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Fantastic experience for anyone planning to attend!

Absolutely brilliant experience, must be seen to be believed!!!
Welcome to Rydell High!!!

My 4th Secret Cinema experience and it did not disappoint! Being an outdoor event we took ponchos and waterproof Blankets but luckily we only had 1 shower an everything carried on through. I took my mum who has mobility issues and the staff could not have been more accommodating - a quick email was all it took to get seating in the accessible area, they looked after us during the Bandstand contest inside getting my mum a chair to sit on right to the front so she didn't miss anything. The actors are amazing and fully in character the whole time. Just another amazing experience.

What an amazing experience. Felt like we were extras in the show. The cast threw themselves into everything.Congratulations to everyone involved. Rydell High you rock

Grease - the life experience was hands down the best even I have ever been to and I would 110% recommend. The performance, cast and set up were unmatched! Very good crowd control and cleanliness too. I will definitely be back, Thankyou for having us 🫶🏼

The best show I have ever seen! From start to finish I was blown away with the venue, actors, food and even the security added to the experience. No complaints at all. We drove for nearly 3 hours to see this and it was 100% worth it! The attention to detail and interaction from the actors was second to none.

Amazing day at Grease Live Secret Cinema. Drinks and food were pricey. Definitely would go again. Very enjoyable.

I LOVE secret cinema events. My sister and I have been to so many. Dirty Dancing, Guardians of the Galaxy, Bridgerton, Stranger things… and more! I rave about them to everyone. So when we got the email about Grease we were so excited! And immediately booked our tickets.

I wasn’t best pleased to receive an email only a short while later offering tickets at almost half the price we paid (we paid full £70 each) as a loyal customer I felt a bit cheated to be honest, but hey Ho. We were still excited.

At the station signage was non existent. The queue to get in was VERY long. Everyone was allowed to keep their phones which I found really disappointing. I love the experience being immersive but people with their phones out the whole time takes you out of it. Signs said don’t film the cast but I saw so many people with phones shoved in the actors faces.

Once in it was WAY busier than any other Secret cinema event I’ve been to. The others seemed to have the perfect amount of people. Not too crowded and means you feel able to get involved and immersed. This was absolutely rammed. The queues for the bars were so long.
The bars were high and didn’t advertise all the drinks, which made ordering confusing and difficult. They were very expensive but that’s not really unexpected.

There were a few free activities, but the fairground rides cost a lot extra and the queues were long. We went on the ferris wheel, but missed quite a lot of what was going on because of the time it took. You even had to pay for things like coconut shy type events. It just seemed unnecessary.

We went into the gym to see the dance competition. It was so busy that you couldn’t see anything unless you were in the front row. And I mean nothing. Just people’s backs. It was very overcrowded, you were shoulder to shoulder in there. All I could see was the ceiling of the marquee. That was so disappointing. Once outside we got lucky with where we stood as we were in the front row, but anyone further behind wouldn’t be able to see at all because of the amount of people.

The actors were amazing though, and the film and music numbers were great. Although if the weather had been bad it would have been completely miserable.

Also, there was absolutely no sweet options for food. Usually you can get churros etc, but there was nothing like that at all.

And, there were no ‘secret’ bits! The thing that I love about the experience!!

Overall we felt this was very poor in comparison to the others. Not at all immersive due to how busy it all was, people with phones out and having to pay so much extra for things.

Very overpriced for the experience this time. Sadly it’s made me wonder if I’d actually go to another one now.

@secretcinema most appalling experience in torrential weather. How can you knowingly let an event go ahead & call it an 'experience'. Certainly an experience, in how to get pneumonia. No apology, no offer of goodwill.
Don't book with them. They'll take your money and don't care.

We went on Wednesday 26th July. Whole night was terrible. The weather was appalling and there is no contingency for this. 45 minute queue to get in, long queues for all the overpriced food. Very limited drink choices. Only dry place was the ‘gym’ but you weren’t allowed to stay in there. This was on a slope do you couldn’t see anything going on.

There was no interactive experience. We paid £45 and even the fair ground rides are still extra!
It’s a rip off from start to finish. The cast danced to one song when the film started then disappeared. To make matters worse, the bar was shut by 9pm (what event ever does that?!) and the whole cast were INSIDE in the dry having a very jolly happy time while we froze outside. I was absolutely fuming. The security tried to tell me that it was closed due to ‘health and safety’ but Secret Cinema know exactly how many tickets they sold. Most people had left by 9pm so there’s thousands of u happy people from that night, but mysteriously no negative comments on social media.
Customer service is non existent. They don’t care about the thousands who have a bad experience and ignore your emails and contact via social media channels. There is no phone number (for this reason I suppose). I’ve seen some people were offered free return tickets but we haven’t even had a response from email, Facebook or Instagram.
Avoid this at all costs it’s a rip off and nothing but an outdoor cinema with terrible customer service, they edit comments on social media so it looks like an amazing experience. They don’t care once they’ve got your money, Don’t waste your money,

I was given a couple of tickets for this event for free by a friend, and it seemed like a really fun night out. A few friends have been to immersive experience things like this before, and they sounded incredible. I’m not a massive fan of Grease (slightly troubling abandon-self-and-values-for-partner theme, to say the least 😂) but the songs are great, and I wanted to take my 18yo daughter for a fun evening together.

I think the issue with this event is calling it an ‘immersive experience’ – the old style Secret Cinema was, by all accounts, exactly that. You were absolutely part of the drama, you got right in amongst the action and it unfolded around you. The audiences were small, the whole thing had that truly secret feeling, like you’d been caught up in a parallel world.

This experience was much more of a themed screening of a movie. The food and drinks were (mostly) 1950s themed, the whole place was designed as part of the Rydell High set (including bleachers and ferris wheel!!), and there was audience interaction with the cast. (The singing/dancing was brilliant!)

But… unlike the original Secret Cinema ethos, this felt mostly about the commercial opportunities. We weren’t allowed to bring in our own food or drinks, and it was 6-10pm experience, so at the very least you’re going to want a drink. But even though the cheapest tickets were £40 (and there are various premium options that are much more than that), all the refreshments available were an additional cost, and at a predictably high price point, e.g., a very average bottle of wine £30 (unless you had much higher-priced tickets, when you were given a voucher for food and drink included).

The food was good, and not insanely expensive, but it added to the feeling of really being a customer, rather than part of the experience. If bringing your own picnic was an option (as in many outdoor theatre experiences which we’ve loved, like Three Inch Fools), then the feeling of being somewhat rinsed might be avoided!

The thing that *really* made it feel like a commercial event, though, were the many many steward/security guards, absolutely all over the place. I’m sure they were needed, and in general they were neutral/friendly, but their blue polo shirt uniform made them very obviously not part of the experience, and there was a pretty heavy-handed presence in terms of not taking photos (unless it was of each other) and being herded back / away from the cast a lot of the time. (Plus they picked up and discarded half-finished drinks and food if you didn’t physically hold onto them!)

But the stewarding was obviously necessary, because the event was huuuugee. There were hundreds of people there, and in the end that’s what made it entirely *not* an immersive experience. There was *zero* sense that we were truly in the film (in the way that friends have described it being for The Shawshank Redemption, 28 Days Later, or Back to the Future, in previous years, or last year at War of the Worlds, run by a different company).

So if you’re happy to drop at least £75+ per person (and potentially much more) on a really impressively in-depth themed cinema screening (and the sound and quality of the screen was incredible, very very good indeed) where lots of the audience will dress up to the nines, then go for it.

If you want to be immersed / feel like you’re living inside your favourite movie (or you don’t have that kind of money to spend on a film night!) then avoid and recreate your own 😂 I would definitely not go to something like this for a film I *really* loved because I think it might spoil it.

However – it was a fun evening, I’m v grateful to the lovely friend who gifted us the tickets, and I enjoyed the singalong aspect of the movie itself, and having a laugh with friends.

(The amazing weather also helped; a warm dry evening with a gorgeous sunset was a huge factor in the overall enjoyment; wouldn't fancy it in the rain!)

Attended multiple secret cinema experiences in the past, all were magical and immersive...

The actors, alongside the Grease film are fantastic and you cannot fault them. The choreography is perfectly in sync with what's happening on screen.

However, unfortunately it seems the company have sold out and are now putting little effort into the film 'world' concept.

This experience was on a much smaller scale compared to usual, it was on one of the NEC carparks. The area is filled up with expensive food and drink vans. Charging roughly £10 for a cocktail, £6.50 for a can of beer. Even worse £6.50 for a mocktail, which is mainly lemonade!

Fairground rides, were extra if you wanted to ride.

Overall there wasn't much to immerse yourself into prior to the film, apart from struggling to watch a few of the performances going on around you, because they were all mainly at ground level so you needed to fight with the crowds if you actually wanted to see them.

For over £70 a ticket, I expect a lot more from a company that claims they deliver 'Cinema made epic'.

Attended the Secret Cinems Grease experience 9th Aug and it was Amazing, took me right back in time and the cast was Amazing they was so good, the set and Costumes it was like being there for real. Will definitely be going again

Cannot recommend this enough. Amazing evening. So much fun - didn’t want the evening to end. One of the best live events I have ever been too. Book your tickets now!

Paid for the premium, then the price was reduced by £20 only a few days later. The premium ticket really wasn’t worth it and the drinks and food were really over priced. Wouldn’t go again

Absolutely incredible! Attended the Grease show at the NEC and LITERALLY grinned from ear to ear for the whole 3.5 hours, it was amazing. The cast were epic, they were engaging, got us involved in so many things, and I couldn’t believe how great their likeliness was to the original cast! This was my first Secret Cinema event and certainly won’t be my last! Please do more at the NEC soon, and please please do another Dirty Dancing as can’t believe we missed out on that last year! Thanks for a truly great night

We attended the opening night which obviously was a bit of a wash out (although we still really enjoyed it) but we cane again last night and it was brilliant! We loved it. The cinema moments itself blew us away and the cast are brilliant. Thank you secret cinema for making it happen and consider us life long fans!

Generally LOVE Secret Cinema events. Some have ranked higher than others but I'm yet to leave one wishing I hadn't bothered!
Grease is the first show to be out of London and is smaller in scale than the usual outdoor events. Personally I loved this. it felt more intimate and you were more likely to see some action and get involved with character interactions.
The food is on the more expensive end as would be expected in an event like this- compare it to a theatre trip or festival- it's to be expected.
The weather has NOT been on their side this time which is SUCH a shame, it would have been amazing to have seen some more covered areas based on this but understand logistics aren't always possible. I was lucky my visit wasn't raining until the film, when we got a sprinkle. the cast carried on and it was such a good show. Left absolutely buzzing!
Look forward to what comes next!

We went on opening night on Wednesday 26th July. It was forecast heavy rain from 4pm to last all night. We took our umbrellas and off we went. The rain was horrendous. We had paid for premium tickets which in all honesty are not worth the extra money, the only good thing is that you skip the main queue. If you have the most expensive food and buy two drinks there you save around £3-5 by having a premium ticket. The souvenir is a map printed on card, which in the torrential rain we were in the ink all ran and it disintegrated. A keyring or magnet would have been better.

We honestly thought the event would be cancelled whilst we were waiting to go in due to how bad the weather was. One of the ladies checking us in said there is contingency for bad weather, we did not see what this was, it was all outside the only cover was the gym set up which then closed and stopped letting people in or the covering where the bar was which is where a lot of people stood.

Because of the weather the gym was packed and we couldn't see any of the dancing which was disappointing. We didn't know who were the actors as everyone had coats or ponchos on, we didn't really know what was happening.

The fair ground rides were still operational but they cost extra and are expensive for what they are. the ferris wheel you need 4 tokens per person to go on, they only sell tokens in 5's, 5 tokens cost £7.50, which we were not prepared to pay to go on in the rain.

The food was nice we had the pizza which was lovely.

We did not get the 'experience' we were hoping for. The emails you receive say to dress for the British weather, the company who manage the events should also have plans in place for the British weather.

On a plus we have been offered complimentary tickets to return and we are going on 9th August, the weather is supposed to be nice so we are hoping that we can be involved and experience the 'experience'

Amazing night at Grease. Although much smaller than previous shows this production still packs a punch. Fabulous interactions .. first with Danny and Kenickie, followed by the Pink Ladies singing about summer nights (gave me goosebumps), then having a watch of the hand jive and seeing the amazing Cha Cha, watching Greased Lightning and then being led by Rizzo for “there are worse things ..”
Had a lovely Rum cocktail and Greek wrap during the show. I thought it was a nice touch they were selling glasses of wine/prosecco in the waiting area before the show. Loved it so much I’m traveling up from London again on Saturday. The only niggle is that I paid full price and now tickets are much reduced… but I wasn’t prepared to wait so that’s my fault! Bravo to Secret Cinema.
PS What’s your next production and make it soon 😊😊