?

While a remake of the original 1987 movie is still lingering in development hell, there was a belated sequel - Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. It was a critical and commercial flop but did contain a cameo from Patrick Swayze, for which he was paid a whopping $5 million!

Key Information

Audience

Suitable for ages 10+ Contains mature themes - parental discretion advised

Run Time

Two hours 25 minutes with intermission

Dates

Finished Sep 21, 2016

Cast

Aaron Patrick Craven as Johnny Castle 
Kaleigh Courts as Francis "Baby" Houseman
Anais Black as Penny Johnson 
Erica Lee Cianciulli as Marjorie Houseman
Nickolaus Colon as Billy Kostecki/Singer 
Ryan Cupello as Robbie Gould
Buddy Daniels Friedman as Mr. Schumacher 
Rick Grossman as Max Kellerman
Demitra Pace as Lisa Houseman
Owen Russel as Neil Kellerman 
Christopher Robert Smith as Dr. Jake Houseman 
Torrey Linder as Tito Suarez 

Ensemble
Alex Caldwell, Ayla Ciccone-Burton, Amanda Clement, J'royce Jata, Hunter Mikles, Honza Pelichovksy, Erica Philpot, Joshua Clifton Powell, Hannah Straney, Jay Stuart, Kesley Walsh and Aidan Ziegler-Hansen. 

Creative

Directed by Sarna Lapine
Scenery designed by Mikiko Suzuki
Lighting designed by Ken Billington 
Costumes designed by Jennifer Irwin
Sound by Leon Rothenberg
Hair designed by Bernie Ardia 
Music supervised by Conrad Helfrich 
Music directed by Alan J. Plado 
Casting director Stewart/Whitley

Reviews

Customer reviews

29 reviews, average rating: (3.5 Stars)

Michael

Great show distorted audio

The review on Coldplay. The band sounded great world class choreography but as an engineer and audio entrepreneur I was very disappointed. The distortion either because of volume or the audio was over driven into the mixer from the mixer I don't know but for a band who millions of dollars worth of tickets for it's tour it's a shameful failure for the sound crew they should have go on into the Stands and listen to the product before they disappointed everybody. it's was such a wonderful show. COLDPLAY please take note love you guys. ... Read more

Tre

It's the Disney World of Concerts

It's almost impossible to experience Coldplay live and not find yourself almost overwhelmed with joy. Like if we could bottle that feeling and just give it to everyone in the world. The spectacle itself is on another level. The whole light show with the crowd is amazing. I have seen them in concert 5 times and each time they find a way to increase the spectacle itself. If you are not a fan before you enter, that will change rather quickly. The only thing more impressive than the lights and fireworks, is Christopher Martins cardio. That dude has the energy of a two year old with an espresso IV. To hear thousands and thousands of people sing together as if we are old friends, the event has the effect of turning the strangers beside you into a least play cousins. My seats where higher than we have had in the past, but the it began to rain, I was kinda glad to be in that space. It was my 4 year olds first and my 8 year olds second show. They are still excited about it. ... Read more

Dan

Too loud

Concert PAs were way too loud and left our ears ringing ... Read more

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