Dirty Dancing

This stage production was a faithful adaptation of the movie, although it's not exactly what I'd call a musical. There were few songs sung live, mostly classics played in whole or as snippets to give the flavour of the 1960s. The dancing was pretty cool though. The staging was clever and effective, with projected backgrounds to shift locations. The projection for the scene of practising lifts in the water was both a stroke of genius and cheesy enough to draw fond laughter. The whole show felt like a nostalgia trip for much of the audience, who cheered along with the story. I only watched it a few years ago, so it doesn't have the same defining meaning for me, but I still felt a swell of triumphant vindication at the climactic scene. It's like idfic with an earned ending.