Grease, the musical Olivia Newton-John made famous, opens for the first time in over a decade at the Capitol Theatre.
Growing up on Sydney’s north shore and northern beaches, Hall, who plays Sandy Olsson, in the 1971 stage play which opens at the Capital Theatre Tuesday night, said she was ““Olivia Newton-John was someone I always looked up to growing up – she was graceful, a great singer and dancer and an inspiration to all young Australian women,” Hall said.
Going to a Catholic school - Corpus Christi in St Ives - she says she too could relate to the role of the naive Australian exchange student who comes to America’s Rydell High and meets the supercool Danny Zuko, played by John Travolta in the film, and Joseph Spanti, in this stage production. At 24, Hall is a graduate of the Queensland Conservatorium’s musical theatre program, a little younger than Newton-John who was 28 when she starred in the ’50s era movie, which was the highest-grossing musical film at the time and whoseAs one of the official ambassadors for Olivia’s Walk for Wellness, Hall took part in the Melbourne fundraising walk to help raise funds for cancer last October, continuing the legacy of the four-time Grammy Award winner who died of breast cancer in 2022.
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