IT WAS THE SUMMER THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING.
THE STORY THAT AWAKENED A GENERATION IS BACK IN A NEW STAGE PRODUCTION.
Get ready to have the time of your life! Based on Lionsgate’s beloved film written by Eleanor Bergstein, Dirty Dancing: The Musical is the feel-good escape you’ve been craving, alive with the pulse of electrified dancing, the thrill of secret encounters, and the allure of forbidden romance. Set to live music from the original film you love, Baby and Johnny bring to life the summer that changed everything.
Your reservation at Kellerman’s awaits!
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
TOUR BEGINS THIS AUGUST | ADDITIONAL CITIES TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY
CREATIVES
ELEANOR BERGSTEIN (Original Screenplay, Book) is a novelist, screenwriter, producer and director. Her stories have been published in national magazines, ranging from Transatlantic Review to Redbook and Cosmopolitan. Her first novel, Advancing Paul Newman, about women and politics in the 1960s, was published by the Viking Press, and her first movie script was It’s My Turn, starring Jill Clayburgh and Michael Douglas. Her second novel, Ex-Lover, about sexual obsession, was published by Random House. She has worked on a variety of film projects, including the final script revision of Sister Act. She then wrote and directed Let It Be Me, which starred Patrick Stewart, Leslie Caron, Campbell Scott and Jennifer Beals.
Her most famous project was one of the most successful independent films of all time – Dirty Dancing, which she wrote and co-produced.
In 2004, she wrote and produced Dirty Dancing – The Classic Story on Stage, which premiered in Sydney, Australia. Since opening, Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage has played in 22 countries with 35 productions. The production has broken box office records around the world, including Germany, where it achieved the highest advance in European history, and the West End, where it opened in 2006 with a record breaking £15 million advance. The show was a complete sell-out for the first six months and went on to become the longest running show in the history of the Aldwych Theatre. The show has become a worldwide phenomenon over the last 21 years, with productions in markets as diverse as Hong Kong, Singapore, Sweden, Holland, South Africa, Mexico and throughout Europe, as well as in North America (US Tour and a Canadian production). The show will return to the London in 2026.
Ms. Bergstein has just completed a collection of stories from her life. She is currently putting final touches on a new stage musical set a few years following Dirty Dancing. The era witnessed musicians like Paul McCartney, inspired by Elvis Presley, in turn inspiring young people and propelling them into a new world to find their own love, passion and honor. The musical centers around young Americans who face a moral crisis of their beloved country and seek to reconcile and embrace what it means to be American.
LONNY PRICE (Director) has been a consistent presence on and off Broadway, as a director, writer, and actor, for more than 40 years. As a performer, he made his Broadway debut in 1981, at the age of 22, in The Survivor and later that year starred as Charley Kringas in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. His work on that production sparked a decades-long working relationship with the composer with Price going on to direct productions of Sweeney Todd (starring Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel, Emmy Award), Company (starring Neil Patrick Harris and Stephen Colbert), Passion (starring Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, and Michael Cerveris, Emmy Award), and the special event “Sondheim: The Birthday Concert” (Emmy Award).
On Broadway, Price directed Beaches, Gabriel Byrne in Walking with Ghosts, the 2017 revival of Sunset Boulevard (starring Glenn Close), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (starring Audra McDonald), 110 in the Shade, and Urban Cowboy. He directed, starred in, and co-wrote the book for A Class Act, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical, and starred in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the Boys (opposite Zakes Mokae and Danny Glover and later, James Earl Jones). He also co-wrote and directed the play Sally Marr…and her Escorts (written with and starring Joan Rivers).
Off Broadway, he directed the Mitnick/Gwon collaboration Scoltand, PA, Visiting Mr. Green (starring Eli Wallach), and Athol Fugard’s Valley Song. Price made his opera directing debut at the Houston Grand Opera, directing Audra McDonald in Poulenc’s La Voix humaine and Michael John LaChiusa’s Send. His directorial film work includes Hal Prince: The Director’s Life, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (New York Film Festival), and the HBO screen adaptation of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.
As a film actor, he is best remembered as Neil, the grandson of resort owner Max Kellerman, in the classic Dirty Dancing.
DARRELL GRAND MOULTRIE (Choreography). A recipient of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and the SDC’s Joe A. Callaway Award for Excellence in Choreography. His work includes New York Theatre Workshop’s Saturday Church and The Public Theater’s Goddess, earning a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Choreography for both productions in the same season. Additional credits include Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fat Ham (Broadway and The Public); Good Bones (The Public Theater); Fat Ham (Royal Shakespeare Company); Disney’s new revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Aida in the Netherlands, for which he received a Netherland Musical Awards Best Choregraphy Award nomination; Merry Wives (Shakespeare in the Park); Space Dogs (MCC); Daddy (The New Group); Witness Uganda (American Repertory Theater); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); Invisible Thread (Second Stage); Goddess (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Redwood (Portland Center Stage); and Evita and Pride & Prejudice (Kansas City Repertory Theatre) and El Public (Teatro Real—Madrid).
Moultrie has created and staged works for dance companies across the world, including American Ballet Theatre, The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Ballet X, Atlanta Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, BalletMet Columbus, Ailey 2, Tulsa Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Smuin Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, The Juilliard School, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble and NBA Ballet in Japan, among others, as well as additional choreography for Beyonce’s record-breaking Mrs. Carter World Tour. Moultrie is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
JOSEPH JOUBERT (Music Supervision & Arrangements). Broadway: Pirates: The Penzance Musical (Drama Desk nom.); The Wiz; Caroline, or Change; Disaster; The Color Purple (Drama Desk nom.); Violet; Leap of Faith. Off Broadway: Carmen Jones (Orchestrations/Musical Supervisor), Violet (Drama Desk nom.), Hercules at Paper Mill (Orchestrations). Arena Stage: American Prophet. Ford’s Theatre: Shout Sister Shout, Grace. TV: “Smash.” PBS: Orchestrations for “A Capitol Fourth,” “National Memorial Day,” “Memorial Day,” “Three Mo’ Tenors,” “Three Mo’ Divas.” Film: Respect, Nights in Rodanthe. Broadway (Music Director): Caroline, or Change; Motown The Musical. Encores: Tap Dance Kid. Recording: Broadway Inspirational Voices, Patti Labelle, Ashford & Simpson, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Jennifer Holiday, Norm Lewis, Tom Kitt, Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson, Stephanie Mills. Grammy and Emmy Award nominee.
BRETT J. BANAKIS (Set Design). Designer for theater, opera, film, and environments based in NYC. Brett is a co-founder of AMP Scenography, a design collective created to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. Broadway: The Outsiders, John Proctor Is the Villain, The Notebook, The Cher Show. Nat'l Tour: An Officer and a Gentleman. International Scenic Supervisor for all worldwide productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Faculty at NYU Tisch. www.brettjbanakis.com @brettjbanakis
EMILY REBHOLZ (Costume Design). Broadway: Gutenburg! The Musical!, Jagged Little Pill (Tony Award nomination); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Getting the Band Back Together; Indecent; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off-Broadway work includes Lincoln Center Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, LAByrinth Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, NY City Center, among others. Emily has designed opera at The Santa Fe Opera House and Opera Theater St. Louis. Her work has been seen internationally on the West End and extensively through the US regional theaters. MFA: Yale.
JAPHY WEIDEMAN (Lighting Design) is a five-time Tony Award nominee. Broadway: Shucked; The Heart of Rock and Roll; The Piano Lesson; Summer, 1976; Dear Evan Hansen; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Bright Star; The Nance; Of Mice and Men; The Heidi Chronicles; Macbeth (Ethan Hawke); Airline Highway; The Visit. West End/UK: Come Fall in Love (the DDLJ musical), Nice Fish, Blackbird. Tours: Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, Hasan Minhaj's The King’s Jester (Netflix).
KAI HARADA (Sound Design). Broadway: Ragtime; Dead Outlaw; A Wonderful World; Once Upon a Mattress; The Days of Wine and Roses; Merrily We Roll Along (Tony nomination); New York, New York (Tony nomination); Kimberly Akimbo; The Old Man and the Pool; Mister Saturday Night; Head Over Heels; The Band’s Visit (Tony, Drama Desk Awards); Amélie; Sunday in the Park with George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony, Drama Desk nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. Many other musicals around the world.
DAVID BENGALI (Video Design) is an award-winning projection, media, and lighting designer based in NYC. Broadway credits include Good Night, and Good Luck (2025 Tony Award nominee); Water for Elephants (2024 Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award nominee); Eureka Day (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Thanksgiving Play (Helen Hayes Theater); and 1776 (A.R.T., National Tour, Roundabout). Off-Broadway credits include We Live in Cairo (A.R.T, NYTW), Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature D.C.; Hewes and Helen Hayes Awards), Twilight: LA 1992 (Signature Theatre; Henry Hewes Award, Drama Desk Nomination), Anthony Rapp’s Without You (New World Stages), The Visitor (The Public Theater, Lucille Lortel Award Nominee), Circle Jerk (Obie Award, Drama League Nomination), Einstein’s Dreams (Prospect Theatre, 59E59; Drama Desk Nomination), Van Gogh’s Ear (Signature Theatre, Drama Desk Nomination), and The Great Leap (Atlantic Theatre Company). He was a 2017-2019 Arts Fellow at the Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts and received his M.F.A. at New York University.
ROBERT PICKENS (Hair, Wig, & Makeup Design). Studio Pickens has constructed wigs for numerous film and television productions, including Oppenheimer, Blonde, Babylon, “Stranger Things,” “The Bear,” “Shôgun,” “Yellowstone” and “Pose.” Broadway: Death of a Salesman, Stereophonic, Romeo & Juliet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and McNeal. Off-Broadway: N/A, Here We Are, Teeth and La Cage aux Folles.
CHARLIE ROSEN (Orchestrations). Two-time Tony and three-time Grammy Award-winning composer and orchestrator. Select Broadway credits: Beaches: The Musical, Some Like It Hot, A Strange Loop, Be More Chill, Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), Prince of Broadway, American Psycho, The Visit, Honeymoon in Vegas, One Man Two Guv’nors, 13 The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. @crosenmusic. For more: charlierosen.com.
PATRICK TICE-CARROLL (Music Director). Music Director, pianist, orchestrator, occasional accordionist. Recent credits: Tours: The Wiz (Music Director); regional: Luminiscence (Philadelphia, Ass’t Conductor); additional orchestrations: “Only Murders in the Building;” music preparation: Toy Story 5, Devil Wears Prada 2, Hoppers, The Wizard of Oz at Sphere. Hi Mom! @patrick.ticecarroll.
MICHAEL AARONS/M-SQUARED MUSIC (Music Coordinator). Current Broadway: Schmigadoon!, Rocky Horror Show, & Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Aladdin. Upcoming: Galileo, Dolly, Wanted, Evita, Purple Rain. Off-Broadway: Giulia, Little Shop of Horrors. Other: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Paper Mill Playhouse. Tours: Hamilton, & Juliet, Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, Beauty and the Beast. TV/film: “The Muppet Show,” “Up Here,” “South Park,” “Annie Live!,” Hamilton, Incredibles 2, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Founder, M² Music. m2music.nyc.
THE TRC COMPANY / CLAIRE BURKE, CSA & PETER VAN DAM, CSA (Casting). Led by partners Claire Burke, Kevin Metzger-Timson, Xavier Rubiano, and Peter Van Dam. Broadway: Beaches, Mamma Mia!, Dead Outlaw, BOOP! The Musical, Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her, Left on Tenth, The Outsiders, SIX, Aladdin. National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera, Water for Elephants, Beauty & The Beast, The Wiz, Back to the Future, Les Misérables. The TRC Company is proud to continue the casting legacy of Tara Rubin Casting and Johnson-Liff Associates.
ALCHEMY PRODUCTION GROUP (General Management) is headed by partners Carl Pasbjerg, Lauren Tucker, and Alex Stone. Select credits include: Beaches, Little Bear Ride Road, Redwood,Come From Away (Broadway, North American Tour, Toronto, West End, Australia), The Music Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, Melissa Etheridge – My Window, Memphis (Broadway, West End and North American Tour).
JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Management). Formed in 1998, JSP has managed more than 150 Broadway, Off-Broadway, national tours and events. Select Tony Award-winning and nominated productions include & Juliet, Beautiful, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Fun Home, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Just i!n Time, Memphis, Moulin Rouge, Schmigadoon, Shucked, The Lost Boys, The Outsiders and The Producers. juniperstreet.com.
ALAN D. KNIGHT (Production Stage Manager) has been touring North America for over a decade with credits including Shucked, Beetlejuice, Jesus Christ Superstar, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Les Misérables,The Sound of Music and Mamma Mia! Lots of love to his family back in Michigan!
MATT COWART (Associate Director) has been collaborating with Lonny Price for the past 20 years. Together, they’ve worked on Broadway (Beaches, Walking with Ghosts, Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day, 110 in the Shade), the West End (Man of La Mancha, Carousel, Sweeney Todd) and national/international tours (Peter Pan, West Side Story). Film/TV: Hal Prince: The Director’s Life (PBS), “The Best Worst Thing…,” Company and Sweeney Todd. Graduate: UNCSA. Love to LRH.
ABDUR RAHIM-JACKSON (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: Fat Ham (Associate Choreographer). National tour: Fat Ham (Associate Choreographer/Geffen Playhouse). Television choreography credits: sections of the Beyoncé “Crazy in Love” Super Bowl XLVII Halftime performance; Beyoncé “Halo” music video (Co-Choreographer). Concert dance choreography credits: Kansas City Ballet, Orlando Ballet, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Co-Choreographer). Education: B.F.A. in dance from The Juilliard School.
MICHAEL THURBER (Dance Arrangements) is a Tony-nominated/Drama Desk-winning composer, lyricist and orchestrator. He is the Composer in Residence at The Public Theater. Past productions include Just in Time, Goddess, Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. He was the original bass player for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
THE PATH ENTERTAINMENT GROUP (Producer) is a global live entertainment company creating, producing and operating ambitious theatrical and immersive experiences in partnership with leading studios, rights holders and brands. Led by CEO David Hutchinson, with fellow directors Hunter Arnold and Gavin Kalin, Path combines commercial producing, creative development and international operations to bring major stories and entertainment franchises to life in bold new ways. The company’s theatrical portfolio spans the United Kingdom, North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. Current and recent productions include Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular Australian tour, the West End production of The SpongeBob Musical and the Sydney Opera House co-production of Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern. Path is also a leading creator and operator of location-based entertainment, developing large-scale experiences that allow audiences to step inside some of the world’s best-known stories and brands. Its portfolio includes Monopoly Lifesized (London, U.S. tour, Mexico, Saudi), The Paddington Bear Experience and Peppa Pig: Space Adventure, alongside a growing international slate of projects developed with major studios and rights holders including Hasbro, Lionsgate and StudioCanal. Across theater and location-based entertainment, Path continues to expand the possibilities of live storytelling, creating distinctive, commercially ambitious productions that connect globally recognised intellectual
LIONSGATE GLOBAL PRODUCTS & EXPERIENCES (Producer) is a division within Lionsgate Studios Corp. (NYSE: LION), one of the world’s leading standalone, pure-play content companies. By leveraging the studio’s world-class portfolio of film and television brands and franchises, the division drives incremental revenue and builds consumer engagement via live shows and experiences, location-based entertainment destinations, games, physical and digital merchandise, and select strategic partnerships and investments.
The group has developed multiple stage productions, including La La Land and Dirty Dancing, heading to Broadway, and The Hunger Games and Wonder; integrations with marquee games (Call of Duty, Dead By Daylight, Roblox and Fortnite); and collaborations with best-in-class consumer products licensees (LEGO, American Classics, Hot Toys, Funko and more). Attractions based on Lionsgate’s top franchises The Hunger Games, John Wick, Saw and other iconic IP can be found at theme parks and destinations in Asia, the United States, United Kingdom and the Middle East, with the John Wick Experience now open in Las Vegas.
LD ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) is the five-time Tony Award-winning independent studio defining the intersection of film, theater and music. A proud innovator and industry leader, LD is committed to building bridges between the stage and screen. For nearly 20 years, lead producers Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon have championed bold storytelling and artist-driven work. Together they have produced more than 40 feature films and over 50 stage productions across Broadway and the West End, including Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown and Little Shop of Horrors. Select films include the Academy Award-nominated Judy starring Renee Zellweger and Jackie starring Natalie Portman. In July 2026, they released Hadestown: The Musical in theaters nationwide, setting box office records for cinematic live-capture musicals. Upcoming releases include the highly anticipated Elsinore starring Andrew Scott and Olivia Colman, and A Talent For Murder starring Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke.
MAGIC HOUR PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer) is a company founded by Eleanor Bergstein and Michael Goldman in 1994 to facilitate, develop and produce Ms. Bergstein’s diverse works. Tomoko Minami joined the company in 2001. Magic Hour has helped produce Dirty Dancing stage musical since its very inception, from readings to workshops to the world premiere in Sydney, Australia, in 2004. Magic Hour has been a co-producer on every Dirty Dancing stage musical worldwide.
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