Cost to see the show = £0, thanks to a friend of a friend of a friend. One of the girls on the trip has a friend back home who "follows someone on Twitter" who works in the West End marketing department who could somehow give away free seats for the show. He had them on will call at the theater for us when we arrived.
I honestly expected us to arrive and the box office to stare at us blankly and say that there are no seats reserved for us and that they've never heard of "random dude from Twitter." (Sarah knew his name, luckily). They found our reservation, however, so Twitter dude pulled through - good seats too - center stage, a few rows back.
I enjoyed the show. An atypical musical, actually, because most of the songs were not sung by the cast; rather, most were performed solely by the orchestra or were recordings from the original soundtrack. Lisa performed her hula song, nevertheless, and Johnny's brother busted out a few of the love songs. He was a fantastic singer - and quite possibly my favorite cast member.
The singing wasn't the highlight, however, because the point of the performance was the fantastic live dancing (hence the name of the show). Penny's dancing floored me - especially her partner work. Johnny was also very talented, but unfortunately no Patrick Swayze in the looks department.
Check out a little promo clip of the show at the top of the main Dirty Dancing London page: http://dirtydancinglondon.com. (There is a little button in the bottom right corner that turns on the sound).
So if I didn't get free tickets from Twitter, there was an alternate way to receive free tickets: National Watermelon Day
On Tuesday 4 August, the first 100 people to arrive at the Aldwych Theatre before 10am with their Tesco watermelon (with proof of purchase) and recreate the classic line uttered by Frances ‘Baby’ Houseman - ‘I carried a watermelon?!’ - will receive 2 tickets for that night’s performance.
I wonder if the little itty bitty watermelons (typically the seedless ones) would count or if you have to legitimately lug one of the huge, fully grown watermelons all the way to the theater from the grocery store. I wonder if they even have seedless watermelon in Britain. Their food certainly does not have nearly the preservatives that American food does. (My bread goes bad in approximately 12 hours from purchase at Tesco). I've heard they are also opposed to genetic modification of foods, so would they be opposed to a seedless watermelon (which I believe crosses two plants)? Just a thought.
Another thought: it would be ideal if London would stagger the releases of their plays/musicals. Leicester Square and surrounding area has so many theaters, all the plays start at around 7:30 and most last about the same time, which results in packed, chaotic Underground stations and trains. Dirty Dancing let out at exactly the same time as Oliver or something and we were queuing for a while. I believe this could be resolved by starting one at 7, one at 7:30, one at 8, etc. No one asks for my opinion though.
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*Editor's Note (for mom or anyone who is unfamiliar with Twitter): Twitter is a social media site. Essentially, its a website where I can post interesting updates about myself (or my company, organization, etc) and those updates are sent to anyone who "follows me." The updates of everyone I'm following show up on my Twitter feed. It has the potential to be stalkerish, but it really isn't. I have privacy settings so only those I approve can follow me and my posts are private. Plus, I don't update every 10 minutes with my daily activities or schedule.
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