Did I Miss This? "Dirty Dancing" Musical?

I was looking at the ad banner at the top of BWW promoting tickets to shows and...there was "Dirty Dancing" the musical in London. When did this happen? I thought people would be talking about it. Haven't heard anything about it. Where's the buzz?

Is this the same show they were work shopping in NYC a few years ago? If so...stay away.

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What? Kristin wasn't Baby? She was born to play that role.

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Updated On: 6/28/06 at 08:33 PM

It sounds cheesy enough to make it to Broadway.

Maybe Disney can buy it.

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Actually it opened in Sydney first, October 2004.

It also plays in Hamburg, Germany. It isn't a musical at all, its the movie on stage with a lot of background music. Johnny and Baby do not sing one song.

I fail to understand where a huge avance means it's a hit show?

Know how many crap shows have had huge advances?

Tarzan anyone?

Just because one has a large advance doesn not lead to the conclusion that the show will or can make a profit.

Just look at shows that have run for years and never made a profit.

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from reading the script it still seems like they will be a lot of scene changes

DD will be a hit its budget issnt huge and its all ready made a fortune in advance and london loves shows like this(fame,footloose,sat night fever)

Don't be such a snob, Mr. Turtle. London gave us Starlight Express and Chess and ASpects....

oh, right.


But seriously, there is some wonderful theatre in London on any given day and the productions of musicals are very impressive. Certainly up to and often exceeding Broadway standards.

And as for a show running in London with a big advance, remember that London shows have the added advantage of huge advance blocks of seats taken by American Exrpess and British Airways for their clients.

A "mass appeal" show like Dirty Dancing will be a tourist magnet.

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excuse me mr tuttle but in actully in footloose the musical in london(and its a very dif show than the crap what played on broadway)and i spent 2 years with fame the musical and after seeing how much this show inspired kids i dont have a bad word to say about it.
Snobbish attitudes bore me im just a performer who likes all types of musicals footloose,Rent,Cabaret,DRS,Dreamgirls,Hairspray,billy elliot,miss saigon,Tick Tick Boom,carrie,follies,Witches of Eastwick,Fame,Sweeney todd,mack and mabel etc etc

i like what i like and dont jump on the all the other shows what so many people on here do and i wont appologise for what i like.
As for my thatrical intelligence well ive worked on stage for 10 years so happen to know a thing or two(and HELLO carousel doessnt have a plot)Footloose and fame are made for people who want to have a fun night out at the theatre and dont claim to be anything other than light entertainment THEY DO JUST WHAT THEY SAY ON THE POSTERS.
And dont call theatregoers misguided who go to see them shows ,there not misguided there going to have fun and they do.Ive been in all kinds of musicals yet this is the only show ive done where we get a standing ovation everynight so maybee you should see londons productions of footloose and fame before your judge(and yes i saw broadways production of footloose and fame on 42nd street so i can judge).
London does love shows like fame ,footloose and sat night fever COZ THEY KNOW HOW TO PARTY but they also love a lot of the classics and the smart new shows.
Mary Poppins and Billy Elliot are well loved here in the uk and both are moving to new york so london must be getting something right and im sure they will both be hits(unless they are given a broadway makeover like taboo etc then there screwed)

London is a place which is all about diversity and means it(doesnt just say it is )and that is reflected in its theatre where a revival of anything goes can be playing accross the road from jerry springer or footloose can be playing next to the sound of music etc and it gives people a choice.
As long as shows like footloose and fame are finding an audience they will continue to make a lot of money and good for them.Fame introduced so many kids to theatre it was unreal and that can only be a good thing and it also offers a platform for young actors and dancers to get on to the west end stage and give them a shot.
As i said snobbish attitudes bore me and thank god the west end doesnt have it

lol

and before i get slagged of spelling ,grammer etc im dyslexic and crap with grammer(god blessed me with a singing voice dance ability and and to be a working singer/actor/dancer so io cant complain)

West End, get a clue. You are acting like such a snot. Those shows are musical crap for MOST of the theatrical community. Get off your high horse. If you like them... great. Not everyone does.

Excuse me but you said London LOVES these shows..not "likes". There's a big difference between Loves and Likes.

And you are the one causing the trouble here. Didn't you get the previous comments that somone stated and opinion and then YOU jumped all over them.

You're the wrong person here so stop playing innocent.

I agree there is good an bad in London and broadway. But the westend guy was saying that London loved those shows which showed they wern't crap (which anyone knows they are).

And..a side note..dyslexyia has nothing to do with knowing how to use proper grammer. Dyslexia is not the reason you use the word "cuz" or don't know the proper use of "no one" (which westend spelled "knowone"). That's lack knoweldge, not a disability.

I also find it ironic that you plead not "to start a war over this" yet you were the one who started that whole crap thread about getting bashed..yet you are the one who started the whole thing.

Advice...grow up. And go to school.

Updated On: 6/30/06 at 05:07 PM