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Dig out your Dirty Dancing shoes
1:50am Tuesday 19th August 2008
HOSPICE fundraisers are hoping to entice film-lovers to dig out their Eighties clobber and get down to some dirty dancing.
Volunteers from St Luke’s Hospice, in Basildon, are hoping to give cinema-goers the time of their lives by organising a special screening of a popular chick flick.
The night out will see 1987 romantic blockbuster Dirty Dancing being sceened at the Towngate Theatre, in Basildon, on Thursday, August 21.
Tickets to watch the movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey are just £4 and revellers are being urged to go along in appropriate fancy dress.
For tickets or for further information call Jo on 01268 272292 or e-mail jobrown@stlukeshospice.co.uk
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Dirty dancers – fundraisers Jo Brown, Natasha Heighway and Kerry Chambers
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