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Grease is the one that they want

08/07/2019

Williamstown High School is presenting the hit musical, Grease. Photo: Damjan Janevski

By Goya Dmytryshchak

Grease is the word at Williamstown High School.

A cast and crew of 90 students will bring to the stage Rydell High’s senior class of 1959 in the musical production of Grease.

There’ll be duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers.

Greaser Danny and new girl Sandy will relive the romance of their

Summer Nights as the rest of the gang sings and dances along to classics such as You’re the One That I Want, Greased Lightnin’, We Go Together and Hopelessly Devoted to You.

Grease will be performed from Tuesday, July 16 to Saturday, July 20 at Centenary Theatre, 71 Railway Place, Williamstown.

Tickets are $25/$20 via trybooking.com

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