Grease on tour 2011

[Lynda]

Grease, which closes at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre on 30 April, has announced it will embark on a national tour from the Edinburgh Playhouse on 6 May 2011.

Touring for the first time in over five years Grease will star ITV reality casting show Grease is the Word winner Danny Bayne who reprises the role of Danny Zuko. He appears alongside Carina Gillespie as Sandy, who currently leads the West End production.

From Edinburgh the tour will play dates in Milton Keynes, Bradford, Southampton, Oxford, Cardiff, Dublin, Torquay, Woking, Manchester, Aylesbury, Blackpool, Sunderland, Liverpool Norwich and Birmingham. The tour will continue into 2012 with further dates in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Belfast, Derry, Canterbury confirmed but still to be announced.

The full cast for the production have been confirmed as: Ricky Rojas (Kenickie), Kate Somerset How (Rizzo), Derek Andrews (Roger), Laura Wilson (Jan), Richard Vincent (Doody), Lauren Stroud (Frenchy), Josh Dever (Sonny), Lois Urwin (Marty), Darren John (Eugene), Sammy Kelly (Patty), Jason Capewell (Teen Angel / Vince Fontaine), Nancy Hill (Miss Lynch) and Sophie Zucchini (Cha Cha).

[Tanith Messenger]

Ooo Derek Andrews too!

[Eunice and Roísín]

Grease was on at Sunderland last week. We didn't go but there was a review in our Metro paper. The reviewer stated:-

"Sandy and Danny, played due to illness, by understudies Ricky Rojas and Lois Urwin, were in fine voice. And Rojas manages to imitate that Travolta giggle/throat-clearing noise that won a million hearts."

We didn't know that Ricky was u/s Danny. Rhydian was also in the show, playing the Teen Angel.