Patrick Swayze as Johnny Castle, Jennifer Grey as Baby Houseman in a featured image of Dirty Dancing.
It's time to put on your dancing shoes and grab a watermelon. If you have those, you're ready for Dirty Dancing: The Musical. It's been announced that the 1987 film, Dirty Dancing, will be getting a Broadway musical adaptation. That's according to a press release. Lionsgate and Path Entertainment Group are working with the original writer of the movie, Eleanor Bergstein, to bring the new musical to life sometime next year.
What is 'Dirty Dancing' About? Close Dirty Dancing follows the story of Frances"Baby" Houseman as she looks back on the summer of 1963. Baby soon finds herself swept off her feet in a whirlwind romance with the dance instructor, Johnny Castle , at the resort her parents have dragged her and her sister to. The film, even with it's swoon-worthy dance scenes, is also gritty; with the characters facing realities such as an unwanted pregnancy.
Of the upcoming musical, Bergstein says in part,"In the years after I wrote and co-produced the original film Dirty Dancing, I was grateful and astonished by the generations of audiences who responded with open hearts to the themes of honor and courage beneath the surface." She says,"Years later, sensing our audiences wanted to ‘be there’ while the story was happening, I wrote and co-produced a stage show. Its reception all over the world exceeded my sweetest dreams.
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