Get a First Look at Touring Production of Dirty Dancing: The Musical

The new stage production of Dirty Dancing: The Musical kicks off a North American tour today at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul, MN before continuing to Chicago and more cities. Click here for a complete list of tour dates.

Leading the company are Annalese Starzec as Frances “Baby” Houseman and Blake Zelesnikar as Johnny Castle. They are joined by Olivia Cece as Penny Johnson, Bryan Fenkart as Jake Houseman, Dan Klimko as Neil Kellerman, Ashley LaLonde as Elizabeth, Gina Lamparella as Marjorie Houseman, Loren Lester as Max Kellerman, Ethan Peterson as Billy Kostecki, and Erick Pinnick as Tito Suarez.

Rounding out the company are Emma Jade Branson, Marcus Anthony Byers, Jr., Jonas Cohen, Sarah Ellis, Aria Christina Evans, Anthony J. Gasbarre III, Lily Kren, Zoe Edan Lemelman, Francesca Mancuso, Brett Rawlings, Jason Richards, Antony Sanchez, Grace Sautter, Neil Starkenberg, Fisher Lane Stewart, John Swapshire, and Carmella Taitt.

Dirty Dancing: The Musical is directed by Lonny Price, who played Neil Kellerman in the original film, with choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie and a book by the film’s screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein.