Theatre patrons should make sure to catch a glimpse of this year's production of Dirty Dancing.

A breathtaking performance entertained thoroughly as the performers put on a lively, touching, energetic, and vivacious performance.

It has no less than 35 songs, featuring the well-known hit songs which were made famous by the 1987 original film on which the stage production was based, including “Hungry Eyes”, “Hey Baby”, “Do You Love Me?” and the classic “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life.”

Produced by Karl Sydow, Joye Entertainment and Paul Elliott, in association with Lionsgate and Magic Hour Productions, and written by Eleanor Bergstein, script writer of the 1987 film, the production features the much-loved characters and original dialogue from the iconic film, with exciting extra scenes added in.

For those that are already familiar with the original story of the film, this show proved to be a more than faithful adaptation.

Those who have not seen the film beforehand, however, may find it slightly hard to follow exactly what the story entails, and might miss some of the smaller details of the plot, but this does not take away from the enjoyable dancing and singing.

Most scenes were accompanied by a trio of instrumentalists, part of the 'swing' section, a saxophonist, trumpeter, and guitarist, who perform the music to accompany the characters' many dance scenes.

This was a very welcome addition of depth to the performance, and made it feel like the music was made an equal part of the story, instead of dance being the sole forefront of focus.

On the dancing, the lead actors, Kira Malou who played the rebellious Frances 'Baby' Houseman, and Michael O'Reilly who played dancing bad boy Johnny Castle, flawlessly showcased the passion of dance and sexual tension between the two characters, both being able to execute challenging moves as well as demonstrate powerful themes.

The musical would not have been made whole, however, if it was not for the superb comedy-relief character of Mr Schumacher, played by the fabulous Mark Faith.

Faith's appearances as the awkward, goofy, but equally charming senior, offered laughs each time, which played nicely in between some of the more grave, complex scenes.

Perhaps the only thing that could be improved, however, is the accents, which I noticed in some characters could use improvement.

To finesse an American accent is hard, but the occasional slips and lack of fine tuning did throw me off occasionally.

Despite this, I thoroughly enjoyed the performance, and I encourage anyone and everyone to go and see it.