The acting is competent but no one shines. She is improbably accepted by the Pink Ladies, the school's group of wilder women, despite their scorn for her virginal bobby-sox image. After her summer romance with high school hot-shot Zuko, he ignores her in front of his gang of delinquent buddies. Grease has no plot the scenario that connects the musical numbers is the arrival of a new girl at Rydell High, Sandy Dumbrowski (Susan Wood). Which isn't really such a bad introduction to the real show. It's pointless fun but goes on far too long. The fun begins with resident deejay Vince Fontaine (Brain Bradley) inviting the pre-teens in the audience to dance to '50s hits onstage. Headlined by Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo, the cast ably fills the cardboard stereotypes: Michelle Blakely as prissy Patty Simcox, Jessica Stone as aimless Frenchy, and Ricky Paull Goldin as tough-guy Danny Zuko. The cast's energy nearly makes up for the inevitability of them looking at least ten years too old to be in high school. If you have a burning desire to see it again, this time with better sets, the current production at the Colonial is for you.īilled as "the Tommy Tune production of Grease," although Tune's role is unclear, the show has a screaming neon set and vivid, creative lighting. Your high school did it, your junior high did it, you were in it at summer camp.
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