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Grease still the word on drizzly day

IT wasn’t so much a matter of “Summer Nights”, as the song goes, as Drizzly Day when the cast of Grease turned up at The Q in Queanbeyan yesterday for a media call.

The girls
The girls

The chilled-out boys stepped out of a hot arrived to a chorus of waiting girls in the full skirts of the 1950s, with only the racy Rizzo, played by Vanessa de Jager, wearing a pencil thin garment.

The 'more conservative' boys
The ‘more conservative’ boys in white socks

As the cast stepped inside and onto Brian Sudding’s set evocative of the 1950s fictional Rydell High School where the show is set, “CityNews” confided with veteran prize-winning costume designer Anna Senior about the absence of fluro socks for the boys in colours like Mitchell Blue, Sinatra Red and Presley Purple.

Not to worry said Senior, she was right onto it but she’d found the boys a great deal more conservative in matters of clothing than the girls, who were having the time of their lives going back to a past era and, thanks to their mums, experts on the era, had been doing some research on those happy days.

Director Stephen Pike and choreographer Jordan Kelly had obviously been putting the cast through their paces, as they took us through a snazzy round of – what else – “Summer Nights.

“Grease,” at The Q, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, July 29 to August 15, bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

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