He is a superb dancer. His body writing with a gymnastic energetic which is astonishing, jumping, twisting, lifting, spinning, thrusting, gyrating and doing all the things you can possibly do with a huge thickly muscled body to music. He understands the affect this has on his audience and plays up to that too, even better, ramps up the hotness and some of the audience members could barely contain themselves.
Simon Button talks to the stars of Dirty Dancing which opens at the Congress Theatre in Eastbourne on July 15 – Kira Malou plays Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman, Michael O’Reilly plays Johnny Castle and Simone Covele plays Penny Johnson.
Dirty Dancing waltzed into the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne, this week for a short run until Saturday January 24.
The original 1987 film, one of the most successful independent movies of all time, propelled American actor, dancer and singer-songwriter Patrick Swayze to international megastar status.
Musical Theatre fans in Eastbourne will be spoilt for choice in 2015 with productions of Dirty Dancing, Calamity Jane, Anything Goes, Oklahoma, Sound of Music and Annie. Eastbourne Theatres will be offering musical theatre fans ‘The Time of Their Life’ next year as Dirty Dancing kicks off an unprecedented year of large-scale musical productions at the Congress Theatre from January 13-24.
