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Grease...it's a disappointment

What with all the hype about this classic musical, I thought surely this is a must-see. I have watched their shows, sang their songs and even danced to the music. So for RM135, I must have set my expectations quite high.

As I entered the Plenery Hall at KLCC in anticipation, hoping to that my seat had a good view. As the picture taken from my handphone shows, it's a pretty good view just a tad bit far.


The show started with the radio dj coming out and inviting some of the audience to come up on stage to dance. Quite a number came up to dance but only 3 got a prize each...some Grease merchandise. Then they started introducing the T-birds and the Pink Ladies during their lunch break. Singing those familiar songs, I can hear some of the audience singing along with them.

The musical progressed on quite slowly and I was looking forward to two of my favourite songs which was "Born to Hand Jive" and "We Go Together". Both was a disappointment. The two lead characters hardly stood out among the rest of the cast. They lacked that "Oomph!" factor. The one who really stood out was the High School Principal who sang "Beauty School Dropout". Her voice was beautiful...as they say, the blacks are most talented musically! I liked they way they made the scene "heavenly" with all the "angels" as the background singers and dry ice creating the "heavenly ambience". For me that was the only highlight of the whole musical.

Other than that the musical was just....ok. When I asked my other friends who went, they said the same thing. Actually most of the audience I saw on that day were mostly seniors...haha...that shows how old Grease is and what generation we came from! The merchandise were quite nice though. I loved the bright pink and black colour comby so I bought the baby polo T which is all black with "Grease, It's still the Word" embroidered in that trademark pink. Love it! Sigh...and that's about all I loved about that day.

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