“Grease”

Warren Casey & Jim Jacobs (Book, Music & Lyrics)

Why are over one thousand people inside the Fox on a sunny Sunday in order to see yet one more Grease, this time presented by Broadway by the Bay’s cast of twenty-two?  Probably it is because we just cannot get enough of songs like “Summer Nights,” “Greased Ligtnin’,” and “Beauty School Dropout” or that we just one more time have to see a stage full of teeny-bopping kids hand-jive with hands and feet moving so fast that even we are sweating in exhaustion!  While this particular production by the perennially outstanding Broadway by the Bay has some specific issues, there are so many elements that work and work well that anyone needing a Grease-fix should walk away humming a bunch of songs and smiling big-time with memories of a number of favorites performed exceptionally well.

For my full review, please continue to Talkin’ Broadway: https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/regional/sanjose/sj169.html.

Rating: 3 E

Grease continues through June 23, 2019 in production by Broadway by the Bay at the Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City.  Tickets are available at https://broadwaybythebay.org.