CULT American musical Grease is coming to the North-East as the show marks the 40th year since it hit the stage.

A special interactive version, Sing-a-long-a Grease, will be at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle for one night only on Sunday, November 11.

With on-screen lyrics and special props, audience members can get fully into the swing and sing their hearts out through every one of the massive hits, including Summer Nights, Hopelessly Devoted To You, Greased Lightnin’ and We Go Together.

Producer Ben Freedman, who has previously worked on Sing-a-long-a Sound of Music and Sing-a-long-a Abba, said: “Sing-a-long-a Grease is the show that audiences have been asking for since we first presented a sing-a-long show back in 1999.

“It’s much more than ‘just a film’. It’s an event, an interactive experience, the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the stage musical Grease which premiered at the Off-Broadway Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan, before transferring to Broadway in June, 1972.

The show, about two lovers in a 1950s US high school, was based on an earlier, grittier “play with incidental music” called Grease Lightning, first staged in Chicago the previous year.

In 1978 it was turned into a film starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and has topped polls of favourite music musicals ever since.

Tickets are £17.50 and can be booked by calling 08448-112-121 or logging on to www.theatreroyal.co.uk