Grease

 

Hello, welcome to London TV, I’m Lesley Collier.  Coming up next we have a show that has been hopelessly devoted to entertaining audiences since its filmic incarnation in 1978… 

 

Another month, another West End musical cast by a TV talent search, but this time Grease is the word.  It turns out that Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden were the ones that we wanted to play Danny and Sandy at the Piccadilly Theatre. Watching the T-Birds and Pink Ladies find love via motor races, sleepovers, milk shakes and dance-offs is the perfect way to spend (wait for it) those summer nights…

 

It’s such a great film and obviously I’ve loved the show since I was a little kid and it’s a show that I always wanted to play, so I really wanted to do it and go for it. 

 

Well for me Sandy has always been a dream role, I think probably for a lot of girls it has been, so that’s definitely why I auditioned.  As a child I played Annie cos I think as a child that’s always the part that you want to play and then I think that as you get older Sandy’s the part you want to play.

 

I’ve been watching it since I knew what tv was and since I knew what Grease was really. 

 

I’m really enjoying it, it’s really good isn’t it?

 

Yes, really excellent, I’ve not laughed so much in such a long time!

 

It’s a good fun show, complete like, high energy and it’s got all the choreography and it’s brilliant.  It’s all the songs as well, all the Grease songs you love, it’s great!

 

Grease is on now at the Piccadilly Theatre until June 2008.  It’s showing at 7.30pm Monday to Thursday, 5pm and 8.30 pm on Fridays and 3pm and 7.30pm on Saturdays.  Tickets cost from £15-£55 and the nearest tube is Piccadilly Circus. 

 

Thanks for joining us.  With loads of musicals on in town at the moment, keep watching London TV for our pick of the best.  Just click the tv player on the main What’s On page for more.  Bye for now.