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Category : "Dirty Dancing"
Martin Harvey
January 26, 2009 03:46 PM

Martin Harvey
It’s not everyday that the West End hosts a former Royal Ballet principal dancer in a popular musical, but that’s the case currently at the Aldwych Theatre, home to Dirty Dancing, which in September welcomed Englishman Martin Harvey to its ranks. Harvey plays that archetypal American bad boy, Johnny Castle—Patrick Swayze’s screen role from two decades ago. In fact, Harvey has played the Aldwych before—as the young Michael in a 1984 production of Peter Pan, with Bonnie Langford as Peter and Joss Ackland as Capt. Hook. (To square the circle further, Langford’s niece, Zizi Strallen, is now in the ensemble of Dirty Dancing.) It was soon after that youthful gig that the Royal Ballet School beckoned and Harvey embarked upon a career that ended in July on tour to Hong Kong when he danced the role of Eros in the full-length ballet Sylvia for one last time. Now, Harvey is having to speak—not a task often given to dancers—and show up eight times a week for work, a regimen that is also unknown in the dance world. Broadway.com caught up with the newly challenged leading man late one afternoon in his dressing room as the enthusiastically chatty and open Harvey talked about a change in career that is still in its infancy. Oh, and about putting Baby in a corner....
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Dirty Dancing's Harvey Honored With National Dance Award
January 26, 2009 01:11 PM

Martin Harvey and Eleanor Bergstein
Dirty Dancing's Martin Harvey, was honored with the Spotlight Best Male Dancer Classical Award at the Critics' Circle National Dance Awards 2009. Harvey has been starring as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing since September 2008.

The award was given to Harvey in recognition of his 11-year career at the Royal Ballet. Dirty Dancing writer and creator Eleanor Bergstein presented the award to Harvey, who is making his acting debut in the musical.  "I'm delighted and honored to receive this prestigious award," he said. "It caps off a remarkable year for me. And I dedicate this award to the late Anatole Gregoriev, my ballet teacher at the Royal Ballet School." ...
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Zizi Strallen
December 10, 2008 12:29 PM

Zizi Strallen
Age: 18, which makes Zizi five and half years younger than sister Summer, now appearing as Maria in the London Palladium production of The Sound of Music, and eight years younger than Scarlett, who is the new Mary Poppins on Broadway.

Hometown: Lives in Hammersmith, west London, with her younger sister, Saskia, 14, and their mother, Cherida, a former dancer with Britain's Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet) who has since become a children's director for various shows. ...

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Sarah Manton
January 02, 2008 12:06 PM

Sarah Manton
Age: “I’m 27—28 in April.” Currently: Playing Frances “Baby” Houseman in the hit stage version of Dirty Dancing at the Aldwych Theatre. It’s a role that combines dancing and acting. “I think I’m at the perfect stage to do this,” Ma...
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Happy Birthday to London's Dirty Dancing!
November 01, 2007 02:02 PM
©2007 Craig Sugden
Dirty Dancing stars Nadia Coote, Josef Brown
and Sarah Manton pose with their enormous birthday cake.
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The wildly popular West End musical Dirty Dancing celebrated its first birthday on the London stage 24 October at the Aldwych Theatre. Take a look as the cast, including new star Sarah Manton, celebrated with a humongous birthday cake, a phalanx of pink cabs and big smiles for their contin...

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Georgina Rich
April 23, 2007 09:24 AM
©2006 Beth Stevens for Theatre.com
Georgina Rich
Age: 30 Currently: Playing Frances 'Baby' Houseman in the stage version of the cult 1987 film Dirty Dancing. No one puts Baby in a corner, and no one should put Rich in one either. She may have trained in dance as a teenager, but she has al...
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Opening Night: Dirty Dancing's Fab First Night
November 20, 2006 12:52 PM


WHAT: Opening night of Dirty DancingWHERE: The after-party at Banqueting HouseWHO: Stars Josef Brown, Georgina Rich and Issy van Randwyck as...
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Josef Brown
November 07, 2006 01:19 PM
Who wouldn’t fall for Johnny Castle? Tough, muscular, sexy and caring, Dirty Dancing’s leading character has a way with the ladies both onscreen and in the audience. Now that a stage version of the original chick flick is playing in th...
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