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The Dramatic Premise
It’s Rydell High School in 1959. It’s the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. It’s a time of teenage rebellion.
Danny Zuko regales his friends with risqué stories of his summer love. Meanwhile, new girl, Sandy Dumbrowski, is introduced to the Pink Ladies and discloses that she, too, enjoyed a summer romance before school term began.
It soon emerges that Danny is talkin’ about Sandy and Sandy’s talkin’ about Danny. But neither expected to see the other at Rydell High. Danny told Sandy he attended a private academy. Sandy was going to attend a Catholic high school but was unjustly kicked out.
Danny likes Sandy and Sandy likes Danny. They’re the ones that they want. But, before they get together, they have to negotiate high school politics, replete with peer pressure, gang rivalries and gender stereotypes. To say nothing of beauty school drop-outs and teenage pregnancy.
Grease is the Word
Grease the Musical was, of course, a lot of toe-tapping, word-mouthing, chair-dancing fun.
From the moment Grease is the Word starts, followed by Summer Nights, it’s mostly familiar. It won’t be long before we’re all singing along to Greased Lightnin’. Whilst the musical plot differs somewhat from the movie, we know the songs. We know the characters. And we know all will end well when Sandy breaks with tradition and conforms to Danny’s greaser culture.
In this production, Joseph Spanti did a great job playing Danny and Annelise Hall was splendid as Sandy. Mackenzie Dunn stole every scene she was in as Rizzo. It was good to see Paulini as Teen Angel.
But special mention is warranted for Patti Newton as Miss Lynch.
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