FOX THEATRE ENGAGEMENT
RUNS NOVEMBER 25-30
Individual tickets for the
Atlanta premiere of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage at the
Fox Theatre are on sale now.
Tickets start at $33 and
are available at by visiting foxtheatre.org/dirtydancing, calling
1-855-285-8499, or visiting the Fox Theatre Box Office (660 Peachtree St NE,
Atlanta, GA 30308). Group orders of 10 or more may by placed by calling
404-881-2000.
The
staged musical of this worldwide smash-hit film will play the Fox Theatre
November 25-30, with a special performance at 7:30PM on Thanksgiving. The
performance schedule is:
Tuesday-Thursday
7:30 p.m.
Friday
8:00 p.m.
Saturday
2:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
“As
I learned how many people watched the movie over and over and over,” said
Eleanor Bergstein, screenwriter of the film Dirty Dancing and book
writer for the musical, “I began to think that what they really wanted was to
share more intensely in the event, to step through the screen and be there
while the story was happening. And if that was true, then its natural form was
the theatre – audiences watching live bodies dancing here and now in the
present – on the log, on the bridge, on the dance floor and in the staff
quarters at Kellerman’s. Writing it for the stage, I was also able to add more
Baby and Johnny scenes, more about the family, more songs I couldn’t afford
last time, and, most exciting of all – more dancing.”
“Dirty
Dancing is one of our most beloved and timeless properties,” said Lionsgate
Television COO Sandra Stern. “Its magic has enchanted audiences on film,
television, DVD and digital platforms alike, and it remains a perennial
best-seller in our film and television library. We’re delighted to participate
in the latest stage incarnation that will introduce Dirty Dancing to a
whole new generation of fans, and we expect the stage play to prove yet again
that nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
The
production’s book is written by Eleanor Bergstein and the North American
tour will be directed by James Powell with choreography by Michele
Lynch based on the original choreography by Kate Champion.
Dirty
Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is an unprecedented live experience, exploding
with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensational dancing. Seen by
millions across the globe, this timeless love story features the hit songs
“Hungry Eyes,” “Hey Baby,” “Do You Love Me?” and the heart-stopping “(I’ve Had)
The Time Of My Life.” London’s Sunday Express says “This crowd-pleasing stage
adaptation hits the jackpot!”
It’s
the summer of 1963, and 17-year-old Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman is on vacation in
New York’s Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents. Mesmerized by
the racy dance moves and pounding rhythms she discovers in the resort’s staff
quarters, Baby can’t wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches
sight of Johnny Castle, the resort’s sexy dance instructor. Passions ignite and
Baby’s life changes forever when she is thrown in to the deep end as Johnny’s
leading lady, both on-stage and off.
Dirty Dancing – The
Classic Story On Stage was first performed at the Theatre Royal in Sydney,
Australia in November 2004 before embarking upon a hugely successful tour of
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 began
performances on London’s West End in October 2006 with an £11 million advance
and went on to become the longest running show in the history of the Aldwych
Theatre. It closed in July 2011 in advance of a two-year UK national tour and
then returned to London for a strictly limited season at the Piccadilly
Theatre.
The show has gone on
to perform across the world in markets as diverse as Utrecht, Holland,
Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South Africa. It is currently represented by a new
UK tour, which launched March 2014 in Bristol.
The North American tour of Dirty Dancing –
The Classic Story On Stage is produced by Amber Jacobsen, NETworks
Presentations LLC, Grove Entertainment, and Col Joye in association with
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), the premier next generation global content leader, and
Magic Hour Productions.
CREATIVE TEAM BIOS
Eleanor Bergstein (Book) is a novelist,
screenwriter, producer, and director. Her stories have been published in
national magazines, ranging from Transatlantic Review to Redbook, and Cosmopolitan.
Her first novel, Advancing Paul Newman, about women and politics in
the 1960s, was published by the Viking Press, and her first movie script
was It’s My Turn, starring Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas. Her
second novel, Ex-Lover, about sexual obsession, was published by
Random House. She has worked on a variety of film projects, including the final
script revision of Sister Act. She then wrote and directed Let
It Be Me, which starred Campbell Scott, Jennifer Beals, Leslie Caron and
Patrick Stewart. Her most famous project was one of the most successful
independent films of all time, Dirty Dancing. It was the unique
continuing response to the story over the years that made her decide to
reimagine Dirty Dancing as a stage event. The multiple
viewings by audiences all over the world made her suspect that what the
audiences really wanted was to be more physically involved in the story. This
would mean that its ultimate form should be one that combined dance and story
and music onstage in a new way. It was also her chance to add new scenes not in
the movie, as well as songs she had wanted for the movie and been unable to
obtain. Ms. Bergstein, through her company Magic Hour Productions, is at work
on a new stage musical set in London in the late 1960s, a new work of fiction,
and preparing a film to be shot in Rome as well as film to be shot in Slovenia.
James Powell (Director) was an
actor for 12 years and was appearing in Les Misérables at London’s
Palace Theatre, when he was asked to take over the position of resident
director in 1996. Since that time, he has worked on a variety of
productions and during that time he was staff director at the West Yorkshire
Playhouse, assisting Jude Kelly on a number of projects including the Olivier
Award-winning Singin’ in the Rain, which transferred from Leeds to the
Royal National Theatre in London. On returning to London, he joined Cameron
Mackintosh’s production of The Witches of Eastwick at the Theatre Royal
Drury Lane as resident director. He then went to Melbourne, Australia, to
direct its first foreign production for Jacobsen Entertainments. James
returned from Australia to take on the position of associate director on Les
Misérables and oversaw the show’s move from its home of many years, the
Palace Theatre, to the Queen’s Theatre on Shaftesbury Ave. He was also invited
to direct a concert version of the show in Scandinavia and a full-scale
production in Berlin. 2009 saw James working on
Cameron’s brand new production of Les Misérables which opened in Cardiff and toured the UK and which
celebrates the 25th anniversary of a show he was involved in
originally as an actor and is now part of a new creative team. Whilst
maintaining his position as associate director on Les Misérables, James
also worked on Cameron’s new presentation Mary Poppins, originally in
Bristol and then in London’s West End and on Broadway. In June 2008 he directed
the UK tour of Mary Poppins and has since
directed the production in Holland and been the associate of the Broadway
production. James was delighted to renew his association with the Jacobsen
Entertainment Group when they asked him to direct their production of Dirty
Dancing in London’s West End, a partnership that has seen him direct the
show in Toronto, Utrecht, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and Berlin. In 2010, James directed the Australian production of Mary
Poppins where it opened to great success in
Melbourne. He has also co-directed Les Misérables in London, at the Barbican, a tour in the UK, a production
in Madrid and on tour in the United States, culminating in the25th
Anniversary concert of Les Misérables
at the O2 Arena. In 2011, James worked on moving Mary Poppins to Sydney and later in the year he co-directed the
international arena tour of Batman which opened in Manchester and moved
to London and onward internationally. Over the last two years, James has worked
on Les Misérables in Spain, the US,
Australia, and Japan. He recently returned from Toronto and this production of Les
Misérables before he directed a production of Half
a Sixpence at his old alma mater at Mountview Drama School in London.
Michele Lynch
(Choreography) is thrilled to be a part of Dirty Dancing. She recently
choreographed Little Miss Sunshine at Second Stage Theatre as well as The
Last Five Years film. Choreography Broadway credits include Everyday
Rapture, The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray (assoc. choreo), The
Full Monty (asst. choreo), and Urinetown (asst. choreo). She
choreographed the national tours of Little House on the Prairie (also at
Papermill Playhouse) and Happy Days the Musical (also at Goodspeed, receiving
a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for her work). Off-Broadway she
choreographed Everyday Rapture and We the People (Joe A. Calloway
Award nomination). Other film credits include Joyful Noise (starring
Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah) and Camp. For opera, her production of Showboat
was seen at Chicago Lyric Opera, Washington National Opera, and Houston Grand
Opera. Regional Theaters include Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theater,
Riverside Theater, St. Louis MUNY, Capital Repertory Theater, Asolo Theater,
Ford’s Theater, Stamford Center for the Arts, North Carolina Theater, and
Starlight Theater. She also choreographed Dolly Parton’s Better Day
World Tour.
Kate Champion (Original
Choreography) is the Artistic Director and founder of the Sydney based
dance-theatre company Force Majeure. She has also worked variously as a
director/choreographer/performer for Sydney Theatre Company, DV8 Physical
Theatre, Australian Dance Theatre, Opera Australia, Belvoir, Legs on the Wall,
NIDA, and The English National Opera. In 1996, Kate was awarded the Robert
Helpmann Scholarship for Choreographic Excellence enabling her to create
her first solo work Face Value which was awarded a Green Room and a MO
Award. In 1997, she directed Under the Influence for Legs on the Wall,
which premiered in Sydney and toured to the Edinburgh Fringe and Riverside
Studios, London. In 2001, she created a new solo show About Face and in
2002 directed Same, Same But Different for Force Majeure. Both these
productions won Helpmann Awards. Kate choreographed the world premiere of the
stage version of Dirty Dancing, which opened in Sydney November 2004 and
has subsequently toured to Europe, UK, and USA. Since 2005 Kate has directed Already
Elsewhere, Tenebrae 1 and 11, The Age I’m In, Not In A Million Years, Never
Did Me Any Harm (a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company), and
Food (a co-production with Belvoir) for Force Majeure.
In 2010, Kate choreographed the premier production of Opera Australia’s Bliss
which subsequently toured to the Edinburgh Festival and Spring Awakening
for Sydney Theatre Company. Kate was Associate Director of Opera Australia’s
2013 production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.
PRODUCER BIOS
Amber Jacobsen worked for Jacobsen
Entertainment as the head of touring and executive producer from 1997 to 2009
in Australia. She was responsible for the research, procurement, and
presentation of many concerts for artists including Elton John, Barbra
Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, the Bee Gees, Shania Twain, Pearl Jam, and Usher
as well as being executive producer for theatre and arena productions such as Fame
– The Musical, SHOUT!, The Man From Snowy River and Long
Way to the Top. Amber was the executive producer for the first production
of Dirty Dancing in Australia and has executive produced and
subsequently produced all productions thereafter.
NETworks Presentations LLC, founded in 1995, has
continued to grow and expand to become one of the largest producing
organizations of touring Broadway musicals in North America and remains
committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences around the world.
Its extensive and diverse list of touring productions include: Cameron
Mackintosh’s The 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables
and the spectacular new production of The Phantom of the Opera; The
National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of War Horse; Queen and
Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Blue
Man Group national tour; The Lincoln Center Theater productions of The
Light in the Piazza, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific,
as well as Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson,
Seussical, Annie, La Cage Aux Folles, Rent, The Producers,
Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot
the Musical, Elf the Musical, Dirty Dancing, and many others.
Grove Entertainment. Helmed by
producer Beth Williams, Grove Entertainment is a production company dedicated
to developing new work for stage and screen. Ms. Williams helped launch
Key Brand Entertainment in the United States and was the COO, Head of
Production and CEO – Theater Division for Broadway Across America for six years.
Broadway productions include Pippin, Big Fish, Million Dollar Quartet, Hands
on a Hardbody, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,
Promises, Promises, Grey Gardens, The Producers – The New Mel Brooks Musical,
and the upcoming Tuck Everlasting, Bull Durham and The Blonde Streak.
COL JOYE has had No. 1 hits, recorded 15 Top 10
albums and was the first inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame (ARIA). He
has numerous platinum and gold albums and hundreds of awards and toured
extensively throughout Australia. Col was awarded an Order of Australia (AM)
for his contribution to music and charity on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. Col
was chosen to run with the Olympic Torch for the Sydney Olympics’ and recently
received his own postage stamp. Col has been a producer of every production of
Dirty Dancing worldwide.
Lionsgate is a leading global
entertainment company with a strong and diversified presence in motion picture
production and distribution, television programming and syndication, home
entertainment, family entertainment, digital distribution, new channel
platforms, and international distribution and sales. Lionsgate currently has 34
television shows on 22 networks spanning its prime time production, distribution
and syndication businesses, including such critically-acclaimed hits as the
multiple Emmy Award-winning Mad Men and Nurse Jackie, the comedy Anger
Management, the network series Nashville, the syndication success The
Wendy Williams Show, and the critically-acclaimed series Orange is the
New Black. Its feature film business has been fueled by such recent
successes as the blockbuster first two installments of The Hunger Games
franchise, The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,
the first installment of the Divergent franchise, Now You See Me,
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, Warm Bodies, The Expendables 2,
The Possession, Sinister, Roadside Attractions' Mud and
Pantelion Films' breakout hit Instructions Not Included, the
highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the U.S. Lionsgate's
home entertainment business is an industry leader in box office-to-DVD and box
office-to-VOD revenue conversion rate. Lionsgate handles a prestigious and
prolific library of approximately 15,000 motion picture and television titles
that is an important source of recurring revenue and serves as the foundation
for the growth of the Company's core businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit
brands remain synonymous with original, daring, quality entertainment in
markets around the world. www.lionsgate.com
Magic Hour Productions was
founded by Eleanor Bergstein in 1994 to develop and produce works by herself
and others for print, film, and stage. Magic Hour Productions has been involved
in the development and production of the stage musical of Dirty Dancing since
its inception, including the first staged workshop in New York in
2001. Currently, Magic Hour Productions is working to bring Dirty Dancing
to new territories around the world, including Greece and Japan. In addition to
Dirty Dancing, Magic Hour Productions is developing a new musical by Ms.
Bergstein set in late 1960s London, a film to be shot in Rome, and a romantic
comedy film to be shot in Slovenia. Magic Hour's team includes Tomoko Minami,
who has worked with Ms. Bergstein since 2001, and Robin Nahas. The company is
based in New York City.
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more information, please visit http://us.dirtydancingontour.com/.
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