The 1987 hit film “Dirty Dancing” will be adapted into a TV musical.
The taped musical will star Abigail Breslin. It will be written by Jessica Sharzer and air on ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Allison Shearmur Productions and Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote the original film’s screenplay, will produce the three-hour show.
Sharzer and Bergstein are Jewish, and Breslin is half-Jewish.
The 1987 movie, starring Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze and Jerry Orbach, was about a Jewish college student on vacation at a heavily Jewish Catskills resort and her romance with one of the resort’s non-Jewish employees. Like the film’s protagonist, Bergstein was the daughter of a doctor and frequently vacationed with her family in the Catskills.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, it has grossed more than $213 million globally since its release.
It also inspired a 2004 remake called “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” and a Lionsgate remake project that was abandoned in 2012.
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