It will be all go for these seven dancers as they make their debut in Grease – The Arena Experience this week.
Melton’s Jordan, Shayla, Iesha, Brooke, Clare, Nateisha and Hollie will be part of the mass ensemble of 500 young musical theatre performers who get to star in the musical production which is on at Hisense Arena on April 13 and 14.
The young local group were put through a training boot camp prior to rehearsals, dancing to hits from the most popular movie musical of all time.
Eleven-year-old Jordan’s mother Angela Ryder said the girls were excited to have been selected from about 2000 who auditioned.
“The girls are ecstatic to be chosen,” Ms Ryder said.
“It was no easy feat to go in either, during the audition phase they had to sing, act and dance their way through the process.
“The girls were also involved in several boot camps as a lead-up to the show and they are required to be part of daily rehearsals during the school holiday break.”
Jordan, who attends Arnold’s Creek Primary School, said practicing was “not as easy as it looks”.
“You spend a lot of time away from your family learning the choreography and songs, but I really love it because I get to sing and dance to songs like Y
ou’re the One That I Want, Born to Hand Jive and We Go Together.”
The world’s largest production of
Grease features some of Australia’s biggest stars including international drag queen Courtney Act and Meghan O’Shea and Damon Wade in the lead roles of Sandy and Danny.
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