Who’s the one that you want – Sandy, Danny, Kenickie, Rizzo, well maybe even Frenchy.
The word is: growing up and falling in love. No experience shows and tells what that’s like as does Grease.
Grease the musical, set in the 1950s of American working-class youth sub-culture (greasy oil-slicked hair) was produced in 1971 and there have been 17 national and international stage productions since. Proving you are never too young, to fall in love; nor too old, to grow up.
With the likes of Danny and Sandy, the Burger Palace Boys, the Pink Ladies, and other teenage characters.
Grease Is The Word, at the Mastercard Theatres in Marina Bay Sands, (you’ve a week left to catch it) is greased lightnin’ from curtain-lift.
From then, there is no let-up to the explosive energy (as if the cast is on steroid Duracell batteries) as scenes shift, from classroom to school lunchroom to girls’ pajama party to cheerleading practice to picnic in the park.
While the sets are very smartly spare, as is the story, the song and dance aspect of this International cast of Grease the musical is solid.
Strong solid singing and dancing of the highest West End and Broadway standards, with almost no pause for a breather. All the actors playing the characters are energised and talented in their skills and go through their paces without missing a beat.
And it is an infectious beat, coursing through the theatre seats, you know that song, and you can sing along because sing-along cheat sheets are provided.
As are paper fans (number 1 fan geddit) in case this Grease gets too hot. It is. The cast is hot, and cute, and sexy, as is their teenage angst. This production is such a collaboration of irresistible physicality it won’t do to single out any performer.
And the songs, don’t it just bring it all back, kiddo, of Summer Nights, You’re The One That I Want, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Freddy My Love.
The word is Greased Lightnin’ and in the words of class of ’59 Rydell High School, “We Go Together.”
Book it. You’ll find out why everyone leaving the theatre is smiling and grinning.
