Dirty Dancing Tickets Information
17-year old Frances “Baby” Houseman is brought on vacation with her family to a resort in the Catskill Mountains of New York where she settles in for what she expects will be a boring, if not excruciating, summer. To her surprise, however, she meets the resort’s dance instructor Johnny Castle who has much to teach the naïve, waifish girl about romance and rhythm. Defying the era’s puritan strictures on appropriate and inappropriate body language, Johnny takes Baby on as his private pupil and lead partner and together the two ignite a dancing revolution that makes even the mountains tremble.

Melting hearts and stirring souls as the electrifying couple originally portrayed on the silver screen by Patrick Swayze (“Roadhouse,” “Ghost,” “To Wong Foo With Love, Julie Newmar”) and Jennifer Grey (“The Cotton Club,” “Red Dawn,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) may be the equally sparkling pair that brought those parts to life on the London stage Josef Brown (principal dancer at the Australian Ballet) and Sarah Manton (National Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, Byre Theatre). But as auditions are still being held for the Broadway version, the actual cast is still unconfirmed.

From heart-pounding hits like Do You Love Me, Mama Said, Save the Last Dance, Duke of Earl and Hey Baby to heart-throbbing ballads and love songs like She’s Like the Wind and Hungry Eyes, the musical that has inspired millions on film seems set to do the same on stage, after seeing additional adaptations as a live concert featuring Eric Carmen and a UK reality TV show.

The stage version of Dirty Dancing was written by the same person who wrote the film, Eleanor Bergstein, directed by James Powell, and choreographed by Kate Champion, to set design of Stephen Brimson-Lewis.

Best of all, this fiercely sexy and scintillating rendition of the now-timeless tale of the spirit of love and youth doesn’t merely revivify familiar scenes, songs, and dances, but it also adds fresh new ones, breathing new life into an already inspiring production. And with a cast of 37 fabulous singers and dancers, it’s one evening you’re sure never to forget.

After premiering at the Theatre Royal in Sydney, Australia, then being tried out on British audiences as of 2006 at the Aldwch Theatre in London’s famed West End, where the show saw London’s largest theatrical pre-sell in history (selling out the first six months of the run before opening night and raking in the equivalent of $10 million US dollars) and has been seen, as of 2008, by over 350,000 delighted theatre-goers, Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage sees its pre-Broadway premiere at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago, Illinois starting September 28, 2008.

After leaving Chicago, the show will face runs in Boston, Massachusetts starting February 2009, Los Angeles, California starting April 2009, and possibly San Francisco too before landing beneath the shining neon lights of Broadway.

Come see Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage and have the time of your life.