Mount Greylock Regional School Presents 'Grease'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School presents "Grease" on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 27, February 28 and March 1, 2025, at 7 p.m. in the school’s auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. 

According to a press release:

Join Sandy, Danny and the rest of the gang at Rydell High for a night of laughs, dancing and timeless show tune classics like "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightnin’" and "You’re the One That I Want." With the book, music and lyrics written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, this beloved musical is an irreverent take on teen love, friendship and rebellion. First staged in 1971 in Chicago, "Grease" had a lengthy Broadway run before becoming a hit film in 1978, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 

Faculty member Jeffrey Welch directs his 26th musical for Mount Greylock. Music direction is by music teacher Jacqueline Vinette, with choreography by Enrique Segura. 

Show tickets must be purchased online in advance (no cash)—$10 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for nondistrict students—and are available by visiting https://gofan.co/app/school/MA13751. Mount Greylock Regional School District students get in free.

Concessions (cash only) will be provided by the Friends of the Arts, with proceeds benefiting school arts programming. 

Mount Greylock Regional Class of 2026 'Embraced the Unexpected'

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
04:38PM / Saturday, June 06, 2026

Speaker William Apotsos says the class took the red pill, embracing the unexpected; classmate Madison Powell tells them they're still becoming the people they will be. 

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School sent 67 graduates off with diplomas and a cap toss on Saturday. 

 

The seniors queued up to enter the school gym with "Pomp and Circumstance" and scattered out the doors to "Choose Joy." 

 

It was the choices to be present that had gotten the Mounties to this day, said William Apotsos, whom the class had selected as their graduating speaker. "They didn't just decide to be present, they refused to be absent."

 

When one little girl had thanked him for being there to referee a youth soccer game, it drove "home the importance of not only being present but refusing to be absent," he said. 

 

Being present had been difficult in the transition between remote learning during the pandemic and returning to the school, when the class had to figure out how to be present together — physically, mentally and socially. 

 

"There is always the safe route. Stick to what you know, stick around people you know, and never really leave your metaphorical shell that you built up over your time at home. ... Then there was the more dangerous: put yourself out there, embrace your impact option,"  Apotsos said. 

 

"It's very much a red pill and blue pill situation, and what I am most proud of, that pretty much every single person on this stage took the red pill. They chose to embrace the unexpected and decide that they wouldn't let a couple years of isolation determine who they were going to be."