Grease isn't the word

Last night, John and I went to the West End to see Grease at the Piccadilly theatre. On the way, we are pretty sure we brushed past Pete Doherty. If it wasn't him it was a very good impersonator because the clothes and hat looked right, he was definitely drunk, and he had just come out of a record shop. Anyway, nothing to get excited about is it? He's just a druggy pisshead claiming to be a musician.

After having something to eat, we sat ourselves down for the 8:30 performance. This was delayed 15 minutes because someone in the Royal Circle had taken a tumble. I'm not surprised as the seats are jam packed together and there's no leg room at all. To make things worse, it was so so hot in there. I find this is a trend with all the theatres I've been in - I'm not usually a fan of air-conditioning but it needed some desperately.

I had really been looking forward to the show but oh what a let down it was! It starred Susan McFadden and Danny Bayne who won the TV show 'Grease is the word' but they didn't really stand out as the main characters. Of course, you can't help but make comparisons to the film, but even to do that would be a insult. You're never going to get a better Danny and Sandy than John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John anywhere or anytime in the future. I could count on one hand how many lines of dialogue they actually took from the film - what they replaced it with wasn't funny and it wasn't acted particularly well. The actress who played Marty used a really irritating voice and I felt like strangling her but the guy who played Eugene (the geek) was mildly amusing. The story didn't flow and the scenes were all different to the film as well, for example when they performed 'You're the one that I want' at the end, it took place in a diner instead of at the fairground. Just so that it's not all negativity, most of the songs were performed well.

This is not a show I would recommend, unless you've never seen anything else. I certainly wouldn't go again. Never mind; you can't win 'em all.