Dirty DancingBeing Adapted as a New Broadway-Bound Stage Musical

Mar. 15, 2025

The studio, under its stage arm Showpath, announced on Thursday, Oct. 17, that they were in development on a new stage-musical adaptation ofDirty Dancing, with plans to bring the story to the Great White Way for the very first time.

Dirty Dancing: The Musical, as its being called, will make its debut in late 2025. After its North America debut, the company has plans to expand the run to theater markets in Asia, Australia, Latin America and beyond.

No casting nor any other members of the creative team have been named, but Lionsgate promises “iconic moments, unforgettable songs and electrifying dance sequences” from the film will be included while key elements of the story will be reimagined to resonate with today’s theatergoers.

“Expect new choreography and staging concepts, and perhaps even some new songs,” they say.

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Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze inDirty Dancing(1987).Everett

Over the years, the title has spawned everything from a prequel film, a television series, a made-for-television musical and multiple reality-competition series. There’s alsoan upcoming untitled Lionsgate sequel film in the works.

As theater fans may remember,Dirty Dancinghas gotten the stage-musical treatment before, with original screenwriter Eleanor Bergstein penning the book. That musical debuted in Australia in 2004 to audience acclaim.

Future runs came in Germany and on London’s West End, whereDirty Dancinghas been revived multiple times. A 2007 North American tour and a 2014 American tour were also staged, but the show never made its way to Broadway.

Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze inDirty Dancing(1987).Vestron/Kobal/Shutterstock

Vestron/Kobal/Shutterstock

For the new adaptation, Bergstein is “closely involved” in the creative process, Lionsgate said in a release. She’s be reuniting withEmmywinner and Broadway vet Lonny Price, who played Neil Kellerman in the movie and will now direct the re-envisioned production.

“Its hope is to be equal to the new world swirling around us while revisiting more fully and precisely the story I’d wanted to tell when I wrote my first lines,” Bergstein’s statement added. “It’s my way of saying thank you to you all.”

Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey inDirty Dancing(1987).Getty Images

Price, 65, shared equal excitement about collaborating again with Bergstein.

“I am beyond excited be reunited with Eleanor and to join her in bringing this expandedDirty Dancingto the stage," he said in his own statement. “For the people who already love the movie, they will get a deeper, more nuanced version of the characters they fell in love with.”

source: people.com