Dirty Dancing - Phoenix/Tour/Dominion/Tour

It's better than the Priscilla tour going in there, I guess. If it helps keep the hen parties away from other shows in the West End, that's a positive.

Shows the trouble with filling these massive barn theatres and whether producers want them, which this and Grease is a good indication they don’t.

The Dominion really has become the dumping ground for touring tat hasn’t it? Very sad.

They should completely refurb the theatre, reduce capacity to 1500 and get something decent in there. (I might have said this before)

No chance the upper circle opening then?

Reducing capacity is a sensible way to go.

If the arrangement with Hillsong is to continue, any moveable walls would have to be very moveable. Must be a nice earner...for both sides.

(We had a moveable wall at school between the hall and canteen. I say wall, but it was actually more like a giant version of the concertina things nans have for the pantry.)

Yes, you can see the long closed upper circle if you stand on stage, picture here: images.app.goo.gl/RGKx2sHsXt5qFJA99

Think it is now office space and a dance studio.

This is on sale at the Dominion now from 21st January 2023 to 29th April 2023.

www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/dirty-dancing-west-end-2023_56673.html

Who asked for this!?

After always managing to avoid this, I finally took the plunge to have "the time of my life" for Monday's show.

It's a light enough and enjoyable evening, but I rather feel that those people having the time of their life can't get out very much.

There's an excellent standard of dancing. And I must say that Charlotte Gooch is a joy to watch.

Tom Mussell is rather underused, being left at the back in the on-stage band (and he does get to sing a bit).

This is such a small show for such a large venue. I picked up a single seat in Stalls row D for under £30, so my view was perfectly fine, but this really isn't a show where I'd want to sit much further back.

It did seem pretty full and the audience, although far from perfect, wasn't as bad as I'd feared.

We had a show stop near the end of the first half due to technical difficulties. At that point, there was a mad rush of people going to the bar (or perhaps the toilets).

As I say, pleasant enough, and I quite enjoyed the swing music. Otherwise, the moments from the film are there, and Michael O'Reilly certainly looks the part of Johnny Castle and gets plenty of cat calling from the women in the audience. There isn't a great deal to this though and the show could really do with a few more dancers. This isn't a show I have a desire to see again, but I can see why it's a pretty safe bet to return for limited runs in the Dominion.

I'm going to it in the Palace Manchester. Haven't seen the stage version of Dirty Dancing yet, although enjoy the movie enough. I have been told not to set expectations too high though.