April 12 - Woodlands Academy

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Woodlands Academy
Woodlands Academy greased back their curtains and set
the Greased Lightning ready for a thrilling ride. This year’s
sell out joint musical production, ‘Grease’, astounded
audiences with a fantastic cast, set and music played by
our house band, Johnny Quasar and The Starlights. In
partnership with Tile Hill Wood Girls School’, students
between Year 9 and Year 13 amazed the crowds over 4
nights between Wednesday 29th February and Saturday 3rd
March.
Danny Zuko, played by Tim Boyce, and Sandy Olsen, played
by Abi Carruthers, wowed the audiences with that famous
song “You’re the One That I Want” and stunned the crowd
with their fantastic acting. Audiences commended the
whole cast on their excellent dancing and singing of those
legendary songs, “Summer Nights”, “Greased Lightnin” and
“We Go Together” to name a few.
The T-Birds and Pink Ladies put on a tremendous show:
their role plays were acted so convincingly and it was hard
to distinguish the cast in the original film from those in
this show. With excellent acting and singing by Frenchie
(Laura Hunt), Rizzo (Kelsey Checklin) and Teen Angel (Dan
Houston) there were certainly some rising stars to be
seen and heard here. The whole cast truly struck a chord
unheard before and raised the bar even higher, their
excellence in acting, singing and dancing may be said of all
members involved. From the costumes to the gel in the
hair, the entire cast took the audience back to 1958 and put
us in the mood for what has to be celebrated as our most
successful musical performance to date.