Dirty Dancing to close in West End
February 16, 2011
Hit West End musical Dirty Dancing is to depart the Aldwych Theatre on 9 July 2011.
Dirty Dancing to close at the Aldwych
The successful stage adaptation of the 1980′s movie will have played for 5 years in London, attracting an audience of nearly 2 million and becoming the longest running production at the Aldwych Theatre.
Dirty Dancing will close in the summer before embarking on a two year National tour, including dates in Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, Dublin, Aberdeen, Southampton and Milton Keynes. The tour has already secured advanced sales of £10 million.
The show is written by Eleanor Bergstein, who penned the successful movie, and features hits including ‘Do You Love Me?’, ‘Hungry Eyes’ and the Academy Award Winning ‘(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life’.
The current cast includes Ray Quinn as Billy, Hannah Vassallo as Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman and Johnny Wright as Johnny Castle.
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Opening this week: When We Are Married
October 18, 2010
When We Are Married and The Go! Go! Go! Show start previews this week in the West End. Plus special anniversaries for The Lion King and Dirty Dancing.
When We Are Married
WHEN WE ARE MARRIED
Classic playwright J B Priestley is back in the West End and on fine comic form in When We Are Married, starting previews on Tuesday 19 October at the Garrick Theatre.
An all-star cast feature in his beautifully witty play about three highly respectable couples who were all married in the same Yorkshire church on the same day – and are celebrating 25 years of wedded bliss. Then out of the blue, disaster strikes: the vicar was never licensed – they’ve been living in sin all these years!
Directed by Christopher Luscombe, the play stars a who’s who of British comic acting talent including Lynda Baron, Roy Hudd, Sam Kelly, Maureen Lipman, Susie Blake, Michele Dotrice, David Horovitch, Rosemary Ashe and Simon Rouse. Not to be missed.
Special offer: Book tickets to When We are Married at the Garrick Theatre
THE GO! GO! GO! SHOW
The Go! Go! Go! Show
This Saturday, 23 October, sees the return of The Go! Go! Go! Show to the West End. This fun family show features a clever story woven around five young pop stars, and includes brand new pop songs specially written for the show. The production has impressive credentials, including direction by Carole Todd (Dreamboats & Petticoats), choreography by Paul Domaine (The Saturdays, Sugababes, Dannii Minogue), an original story by Dean Wilkinson (Cbeebies, CBBC, Ant & Dec) and music by Mike Stock (one third of the legendary Stock, Aitken & Waterman) and Steve Crosby (who masterminded Steps). With plenty of audience interaction for kids of all ages it promises to be a big winter hit.
Book tickets to The Go! Go! Go! Show at the Leicester Square Theatre
ANNIVERSARIES
The Lion King
The Lion King celebrates its 11th birthday tomorrow, 19 October, at the Lyceum Theatre in London. Disney’s award-winning show goes into its 12th year continuing to attract full houses. Its director Julie Taymor, who won a wealth of awards for the imaginative production, will open her new production of Spider-Man: Turn off the dark next month in New York.
Also celebrating a birthday this week is Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre, which turns 4 on Sunday 24 October. The show currently stars Dancing on Ice winner Ray Quinn as Billy Kostecki, Hannah Vassallo as Baby and Johnny Wright as Johnny Castle.
Dirty Dancing – Hot New Cast
July 26, 2010
We are very impressed with the new cast of Dirty Dancing, playing at the Aldwych Theatre in London.
Dancing on Ice winner Ray Quinn has joined the team, fresh from his stint in Grease at the Piccadilly Theatre, to play Billy Kostecki.
Baby (her of the corner) is being played by Hannah Vassallo, who is a trained dancer and was recently working for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures dance company.
We are sure that Canadian Johnny Wright was cast for his talent rather than his name in the role of Johnny Castle. He comes hot foot from the Toronto production of the show to make his West End debut.
Finally the gorgeous line-up in completed by Nadia Coote from Australia, who plays Penny Johnson and Charlie Bruce, who plays Gina… we can’t really remember who Gina is in the show but assume she has been popped on to the poster to make it EVEN MORE ATTRACTVE! And why not we say.
