What a great Saturday night with my twin sister. We started our evening in Tribeca in Ranelagh with a glass of Malbec and a burger (cooked perfectly rare). For a low key dinner you can not beat this place. I love the atmosphere, the decoration and the ambiance in Tribeca and the burger is the best!
After Tribeca we got a taxi to the Bord Gais Grand Canal Theatre which is only a short ride away. Amy took this great pic out on to to the docks. Dublin looks so good!
A snap of me checking in on Facebook.
And then in to the auditorium for the last night of the Dublin run of Dirty Dancing!
The obligatory selfie with the stage in the background. Our seats were very far back but completely centre.
I think we definitely look like twins in this picture!
What a show!
Dirty Dancing is one of my favourite movies - don't laugh!! There is so much more to this film than the music and dancing. It is a coming of age story where Baby discovers what it is like to fall in love and in essence discover herself as an independent woman who can be a person in her own right with or without acceptance by her beloved father.
And then you also have to consider the social issues that this movie highlights such as race inequality, abortion and even hints at feminism and the changing role of women through the foil of the two sisters. Lisa the older sister aspires to be a doctors wife while Baby gives hints of her feminist ideals by speaking of her desire to go in to the Peace Corp and live as in independent women that is not reliant on a man for her livelihood. Set in 1963 a time of great change, Dirty Dancing tells of these changes through the stories of the campers and the staff. Scratch below the surface of this movie and it will surely become one of your favourite films too!!
However for pure entertainment this film was made to be turned in to a stage musical. From the beat of the first song we knew we were in for a treat. The dancing and music had us hooked - sure the acting was highly theatrical which was hard to get used to knowing how good the acting is in the original film (Jerry Orbach put in quite the performance as Dr. Houseman). However hearing the iconic and memorable lines live on stage brought me out in goosebumps and brought me right back to watching the film in the late 1980's as a young girl - "I carried a water melon" said in a goofy manner by Jennifer Grey. However the crescendo of the night was Johnny Castle entering through the audience uttering the now famous line "Sorry for the interruption, folks, but I always do the last dance of the season. This year somebody told me not to. So I'm gonna do my kind of dancin' with a great partner, who's not only a terrific dancer, but somebody... who's taught me... that there are people willing to stand up for other people no matter what it costs them" I think it made the whole audience feel that they were there in Kellerman's on that night!! What a great ending!
