South Puget Sound Community College and Saint Martin's University have allied to mount a new production of Grease, but parents expecting a carbon copy of the beloved Travolta adaptation (1978) are in for a rude awakening. "In crafting our production," director Colleen Powers warns in the program, "my goal was to bring back some of the edginess." True to her word, these are "the ‘bad kids' of the era," with "obscenity laced" dialogue. It's no 8 Mile, thankfully, but it's also no watered-down Rebel Without a Cause.

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Grease

Through Nov. 21, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
$7.50-$12.50
Kenneth J. Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts, 2011 Mottman Rd., Olympia
360.753.8586