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Grease Tickets Information
Did you see Grease: You’re the One That I Want, the reality TV show that aired this past year on NBC? If you did, you’d have followed (and maybe even participated in) the exhausting and cutthroat audition-cum-competition that landed unknowns Max Crumm and Laura Osnes the lead roles of Sandy and Danny. This year’s cast includes American Idol finalist, Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel.
So, which came first – you may wonder – Grease: the Broadway Grease or the Hollywood Grease? Well if you guessed Broadway, you were right. Making its first appearance in 1972 on the Broadway stage, and taking leave of it years later with 7 Tony Award nominations and 3 other peer awards – a Theatre World Award (for Adrienne Barbeau, Featured Actress in a Musical), and 2 Drama Desk Awards (for Outstanding Choreography and Most Promising Costume Design.
In 1978, Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta sizzled up the screen in the film version of Grease, backed up by the inimitable Stockard Channing. The Grease movie also brought a few new hit songs to the Grease franchise, namely: “Hopelessly Devoted to You”, “Sandy”, “Grease is the Word”, and “You’re the One that I Want”.
Another previous revival of Grease was greeted with equal praise, earning the franchise 3 more Tony Award nominations, 2 more Drama Desk Award nominations, and a Theatre World Award (for Brooke Shields)
The timeless musical written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey revitalized in the Grease revival of today is a tribute to the enduring power of the story it tells and the songs used to tell them.
As you must already know, Grease is the story of Danny Zuko, laid-back Greaser and leader of his high school pack, and awkward and naïve Sandy Dumbrowski, the new girl in town and, coincidentally, Danny’s summer fling. When Sandy, branded uncool by her peers, tries to rekindle their romance, Danny, the ultra-cool, is conflicted.
Digging their muddy romance an even deeper trench is Danny Pals, the T-Birds, pumped up by Danny’s lady-killing best friend and second-in-command Kenickie, and their female counterparts, (and Sandy’s wannabe pals) The Pink Ladies, headed up by the sharp-tongued Rizzo.
The Grease revival is on tour across the United States through to December 2009. This latest incarnation is directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, winner of a Tony Award for The Pajama Game.
Come sing along with the songs you grew up with – “Summer Nights”, “Those Magic Changes”, “Freddy My Love”, “Greased Lightning”, “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee”, “It’s Raining on Prom Night”, “Beauty School Dropout”, “There Are Worse Things I Could Do”, and the irreplaceable good-times-with-good-friends classic “We Go Together” – and all the others, including those you loved so much in the Grease movie.
Pick yourself up some Grease tickets today. In fact, share the fun. Pick some up for your pals too. Grease is, was, and always will be – the word!
