Grease is a high-energy, feel-good musical set in the 1950s, centered around the romance between Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. After a summer fling, they are reunited at Rydell High, where they navigate high school life, friendships, and peer pressure. The story features unforgettable characters, including the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds, as well as iconic songs like “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’,” and “You’re the One That I Want.” With its catchy tunes, vibrant dances, and timeless themes of love, friendship, and growing up, Grease is a classic celebration of youthful exuberance and heart.

Central High School

Principal: Dr. Chendra Dupree

Assistant Principal: Ms. Amber Lamar

Assistant Principal: Mr. Roderick Earl

Theatre Director: Ms. Sandie Butler

The Central High School Theatre Department aims to provide a superb theatre education, striving to expose students to all theatrical aspects, and generate well-rounded, creative individuals with experience applicable to the real-world. 

The Theatre Program at Central High School addresses a student's complex, intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and cultural world. As an intellectual tool, Theatre not only teaches facts and figures, but routinely invites analysis, judgment, and synthesis. Central's Theatre Program encourages cooperative learning, team work, organization, and leadership skills while seamlessly integrating all aspects of the art form: script writing, acting, designing, directing, researching, comparing art forms, analyzing, critiquing, and understanding   contexts. At Central High School, we teach students to see the creative world of theatre through multiple perspectives: the playwright, actor, designer, director, and discerning audience member and we encourage our students to view and deconstruct dramatic works as not only a collection of denotative and connotative meanings, but as a metaphoric vision of life that invites, supports, and celebrates varied interpretations. Central High School students are able to express emotion in a safe environment, and learn how to calibrate their emotional responses to various stimuli. Central's Theatre Program endows all students with insight and physicality, offering them the opportunity to explore areas of interaction within their social or formal domain.