Past Shows

First dance...first love...the time of your life!

DIRTY DANCING - THE CLASSIC STORY ON STAGE!

The TEATRO at Montecasino from 26 October 2012

DIRTY DANCING is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing.

Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash-hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds, who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives. Featuring hit songs performed by a rocking live band, including “Hungry Eyes”, “Hey Baby”, “Do You Love Me?” and the heart stopping “Time Of My Life.”

Dirty Dancing on stage is a re-imagining of the film, adapted for the stage by the same woman who brought it to the big screen in 1987, Eleanor Bergstein

It's the summer of 1963, and 17 year old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing.

On holiday at a resort called Kellerman’s with her older sister and parents, 'Baby' shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles upon the staff quarters when an all-night dance party is in full swing. Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms,'Baby' can't wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of Johnny Castle the resort dance instructor.

'Baby's' life is about to change forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny's leading lady both on-stage and off with breathtaking consequences

All the excitement and success of this blockbuster is about to strike again when Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage hits South African stages!

Produced by Pieter Toerien and Hazel Feldman, Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage is packed with breathtaking dancing by South Africa’s most sexy performers with million dollar costumes and stunning visuals.  Featuring everyone’s favourite scenes including “I carried a watermelon” and “nobody puts Baby in a corner” – if you loved the film you will adore the stage version!  Appealing to young and old alike, the well known and loved original movie soundtrack performed and danced to live, makes Dirty Dancing the hottest ticket in town!

First dance...first love...the time of your life!

Johannesburg at The Teatro at Montecasino from 26 October 2012

"THE BIGGEST LIVE THEATRE SENSATION OF ALL TIME!!" The Observer

Cast will be announced in August

The Stage Show

Dirty Dancing, The Classic Story On Stage broke records in Germany and the UK for having the highest advance ticket sales in history.

Before it even opened in London, the show had sold out for the first six months of its run.

Dirty Dancing, The Classic Story On Stage was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, Australia on 18 November 2004. Following this, the production went on a national tour of Australia and New Zealand, visiting Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Auckland. In total, the show had a sell-out season of 18 months throughout Australia and New Zealand.

A new production opened at the Theater Neue Flora in Hamburg, Germany in March 2006 where it broke records for achieving the HIGHEST ADVANCE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY. The production continues to play to sold-out houses and recently sold its 1 MILLIONTH TICKET.

The show has gone on to perform across the world in Toronto, Canada; Utrecht, Holland; a North American Tour including Chicago, Boston and LA. More recently the show opened in Berlin, Germany, in April 2009 and closed on the 14th November 2010, making it the longest run in the history of the Potzdammer Platz theatre.

The production has a cast of 35 who get through 55 songs during 73 scene changes lit by 200 moving lights. Baby alone has 21 costume changes. The cast is supported by 24 production staff with 4 wig girls a creative team of 10 and 11 in the orchestra pit.

Dirty Dancing is also the longest running show in the history of the Aldwych Theatre, London!

To date, over 500,000 TICKETS have been purchased in the UK, totalling box office sales in excess of £25 MILLION.

Current productions worldwide include the First Ever National Tour of the UK and Ireland, where it has broken box office records in Glasgow and Aberdeen so far, with an advance of over £22million, and most recently Stockholm, Sweden, which opened on 14th February 2012.

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The Movie

The film, made on a shoestring budget of five million dollars, went on to become a worldwide hit at the box office and was ranked as the fifth highest grossing film of 1987.

It generated two multi-platinum soundtracks that sold over 39 million copies…and still counting, and the song “Time of My Life” won the Academy Award for Best Song the year the film was released.

The movie reinvented the dance genre introducing a new style of erotically charged, partner dancing to the world.

Dirty Dancing touched the hearts of audiences when they first saw the film.  They felt part of the sensuous world unfolding before them, depicted during the summer of 1963 – before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles exploded onto the music scene and when you couldn’t separate a song lyric or melody from what was happening in your head and in your heart.  It was a time of innocence.

Often asked how much the film comes from her real life, Eleanor Bergstein answers, “It is all there, but in bits and pieces.   I wanted to change the world.   I worked my way through university teaching ballroom dancing at the Arthur Murray Dance Studios – there is more of Johnny than Baby in me”

The Academy Award winning film, Dirty Dancing is considered to be one of the greatest dance movies ever made, launching the careers of Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.