Grease Musical in South Africa in March and April

Grease Musical

"Sumer lov­ing had me a blast
Summer lov­ing happened so fast
Met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drift­ing away, to uh-oh those sum­mer nights
Uh well-a-well-a-well-a huh
Tell me more, tell me more ..."

Now if those words didn’t ignite some spark in you, where have you been hid­ing? These iconic lyr­ics are from the musical movie made fam­ous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, which grossed over 200 mil­lion USD. And at some point in your life you would have heard this duet play­ing at a wed­ding, in a bar or on the radio, who can tell me they haven’t grabbed the closest hair­brush or bottle and joined their friends in the duet from Grease! I sure have and each time I hear the music (even bet­ter if the Grease remix is played…) I get a little bubble of excite­ment in my tummy and am imme­di­ately whisked away to a dif­fer­ent era, where poodle skirts and Tommy tack­ies were the norm.

While I know every line in the movie, every note and every word to all of the songs I have always hoped that the only live pro­duc­tion I see in my life­time wouldn’t be the one that was re-enacted by my friends and I in my par­ents lounge back in high school, (most of you are cringing right now think­ing how can she admit that – I’m not ashamed I have the same pas­sion for music­als as I do for ABBA). Well it seems that my pray­ers have been answered, Grease is com­ing to Cape Town and Johannesburg.

This is an all South African cast and kicks off in Cape Town at the Artscape Theatre on 6 March and runs until 11 April, from there it heads into Johannesburg from 16 April to 13 June at the Teatro Monte Casino. Tickets range from R100 to R350 a per­son and can be booked via Computicket.

We will be in for a treat as the cast is some of South Africa’s most tal­en­ted, Jonathan Roxmouth (you may have seen him as Gaston in Beauty and the Beast in 2009) plays the oh so cool Danny, who is sup­por­ted sidekicks Kenickie (Dane Paarman) and the rest of the T-Birds. Sandy is played by Bethany Dickson (from High School Musical) and is guided through her heartache by the Pink Ladies with the love­able Frenchy (Sharon Spiegal) and the hard­core Rizzo (Genna Galloway)

With so many great songs and the fant­astic storyline I have being “hope­lessly devoted to” this musical since I first saw it, it is “the one that I want” because “we go together like ramma lamma lamma ka dinga da dinga dong”. Grab your hair­brush and go like “grease light­ing” to get your tick­ets, make sure you don’t miss out on this fant­astic show!

Website:
http://www.greasethemusical.co.za/

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