All Over The Map
By: Dan Bacalzo, Tristan Fuge, and Zachary Stewart TheatreMania 10/1/08 This Beautiful City in Los Angeles, Dirty Dancing in Chicago, and The Toxic Avenger in New Brunswick, NJ. “What’s going on in the Evangelical communities in America is very important politically and culturally to what’s going on in America generally,” says Michael Friedman, the composer […]
Creator of “Dirty Dancing” keeps the legend alive
By Sid Smith | Special to the Chicago Tribune September 28, 2008 Eleanor Bergstein is a delicate woman with artfully frazzled hair, a high-pitched, almost girlish voice and the overall manner of an aging hippy. As the author of “Dirty Dancing,” the mega-movie and now mega-stage hit, you believe her when she says, “I think […]