WHS Musical Hosted Evening

As a valued WHS Foundation Business Partner, you are invited to join us for a hosted pre-musical cocktail function followed by a 1950s musical extravaganza as Wakatipu High School Presents “Grease” The Musical.  

This evening is a great opportunity to meet our trustees, your fellow business partners and experience the talent of our WHS students.

Thursday 25th March 2021

Pre-show function from 6pm at Wakatipu High School - Staff room.

The musical starts at 7.30pm

RSVP for your tickets by Friday 19th March. 

Wakatipu High School Presents "Grease" The Musical

Travel back with us to 1959, where the Rydell High School’s senior class is in rare form. The

too-cool-for-school “Burger Palace Boys” are stealing hub-caps and acting tough and their

gum-snapping, chain-smoking “Pink Ladies” are looking hot in bobby sox and pedal pushers.

The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rip-roaring musical that is both a

homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers’ age-old desire to be

provocative and rebellious.

At the heart of the story is the romance between hot-rodding gangster Danny Zuko and the

sweet new girl in town, Sandy Dumbrowski. The whole gang sings and dances around Danny

and Sandy’s romance, with hit songs such as “Summer Nights”, "Greased Lightnin'" and "You’re

the One That I Want”.

Wakatipu High School’s 2021 production of Grease, written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey,

is directed by Jake Hansen with musical direction from Alison Price, vocal direction from

Margaret O’Hanlon and choreography by Zoe Barham, Brooklyn McLeod and Carmen

Woodhouse.

The Musical involves around 100 students in both on stage and off stage roles. Local talent Ollie

McLean and Hannah White along with rising star Kira Almquist are featured in the roles of

Danny, Rizzo and Sandy, respectively.

Grease will run from the 24th to the 27th of March at the Wakatipu High School Theatre.