Picture: Hugo Glendinning
The producers of the newest production of the enduringly popular Grease have announced revised dates for the show’s postponed UK tour.
Originally due to hit the road again from May 2020, the tour will now play its launch run at Curve Leicester from 30-31 July.
As planned pop star and television personality Peter Andre will return to the role of Teen Angel for certain dates. Andre, who first played Teen Angel on in the 2019 touring production, will also play Vince Fontaine and is scheduled to appear for selected performances in Leicester, Plymouth, Canterbury, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Woking, Dartford, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Liverpool and Cardiff. Further casting will be announced at a later date.
Commenting on his return to the hit production, the TV favourite said: “I was so thrilled to have been returning to Grease this year as I had the most wonderful time on the last tour working with our incredible cast and creative team, I can’t wait to get back out there performing with them. Grease is joyous and will truly allow you to escape to a different time, with show-stopping dance routines and some of the most iconic songs of all time. It’s a show about solidarity and it celebrates friendship, which is even more important now with how the last 12 months have been. As the song goes, We Go Together!”
Following the Leicester opening run the tour will visit: Theatre Royal Plymouth (3- 7 August), The Marlowe, Canterbury (9-14 August), Theatre Royal Nottingham (17-21 August), Milton Keynes Theatre (23-28 August), Stoke Regent Theatre (30 August-4 September), New Victoria Theatre, Woking (7-11 September), The Orchard Theatre, Dartford (13-18 September), Bristol Hippodrome (21-25 September), Edinburgh Festival Theatre (27 September-2 October), Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield (5-9 October), Manchester Opera House (11-23 October), Grand Opera House, Belfast (26-30 October), The Alexandra, Birmingham (2-6 November), Mayflower Theatre, Southampton (9-13 November), Liverpool Empire (15-20 November) and Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff from 22-27 November.
Directed by Curve’s artistic director Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips, the first new production of the much-loved musical in 25 years previously toured the UK and Ireland in 2019.
Written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, with additional songs by John Farrar, the story of Sandy, Danny and Rydell High made its debut on stage in Chicago in 1971 before arriving in Broadway in 1972 and first appearing in the West End a year later.
The 1978 film adaptation starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John is the fourth highest-grossing live action musical of all time and celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. The musical features songs, including ‘Summer Nights’, ‘Hopelessly Devoted to You’ and ‘You’re The One That I Want’.
Produced by Colin Ingram, InTheatre Productions, Donovan Mannato, Playing Field, Hunter Arnold, Araca and Curve, the new production of Grease features designs by Colin Richmond with orchestrations and musical supervision by Sarah Travis, lighting design by Ben Cracknell and sound design by Tom Marshall. The 2021 tour casting will be by Kay Magson with original tour casting by David Grindrod.
Angela Thomas
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