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:

Anne Morley-Priestman - 30 July 2012

The girls rather fancy the boys, the boys lust after the girls – and really prefer things which go fast on four wheels. There’s a peculiar sort of innocence about Grease as it steps out so briskly on its current tour – but then, it’s set in the 1950s, and that was an altogether different time.

New to the cast is Rhydian Roberts as the Teen Angel; he doesn’t appear until the second half and basically then only for the sequence in which beauty-school drop-out Frenchy (Lauren Hood) realises that putting in some effort might pay long-term dividends. He sings extremely well and has a fine stage presence.

Repeating their roles from early in the tour are Carina Gillespie as a rather butter-wouldn’t-melt Sandy and Danny Byrne as the boy of her dreams (another character who needs a brisk reality check), Danny. Kate Somerset Howe’s Rizzzo is a good characterisation, though her should-be show-stopper seemed lacklustre.

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