My friends and I have been obsessed with Dancing with the Stars the past two seasons. This season we watched every episode live together at someone’s house. We even traveled to Florida last year to see the live tour. So when tickets for this season’s tour went on sale, we knew we had to get tickets. This year, we couldn’t make it to Florida, so we got tickets to a show closer to us.

The show was in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, so we decided to head over early to have dinner at Hotel Bethlehem. The hotel was only about a 10-minute drive from the Wind Creek Casino, which was where the show was, so it was the perfect spot for dinner. We made our reservation early enough so we had enough time to get to the venue, find parking, get our tour merchandise and grab drinks from the bar.

Our seats for last year’s tour were basically in the last row of the arena; so when we got to our seats this year, we were delighted to find out that we were much closer to the stage and would actually be able to see the dances.

This year, the tour was hosted by Stephan Nedoroscik, a celebrity on this past season and known for being a bronze medal gymnast at the Summer Olympics. He was one of our favorites this season because of his talents and improvement and his partner as our favorite Pro, so we were very excited to see him. We were lucky because we had another celebrity on our stop who co-hosted with Stephan: Joey Graziadei, former Bachelor and the Champion of this past Dancing with the Stars season. The tour also featured pros from the previous season such as Emma Slater, Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bernsten, Britt Stewart, Daniella Karagach, Gleb Savchenko, Pasha Pashkov, Ezra Sosa, Jenna Johnson and Rylee Arnold, our favorite.

We were mesmerized by all the dances. They were beautiful, well-choreographed and fun. They also threw some skits in there that were hysterical. The dances alternated between solos, partner dances, group dances and more in all different dance styles. We didn’t want the show to end, it was so good!

Whether you are a fan of the show or just a fan of dance in general, I highly recommend going to the tour if it comes to a city near you. I’m already looking forward to next year’s tour!

— Mary Melnick, social media & editorial coordinator