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Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#25re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 10:30amThere have been at least 8 or 9 auditions for this show and they still don't have a complete cast? I heard they are working on their third casting company and not for good reasons.
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tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#26re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 11:55amI am thrilled for Kaitlin, as I am sure it'll be a steady gig. But there are so many other roles I'd love to see her do. And I STILL say she'd be one hell of a Donna in MAMMA MIA.
#27re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 12:51pmLove me some Kaitlin...hope she's making bank for as long as this thing limps.
#28re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 12:53pm
I would love to see Kaitlin play Diana in "Next to Normal", and she'd be a GREAT Donna in "Mamma Mia", I might even see the show again for that! :-P
It does make me sad that she won't be doing any actual singing in this...
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Grand Motel
Featured Actor Joined: 7/8/03
#29re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 1:05pmI can't believe this project is still kicking around. I saw a full scale workshop of this almost 9 years ago in the auditorium of some university and it was terrible then and I imagine, terrible now. And Craig's right, the cast doesn't sing most of the songs.
BroadwayDoc
Stand-by Joined: 9/17/05
#30re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 7/3/08 at 4:51pmKaitlin, Michael Rupert and a then unknown Noah Weisberg were the best things about the workshop that happened right after 9/11. Then it was called the BABY LOVES JOHNNY project because Miramax owned the name DIRTY DANCING.
#31re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 10:46am
I searched and found that this was the only link for Dirty Dancing. Photo taken Friday, August 29th in Chicago. I'm not a huge fan of the movie but I'll see it here in Chicago. 
timmmmmmmmy
#32re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 3:54pm
Uggh,
Why don't we get decent pre-Broadway tryouts any more?
-Jacob.
EVIE
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#33re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 5:00pmIsn't Tony Vincent one of the main vocalists in this?
Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#34re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 6:55pmAny other cast members mentioned?
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outdamnwench
Featured Actor Joined: 6/3/07
#35re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 7:01pmI saw this in Toronto and it was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen on a stage. Avoid at all costs! The only decent thing in the show is the ridiculously awesome set and lighting designs.
PitPro2004
Broadway Star Joined: 2/15/04
#36re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 9:13pm
I was part of the original NYC workshop of this when it was called the Baby and Johnny Project (Gads, I still kept my cap with that logo on it...) and I can assure every single one of you that everything that has been said in this thread is ABSOLUTELY true! Good or bad, you are all correct!
At first it sounded so promising. We had a Joffrey Ballet dancer as Johnny...plenty of now famous names (Noah Weisberg, Matthew Morrison, Aaron Lazar, Christy Candler, Christian Borle) in the cast, and Eleanor B. there on a daily basis. Her feeling was that she was going to use the stage show to "fix" all the movie's mistakes. Well lemme tell ya...we had about 29 scene changes in Act I alone!! The only live music was the small band I was a part of, about 6-7 of us and we only played two or three tunes. Everything else was the DD music straight off the soundtrack, played by a sound guy on the house system.
Long story short; practically no one came to see the show. At least no one of consequence and the project seemed to go nowhere. Judging from what I have read, it sounds like it got there quick!
It was a blessing to work with such amazing people. Robert LuPone was the original father before Michael Rupert stepped in. Kaitlin was already in the show. (She was also doing Bat Boy downtown while she did this workshop, if memory serves correctly). It was a joy to come to work and have so much fun, but deep down I think most of us really knew it wasn't gonna work. It was too long and too bogged down.
Sadly, I've no more desire to see it than anyone else and I'm just as surprised it lasted this long.
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#37re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/2/08 at 11:27pm
So, let me get this...
The actor's don't actually sing, but they use tracks and other people to sing? and how could they not have with "No one puts Baby in a corner"? And yet the set is cool? WOW.
Actually might wanna see it at the Pantages.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
outdamnwench
Featured Actor Joined: 6/3/07
#38re: Kaitlin Hopkins to play the mom in Dirty Dancing: Onstage National Tour
Posted: 9/6/08 at 11:52pm
In Toronto, people went ape**** for "Nobody puts Baby in a corner.", they were clearly waiting for it. The only problem being the set really doesn't have any corners, she was just kind of sitting next to a wall.
I also loved how they casted a girl from Canadian Idol as one of the "featured chorus members". She posses the fantastic talent of overacting AND underacting at the same time!!
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