92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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Dirty Dancing (1987)
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July 10, 2009 – July 31, 2009
Fridays (10:30pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Call it happenstance: the role of Danny Zuko, Grease's rebel-with-cause-to-boogie, not only thrust John Travolta onto center stage, but eventually led studios to another low-rent thespian, one Patrick Wayne Swayze. Swayze, who was a figure skater of some repute at the time, soon became the '80s idol that nobody kept in the corner. This month, 92Y presents four of his superheated classics from the decade. Naturally there's Dirty Dancing, but the camp starts with the outrageous Road House, in which Swayze plays a philosophizing he-man who rescues a Missouri nightclub from the local scumbags. He's another saves-the-day hero in the futuristic Shane-wannabe Steel Dawn (not to be confused with his Red Dawn, sadly not featured in this series); Twitter fans selected early favorite The Outsiders to bookend this summer-appropriate series.
