Grease - Tour / Dominion Theatre

She did great. Sang really well in Hopelessly Devoted to You (spoiled when I was there by audience members helping her out with the vocals). But otherwise, a bit anonymous, perhaps because it's hard to keep track of everyone in a vast theatre, perhaps because Sandy/Danny is only one of many stories in this version of the show, or perhaps by design. Nothing to be ashamed of appearing in.

I nipped back again to see Grease last night. This wasn't planned in advance, but Rush threw up a front row ticket option, which I took. I was way off to the side, but it was largely the boys' side of the stage, so the view was good. Space next to me too.

As with many shows, I enjoyed this much more as a second viewing. I also much prefer being able to see faces and details. The sound is still rather ropey though, even at the front.

Peter Andre fans out in force again. I found the audience much better than before, fewer disruptions, although that might also be a benefit of sitting at the front.

Noah Harrison stood out to me vocally. It is great to see how he has gone so quickly from a lead role is Lysistrata Jones (which I saw) to a lead role in Grease. From his vocals, I can see him being perfectly set for a career in Jersey Boys.

Enjoyable and I would happily go back again.

I still want to see this, will wait for the right deal.

I saw this on Press Night - it's great fun and as others have mentioned, features an excellent, energised supporting cast. Paul French as Kenickie steals every scene he is in. Dan Partridge is entirely fine as Danny, whilst Olivia Moore shines as Sandy with her divine vocals.

My main issue with the show is how it goes to such great lengths to modernise the piece for 21st Century audiences and reinject a bit of grit into the show, yet completely fails to see this through to the end. It features a wonderfully diverse cast, headstrong female characters (though Sandy comes across as massively self-righteous) and intimates towards class/racial politics.

As such, the ending of the show felt incredibly abrupt. Sandy has her moment of revelation and quickly clads herself into some leather. It was delivered with absolutely no sense of irony or self awareness whatsoever. I expected another scene or two in which the transformation could have been criticised. I simply felt the final scene completely undermined everything the directors had hoped to achieve. It all felt very abrupt.

Is this the same production that was doing the rounds pre Lockdown. Peter Andre was in that one, there was a black Rizzo, dark haired Sandy and original songs but back in?

Everyone knows the film version but this one includes original songs along with the extra songs written for the film. Sandy is only thought of as blonde as Olivia Newton John was blonde and it has largely been played as such since. Like Holly Golightly was blonde in the book but we think of her as Audrey Hepburn with her iconic image.

Peter is in urgent talks about an ad campaign with Sky TV 😲 🍆 

He said the chipalata size was in proportion to the vessel it entered.

My friend went last week and also thought Danny was poor, which is interesting because everyone seems to agree.

Surely there must be an amazing performer out there who could have taken it on?

In the interval, really not liking it at all. As a movie fan, all the songs are in a strange order - we got together at the end of the first part!? - and all the original songs are bad.

But this isn’t the movie. This is the order the songs are in, in the original stage version.

Must have been a bad production for an experienced theatre goer to leave a well known show.