Dirty Dancing In London Was Fabulous But Not Too Dirty

The show opened with a small record player on the stage. This shot is taken from our seats.

     

Lulu was escorting her class to see a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theatre on the Thames River. So Lauren went along with me. Lauren is a graduate of the FSU School of Library Science. she is now a professor at the University of Rhode Island. She is visiting us after doing a presentation in York. 

The Last Dance - Dirty Dancing - The video is better near the end - I had to shield the camera and point it blindly. Maybe I should buy a pair of those camera glasses. The good part starts at the 3:30 mark.

This afternoon we walked to the box office at the Piccadilly Theatre on Piccadilly Street right by Piccadilly Circus. I did not see any animals - but we did see a fantastic musical - Dirty Dancing. We took the subway each way - it took about 20 minutes. There was still a bit of rush hour crowd on the subway at 6:30 when we left our flat.


Our seats were perfect - row 5 - right in the middle. We bought them about 4 hours before the show for 47 pounds each. We could have purchased tickets in the balcony for 25 pounds.
You may re-call the movie that skyrocketed Patrick Swayze to stardom. It was set in 1963 at a resort in the Catskill Mountains in New York.  It is about young love - between a teenage girl and an older camp dance instructor - not a life guard.
The musical followed the script of the movie except that they threw in a few civil rights scenes to play to a broader audience. The lighting was great - the visual effects were nice - but the best part was all the pretty and trim young girls dancing. I never saw some of the contortions before - how they can stretch like that and hold those poses is amazing. Of course women like the young man playing Johnny - all dressed in black and falling in love with Baby because of her mind.
One of the best parts for me was the young lady sitting in front of us. She was about 11 years old - and had a blonde pony tail. I am guessing it may been her first show because she was really focused - and very attentive. But the best part is that she lives on the island of Guernsy. She traveled a long way to see the show. I should have taken a picture of her and put it on here. She was a cool kid. 

Guernsey is in the English Channel along the coast of France. It is very close to Caen in Normandy where we stayed Saturday night. 

Someone else shot it from upstairs and put is on youtube.