Peter Rouleau — Theater Critic

Overall, Dirty Dancing is an enjoyable, engaging experience that delights the eyes and ears-the soundtrack, featuring a great deal of late 50s and early 60s rock, is superb-and engages the mind and heart as well. It's a very pleasant way to spend two and a half hours (with an intermission.)

If the show has a star, it is Adam Brett as the Butler Wadsworth (Curry's role in the film.) In the opening, he welcomes the audience to Boddy Manor, a large New England estate. In his mannerisms, knowing smile, and fraudulently obsequious tone, Brett calls to mind the Master of Ceremonies in "Cabaret." The play is set in 1954 against the backdrop of the Red Scare; the main characters are all connected to the federal government in some fashion, and there are several lines which are especially amusing to a D.C. audience.