Dirty Dancing is making its return to North Carolina.

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Dirty Dancing is making its return to North Carolina. ABC greenlit a three-hour musical remake of the 1987 romantic drama starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey as "Baby," a young woman in the early 1960s who vacations with her affluent family in the Catskill Mountains and falls for the resort's working-class dance instructor.

North Carolinians, of course, know that the Blue Ridge is the real backdrop with Lake Lure the setting for the famous "lake lift" scene. (Don't pretend you haven't watched it a dozen times.)

Lake Lure has capitalized on the fervent fandom with a Dirty Dancing Festival for the last six summers. Now, the remake will employ about 900...

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