A musical about teens in love in the 1950's!
Grease is a 1972 musical directed by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (loosely based on William Howard Taft High School (Chicago)), follows ten working-class kids as they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins.
The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.
So good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fall in love over the Summer!!
But when they unexpectedly discover they're now attending the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance....?
Danny is the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black-jacket greasers while Sandy hangs with the Pink Ladies, a group of pink-wearing girls led by Rizzo. When they clash at Rydell's first pep rally, Danny isn't the same Danny at the beach. They try to be like each other so they can be together.
At the time it closed in 1980, Grease's 3388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, a popular 1994 Broadway revival, and a staple of regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups.
After it's huge success on the stage, Grease was adapted to film in 1978 by Randal Kleiser. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, and Eve Arden.
The movie received five Golden Globe Award nominations in 1979 and was the 2nd highest grossing (US) movie of 1978.
Along with the plot comes songs that will be stuck in your head for years. Such songs include Summer Nights, Beauty School Dropout and the now famous song Greased Lightining.
Grease is a timeless classic that will have you singing and dancing by the end of the movie!
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I Loved the movie so I can imagine how good this would be on stage. Apparently the entire script was made to be on stage but with the technology avaliable it became an on-screen hit.
ReplyDeleteThis movie is aweeesomeee! Definitely has me singing and dancing by the end of the movie like the big loser i am.. grease is the wordddd is the worddd is the worddd....
ReplyDeleteActually, I was in a stage production of Grease in 2005 with Engadine Musical Society! I played Rizzo. The stage production follows a slightly different storyline, and Rizzo and Kenickie are as prominent characters as Danny and Sandy.
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