GREASE, the musical, City Theatre, August 23 - September 15, 2013

(3823 Airport Rd. at 38 1/2 St., behind the Shell station)
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August 23 – September 15

Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 5:30 p.m.
The City Theatre, 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D. 78722 – east corner of Airport Blvd. and 38 ½ Street. (click for map)
Tickets $25. Two for $40. 1^st Row Reserved $30. Seniors $18. Students $15. Thursday all seats $15. Group discounts available. www.citytheatreaustin.org
For reservations and tickets, call 512-524-2870 or e-mail info@citytheatreaustin.org.

The one that you want is back! The No. 1 electrifyin’ musical GREASE will rock 'n roll its way into Austin this summer! So, dust off your leather jackets, put on your bobby-socks and take a trip back to a simpler time of poodle skirts, drive-ins and T-birds. “Bad boy” Danny and “the girl next door” Sandy fall in love all over again to the tune of your favorite songs: “Summer Nights,” “Beauty School Drop Out,” “Greased Lightnin,” “We Go Together” and many more.

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Auditions for Grease, the summer musical at City Theatre, March 25 and 26, 2013

AUDITIONS – SUMMER MUSICAL: GREASE, March 25 and 26, 2013 at The City Theatre 3823 Airport Blvd. Suite D Austin, TX 78722 (click for map) 


Times: Monday and Tuesday, March 25 and 26, 7 - 10 p.m. Thirty minute appointment slots with groups of five. Callbacks Wednesday, March 27 if needed. Show dates August 23 – September 15. 

Needed: Bring headshot and resume. Have a one-minute song prepared. Scenes will also be performed and be prepared to dance. Casting all roles. 

The one that you want is back! The No. 1 electrifyin’ musical GREASE will rock 'n roll its way into Austin this summer! So, dust off your leather jackets, put on your bobby-socks and take a trip back to a simpler time of poodle skirts, drive-ins and T-birds. “Bad boy” Danny and “the girl next door” Sandy fall in love all over again to the tune of your favorite songs: “Summer Nights,” “Beauty School Drop Out,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “Greased Lightnin,” “We Go Together” and many more. 

Call 512-524-2870 or info@citytheatreaustin.org for an audition time. Produced by The City Theatre Company. www.citytheatreaustin.org If you are not able to make these audition times, please let us know.

Grease, EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, May 28 - June 20

The EmilyAnn Theatre in Wimberley is not outside space and time, although from Austin you're going to take a leisurely 45-minute drive through the hill country to get there. And Wimberley may be in ranch land, but it's anything but rural. Witness the presence there of two lively and effective theatre organizations, the EmilyAnn with its outdoor amphitheatre and the Wimberley Players in their snug playhouse on Old Kyle Road.

Rather, it's Grease that stands outside space and time. The 1959 setting portrayed in the original 1971 production in Chicago has remained fixed in the national consciousness, through a lengthy Broadway run, a hugely successful 1978 film with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, and even the 1974-1984 TV series Happy Days that worked a similar scene with Henry Winkler as the "Fonz."

This is nostalgia for a high school experience that most of us never had -- the fictional leads Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski would be 67 years old today, senior to the Baby Boomers and yet too young to have been part of the Greatest Generation.

Grease works so well because it's an energetic distillation of adolescence, featuring the uncertainties, the swaggering, the exploration and the role play inevitable in any closely contained group of 14-to-18-year olds. The Good Girl and the good Bad Boy are just fated to get together, and we root for them all the way, hoping that they'll come to their senses. The music is familiar and fun, and the dances are the exuberant bursting-out that we secretly wish that we had been able to do at that age (or even now!).

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming: Grease, Tex-Arts Youth Production, June 26 - 29

UPDATE: Off Stage and On the Air at KOOP-FM covers Tex-Arts' Grease, June 22

From Tex-Arts:

GREASE
TICKETS NOW ON SALE!

Grease, a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, will be performed by students (aged 9 through college) of TexARTS' acclaimed Musical Theater Academy Summer Intensive under the direction of Broadway veteran Robin Lewis.


Tickets are going fast as Greased Lightning!

Only an estimated 300 out of 960 tickets left and those will go fast to friends and family of the performers. Hurry and reserve yours today!

Reserve tickets online at www.tex-arts.org or call our box office at (512) 852-9079 x101

Showtimes:

Friday, June 26 7:00 pm (SOLD OUT)
Saturday, June 27 1:30 pm, 4:30 pm & 7:00 pm
Sunday, June 28 2:00 pm, 5:00 pm & 7:30 pm
Monday, June 29 7:00 pm

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Grease, Georgetown Palace Theatre, March 20 - April 19

The Georgetown Palace Theatre is back to doing what they do best -- a rollicking big musical comedy with lots of dance,sparkling with a glitzy coating of happy nostalgia. Grease is no trail breaker, but it's for sure an entertainment where the whole family can kick back and enjoy. With the bonus that they'll learn that live theatre is so much more than the talking pictures from the 1978 movie with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

Everybody's doing it. The Texas School for the Deaf puts on a version tonight and tomorrow, with the interesting twist that the the interpreters for the audience will be speaking, not signing. Tex-Arts is running a June theatre camp for youth that will culminate in performances of the show.



The Palace does the theatrical version of Grease, which originated in Chicago in 1971 and went on to Broadway. There's music not included in the movie version, but the story's generally the same: after a summer romance, sweet Sandy and greaser guy Danny encounter one another unexpectedly at their urban high school, with all sorts of social pressures from the Pink Girls clique and the guys' T-Birds gang (a pretty innocent group of gawkers, closer to the then-contemporary "Happy Days" TV show than to the gangs in West Side Story).

Scenes take place in the school cafeteria, at a slumber party, around a hot rod, in the burger palace, at the gym dance, at the drive-in movie, and at a party. No studying for these kids! Teachers are goofs and the class brain is, in today's terms, a nerd. But who cares? What's important is hormones, acting out, having a good time, and getting the chance to dance, dance, dance!

Read More at AustinLiveTheatre.com. . . .

Upcoming; Grease, Texas School for the Deaf, April 3 - 4

From the Austin American Statesman, March 30:

UPDATE: Feature article by Kira Matica, with photos, on Austin.com

THEATER

Texas School for the Deaf rocks 'Grease' in a whole new way

By Ricardo Gándara
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Saturday, March 28, 2009

During the number "You're the One That I Want," Kalie Kubes and Skye Alanis are flirtatiously dancing with eyes just for each other, as well they should, because they are playing Sandy and Danny in the musical "Grease." Artistic director Russell Harvard, however, interrupts.

"You are performing for the audience. They came to see you. They want to see your face," he instructs in American Sign Language. "You're looking too much at each other." Kubes and Alanis are deaf actors in the Texas School for the Deaf's presentation of "Grease."

Full text of feature article by Ricardo Gándara, March 30, 2009

Read More. . . .

Upcoming: Grease, Georgetown Palace Theatre, March 20 - April 19

UPDATE: Austin Live Theatre review of Grease, April 3


UPDATE: Four Shows Added. Saturday Matinees, 2 p.m. on 4/4 and 4/11; Thursday Evenings, 7:30 p.m., 4/2 and 4/9

From the Georgetown Palace website:

Grease
Written by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey

March 20 to April 19, 2009: Fri, Sat at 7:30 PM, Sun at 2 PM
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Rydell High's spirited class of '59; gum chewing, hubcap stealing, hot rod loving boys with D.A.'s and their wise cracking girls in bobby sox and pedal pushers---capture the look and sound of the 1950s in a rollicking musical. While hip Danny Zuko and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski resolve the problems of their mutual attraction, the gang sings and dances its way through such nostalgic scenes as the pajama party, the prom, the burger palace, and the drive in movie. Songs recall the Buddy Holly hiccups, the Little Richard yodels and the Elvis Presley wiggles that made the music of the 50s a gas. Grease's eight year run made Broadway history and its recent long running revival put it among today's most popular musicals.

Prices: General: $22; Senior(55+): $20; Student: $12
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810 S. Austin Avenue
P.O. Box 1516
Georgetown, TX 78627
512-869-7469
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