Grease

Synopsis

Stage version of the musical film. Featuring all the hit songs from the film version, including You're the One That I Want, Summer Nights, Sandy, Grease Is the Word and many more.

Our Review:

Scott Purvis - 19 January 2012

1950s Americana. Bring me your dweebs, your Gidgets and your bombshells and trade them in for the hips and squares of David Gilmore's Grease, a predictable rehash of forty years worth of summer loving.

Let's break one of the founding laws of chemistry: concentration is dilution. That much this production proves. The more patches stitched onto the T-Birds' leather jackets, the less the actors behind the white teeth can find the roles anew. As a consequence, the cast trades on impressions of whichever stereotypes Travolta and co. embodied in their eternally popular film musical. Leading lovers Danny Bayne and Carina Gillespie are fine as teenagers Danny and Sandy but lack the vital chemistry in this rather sanitised telling of their hopeless devotion.

Nonetheless, the twenty-six strong ensemble and punchy band work hard to entertain the crowd. Their execution of Arlene Phillips' choreography, a corrupted form of jive which softens th...

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Latest User Review

enrique - 8 February 2012:

All good fun and the audience singing along with the the atistes was brill , they were even saying word for word at some bits ,a really relaxing let your hair down night oot...

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