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:

9 October 2012

Grease the musical is now forty years old. Now using the music from the film rather than the original score it remains a hugely popular show and this latest tour will do little to curb that.

For those who have never seen or heard it before, the show follows the traditional boy meets girl, other people or facts force them apart, boy ends up with girl. But Grease does it with style and we follow teens in the late fifties.

Danny Byrne as Danny Zuko has a decent voice and is an excellent dancer, but his Elvis style laugh when trying to hide his feelings for Sandy is simply annoying rather than likeable. Carina Gillespie as Sandy looks the part but her voice grates on the loud high notes and I found her unconvincing. However, whatever the leads are lacking is more than made up for by the mostly brilliant ensemble cast, especially Olivia Fines as Rizzo who shines though her solo numbers. Unfortunately though, Ross William Wild's Kenicke, whilst he has ...

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