14 Jan Sheridan Arts Foundation: Presenting the Musical “Grease,” 1/31 – 2/2/2025!
Telluride’s Sheridan Arts Foundation presents a 3-night run of “Grease.” The musical is performed by the High School Young People’s Theater, Friday, January 31st – Sunday, February 2nd at the historic Sheridan Opera House. Showtimes are 6:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a special 4:00 p.m. matinee on Sunday.
Tickets are priced at $20 for adults and $15 for students, with lap children under two admitted free. Tickets here.
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And scroll down for a teaser of “Grease” from years gone by.
Hindsight is not always 20/20. Sometimes it needs glasses.
When Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey penned “Grease” in 1971, Americans were nostalgic for the white picket fence days of the 1950s. But the innocence of that era was largely fiction: the headlines of the Eisenhower years included Communist witch hunts, polio, the hydrogen bomb, the Korean War, and racial segregation. Pop culture was all about Mitch Miller, Elvis, James Dean and “Rebel Without a Cause,” doo-wop and Doris Day – but also Jack Kerouac, who wrote “On the Road” in 1957. To the road warrior and his legions of fans, America of the 1950s seemed to be many flavors of strange under a white-washed veneer of pristine sameness.
The authors of “Grease” chose to sanitize those realities and dress them up in poodle skirts and leather jackets. The world of “Grease” never existed and always existed.
Who could ever forget a first love? A first rejection? A crisis of self esteem? Getting your first car? Making out? Attending a prom? The coolest guys in the class? The girls who “put out” like Rizzo. The girls who said “No,” like Sandy.
“Grease” endures because the trials and tribulations of teen years are universal and unforgettable. Youthful exuberance – expressed in songs like “We Go Together,” “Beauty School Dropout,” and “Born to Hand Jive” – is never out of date.
Leah Heidenreich director of the Sheridan Arts Foundation’s Young People’s Theater program reduces the show with Telluride high school students. Funny, frank and featuring the hit songs “Greased Lightnin’,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” “You’re The One That I Want,” and “Summer Nights,” “Grease” follows the journey of Danny and Sandy, alongside the Burger Palace Boys and the Pink Ladies, as they navigate high school to the unforgettable rock n’ roll soundtrack that defined generations. and once again this musical about the triumphs and struggles of high school students remains a natural
“Grease” is the word.
It’s a gas….
Get ready to be transported back to the 1950s with the Sheridan Arts Foundation Young People’s Theater production of “Grease: The Musical!”
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