Grease remains a well-oiled stage show

BEFORE Glee, there was Grease, a high-school musical that many of us born on the other side of the new millennium (minus a decade or two, let's not be picky) grew up with.

Set in the late 1950s to rockabilly and doo-wop pop tunes from that era, it could almost be considered retro when the musical made its stage debut on Broadway in 1972; six years before John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John immortalised it on the big screen in 1978 and turned Grease into the highest-grossing screen musical of all time.

That in turn has kept the stage production alive for decades and it finally comes to Singapore where it will run for just over a fortnight more at Marina Bay Sands.