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Lionsgate, Path & Eleanor Bergstein Launching New Stage Production ‘Dirty Dancing: The Musical’
'Dirty Dancing' being turned into stage musical with plans for Broadway by Lionsgate, Path & Pic's Scribe Eleanor Bergstein
Tony Awardnominee, Obie Awardwinner, and two-time EMMY Award winner Lonny Price, who played Neil Kellerman in the Dirty Dancing film, will direct the re-envisioned production. Bergstein said today: “In the years after I wrote and co-produced the original film Dirty Dancing, I was grateful and astonished by the generations of audiences who responded with open hearts to the themes of honor and courage beneath the surface. Having played Neil in the movie, I know full well the scores of people who have been touched by this story, and for me to return to Kellerman’s and direct this new musical iteration truly is a thrill.
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