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Late last year, immersive titans Secret Cinema sent out a teaser email to its entire mailing list saying its new show would be announced the following day, while Deadline dropped a story saying that it was going to be an immersive staging of Barbie.
There was no announcement the following day and there has been no sign of a Barbie show, and while I have heard rumours an all new Secret Cinema event at a new site will be announced soon-ish, then long story short this summer it’ll be bringing back last year’s hit staging of Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical.
And why not? Returning to Battersea Park, the show that launched a thousand Instagram snaps was a hit for the company and saw Secret Cinema blessedly return to a format wherein the audience actually had to watch the movie (a point that had increasingly become an afterthought in recent Secret Cinema events).
Also, those fancy sets recreating Rydell High and its neighbouring fairground were presumably just gathering dust somewhere and deserve a second airing via a fun show that supplements the recorded John Travolta, Olivia Newton John et al with live dancers and singers.
Obviously the baller move would have been to stage Grease 2 instead, but arguably that would have been a recipe for total financial disaster.
Grease: The Immersive Movie Musical is at Battersea Park, Jul 22-Sep 13.
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