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A MUCH-loved musical has announced that it will be coming to Reading next year as part of its latest tour.
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story is based on the hugely popular film starring Patrick Swayze and features a host of hit songs including I’ve Had The Time of My Life.
The tour follows two blockbuster West End runs and is the third time the show has toured.
Full of passion and romance, heart-pounding music and sensationally sexy dancing, this is an all-new production created by a new creative team; directed by Federico Bellone, Artistic Director of Milan’s Teatro Nazionale, choreographed by Gillian Bruce and with design re-imagined by top Italian set designer Roberto Cometti.
The production premiered in Milan in July, then packing out the 15,000 seat Roman Arena in Verona.
It is in Rome this autumn for a season before a tour of Italy and, ultimately, its Reading date.
Since its Australian debut in 2004, the show is a worldwide hit: it’s also been performed in China, Belgium and Korea.
This new tour begins in Blackpool next August, performing at the town’s Opera House. Then it will perform across the country, before hitting The Hexagon in Reading from November 21-26, 2016.
The show is set in 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 in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, she shows little interest in the resort activities and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles across an all-night dance party at the staff quarters.
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.
Her 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, and two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives.
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage originally opened at London’s Aldwych Theatre in 2006 and became the longest-running show in the theatre’s history of the Aldwych Theatre and played to over 2 million people during a five-year run.
Tickets for The Hexagon production have just gone on sale and start at £34.50. There are discounts for groups, which vary according to how large your group is.
For more details, click here or call the box office on 0118 960 6060.
