Summer lovin’ at Windsor Theatre Royal

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You’ll be hopelessly devoted to hit musical Grease when it comes to town from August 27th to 30th

You know the word… Grease, the much-loved tale of boy meets girl and a teenage summer fling will be lighting up Windsor this month.

Made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, it follows the lives of a group of final year high-school students, the friendships of the Pink Ladies and Burger Palace Boys (known at the T-Birds in the film) and new student Sandy who happened to meet Danny during the school holiday.

Following invitations in the spring for local talent aged 16 and above to audition, a 31-strong cast and ensemble has been selected to join Rydell High this August: many of whom are planning to make show business their careers. While it’s a community production, the cast will benefit from all the same resources afforded to other Theatre Royal Windsor productions: including professional direction, choreography and musical direction.

The theatre has a link to the Grease film franchise as two of the actors have appeared on the stage. Last year Stockard Channing, who played Rizzo in the film starred alongside Michael Praed when the theatre premiered The Gates of Kyiv and in 2022 Maxwell Caulfield, who played the lead role Michael Carrington in the sequel Grease 2 starred in Darker Shores, alongside his wife Juliet Mills, another new work that the theatre premiered.

Anne-Marie Woodley, Theatre Director, commenting about the production said:

“Grease is the musical that everyone loves. I have very fond memories playing the role of Patty Simcox in a Youth Theatre Production at the age of 15 and it was just the best summer! The friendships I forged during that time, remain strong to this day and I hope that this will be the same for this wonderful and hugely talented group of young people.

“Theatre Royal Windsor is committed to working within the local community. Many of the cast members have participated in our previous youth productions, as well as our LAMDA classes and it is fantastic watching their confidence and ability grow year on year.”

Picture caption: Hopelessly Devoted, Evan Gerrard (Danny Zuko) and Bella Baron Peat (Sandy), Go Together on the Windsor Wheel