Dirty Dancing

Prince Edward Theatre

4.7/5 based on 861 reviews (read reviews)

Opens: Friday, 15 January 2027 -
Booking until: Saturday, 24 April 2027
Running time: 2hr 15min. Incl. 1 interval

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Dirty Dancing description

Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage puts the summer at Kellerman's holiday resort on stage at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End.

It is the summer of 1963, and seventeen-year-old Frances Houseman - Baby to everyone who knows her - arrives at a Catskills resort with her family for a holiday she expects to be uneventful. A late-night walk takes her to the staff quarters, where the dancing is faster and closer than anything happening in the ballroom. When the resort dance instructor, Johnny Castle, is left without a partner, Baby offers to learn the routine in three weeks, and the lessons that follow change how she sees her family, her summer and herself.

The score is the one audiences know from the soundtrack, played live: Hungry Eyes, Hey! Baby, Do You Love Me?, She's Like the Wind, Love Is Strange, In the Still of the Night and (I've Had) The Time of My Life. The staging keeps the set pieces intact, from the mambo at the Sheldrake and the lift rehearsed in the lake to the closing number, and the dialogue is taken from the screenplay rather than rewritten as a conventional book musical.

The production opened in Australia before travelling to London, Broadway, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and more than a dozen other territories. Its first West End staging, at the Aldwych Theatre, set a London record for advance sales before a single performance had been given, and it has since played in the West End and on tour across the UK.

Eleanor Bergstein wrote the 1987 film and adapted it herself for the stage, and her screenplay remains the spine of the production. Casting and the full creative team for the Prince Edward Theatre are still to be confirmed.

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