🔵 Blue Circle Series
Bear Grease
Wed Dec 3, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Admission 🎟️
Adult (ages 25+) $55
Youth (ages 12-24) $45
Indigenous Community $45
ENCORE! member presale Jul 2-9, 2025
Onsale Jul 9, 2025 at 12 PM noon
Purchase tickets online or at the box office!
Online -
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/bear-grease/
Box office - 250.338.2430 ext 1
It’s not the Grease you expect to see, it’s the Grease you need to see.
Bear Grease reimagines the iconic 1972 musical Grease through a bold and comedic native lens. With a rip-roaring score by Crystle Lightning and Henry Cloud Andrade, and direction by Crystle Lightning, this all-Indigenous concert-style musical infuses hip-hop and comedy into a pow wow-powered love story that’s equal parts hilarious homage and cultural celebration. Captivating audiences across North America, Bear Grease has had over 200 successful performances over 4 incredible years and is now debuting Off-Broadway. The beloved songs of Grease are revitalized with vibrant cultural expression and Cree (Nêhiyawêwin) language: “Hopelessly Devoted” becomes a soul-stirring Round Dance, “Bear Grease Lightning” bursts with Traditional, Grass, Chicken, and Fancy footwork, and “Wichihin” delivers a powerful new take on “Stand by Me”.
This production takes the audience on an Indigenous joyride through a parallel universe where colonization never existed. While staying true to some aspects of the original musical, the show revamps certain elements: Sandy wears a ribbon skirt, it’s the Pink Aunties (not the Pink Ladies), Rizzo is Rezzo, and Summer Lovin’ turns into Summer Snaggin’. Bear Grease cleverly fuses Doo Wop, Hip-Hop, and Pow Wow styles with Indigenous fashion, history, and humour, and makes each show reflective of the community it is performed in. If laughter is the best medicine, Bear Grease – also the name of a sacred Indigenous medicine – is just what the doctor ordered.
Learn more about Bear Grease The Musical here -
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/bear-grease/
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