Dirty Dancing extends booking period at the Aldwych
Lizzie Guilfoyle
DIRTY Dancing has once again extended its booking period at the Aldwych Theatre, this time until Saturday, April 9, 2011, thereby taking it into its fifth year in the West End.
As Christmas features in this new booking period, the production has announced its special schedule of performances for the holiday season. Details are available on 0844 847 2330 or at www.dirtydancinglondon.com
To tie in with the new booking period, it has also been announced that as of Friday, June 11, the show’s Friday performances will be as follows: matinee at 5pm, evening performance at 8.30pm.
At the time of opening in October 2006, Dirty Dancing broke all box office records by reaching advance ticket sales of over £11million. It has now been seen by over one million people in the UK.
Set in the 1960s, at an upmarket holiday camp in America’s Catskill Mountains, Dirty Dancing sees the young and naive Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman fall for the charms of the camp’s dance instructor, worldly-wise Johnny Castle.
It feature recordings as well as live performances and includes classics such as Do You Love Me?, Love Man, Hey! Baby, Stay, Save The Last Dance For Me and In the Still of the Night. It also include those songs specially written for the film – Hungry Eyes, She’s Like the Wind and Time of My Life.
Dirty Dancing is produced by Jacobsen Entertainment and Karl Sydow, in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions. Directed by James Powell, it has musical supervision by Conrad Helfrich, choreography by Kate Champion, set design by Stephen Brimson Lewis, lighting by Tim Mitchell, sound by Bobby Aitken, video and projection design by Jon Driscoll, Ballroom and Latin choreography by Craig Wilson and costume design by Jennifer Irwin.