We’re updating our cast list as Lionsgate and ABC add more faces to its Dirty Dancing cast. The latest cast member added to the upcoming 3-hour musical special is: 3/3/16 Billy Dee Williams (Star Wars, Dancing With the Stars) will play “Tito,” the charismatic bandleader of an upscale Catskill Mountain resort. Tito oversees and advises the resort’s musicians and entertainers, and must acquiesce to the changing times. The role of Tito Suarez was originally played by legendary tap dancer Charles “Honi” Coles. 3/2/16 Modern Family star Sarah Hyland has been tapped to play Lisa Houseman, Baby’s older, ukulele-playing sister. Jane Brucker … Continue reading →
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- 3/4/2016
- by Kellie Freeze
- ChannelGuideMag
Billy Dee Williams has joined the cast of the three-hour telemovie revival of ABC's "Dirty Dancing" in the role of the band leader Tito. Charles Coles played the part in the original 1987 Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey starrer.
Like the original, the new take revolves around Baby (Abigail Breslin), an innocent young woman who vacations with her affluent parents at an early-1960s Catskill Mountains resort. She soon gets swept off her feet by Johnny (Colt Prattes), a handsome, working-class dance instructor.
Tito is the charismatic, lively, longtime band leader for the resort who must acquiesce to the changing times. Jessica Sharzer is writing and executive producing the project which also stars Debra Messing as Baby's mother, Sarah Hyland as her sister, and Nicole Scherzinger as Penny.
Source: THR...
Like the original, the new take revolves around Baby (Abigail Breslin), an innocent young woman who vacations with her affluent parents at an early-1960s Catskill Mountains resort. She soon gets swept off her feet by Johnny (Colt Prattes), a handsome, working-class dance instructor.
Tito is the charismatic, lively, longtime band leader for the resort who must acquiesce to the changing times. Jessica Sharzer is writing and executive producing the project which also stars Debra Messing as Baby's mother, Sarah Hyland as her sister, and Nicole Scherzinger as Penny.
Source: THR...
- 3/4/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
ABC's upcoming three-hour remake of the 1987 classic "Dirty Dancing" has added Billy Dee Williams to its cast. The veteran actor has signed up to play the Catskill Mountain resort's bandleader Tito - a role that was originally played by Charles Coles in the original film. The character is described as the overseer of the hotel's musicians and entertainers. Williams joins ABC's remake which will follow Baby (Abigail Breslin), a young woman in the early 1960s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskills, and falls for Johnny (Cole Prattes), the resort's charismatic, skilled dance instructor and leader of the working-class entertainment staff. Other cast...
- 3/3/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Dirty Dancing has found its bandleader. Star Wars‘ Billy Dee Williams has been cast as Tito in Dirty Dancing, ABC's three-hour remake of the hit Patrick Swayze-Jennifer Grey movie. The role was played by Charles ‘Honi’ Coles in the original film. Like the 1987 feature, ABC's Dirty Dancing movie centers on Baby (Abigail Breslin), an innocent young woman in the early 1960s who vacations with her affluent parents and siblings in the Catskills and falls for Johnny (Cole…...
- 3/3/2016
- Deadline TV
Admit it: You've seen "Dirty Dancing" more times than you'd care to admit. You're drawn in by its blend of music, dance, nostalgia, and romance between macho-yet-tender Johnny (Patrick Swayze) and awkward-yet-brave Baby (Jennifer Grey) every time it's on TV. Which is often: it seems to have been running on endless loop since its release 25 years ago, on August 21, 1987. Still, as much as you love "Dirty Dancing," you may not realize how often the production skirted disaster, from almost not being made at all, to almost not casting Swayze, to almost cutting a key subplot to please a squeamish potential corporate sponsor, to its catastrophic test screenings that almost led the film's backers to let the film go unreleased and write it off as a bad investment. How did all that trauma lead to moviegoers having the time of their lives? Read on. 1. Writer/producer Eleanor Bergstein based the story on her own childhood.
- 8/20/2012
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
"Rv" (2006): Certainly there are families who enjoy being trapped together in tight quarters and on wheels, but the Munro family is not, initially, among them. Dad (Robin Williams) has the idea for this trip, and daughter Cassie (JoJo Levesque) sets the tone with: "Mom, some idiot just parked this ugly Rv outside our house." Soon they learn just how awful their Rv is and encounter rogue raccoons and an overly friendly family, the Gornickes, played by Jeff Daniels, Kristin Chenoweth and Hunter Parrish. It's one of those films that no matter how bad your vacation is, this could make it seem like paradise.
"Dirty Dancing" (1987): The movie that made Patrick Swayze a star and made everyone who ever danced to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" try to do that lift. Swayze plays the older, slightly dangerous dance instructor Johnny Castle, with whom Dr. Houseman's (Jerry Orbach...
"Dirty Dancing" (1987): The movie that made Patrick Swayze a star and made everyone who ever danced to "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" try to do that lift. Swayze plays the older, slightly dangerous dance instructor Johnny Castle, with whom Dr. Houseman's (Jerry Orbach...
- 7/12/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Dance legend Marion Coles has died at the age of 94.
Coles, the widow of late Broadway star Charles Coles, passed away on Friday. No further details of her death were available as WENN went to press.
Coles began her career as a chorus line dancer in New York's theatres in the 1930s and went on to perform with numerous bands, appearing on stage with stars including Jimmy Lunceford, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Count Basie.
She formed her own all-female dance troupe, the Silver Belles, in the 1980s which was later featured in Heather MacDonald’s acclaimed 2005 documentary, Been Rich All My Life.
Coles continued her dance career teaching students at New York University.
Coles, the widow of late Broadway star Charles Coles, passed away on Friday. No further details of her death were available as WENN went to press.
Coles began her career as a chorus line dancer in New York's theatres in the 1930s and went on to perform with numerous bands, appearing on stage with stars including Jimmy Lunceford, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway and Count Basie.
She formed her own all-female dance troupe, the Silver Belles, in the 1980s which was later featured in Heather MacDonald’s acclaimed 2005 documentary, Been Rich All My Life.
Coles continued her dance career teaching students at New York University.
- 11/9/2009
- WENN
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