Have you heard about this? There's a Broadway-style play of Dirty Dancing now running in London.
And Liz, being a normal American woman who grew up in the 1980s, loves the Dirty Dancing. So she's already brokering a deal with me, next time we fly back to the States we can stop in London for the play and then go to Disneyland Resort Paris (you know, Euro Disney) for a few days.
Is it sad if I'm seriously considering that deal?
(London) Evening Standard Dirty Dancing to run until 2008 By Tom Teodorczuk November 15, 2006
West End audiences were today given the chance to have the time of their life for another year and a half.
Producers of the smash hit stage musical Dirty Dancing have added five months to the show's schedule, with tickets now on sale as far ahead as March 2008.
It reflects phenomenal demand for the musical, which is based on the 1987 film starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.
Advance ticket sales for Dirty Dancing, which opened last month at the Aldwych Theatre, stand in excess of £12 million,making it the fastestselling show in West End history.
A theatreland insider said: "The show is especially popular with young women who adore the Patrick Swayze film.
"But the critical reception was much better than anyone could have hoped for and many fans of musicals who aren't familiar with the movie are also buying tickets."
The musical was written by Eleanor Bergstein, who also wrote the film.
It tells the story of a sheltered rich girl "Baby" as she falls in love with her rough and ready dance instructor-Johnny while staying at a holiday resort with her family in the early Sixties.
Classic songs include I've Had The Time Of My Life and She's Like The Wind.
Evening Standard theatre critic Nicholas De Jongh wrote last month: "Anyone wanting to discover how a musical oozes sex appeal without doing anything too near the knuckle ought to make for the Aldwych."
He added: "Dirty Dancing is a night of good, jiggly rubbish, blameless silliness which ends with an uplifting finale. It's hard to dislike it but it's also hard to call it memorable art."
