"Grease" Press Release

GREASE IS STILL THE WORD!
Rock 'n Roll Musical Grease kicks off Stage Door Inc. Center for the Performing Arts and Education’s 2009 Live, Laugh, and Love Season. All of the area's hippest cats and kittens will be high-tailing it to Stage Door Inc. as the classic musical Grease roars onto the stage from January 9 – February 1, 2009.
Grease is the story of summer lovers-the too-cool-for-school Danny Zuko (Aurturo “Link” Soriano) and the sweet and naïve Sandy Dombrowski (Katelyn Norman). Thinking theirs was just a summer fling, the pair are surprised to discover that due to a move by Sandy's family, they will spend their senior year together at Rydell High.
Danny struggles to keep his cool in front of fellow Burger Palace Boys, Kenickie (Justin Nicholson), Roger (Mark Connelly), Sonny (Bryan Burleigh) and Doody (Enrique Cavazos), while showing Sandy enough of the sweet side that attracted her in the first place. Meanwhile, Sandy is taken under the collective wing of the Pink Ladies, Rydell's toughest and coolest chick clique. Her new friends, including the tough-talking Rizzo (Renee van Nifterik), ditsy Frenchy (Samantha Perez), flirtatious Marty (Misty Banks) and jokester Jan (Danielle Knight), soon have her smoking ciggies and ratting her hair, but does the girl underneath really change?
This timeless tale of teen romance, dirty dancing and hot cars plays out to a soundtrack of tunes that are regularly greeted with raucous enthusiasm by theatre-lovers everywhere. Audiences will be treated to high-energy classics such as Summer Nights, Greased Lightning and We Go Together, as well as sensitive ballads that include There are Worse Things I Could Do and Hopelessly Devoted to You.
The production team for Grease: Director Marc Anthony Glover, Music Director A.Z Varela, Choreographer A.J. West, Assistant Director Dario Failla, and Stage Manager Karen L. Rush
Grease is the brainchild of self-proclaimed greasers, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, a pair of amateur actors and musicians who met through the Chicago theatre scene. Having grown tired of the same dated melodies that were the mainstay of Broadway musicals at the time, the pair decided to set the experiences of their youth to the music they grew up loving. First staged by an amateur cast in an old Chicago tram shed, Grease played to packed houses for a year before, with some minor retooling, Grease made its Broadway debut to similar audience acclaim. By the time the lights went down for the last time, Grease had established a record for the longest running musical in Broadway history.
Performances run January 9 – February 1 2009, Friday through Sunday. Performance times are: 8 Friday and Saturday evenings, 3 PM on Sundays. Tickets range in price from $15 general admission to $12 for Seniors (60+), and $10 for Students (must have student ID) GROUP RATES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE.
The theatre is located at 284 Pasadena Town Square (inside the Pasadena Townsquare Mall) Pasadena, TX 77506. Stage Door Inc.’s Box Office is open Monday – Friday 12noon – 5pm. For tickets call (832) 582-7606 or purchase online at www.stagedoorinc.com