Casting Complete for West End Revival of Grease

Additional casting has been announced for the upcoming West End revival of Grease, reports www.Whatsonstage.com.

ITV's "Grease is the Word," the British television talent search, concluded last Saturday with Danny Bayne and Susan McFadden declared the winners. They will play Danny and Sandy, respectively. Joining them will be Sean Mulligan as Kenickie, Jayde Westaby as Rizzo, Lee Martin as Doody, Richard Hardwick as Roger, Bennett Andrews as Sonny, Alana Phillips as Frenchy, Laurie Scarth as Jan, Charlie Cameron as Marty, Jason Capewell as Vince/Teen Angel, Tim Newman as Eugene, Marie Daly as Miss Lynch and, as previously announced, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria" finalist Siobhan Dillon as Patty.

Grease opens on August 8, 2007 (previews begin July 25) at the West End's Piccadilly Theatre.  A Broadway revival, for which full casting was announced today, will also open in August.  Grease "is set in 1950s America and follows the students of Rydell High in their final year of school. Sandy enjoyed a holiday romance with Danny, and when she starts her new school she is delighted to find that he is a student there. But Danny Zuko, leader of the T-birds, acts too cool for school and snubs the straightlaced Sandy. He spends the rest of the show trying to win her back."

Grease features a book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; with favorite songs like "We Go Together," "You're the One That I Want," "Greased Lightnin'," and "Summer Nights."

The first stage version of Grease originally ran in the West end for six years at the Dominion and later at the Cambridge Theatre.  The production returned briefly at the Dominion in 2001 and at the Victoria Palace in 2002 and 2003, plus a UK tour since 1993.

The West End has found a successful pattern of casting stars of musicals with reality shows after Connie Fisher stepped into The Sound of Music last year.  Last weekend Lee Mead was announced the winner of "Any Dream Will Do," the BBC reality TV to cast the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's up-coming revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.