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Martin Harvey
January 26, 2009 03:46 PM
Martin Harvey
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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....
Martin Harvey and Eleanor Bergstein
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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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