OLLI's Radio Active Players proudly present 'Grease'
Curt Bright
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10/27/2016
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"Grease" is the word for actors over 50!
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- [00:00:00.709]("Greased Lightning")
- [00:00:10.063]♫ Go greased lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
- [00:00:13.898]♫ Greased lightning
- [00:00:15.109]♫ Go greased lightning
- [00:00:17.200]This production is Grease School Edition
- [00:00:20.320]which means that it was originally written
- [00:00:22.578]to be a junior high school show.
- [00:00:25.330]A junior high school version of Grease.
- [00:00:27.829]Hello Danny!
- [00:00:28.989]Oh, hi!
- [00:00:31.000]So with our OLLI Playhouse Radio Active group
- [00:00:34.219]you have people who've never been in a play before,
- [00:00:36.578]you have people who haven't done a play since high school
- [00:00:38.909]and you have people who are just brilliant actors
- [00:00:41.480]who have been brilliant actors all of their lives
- [00:00:44.880]and now are senior citizens and still wanna keep doing it.
- [00:00:47.621]You remember when we used to go and salute
- [00:00:49.749]our athletic teams with "Yay, Ringtails!"
- [00:00:54.090]This is where I can come with contemporary-aged people
- [00:00:59.909]and we're all accepted and accepting one of the other.
- [00:01:03.770]We have a lot of fun.
- [00:01:05.319]This is, I think, my sixth performance with the OLLI group
- [00:01:08.931]and so, yeah, it's something enjoyable
- [00:01:11.449]enough that I keep coming back.
- [00:01:14.070]♫ What's that playing on the radio
- [00:01:17.619]♫ Why do I start swaying too and fro
- [00:01:21.293]Started doing some of these with OLLI
- [00:01:24.135]about four or five years ago.
- [00:01:25.814]I had a lot of fun doing them, and so any time
- [00:01:27.563]I've got the opportunity I try and become a part of them.
- [00:01:31.056]You just learn a lot, I mean it's a great opportunity
- [00:01:33.897]to meet other people and just learn a lot of things that,
- [00:01:37.729]I mean, you gotta keep learning or you'll lose it.
- [00:01:40.767]♫ F, F, F, F, F, F, G, G, G
- [00:01:44.158]I'm in the chorus because I have
- [00:01:46.248]such a great singing voice.
- [00:01:48.177](laughs)
- [00:01:50.198]All I am is loud.
- [00:01:51.849]I'm just loud but it's a lot of fun.
- [00:01:54.939]We're going back to 1959
- [00:01:57.110]and a lot of us were in high school in 1959.
- [00:02:00.910]Do you remember and did you have a poodle skirt like this?
- [00:02:07.029]♫ Summer lovin' had me a blast
- [00:02:11.299]One of the biggest hurdles
- [00:02:13.287]that we remove with our senior citizen program
- [00:02:15.476]is that you don't have to memorize it.
- [00:02:17.350]You can use your script.
- [00:02:18.649]We rehearse it, you learn it,
- [00:02:20.470]but you don't have to have it memorized.
- [00:02:22.377]That's a big hurdle.
- [00:02:24.579]It's the quality of the shows that keeps
- [00:02:27.394]people coming back and continuing to join OLLI.
- [00:02:30.706]Yeah I feel like I'm pretty cool
- [00:02:32.146]out there on stage even being the nerd.
- [00:02:35.386]I think I'll go wait in the station wagon with dad.
- [00:02:39.418]By removing the hurdle of having to memorize.
- [00:02:42.258]By making it an atmosphere that's about fun
- [00:02:46.106]and supportiveness of each other
- [00:02:48.584]I think we're able to create a great,
- [00:02:50.346]great spot for people to continue
- [00:02:52.476]to do plays or to try it for the first time.
- [00:02:54.807]♫ Ooo-aa-oo-oo
- [00:02:58.740]♫ Freddy, my love
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