Dirty Dancing Gets Broadway Digs?

The 1987 classic movie Dirty Dancing may be coming to Broadway, more specifically the Neil Simon theater (where Hairspray is set to end its run in January). Variety has an early report, saying "no official plans have been confirmed, but legiters are hearing the hit stage version of the pic" may be getting a Gotham run (it's already been opened in London and other areas). "Penned by Eleanor Bergstein based on her screenplay, hews closely to the plot of the movie, centering on a romance in the Catskills in 1963. Songs from the pic are used in the show," and of course all the big dance numbers will all be there to make sure that you'll have the time of your life...or maybe not.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on October 22, 2008 4:53 PM

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SINNER

Would much prefer Roadhouse or Point Break or even Grandview U S A--although Waking Up in Reno IS funny as shit!

gumbercules

Up next, Red Dawn.

Wza

I can see the commercial now, tourists singing along to "Time Of My Life"

El Bolson

"For a location for the film, they did not find anything suitable in the Catskills...

...so they decided on a combination of two locations: Lake Lure in North Carolina, and Mountain Lake Resort near Roanoke, Virginia,

...with careful editing making it look like all of the shooting was done in the same area"

ilikecameras1010

It bothers me that so many shows which are derivative and unoriginal (but not without merit) are taking over Broadway while original pieces like [title of show] close after 115 performances (4 months)

Toby von Meistersinger

Really, who wants to see some retread of some movie. Wait, tourists with more money than taste.

If we are doing 80s movies how about Blue Thunder?

I am sure that you could dig the helicopter up from Miss Saigon and with slight modifications use it.

rhonda718

Dirty Dancing, Shrek, Nine to Five, Billy Elliot, The Addams Family...

Another great Broadway season of original musical content!

roomtobreathe

...and roe and I had the same thought at the same time.

roomtobreathe

Hairspray is playing at the Neil Simon, not the Rialto. There's not even a Broadway theater called the Rialto.

roe

Um...there's no such theater on Broadway called the Rialto right now. It's a slang expression for Broadway in general, ie, "the Rialto venue" in the Variety article just means "the Broadway venue". Hairspray is playing at the Neil Simon Theatre.