European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse By Anita Gosch stall writer hey had the time or their lives Simone Peters and her friends were ecstatic Atler Wal chm the european Pietiero of dirty dancing the concert tour in Karlsruhe Wesl Germany last week. I was super sensational much Heller than the movie gushed the 16 to 18-yearolds. All of them decked out in Lancy 60s dance duds laces still pushed from excitement the music s just so much More emotional than the cold computer music of like Many teens i hey had seen the dirty dancing movie Over and Over 10, 15, even 20 times. Bui the duty dancing Road show gave them a new dimension i Biou Ghl to Hie the fiery erotic dance moves and she classic 60s is they had All become so familiar Wilh you can just feel the rhythm anti it s Cool said sore i Bock snapping his lingers and gyrating his Kips Ever so slightly. The dirty dancing concert is a colourful last paced. 90-Minuto spectacle that is a sometimes corny same limes melodramatic but always exciting song and dance pc duo loosely based on Ifica blockbuster movie unlike the film which Icsis the Story of two Loon agers who fall in love in 1963 Al a a Sorl Houll m new York s catskills ins show does not follow a narrative thread though it recalls a Lew pertinent scenes from the movie the focus is on individual dance routines Pei formed to the hits spawned by the film As Well As other classic tunes of the Era stars of the european Louf Are the contours with original members Joe Billingslea and Sylvester polls whose feverish 1962 Danca Hll do you Lave me is one of the theme songs of the movie. Backed by a tight Rock n Roll band the five Man vocal group performs a rousing set thai includes Tho temptations hits gel ready and the Way you do Iho things you do the Dri Mefs some kind of wonderful Jackie Wilson s higher and higher and a Medley of Only dancing tunes. Also featured in the Lour is Ronnie Spector of the mid 60s girl group. The Ron Eltes. Her renditions of the 63 nil be my baby and 1964 s walking in the rain along Wilh the Shirelle will you love to tomorrow Rosu Riecl the Wall of sound elect or cafe by her one time husband and rosettes discoverer producer Phil Spector. Singer Eric Carmen of the raspberries and Bill Medley of the righteous Brothers Are nol on the european Lour. According to the show s producer. David Fishof Carmen dropped out Midway through the summer american Lour due to Throat complications and Medley is in the studio recording an album or Mca at the beginning of the show the voice of an my heard Over Tho loudspeakers sets the scene by a Ecilma fhe opening Linos of the movie spoken in the film by actress Jennifer Grey and describing Kellerman the resort hotel in upstate new York. From there its up to the girly dancing dancers. In such Lunes As hey baby love Man. Wipe out. Love is strange she s like Fie wind and the time of my life they strut their stuff in Touchy Feely dance routines. Mambo. Salsa twist slither Slink seduce Shako rattle Roll and Jerk heir Way around the stage the show s opening number hungry eyes Sels the Lone for what is to come. In a lengthy erotic dance sequence the dancers perform All those moves that have become household words Lor Many teens and familiar sights in dance studios and discos in America and Europe. There s the updated version of the in which the dance partners slowly and rhythmically gyrate together until the Man lakes the woman Home by lifting her up onto his hips. There s the dirty dip in which the woman pressed against her partner leans Over backward and ecstatically Lelaila her arms. In dragging lha lip the woman leans Back her leg sketched straight up above her partner s shoulder. The Man Ihen kisses his partner from the belly on up in work it on Down the dancers individually twist and slither to the floor hands running up and Down their partners bodies. Movie choreographer Kenny Orlega Mastermind behind the dirty moves described the dance sequences palsy in a recent Oprah Winfrey show in s like having sex Wilh your clothes on. And you Don l Lee guilty All Erward in s just very close dancing and hand holding like our parents did said Lour producer Fishof. Nowadays to dance apart from each other in the 60s they used to dance very Fishof said a ill he should Lone Down Tho eroticism of the movie before taking the show on the Road. I was ally acting children and i just Felt in s one thing if you see in on film but if you re going to bring i live i Ell it would be belief if i inned it Down a Lille bit. Make ii mow of a family in Karlsruhe Leen agers weren t the Only enthusiastic spectators. After slowly warming up to the spectacle during the first half Young adults Middle aged couples Mol hours with children and even a grandmother or two cheered hooted and hollered for Iho rest of the performance. People do nol know whal to expect from the show Fishof said of the initial Cool response. The biggest problem i had when we opened up the first week in America was people asking Hal is dirty the show we know what Tho movie is. But whal is the live show i think people have to digest it first a rarely among the mostly Lemale audience was the single male go. But two of them. Sgt 1st class Nelson Mcpherson and his Friend who preferred to be Ide Lilied Only As the Kawg both old Rock n Roll fans irom Karlsruhe were Quick to describe what they liked Best the the Besl Parl is the Way Iho women Are dancing said the Dawg during the 20-Minule intermission. I Don t know How Many men Are Here in the audience but i think they re getting their Money s fishole is sure the wide Appeal of Iho movie and the stage show is. Simply Romance. Romance was very big in the 60s," he said. We lost it in the 70s and the 80s now Allol a sudden a movie comes Oul showing Romance. And it s something thai parents could go to Wilh children. So it s family entertainment sch ocl. I z howl. Birr a lit aim34 227, 12. Ind of. 23 sort. 19 a strut Al Hugh on. 21. Page 14 the stars and stripes tuesday Septen
