Thirty five years after its original release, Grease has
finally arrived in New Zealand. OK, not quite true. There’s a new production of
Grease at the Wellington Opera House, so
we decided to go along on a Friday night.
We stopped in at a new place on Courtenay Place for a bite
to eat. Basque is a tapas bar, and they’d done the obligatory GrabOne deal to
tempt people in – four pintxos and two drinks for $15. The pintxos are
bite-sized tapas – canapés really – and we then went on to order a whole lot
more, and called that “dinner”. Very good they were, too.
The show followed the plot of the film but without the
outdoor locations. The car race was scrapped completely – probably a bit
unfeasible to try and reproduce that on stage – but all the other key elements
were there, and, of course, we knew all the songs. It was very well produced
and sung with a cast of around 40 or so. As well as the big set pieces (Summer
Nights, Greased Lightning, Grease Is The Word, You’re The One That I Want)
there were particularly good solo renditions of Beauty School Dropout and Alone
At A Drive In Movie by the two leads.
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