Lonny Price directing new DIRTY DANCING stage musical aimed for Broadway- Page 2

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 10:01am

https://deadline.com/2026/02/dirty-dancing-musical-tour-1236707986/

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 10:52am

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/23/26 at 5:43pm

Open Call for Johnny: https://www.instagram.com/p/DVHLpS1k8uJ/

[merle57]

Posted: 2/23/26 at 6:35pm

It worked as a popular film, but that does not qualify it for stage adaptation. So much of the film was intimate close ups  -- that won't work in a 1600 seat house. The movie does not need to be a stage musical -- nothing screams out demanding it be musicalized. The story lacks strong characters or interesting plot elements; the entire emphasis will be on the dance which cannot be duplicated since so much of it was faked with clever edits and cuts. 

Another WHY musical .... 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/23/26 at 6:48pm

The movie does not need to be a stage musical -- nothing screams out demanding it be musicalized. 

Exactly.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/23/26 at 6:57pm

Sutton Ross said: "The movie does not need to be a stage musical -- nothing screams out demanding it be musicalized.

Exactly."

 

 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 2/23/26 at 7:27pm

Thanks for proving my point as always, BroDawg.