Grease

Synopsis

The smash-hit musical Grease is now in its fourth great year at London's Piccadilly Theatre, and is the longest running show in the venue’s history.

Grease the show is the original high-school musical featuring all the unforgettable songs from the movie including You're The One That I Want, Grease Is The Word, Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Sandy and Greased Lightning.

The Grease musical was first was performed in 1971 in Chicago. From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, including the first Broadway run which when it closed in 1980, Grease the musical 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later.

It went on to become a West End Theatre hit and a hugely successful film.

The current West End revival of Grease opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in August 2007 where ot continues to this day. The original leads were similarly cast via ITV's Grease Is The Word, with Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden playing Danny and Sandy. Currently Matthew Woodgame and Lauren Samuels star.

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Our Review:

9 August 2007

Grease was always supposed to be about an age of innocence tinged with sexual awakening, a paean to first love and first cigarettes, Cadillac cars and dance night in the school gym. Once upon a time in the West End, this seemed like a good idea; Richard Gere was the first, very good, UK Danny at the New London in 1973 (Elaine Paige had a small role).

Somehow, with the passing years and the iconic elevation of the very bad 1978 movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton- John, the fun has been squeezed out of it, and any residual charm in Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey’s ersatz rock and roll musical flattened in a rush to the finale of selected highlights.

As at the opening of this production by David Gilmore in 1993, I feel defeated by decibel levels and churlish with disappointment. The amplification has a tinny, invasive quality that’s the enemy of musical enjoyment, and when things quieten down a bit in the second act – you can actually hea...

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Latest User Review

PG - 5 May 2010:

saw this show again last night with Noel, and REALLY enjoyed it. hated the original version (which I saw in its early stage) but enjoyed the energy, power and fantastic feeling the company created on stage. choreography was superb, and the singing great. don't think the pre recorded backing track works guys - your not kidding anyone! the differnce in the vocal power between the 'real' singing and the track at the end of Act 1 was so obvious! shame, as I really did like the show. ...

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