ABC wants a piece of the TV musical pie.
The network has officially greenlit a remake of Dirty Dancing, the 1987 romantic drama that put Patrick Swazye and Jennifer Grey at the center of one of the most iconic movie dances of all time.
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For ABC's three-hour musical event, Scream Queens star Abigail Breslin will step into Grey's shoes, playing "Baby," the young woman who falls for the camp's dance instructor.
The movie will be set in the '60s, as the original was.
The move marks ABC's first step into the "musical event" genre, where NBC most recently saw great success with The Wiz. NBC's triumph came two years after it began testing the format with its viewers with the widely panned (but widely viewed) Sound of Music, starring Carrie Underwood.
Fox, too, will try its hand at a musical in January with a production of Grease, starring Aaron Tveit.
ABC's Dirty Dancing will be produced by Lionsgate TV and executive produced by Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games). Original screenplay writer Eleanor Bergstein is also on board as an EP.
Adam Anders and Peer Astrom will handle music, while choreography will be done by Andy Blankenbuehler, who most recently choreographed the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.