Dirty Dancing, the Review…

So last night Brenda and I had a Girls Night!!  I guess I have had a few of these lately, THANKS ICHIRO!!!  Anyway we started the night off at PF Chang’s for some VERY yummy drinks and food.

Then we made our way to the Opera House.  We found our seats and were ready,  I had such HIGH hopes for the show.  Maybe because I had just seen Chorus Line and that show was more than fantastic!

The first act was good, taken exactly from the movie, like EVERY scene!  They had EVERY memorable line from the movie, with lots and lots of scene changes.  The second half seemed LONG and with several corny parts. Again they tried to get every little detail of the movie into the show.  The sets were amazing, I’ll give them that,  and I was so impressed with how it kept changing.  I was also impressed with the dancers.  I do however feel that they were a little bit held back thoughout the show.  The last scene was the best.  It was like they were told they could do whatever they wanted.  I guess my real problem was I just didn’t think it was a legitimate musical.  Only about 3 people sang in the show and more than half the music was recorded.  Baby and Johnny do not sing a line in the show!!!  What kind of musical is that??  I expected the show to follow the story line of the movie except I thought it would have some of it’s own music, the character singing.  But nope, not even a little, it was just a live version of the movie.  I wanted to walk away being WOWed and I just didn’t.  It was good, but it could have been so much better!!

So for the entire last scene when Johnny runs in and says the famous line “No one puts Baby in the corner,” then they start to do the dance, I kept thinking about how I just knew our friends could do it so much better.  The guy playing Johnny almost didn’t get the last lift up!!!   Nothing like our friends!!!