With Bear Grease, Lightning Cloud brings Indigenized musical theatre to the Massey, April 9 and 10
All Indigenous cast offers a new take on the show that Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta made famous
Bear Grease.
Lightning Cloud presents Bear Grease in collaboration with the Massey Theatre on April 9 at 5 pm and April 10 at 7 pm at the Massey Theatre.
IT’S GOT A GROOVE, it’s got a meaning—but Bear Grease is not the story you know of good-girl Sandy and greaser Danny Zuco.
Hip-hop duo Lightning Cloud—Crystle Lightning (Canadian Screen Award winner for best actress, 2021, Trickster) and MC RedCloud (former Guinness World Record holder for longest freestyle rap)—are the creators, writers, and directors of this Treaty 6 Indigenous re-mastered twist on the classic musical.
With an all-Indigenous cast, Bear Grease combines hip-hop, parody, improv, and freestyle for an Indigenized musical-theatre production that offers a new historical perspective.
“Representation matters,” RedCloud said in a release. “Grease is a classic, but during the ‘50s and ‘60s, we weren’t able to run around the streets like Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. We were getting shuffled into some nonsense and boarding school.”
The touring show originates in Edmonton, Alberta (Treaty 6), Enoch Cree Nation.
Tickets and more information are at https://www.ticketsnw.ca/event/bear-grease/
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