Earlier this week saw the launch of the original studio recording of Cool Rider. For musical theatre aficionados, Cool Rider is the reworking of the movie Grease 2 for a concert staging, which gained much critical and commercial success last April at the Duchess Theatre. The brainchild of producers Christopher D Clegg and James DP […]
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Cool Rider – Duchess Theatre
Cool Rider continues at the Duchess Theatre, London until 19 April. The idea for Cool Rider stems from one of the most precarious concepts in film or theatre history – the musical sequel. With the huge success of the film adaptation of Grease, Paramount Pictures immediately set about commissioning a series of sequels. The first […]
Cool Rider to have a week’s run at the Duchess
Following the reception to the concert Cool Rider and two sell-out performances at the Lyric Theatre, the cult musical sequel will return to the West End and the Duchess Theatre from 15–19 April 2014 (press night is 16 April). The film Grease 2 told the love story of two unlikely lovers and their road to […]
Cool Rider arrives at the Lyric
Cool Rider – formerly entitled Grease 2 in Concert – plays two performances today (Monday 27 January) at the West End’s Lyric Theatre. Joining Reece Shearsmith as biology teacher Mr Stuart, Ashleigh Gray as Stephanie, Aaron Sidwell as Michael, Hannah LeVane as Paulette and Niall Sheehy as Johnny are Bronté Barbe, Nadine Cox, Joshua Dowen, Evelyn Hoskins, Kane […]
