The 1978 film version, directed by Randal Kleiser, is more famous than the Broadway musical (or the earlier, off-Broadway version produced in 1971). Add scene. Scenes of Danny and Sandy on the beach. Sandy is also given a backstory of having overprotective parents who do not even let her go to school dances, much to her chagrin. Thankfully for her, they don't. "[42], Grease was voted the best musical ever on Channel 4's 100 greatest musicals in 2004. Love the Laughlin cards. At the end-of-year carnival, Sonny and Marty become a couple, completing the gang pairing. Kenickie too; his first name is never mentioned. [25] During the reissue, it overtook The Godfather as Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film. A principal named "Dr. Devlin" was also lost in the Broadway alterations, along with some minor characters like a police officer, and a bum. After "Summer Nights," when Sandy mentions it was Danny Zuko she met at the beach, Rizzo remarks how her Prince Charming could show up again. The Burger Palace Boys will all almost always have dark hair, though sometimes a lighter-haired actor will be cast as one (as with Jeff Conaway as Kenickie). "Alma Mater" was originally the show opener sung by Miss Lynch, Patty, Eugene, and the 1959 class of Rydell High, but is heard in the background of the movie when Miss Lynch is doing the school year's first morning announcements. Then I stood up abruptly. Right before his dangerous race with the Scorpions, Kenickie refuses to drive, stating that Rizzo's baby will need him around to take care of him as a father. Didi Conn, the film's Frenchie, as Vi. For instance, when he dances with her, he initially refuses to vary his dancing (like in the movie) until she tells him to "pluck her like his guitar", which gets a smile from him and leads to his declaration that he is having a great night with her. She still loves him and he does love her, but there's no guarantee they'll be able to get past their differences before the end of senior year. The drive-in movie scenes were shot at the Burbank Pickwick Drive-In (it was closed and torn down in 1989 and a shopping center took its place). Also, in the original, the slumber party was at Marty's house. Sandy acts more rebellious even before her makeover, in order to avoid lots of implications that the film is. Before this, her big solo number was "It's Raining On Prom Night," which is only heard on a jukebox in the film. It makes sense that Roger and Jan are a couple! [56], The song "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" refers to Sal Mineo in the original stage version. WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in In December 2020, the 1978 film adaptation Grease was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry. Mario Lopez appeared as Vince Fontaine, Wendell Pierce played Coach Calhoun (although Martin Sheen was initially rumored for that role), and Boyz II Men were featured as the Teen Angels. Besides cutting songs down for language and timing purposes, Rizzo's pregnancy-scare is also eliminated. The Paramount Pictures studio lot was the location of the scenes that involve Frosty Palace and the musical numbers "Greased Lightning" and "Beauty School Dropout". "[50] The film was shown for two weekends only; additional cities lobbied by fans from the Paramount official website started a week later and screened for one weekend. In general, all of the songs in the musical that were performed by characters other than Danny, Rizzo, Sandy, Johnny Casino, or the Teen Angel were either taken out of the film or given to other characters, including Marty Maraschino's number "Freddy My Love", Kenickie's "Greased Lightnin'", and Doody's "Those Magic Changes".) On March 12, 2013, Grease and Grease 2 were packaged together in a double feature DVD set from Warner Home Video. VIEWS. Unfortunately for Patty, she doesn't know she's being used. One example that Jim Jacobs cited was that the Pink Ladies' jackets went from being black to literally being pink, due to the movie's influence. A surprisingly clever one in "bite the weenie, Riz!" In the TV version, it is. The Broadway run increasingly softened dialogue and made the costumes more mainstream '50s attire (such as giving Sandy a poodle skirt), while the movie played things even campier. She later arranges to surprise Sandy by reuniting her with Danny, as she knows full well that Danny is also attending Rydell. [24][25] The film played for four weeks and was then paired with the PG-Rating version of Saturday Night Fever in late June. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Eugene has a passion for rocket science, and uses this knowledge by voluntarily revving up the T-Birds car engine so that they can win their race against the Scorpions. Fox televised a live adaptation of the musical on January 31, 2016, directed by Thomas Kail and starring Julianne Hough as Sandy and Aaron Tveit as Danny. Cindy Bullens - Freddy, My Love. "[17][18], Due to an editing error, a closing scene in which Danny and Sandy kiss was removed from the finished print and lost before its theatrical release. She also gets to sing her song. [8] The screen test was done with the drive-in movie scene. Rizzo departs with Kenickie to have sex with him, during which his condom breaks. [4] The song "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music – Original Song. [14] The final scene where the carnival took place used John Marshall High School. [21] Despite losing the opening weekend, it topped the box-office the following weekend with a gross of $7,867,000 and set a record gross in its first 19 days with $40,272,000. Guess mine is not the first heart broken My eyes are not the first to cry I'm not the first to know There's just no getting over you. His role contained no spoken dialogue and required Lamas to dye his hair blond to avoid looking like one of the T-Birds.[11]. [3] Its soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best-selling album of the year in the United States, behind the soundtrack of the 1977 blockbuster Saturday Night Fever (which also starred Travolta)[4] and earned an Oscar nomination for "Hopelessly Devoted to You" at the 51st Academy Awards. The race was filmed at the Los Angeles River, between the First and Seventh Street Bridges, where many other films have been shot. The opening beach scene was shot at Malibu's Leo Carrillo State Beach, making explicit reference to From Here to Eternity. Everyone in the second diner scene does this out of frustration or anger (Kenickie in particular gets a milkshake in his face courtesy of an angry Rizzo), leaving Frenchy on her own and resulting in the "Beauty School Dropout" number. The fourth track on the Grease Original Soundtrack made for the 1978 film adaptation of the 1971 musical, ... Freddy, My Love 19. Danny has lettered in track but is shocked when Sandy arrives dressed as a female T-Bird. Contributors. 32. [27] It was re-released in March 1998 for its 20th anniversary where it grossed a further $28 million in the United States and Canada. "with relish! After the song concludes, it continues for about another minute after the Pink Ladies and T-Birds walk into the school. On the last day of school, Principal Greta McGee and her assistant Blanche sob about the departing class. ... â Freddy + Sanson S Thin Hair / Dull Hair. 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Eugene Florzyck had his surname changed to "Felsnick". The series was produced and directed by Vladimir Perez. The first time Danny sees Sandy in Frosty Palace, he sincerely tries to apologize to her for the way he had acted towards her before at the cheerleader tryouts, calling his own behaviour unacceptable. [10] Jamie Donnelly reprised her role as Jan from the Broadway show, the only cast member to do so; as her hair had begun to gray by this point, she had to dye her hair to resemble her stage character. In connection with the film's 40th anniversary, Paramount released Grease on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on April 24, 2018.[47]. The Rydell interiors, including the high school dance, were filmed at Huntington Park High School. "'Grease': Grin and Grimace". On race day, Kenickie suffers a concussion when hit by his own car door, so Danny takes the wheel. Newton-John had done little acting before this film, with only two film credits (1965's Funny Things Happen Down Under and the little-seen 1970 film Toomorrow, which predated her singing breakthrough) to her name up to that time. In contrast to Sandy, Danny mentions that he envies Sandy's parents for caring about her, while his do not. [8] In a case of life imitating art, Newton-John's own musical career would undergo a transformation similar to that of the Sandy Olsson character; her next album after Grease, the provocatively titled Totally Hot, featured a much more sexual and pop-oriented approach, with Newton-John appearing on the album cover in similar all-leather attire and teased hair.[9]. "[39] David Ansen of Newsweek wrote, "Too often, Grease is simply mediocre, full of broad high-school humor, flat dramatic scenes and lethargic pacing. [62] In 2020, the series' title was changed to Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies and will premiere on Paramount+. I've never seen an uglier large-scale musical. In an example from the '71 Kingston Mines staging to Broadway: Danny's second in command was originally named "Miller" and there was a younger, nerdy greaser named "Kenickie". Danny tries to make it up to Sandy by taking her to a drive-in theater and giving her his ring to wear ("Alone at a Drive-in Movie"), but Sandy leaves in anger after he forces himself on her ("Sandy"). The Burger Palace Boys had their gang name changed to "The T-Birds" (which was also used in one of the Broadway revivals). [7], The soundtrack album ended 1978 as the second-best-selling album of the year in the United States, exceeded only by another soundtrack album, from the film Saturday Night Fever, which also starred Travolta. Later on, at the start of Danny's senior year at Rydell High School, he resumes his role as the leader of the T-Birds greaser gang, consisting of his best friend Kenickie, plus Doody, Sonny, and Putzie. In a remake of the Kingston Mines version (produced for its 40th anniversary in 2011), Coach Grabowski was renamed to "Coach Sakowitz". The sequel, Grease 2 (1982), stars Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. Barry Pearl, who played Doody in the movie version plays the producer of National Bandstand. A car he intends to race at Thunder Road, which we find out later at the cheerleader tryouts, and which happens at the end. [53] Additionally, the dance number to "You're the One That I Want" was nominated for TV Land's award for "Movie Dance Sequence You Reenacted in Your Living Room" in 2008. Few of the original cast members reprised their roles. Rizzo and Kenickie attempt to spite one another by bringing Leo and Cha-Cha as their dates. [31][32][33][34], The New York Times' Vincent Canby, on its initial release in June 1978, called the film "terrific fun", describing it as a "contemporary fantasy about a 1950s teen-age musical—a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own"; Canby pointed out that the film was "somewhat in the manner of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which recalls the science-fiction films of the '50s in a manner more elegant and more benign than anything that was ever made then, Grease is a multimillion-dollar evocation of the B-picture quickies that Sam Katzman used to turn out in the '50s (Don't Knock the Rock, 1956) and that American International carried to the sea in the 1960s (Beach Party, 1963). Doody's teasing of Frenchy is a lot less one-sided than it was in the movie. Danny's attempts to get into sports are more elaborated on in the film, and Sandy tries to date a boy named Tom to make him jealous. [54] In the United Kingdom, the two Travolta/Newton-John duets, "You're the One That I Want" and "Summer Nights", were both number one hits and as of 2011[update] are still among the 20 best-selling singles of all time (at Nos. Sandy and Danny depart in a revamped Greased Lightnin’, which takes flight ("Grease"). Danny tells Sandy he could run circles around the jocks, meaning the one Sandy is trying to make Danny jealous with. The scene is included as an extra on the 40th anniversary home video release, and Kleiser hopes to make another attempt at colorizing the footage that is effective enough for the footage to be inserted into the film as he originally intended by the time the film's 50th anniversary comes in 2028. I know I'm just a fool who's willing To sit around and wait for you But, baby, can't you see There's nothing else for me to do? Some of my earlies memories of getting baseball cards was getting some of the 1970 (or maybe 71) Fleer World Series cards.
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