Teen+Plays

Grease

Grease is a great play to do when you're a teenager. It is an upbeat musical and really fun to develop both your acting and singing skills. Grease is a musical about a girl, Sandy, and a boy, Danny, falling in love over the summer and when school gets back in the fall they find each other again. However, Danny falls victim to peer pressure when it comes to his love and acts completely different around Sandy than he did during the summer. There is another subplot of school/gang rivalries, and also teen pregnancy. It is a great play again, full of lessons and fun. In the end Sandy and Danny end up together after changing their appearances for each other, which is a great lesson on love. You need really only to be yourself for someone to fall in love with you, once you start changing for each other it might end in disaster. Not only that but peer pressure is a huge theme in this musical! Danny and Sandy weren't together in the beginning because Danny was the bad boy and Sandy the straight-laced girl, his friends didn't approve of Sandy so they weren't able to be together. The teen pregnancy subplot is much more low key but in part of the play Rizzo believes she is pregnant, in the end she finds out she is not, but it is a very prevalent danger that most teens nowadays have to worry about. And whether or not teens are having sex or not, it is becoming part of everyday life. This is a great play which is still relevant to today's times even though it was produced and written quite a long time ago.