Lonny Price directing new DIRTY DANCING stage musical aimed for Broadway — Page 2
Posted: 2/4/26 at 10:52am
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 ....
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.
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."
Posted: 2/23/26 at 7:27pm
Thanks for proving my point as always, BroDawg.
Posted: 3/26/26 at 11:18am
This new touring production is being capitalized at $17 million dollars; seems like a mistake.
Posted: 9/19/26 at 3:37pm
Any conceivable notion this is a “reimagination” of the production from the early aughts and 2010’s is a complete and utter lie. The show is still a wretched slob fest that now includes AI slop in its video screen backdrops. How this thing cost $17 million is beyond me.
