(St. Louis, MO), March 31, 2017 –
The Fabulous Fox Theatre announces that Christopher Tierney and Bronwyn
Reed will star as Johnny Castle and Frances “Baby” Houseman in the St.
Louis premiere of Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage.
Tierney and Reed lead a company of
26 that includes Matthew Amira as Robbie Gould (The
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Ogunquit Playhouse),Jordan Edwin
André as Billy Kostecki/Singer (West Side Story -
Regional), Alyssa Brizzi as Lisa Houseman (Beauty
and the Beast – National Tour), Jerome Harmann-Hardeman as Tito
Suarez (The Full Monty), Jennifer Mealani Jones as Penny
Johnson (“So You Think You Can Dance” season 10), Hannah Jane
McMurray as Marjorie Houseman (Peter Pan 360), Gary
Lynch as Max Kellerman (Les Misérables), Jon
Powell as Dr. Jake Houseman (The Rose Bowl Queens -
LA), Alan Scharf as Mr. Schumacher (Take
Her – National Tour) and Matt Surges asNeil
Kellerman (A Funny Thing Happened… - Regional). The
ensemble comprises Estee Beck, Matthew Borchers, Henry
Byalikov, Chante Carmel, Jenifer Dillow, Lindsey
Hailes, Michal Kolaczkowski, Kelsey Kramer, Mark
MacKillop, Sophie Lee Morris, Katelyn Prominski, Michael
Thomas Pugliese, John Swapshire and D. Scott
Withers.
Tickets for Dirty Dancing –
The Classic Story On Stage at the Fabulous Fox are on sale now online
at MetroTix.com, by calling 314-534-1111 or in person
at the Fabulous Fox Box Office. Ticket prices start at $25. Prices are subject
to change; please refer to FabulousFox.com for current ticket prices as
they are subject to change due to demand. Dirty Dancing – The Classic
Story On Stage is part of the U.S. Bank Broadway Series.
Performances of Dirty
Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage at the Fabulous Fox run May
12 – 14. Show times are Friday and Saturdayevening at 7:30
p.m., Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. and Sunday afternoon
at 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
“The company that we have assembled
for our North American tour is beautiful and truthful,” says Eleanor
Bergstein, screenwriter of the film Dirty Dancing and book
writer for the musical.
“I originally wrote the movie because I love to
dance. And since the movie first appeared, the open-hearted audience response
has made me believe that everyone has a secret dancer inside them, one they
feel could connect them to the physical world in the way they dream.
"If
that was true, then its natural form was theater – live audiences watching live
bodies dancing and singing here and now. I have added 20 more new scenes, 36
numbers of live music, and an eight piece band onstage. It’s been a deep
pleasure for us to watch audiences around the country respond as this
extraordinarily talented group of people brings Dirty Dancing home
to North America.”
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. The creative team also
includes Stephen Brimson Lewis (set design),Tim Mitchell (lighting
design), Jennifer Irwin (costume design), Bobby Aitken (sound
design), Jon Driscoll (video and projection design),Bernie
Ardia (hair design), Conrad Helfrich (music
supervisor and orchestrations) and Alan Plado (music
director).
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with
heart-pounding music played live by an eight piece onstage band, 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 began as an eight-week staged workshop in
Manhattan in the fall of 2001. It 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.
Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story On Stage has gone on to perform across the world in
markets as diverse as Utrecht, Holland, Johannesburg and Cape Town, South
Africa. Most recently, it has been represented by a new UK tour (which
launched March 2014 in Bristol), a German tour (which launched April 2014 in
Berlin) and a French tour (which launched January 2015 in Paris). The show
returned to Australia with a new tour that premiered in late 2014 in honor of
the stage production’s 10th anniversary.
The current North American tour
launched in Washington, DC in August 2014 and is currently booked through the
2015-2016 season.
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 and Magic Hour Productions.
For more information, please visit http://us.dirtydancingontour.com/.
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