New Cast Set for West End Dirty Dancing

A new cast has been announced the West End production of the hit musical Dirty Dancing, running at the Aldwych Theatre, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com.

The company will feature Johnny Wright as Johnny Castle and Hannah Vassallo as Baby, as well as Ray Quinn, Charlie Bruce, Paul Gilmore, Hilary MacLean, James Leece, Maxine Gregory, Christopher Kenniston, and Richard Hope.

The show, currently in its fourth year, has been adapted for the stage by the film’s screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein, who based the story’s setting on her own childhood experiences of family holidays in America’s Catskill Mountains. The musical had its world premiere in Sydney in 2004 and has since toured Australia, Germany, the UK, and the U.S.

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