One look and the story was told. Wet streets, dripping leaves, overcast sky: sometime in the night it had rained on the open-air Grease set.

Flats, lights, sound system, cables and costumes -- all of them wet.

Ah, but surely someone had stayed with the set overnight at the Peach Tree Golf and Country Club and, when the first raindrop fell would have covered the most expensive equipment.

But no. Upon arrival the set looked as bedraggled, vulnerable and forlorn as a tramp ship, hastily abandoned at sea.

Poor little April Clark had left all her costumes neatly hung up on a laundry rack left out in the rain. There will be an extra dollop of emotion her vice, no doubt, when she sings "Raining on Prom Night" tonight.

No good deed goes unpunished, they say. This may explain the rain disaster followed the cast's best performance so far.

After a week's lay-off the kids returned Friday to a SRO house. But for some annoying glitches with the microphones, it was the best show to date.

Everyone seemed on it, Dahni Trujillo, especially. Almost all the diffidence had departed her acting voice. What remains of her languidness resides in he body and mannerisms.

Mat Monaco remembered to drop is lunch. At the right time, even. Derek Riley reached a new, higher, sharper final note in "Beauty School Dropout, Joe Moye rocked harder. Sara Guerrero, Mary Cobb and Shannon Doscher amped their Pink Ladies dialogue.

Philip Roberson explored the theatrical possibilities of a saxophone, Kyle Noland -- who still would rather be one of the star -- pushed a little harder on his dancing skills envelope.

Burger Palace Boys Jame Wilton, Tyler Brand, Austin dixon and Jasper Oliver further tightened their repartee and put even more English on the ball they're having on stage.