Dirty Dancing Reviews

Morgan from london

I LOVE CANDY

if you want to see the movie, exactly the same thing, you're not going to be disappointed...the problem is that we would love to see all the songs performed in live and the missing "be my baby" is really disappointing. The cast is great and some choreographies are amazing but i missed something during the show, a soul. The last scene with "the time of my life" is amazing! anyway, we can feel that it's more or less all about money, nothing compared to the producers , chicago, the drowsy chaperone or 42nd street!

Martin from London

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

As the 'Management' did nothing to quell the brash enthusiasm from several of those sitting behind me I can only say they must encourage it. Singing along to the songs whooping and yelling ,clapping to the music, these fishwives completely negated any chance I had to appreciate the performance, esp the dancing..as for the stupid wailing and shreeking when the bedroom scene came on..well, I can only think these sad women have no lives !

Anonymous from UK

DISAPPOINTING

A very poor first half with no atmosphere but improved in the second half of the show

Louise from Berkshire

GREAT SHOW DISAPOINTING THEATRE

a great show, would have been better to have the songs and all the lyrics, not just instrumentals for some of the songs. however my enjoyment of the show was ruined by the lousy theatre, my view was really restricted (with second price seats i did not expect this) and the staff had major attitude problems, treating the audience like football hooligans, very rude! a really disapoining memory of what could have been a great show.

Richard from UK

PEDESTRIAN

Personally, I would have cut my losses and left this performance at the interval to go and enjoy what was left of my evening elsewhere, my family who are all fans of the movie wanted to give it more time to warm up. It was certainly better in the second half, but in reality only the final "Time of my life" created the usual west end passion between the performers and the audience I think the truth is that the show is too weak to stand on its own without a real celebrity in the main part The humour fell flat,really flat, I felt sorry for the actors as you could almost see the tumble weed blowing accross the stage at some points. The lines were sometimes garbled and often lost against the background music, and the characters were not given any dimension in their own right-you have to know them from the film. So-if you are a big, BIG fan of the film maybe its ok for you, but I would not go in anticipation of the big "high" you get from other West End shows

TonyB66 from UK

DIRTY DANCING REVIEW

I took my wife to see Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych last week for our 20th anniversary since its her favorite film of all time. The technical production of the show and scene changes is excellent with very clever use of backgound film. The singing and dancing was excellent. Although we enjoyed the night, there were some critisisms that seem to be echoed elsewhere since the cast change in Sept 2009. The actress Baby was fantastic and evry bit of her film character. Johnny, however sported an iritating american accent and shouted most of his lines angrily which, at times, turned me against the character which was disturbing. His performance was very wooden although he is an excellent dancer. As a result, the production lacked the vital chemistry between Johnny and Baby in the film and created a bit of an anti-climax.

Liz hamer from London,

JUST OK

Went with my 2daughters aged 16 and14 and we had front row seats also the cheapest but did have extra leg room ,not the best show we have seen and glad we didn't pay more than what we did the dancing is good but the acting is poor ,

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