The Dirty Dancing tour begins at the Bristol Hippodrome in March 2014
Five new venues have been added to the UK and Ireland tour of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage.
The additional dates for the show include the Eastbourne Congress Theatre (13–24 January 2015), Sunderland Empire (27 January–14 February 2015), the Edinburgh Playhouse (24 February–14 March 2015), the Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff (17–28 March 2015) and the Liverpool Empire (7–25 April 2015).
The Dirty Dancing tour launches at the Bristol Hippodrome in March 2014, and will then visit the previously announced Sheffield, Newcastle, Southampton, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Wolverhampton, Milton Keynes, Leeds and Oxford.
When it launched in 2011, the first ever UK tour took an unprecedented £42,000,000 at theatres across the country. It also broke box office records in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dublin, Leeds and Stoke. The production subsequently opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London’s West End where it currently runs until February 2014, prior to launching the new UK and Ireland tour in March 2014.
Producer Karl Sydow said: “We are delighted and proud to announce an extension to the new national tour, after such incredible demand to date. It has been wonderful to see audiences across the country and in the West End continue to embrace the show. As Dirty Dancing enters another exciting new stage in its UK journey, it shows no signs of slowing down. The unique combination of the iconic story and the breathtaking dancing for which the show is renowned has proven so popular around the country that we are really looking forward to allowing new audiences to experience this timeless classic live on stage.”
Produced by Karl Sydow and Joye Entertainment, in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions, and written by Eleanor Bergstein, script writer of the successful 1987 film, the production features all the much-loved characters and original dialogue from the iconic film with extra scenes added in.
Dirty Dancing –The Classic Story On Stage opened at the Aldwych Theatre in 2006 with a record-breaking advance of £15 million, making it the fastest ever selling show in West End theatre history. The production became the longest running show in the history of the Aldwych Theatre and played to more than two million people during its five year run. The show opened in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and South Africa.
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