Dirty Dancing WHAT IS THIS

LOL

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I agree with Paul W. Thompson, Chicago is a great tryout town. Aside from the flops, we've had Spamalot, Mamma Mia!, The Light in the Piazza, and a lot more before they went to New York.

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Sorry I forgot about some of the other shows but the ones I forgot here goes.
Victor/Victoria with out Julie Andrews it closed
YES wait a minute they had Liza but did you see it. It was her act not the show........
All Shook Up reminded me of my high school production I was in Bye Bye Birdie come on did you really like it......
Aida That one was pretty good Music not great but pretty good.
Rob Roy can't wait to see love the music
Addams Family this has alot of ????????????????????
Please don't get me wrong I LOVE the theater but when you do not live in New York where you can buy and wait for lower price tickets.
I do not remember Mama Mia being pre-Broadway here.
Spamalot was great if you are a fan of Monty Python if not you missed alot of jokes.
The light in the Piazza music GREAT play zzzzzzzzzzzz

When I said Chicago is a great try-out town for shows, I meant that many of the shows that came here turn out to be critical and commercial successes, not what you thought of the shows.

Mamma Mia! came to Chicago in mid 2001 on a pre-Broadway tour (like what Dirty Dancing is doing).

Yes, All Shook Up started at Goodspeed, but it went to Chicago in late 2004/early 2005 before Broadway.

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Updated On: 11/26/08 at 06:06 PM

We can talk semantics all day long......but Dirty Dancing is a waste of money. Oh yea, it's as boring as hell.

I did see this in London and it is completely unmemorable. By the way, I WAS
around in the 60's and NOBODY danced like that !!!!!!!! Anyway, don't waste
your $$$$$$$$$

I walked by the show the other night when it let out and it was like a geriatric convention outside of the theatre.

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Cello Dude-I guess I'll be the one to take the bait. Why?

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Its horrendous.
I saw the premier production in Sydney and it is dire. I do believe it is even worse in London!
Long will it run, sadly!

From what I've seen in pics of the London production it certainly does look like it has more in the way of sets even if they do look like rejects from a poor national tour of 'Noises Off'! Tacky is what I mean!
Sydney was very black and grey! Boring is what I mean!

Re Contact:

Contact did not originally bill itself as a "musical". When it opened run at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre (technically Off-Broadway), it was billed as "A Dance Play". It was considered a risky, experimental piece, and was scheduled for a limited run of 8 weeks.

Then the reviews came out, calling it "the best musical of the year" and saying it "Breathes new life into the tired form of the Broadway musical". At that point, they moved the show upstairs to the Vivian Beaumont theatre, where it became Tony eligible. The reviewers and the Tony Comittee decided it was a "musical".

I saw this as a person who has never seen the movie, and I didn't hate it...

I liked to call it 'the movie, on stage, with incidental music'

The pacing sucks. They were trying to get two second bits of the movie, and it just made it sooo slow.

I thought the dancing was great, and I liked the use of the cameras on the actors while it is being displayed during the scene. It's a great use of the technology front being applied to theatre.

Maybe the only reason I didn't find it boring was because I've never seen the movie, I don't know.

It's just different, but I didn't mind it. I do wish the leads would have sung, Baby should have had a big, belty ballad somewhere in there. But alas it wasn't.

And the water 'lift' scene was laughable... I did NOT like the effects there. Every one was laughing just because it was so ridiculous.

And as far as associating the city with 'bad tryouts' that is completely not right, and surely has nothing to do with the other. Every try out city, I'm sure has had their fair share of flops.