A great argument for bootlegs - they preserve art history. I know shows get recorded for archives but the public don't get access to that recording unless in person and under specific circumstances. Boots are accessible around the world for free. I am so so grateful for them.

Honestly, the original raunchier version could probably be successful today looking at how stuff like “Euphoria” is incredibly successful.

THANK YOU!! I have never heard anyone point out that the original concept of Grease was specifically showing that not everyone in the 1950's was wholesome and innocent. I was quite ill as a young teen and had to be home schooled from 1968 to 1972. This meant that I watched a lot of daytime TV. I remember seeing an appearance by some performers from Grease (on maybe the Mike Douglas show) and I loved the idea of a more gritty look at high school in the 50s. The creators talked about how it was based on their own tough Chicago neighborhood. The movie however has been so cleaned up that Grease is often a choice for family movie nights. Also, Happy Days and American Graffiti (a superb film) did not show up until 1974. Apparently some people thought that later incarnations of Grease should follow that style. Thank you for reminding folks of the not so squeaky clean origins of Grease.

I was in a catholic school production of Grease a few years back and it was so heavily sanitised. Half of the songs were almost completely changed and Rizzo's false pregnancy and subsequent song There Are Worse Things I Could Do were entirely removed. The entire production felt like it had no soul.

Personally, I think the Chicago references make the story more interesting. "West Side Story" maintained its New York references, even when the play was brought to San Francisco in 1959, so I really don't see why the "need" to remove Chicago's references for the 1972 Broadway version of "Grease."

In 1985 my high school did Grease as its senior musical. I was upset that I couldn’t audition because I wasn’t a senior, but I worked the running crew and watched the rehearsals. I remember the director refused to do anything from the movie in the play. I remember him denouncing high schools across the country who were basically trying to stage the movie version of the musical. He followed the Broadway production in every aspect except for the language which had to be cleaned up. For example, the Summer Nights scene, he did not let the members of the chorus participate in it, having it just be the main characters, like in the original Broadway version. I remember the chorus kids being bummed out about that.The only point of reference we kids had was the movie. I remember being fascinated at how different the stage play was. Sandy didn’t go to the prom?! There was no drag race?! There’s no carnival at the end?! They don’t sing “You’re the one that I want”?! I remember people complaining that “Hopelessly devoted to you” had been cut from the show, and having to explain several times that it was never in the show in the show to begin with. Anyhow, ever since that experience, I have hated stage productions of Grease to try to replicate the movie. I wish I could see a revival of the original Chicago production staged exactly as it was in 1971.

I’m so fascinated by this grittier version of Grease. I’ve always hat a mildly irrational hatred of Grease the movie and it’s songs. Even as a kid, something about the overly cartoonish and corny ways the characters sung thier songs and delivered their lines just got on my nerves in a primal way. I also found the overall cute and clean 50s aesthetic so uninteresting, tacky and lifeless as well. There was just something about it that felt annoying, and I could never figure out why. What made it funnier was that I hated Grease yet I also loved Hairspray, a similar corny musical with a time period set only ten years after Grease’s. I always wondered why this was until watching this video. While Grease the movie and the productions trying to imitate it were extremely sanitised and safe, removing anything that made the og grease unique or even slightly edgy, Hairspray had a lot of darker or more serious issues it tackled in its story. It integrated social issues of the 60s into its story like race relations and body image issues, even religious abuse with the side plot about sandy’s friend being locked up by her hyper religious mother to prevent her from being with he black boyfriend. These all tied into the themes of change and identity pride that are best exemplified in the big finishing number you can’t stop the beat. Hairspray probably had the best balance between edgy jokes and subject matter and fun sequences and songs.

I had NO idea about the origins and original design of the play. This was fascinating and so informative. So clear that this channel is a labor of love

as a (much younger) chicagoan who grew up watching the family friendly film, "summer nights" originally being about foster beach absolutely cracks me up. not exactly a place I'd associate with romance, but that was probably the joke.

It’s interesting because I can’t describe the movie as gritty but it’s pretty UN-wholesome; they’re shooting innuendos (mentions of gangbangs and biting wieners) and dark subjects (getting roofied) out so nonchalantly that it left me feeling like they wanted you to know the 50s was not an innocent time. But that’s just my two cents on the film, idk much about high school productions 😅

This is fascinating as someone who recently re-watched the movie version for the first time in years. The conclusion I came to was that I wished it was more of an ensemble show, as I felt there was sooo much potential for more character exploration with side cast members like Rizzo, Kenickie, Patty, Marty, etc - instead of focusing so heavily on Danny and Sandy. Now I'm both oddly relieved and disappointed to learn that it originally WAS an ensemble show 😅 Anyway, thanks for sharing such a well-researched and informative video! This was great!

People like to complain about Sandy changing herself for Danny, while ignoring that he changed himself for her, too, and decided to do so a lot earlier than she did. By the end of the movie, he's traded his leather jacket for the one he got for lettering in track. He's also completely surprised by her transformation, something he neither asked for nor expected.

22:56 That's interesting bc I always took Sandy's transformation as a joke about movies where the female lead is a courtesan, or a singer in a seedy club or something who meets a nice innocent boy who doesn't know about her history and either changes for him or dies tragically or whatever. But today seen absent the context of what it was responding to. There were so many of those movies in the 40s & 50s. So I'm kinda happy I was sort of on the right track with that, but obviously just thinking of different movies than they were.

In 1972/73, no cast party...or ANY gathering that included us theater kids...was complete without a sing-along performance to the entire cast album. 20 of us saw the tour with Travolta as Doody. And 50 years later, the movie version is LOATHED by one and all. (The title song is a disco tune fer cryin' out loud!)

Wow, that old bag of a critic really tried to say Oliva Newton John can't sing. Now that's just a flat out lie, come on she ABSOLUTELY had pipes

"Grease on Ice" sounds 1) like a parody, and 2) very slippery 🤠🤣

when we did grease for my senior year show, we added a couple things from the movie-we replaced “all choked up” with “youre the zone that i want” and kept “hopelessly devoted” and the frankie valli number. it’s so much better than the movie, that clearly wanted to cater to the actors rather than stay true to the original

Hey, another ex-Doody here! I saw an interesting production of Grease in South Africa. It went pretty heavy on slapstick -- I remember one of the T-birds jumping into another's arms when they got startled. It made sense, since they couldn't expect the audience to even have nostalgia for American high school life, let alone something as specific as 1950's Chicago.

I dont mind having this popular version of Grease as long as the original exists in some way which Im sad it doesnt really. There has to be some footage somewhere that can be used and released or do something like Hamilton and have a big release of the original stage version performed for streaming services. I think people would be really interested in seeing it.

I went to a performing arts high school, and the summer before our senior year, the theater director got student input on picking the plays. He was surprised when we dismissed Footloose out of hand, but agreed to do Grease. Our version was closer to the original Broadway version.

I had the good fortune to see Grease when it opened in London in '73 with Richard Gere playing Danny. Really liked the show and was so disappointed when the film came out. I still have my program from the show.

Thanks for this! Super informative. I am working on a production of Grease this summer. The script that is licensed out to theaters is still the 1971 version that opens the show with the class reunion. “All Choked Up,” is included in the libretto, but you have to pay extra for “You’re The One Thay I want,” and a few other.

Hey everyone! Feeling inspired by a recent rewatch of Grease Live, we decided to take a dive into the history behind Grease and how it's changed over the years. Turns out, there was a huge number of changes in order to clean up the dirtier parts of the show and make it more mainstream. Hope you enjoy, please like, subscribe and share with your beauty school dropouts! 💖🕺

Very cool video. One scene that I found interesting in the 1972 New York version is where "The Burger Palace Boys" (the protagonists who would be renamed the "T-Birds" for the 1978 movie), are getting ready for a rumble with the "Flaming Dukes" (the gang rivals that would be renamed the "Scorpions" for the movie.) It is Scene Two, and after the dance. Quote, "Sonny, Kenickie, and Doodie enter with weapons. Doodie with a baseball bat, Sonny with a zip gun, Kenickie with a lead pipe and chain. They wear leather jackets and engineer boots." Definitely not the 1978 movie! I cannot picture Michael Tucci's "Sonny" and Barry Pearl's "Doody" engaging in a gang rumble, because of the way the characters were written for the 1978 movie. (James Canning's "Doody," is a different matter altogether, but of course, again, the way the character is written determines how the actor will portray that character.) In both live versions from Chicago and New York, the protagonists are about to have a ritualized fight with their gang rivals, using weapons that were historically accurate for gang conflicts of that time, including a machine shop-made improvised firearm. And the reason for the proposed "rumble" is also historically accurate. They are willing to fight (and potentially maim or murder each other!) over which girl "belongs" to which gang (in the live stage versions, it's "Cha Cha de Gregorio.") As horrible as that all sounds, in real life, that happened quite frequently, such as the August 1959 gang war between The Sportsmen and Forsyth Street Boys, which resulted in a shooting of a 15-year-old girl by the name of Theresa Gee. That was in New York and in Oakland, California in December of that year, a similar gang related incident resulted in a drive-by shooting committed by 19-year-old Curtis Eugene Pete. Again, the reason was over which girl "belonged" to which gang, just like the live versions of "Grease," and completely unlike the 1978 movie. And the year was 1959, the setting of all versions of "Grease." Jim Jacobs was tapping into reality(!) and drawing his humor from a more darker, but honest, place. Both the dialogue and the behavior of the protagonists in the live versions isn't quite so "goofy" as portrayed in the 1978 movie. So yeah, it's totally understandable why Jim Jacobs was banned from the movie lot. He couldn't stand the goofball changes that were pandering to (mainstream) nostalgia. At the same time, the filmmakers, in their sanitization, were tapping into the 1970's vibe of "Fifties Nostalgia," the same way that "Fonzie" for ABC TV's "Happy Days" was sanitized, with a bit of fantasy, after the first season. (By Season 2, "Fonzie" could snap his fingers due to his magical "cool" to turn off electrical appliances, while the "T-Birds" in the movie version of "Grease" have a flying car that magically lifts "Danny and Sandy" into the clouds at the end of the movie.) And Carr, Woodard, Stigwood, and Kleiser made millions for the movie with "Those Magic Changes." (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Anyway, excellent video.

This was a wonderful video and that speech at the end (Miss Lynch?) got me emotional. Grease works best when it's raunchy and un-apologetic about it. I also think there's something satirical about Sandy's "transformation" in the end of the stage show. Does she walk strongly in those heels or does she falter a few times? They're a bunch of kids--none of it should ever be too polished. Thanks for taking the time to make this video essay!

.as a 15 year old i thank my mom and grandma for putting me on wit this, i cant stop watching grease I LOVE IT. GREASE IS THE WORD

A raunchy version of Grease where the kids are criminals and Sandy wants to escape her peppy life? That's Johnny Depp's Crybaby.

This was awesome! I recently heard about that original Chicago production and wanted to know more but didn't know where to look. This deep dive was so much fun and exactly what I was hoping for. I always enjoy your videos and am excited to see what's next!

Wow! Like other commenters, my sanitized highschool production and the movie are all I’ve ever known, so this is super interesting to see! I’d love to see more of the 2010/2011 version… I wonder if the lost media subreddit could help.

This is really informative. I actually wanted to learn the history of Grease ever since my high school did a production of it. Never got the appeal of the watered down version of it, I was confused by it in so many aspects like if Sandy was always naïve and just decided one day to throw that all away just for some guy (still confuses me) or why (at least in the film) Rizzo "Faked" her pregnancy. (Not gonna happen if you missed your monthly womaning, lady.) But hearing about the original makes so much more sense. Though i am not sure if it can be performed at high schools if the original was allowed to come back. Collage maybe

What did they use to sanitize Grease? A degreaser!

Excellent documentary and research. The 1978 movie version is so mainstream that there are individuals who will even cite it as "evidence" as to how "our (real-life) gangs actually were," the implication being that street gangs of the 1950's, supposedly, didn't curse (a major aspect of the original stage play), and even, weren't violent, "unlike today," (you did mention that the real life "Rizzo" had a boyfriend on death row!) The very local references in the 1971 stage musical towards Chicago seems to have very different connotations from the 1978 film, especially if one considers how Chicago gang incidents of the 1950's, such as The Rebels, who made headlines in 1957 for the murder of Alvin Palmer, or the 1955 "accidental" shotgun shooting of 17-year-old Kenneth Sleboda committed by 14-year-old Clement "Cookie" Macis, made headlines. ("The Burger Palace Boys" and "Pink Ladies" of the 1971 stage musical would, albeit in a comical way, be more closer to them, than the goofball "T Birds" and "Pink Ladies" of the 1978 movie.) Interesting that New York audiences would want a more sanitized version when the stage play went to New York, especially considering that 1950's New York gang incidents were still infamous and fresh in locals' minds. I've read articles from the early 1970's out of New York papers, interviewing residents about the then-new fad for "Fifties Nostalgia," and some New York residents mentioned to the reporting interviewers how The Capeman murders of 1959 were incongruous with the general nostalgic view of 1950's gangs as "harmless goofballs," which is essentially, what we got in the 1978 movie version of "Grease," and which is the prevailing view of that time period's gangs today, in the mainstream. (It's interesting to me that they mentioned The Capeman, since that subject became the basis for Paul Simon's failed Broadway musical in the late 1990's.) Anyway, excellent documentary, so thank you. * If it's okay with you, I will leave a link to this video in a visual presentation that I am working on that compares real-life 1950's gang history, as well as the history of the other 1950's youth cultures that the movie references, to the 1978 movie. Ironically, individuals who have cited the 1978 movie as "evidence" to "how it was" will also, in the same sentence, say defensively in the movie's "nice and goofy" depictions of 1950's gangs, "It's not a documentary." (Well then, if that's the case, then the movie should be enjoyed as a fantasy, and not be cited as "evidence," with any pretensions of "history.") It's ironic, because as you pointed out, the 1971 stage play version is sort of a comical musical documentary of how life was like in Chicago in the 1950's for working class, inner-city teenagers.

Being a fan of Bakshi's works I would argue his interpretation of the original, raunchy, version, focused on the dirty lives of teenagers in the city would quite do it justice. That's right up his alley and social commentaries on urban/suburban American life is exactly what the majority of his films are based on. I cannot imagine the musical aspect would translate well, if it even made it in, however, which would make it basically the inverse of the direction the story took over the years instead.

I had that same script, the 1972 version. We put it on at our local theatre and it was the most popular show ever done there. Rizzo says hi!

I remember being fascinated by the film Grease when I was in high school. The 50's was a generation I'd missed, but I really loved the music and the aesthetic. I've never seen the stage version, though I was aware of it because of the cast album, and because the soundtrack to the film included a host of songs that weren't in the film, or only heard incidentally as background music on a jukebox.

I describe Grease as a musical about a group of friends who don’t like each other.

I'm brazillian, and just found out about The Rise of the Pink Ladies. Here the movie was the only sucessful Grease content, we usually don't hear about the musical among the masses! So this was a great video to learn about the original story of Grease, since I'm curious to know how the series is meant to connect the characters, or if there is any sort of known "family tree", or "relationship map", to guide us in between play, movie and tv show! Anyway, great video, thank you for the info! ❤🇧🇷

My father took me to see it during my sophomore year of high school in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. Vince Fontaine did the pre-opening, where he asked us questions and had us perform tasks and whatnot. Really interesting...

I'm so mad that I can't find an audio recording of "Kiss It" anywhere. It sounds raw as hell.

In 1971 I bought a second promenade seat at the St Mark's Theatre for the off Broadway production of Grease that starred Adrienne Barbeau as Rizzo!

There was somebody on TikTok a little while ago who was in a production of Grease which was more of a "memory play" in the perspective of Eugene. It portrayed the burger boys as bullies and was like, scary, apparently.

So the original Grease was closer to a John Waters movie? Why didn’t we get this version instead?!

Honestly, I think Ralph Bakshi would have done a pretty good job. I can't say that I agree with Zuko killing himself at the end, but he would have definitely been willing to keep to the original grittiness and automosphere. It could have been very simular to his movie Heavy traffic.

I'm just dropping this fact here. My school did a production of Greese in 2019 and Danny amd Sandy, on different nights were played by twins. People always laugh when I metion that lol. They did a lot of there rehearsals together and the sister twin almost had to join in on her brother's night cus the other Sandy was running late and she was of course already there to support her brother. She didn't have to but it was so strange.

Oh wow, I saw the original stage show ‘Grease’ around 1977/78 at the Chicago Opera House when I was 17 or 18 years old. Just like the video has pointed out, it was raunchy and VERY Chicago themed. It was loud, sassy and a very good show as I recall. The audience was buzzing as we filed out of the theatre. A few years went by and myself and my High School Drama friends went to the first midnight showing of the movie. I left that viewing thinking: had I seen the wrong version of the show? Why was it was so different than what I had seen at the Opera House. This video explains to me why I had seen something totally different and yes, sanitized from the original stage play. Glad I know the reason now. Wish they kept the flavor of the stage show. Yea, I guess people like the 1979 movie but most everyone doesn’t understand how it lacks the soul & vibe the writers had put into it. Thanks for the history lesson!

Chicagoan here. Born and raised. Performing arts theater major. Never have I ever knew Grease was birth in Chicago.

Fellow Doody checking in. I learned “Those Magic Changes” on guitar, only for the director to put the guitar out of tune without telling me, so learning it was pointless. Good times.

It was cool to hear Alan Paul talk about the original Off-Broadway run with Adrienne Barbeau.

Great video, I didn't know any of this! Looking forward to the next one.

Ironically enough, the riding off into the sky is used in other films to represent death. So Danny does get offed after all.

It’s so fascinating to me how something can be so raunchy and sanitized at the same time. With the love that grease has from the public, after seeing it again in 2021, this time a local production, I totally had forgotten about lines like, “it ain’t no sh*t, we’ll be gettin’ lots of t*t.” And no one took notice. I was watching this movie at 5! With it being the mega movie musical it is, I think we tend to forget about the dirtier parts. “Grease! I love John Travolta! That’s the one with the carnival and songs about friendship!” Lol

Drama Dorks, you could try a little context...in 1973 the movie “American Graffiti” was a big hit (the first hit from director George Lucas who later directed a little film called “Star Wars.”) “American Graffiti” was not sanitized but wasn’t exactly raunchy either. And it was a big influence on a TV show that appeared in the mid-70s called “Happy Days” a huge hit for years (it didn’t go off the air till the 80s), and about as sanitized a version of the 50s as they could get for prime-time TV when both kids and parents watched. This was all before Grease made it to the screen. (And “Happy Days” had a successful spin-off, “Laverne & Shirley” similarly sanitized and it also appeared mid-70s before Grease was a movie.) The team behind the movie certainly would have wanted the G-rated TV audience to come see this movie (to make a profit), hence their decisions about sanitizing. The gritty 1st version Chicago audience was all adults for one thing, and for another the live audience had just been through the 60s, where lots of taboos (from the 50s) had been publicly and popularly broken. The kids (tweens and early teens for ex.) in 1978 had no memory of the 50s and very little memory of the 60s, so they completely embraced the movie’s more vapid but also more glamorous version of the musical. Sorry if this is TMI... Just think you should include what was going on in American popular culture that related directly to Grease, in a bunch of ways...

I still find it jarring to hear the actors in the 1978 movie prowling around the streets of Los Angeles with their New York accents still intact. Of course, I'm not sure exactly what Californians sounded like in the '50s. I assume it wasn't the exaggerated "Valspeak" of today, but I'm reasonably certain it was much closer to that than what we heard in the 1978 dialogue.

This was so interesting! Love the back story to musicals and films done like this, so definitely enjoyed the video :)

Sounds like the original was for the people who actually lived in the 1950s and the movie was for kids. I know I’ve as five years old and it was my favorite movie. A five year old. I mean. That says a lot.

We did grease at high school in the eighties. That line about gaps in the line up is so true and very raw. Our sandy made it about three more years. Just found out about another girl today. There honestly aren’t many of us left.

This was an awesome and underrated video essay. So excited to find a new video essayist who focuses on musicals!

I remember going to watch the Grease musical with my primary school then having a teacher apologise to the parents after it finished because they didn't realise the musical was much more ruder than the movie was.

It's always crazy for me to see references to Patricia Birch in anything professional, as I first encountered her in my teen years as the choreographer for local Dallas high school Woodrow Wilson productions, usually of Cole Porter musicals. A family friend was the choir director there for years, and Patricia would fly in from California if she had to just to choreograph these shows for her buddy. At the time much was made of the fact that Patricia was a professional, but I think as a teenager I just assumed they were exaggerating a bit. NOPE!

I watched the 2016 Aussie version, in Sydney. It was fun, and nice to hear an actual Aussie playing the Aussie Sandy.

I loved the video, grease is my favorite movie! It was cool to learn the history behind it. Loves from Brazil

They just had a new production in London and São Paulo that has a book closer to that Chicago’s original, but also included the songs Grease, Hopelessly devoted to you, born to hand jive and you’re the one that I want. I saw the production in both places and… well, let’s just say that the sanitization did to it some good in the past 😅😝

I remember being repelled by the sanitization of the movie. You assume too much background knowledge by viewers. I like the story of how the play evolved into something else. Grease coincided with the ultra-sanitized Happy Days TV show also set in the 1950s.

This is a fantastic breakdown. Fantastically written, organized, edited, and your are very charming. I hope your channel grows to reflect your work. Thank you!

Growing up...I only saw the movie. Wow. This is fascinating

My college is doing the original Broadway version of Grease this spring with a few minor edits (omissions of racial slurs and the like.) When I first read the script, it seemed surprisingly raunchy to me compared to the modern image of Grease I was more familiar with, so learning about the even grittier original was pretty interesting! I’m playing Patty, who I love to death at this point. I was surprised to learn that she had her own song in the original! It’s hilarious and I’d love to perform it, so I’m sad it was ultimately cut lol

It kind of makes me think of "Stand By Me" which takes place in 1959. I love how in that movie...the screenwriter refused to hold back on the swearing in the script.

I had no idea about any of the Chicago originals! What a fabulous video. Thank you for all these details, I love it! And Movie! Grease is always a guilty pleasure. It’s truly engrained in our DNA now 😂

I saw the original in Chicago in 1971. It lived up to its reputation as a wild daring play. Oddly enough, I like the movie version better. It had a story! Did you know that their were many famous people at Taft High School at that time?

I think anyone that thinks that Sandy had to change for Danny wasn't paying attention 🙄 Did they also miss that Danny was willing to change? I think the point is both of them had to grow and they both already loved each other for who they were.

we were lucky enough to be able to include Patty's song in our local production

I remember watching Grease after many years and thinking "my god this is filthy. I was allowed to watch this as a kid." 😂

What I dislike about the movie is the fact that the added songs (as good as they are, love them sm) none of them sound like it was for a 50s era. Not only that but it was ONLY about Danny and Sandy, not everyone like the stage version

Also take into consideration the TV edit of the movie. That's what I grew up on (taped off the tv)....the first time I saw the regular movie version during the 98' theatrical re-release... "The chicks will creeaaaaaam!" BLEW MY GODDAMN MIND.

Thank you for sharing this. I read the original script that was at our local library at the time. I wish that I had bought that. It was interesting. Happy holidays, God Bless You and your loved ones.

I've never felt so robbed in my entire life

I've been waiting.. (im😂) patiently❤ waiting that is for this video since our last conversation hehe. I was 8 when Grease the musical came out in theaters. My big sister Lisa took me to see it and I feel in love. My Maiden name is Rizzo and I thought it was so neat to have a character named Rizzo in a movie. It started my love of musicals. I so wish I could have seen it on stage. Thank you guys for going thru all the history of Grease. It was so informative. I didn't know most of it. I didn't realize how much I liked learning about the history of different musicals until I found your channel. Keep up the great work you two. Much love my friends ❤

Awesome research, detail, visualisation and showmastering!

The Sanitisation of Greece, in turn, gave us Disney's Hercules...

I knew nothing about the history of Grease until I saw this, I didn't even know it was a stage play at first... and I was born in the 80s... how...

In Estonia, they did "Grease" twice. Once in 2004 by Nukuteater, and in 2015 by Vanemuine. I like the 2004 one more. It had vulgarity and the songs of the side characters. I haven't actually seen neither adaptations, because I wasn't born before 2004 and I wasn't a Grease fan before 2021. I really like the movie (because I have seen it like hundreds of times). The songs I have heard more in Estonian, but the english ones are ofc classic (Greased lightning, Summer nights, you're the one that i want). Just in case if you're interested, I have all of the songs in Estonian in my channel.

When I was a kid growing up in Chicago NW side in the 70s I would see ads in the paper. I was too young to see it. I knew the movie was cleaned up from the original, but lots of plays from Chicago get watered down.

I did this show my last year of high school and played Ms Lynch. Initially I was a bit miffed but she’s such a cool character to play 😄

I remember seeing selections from the original “Grease” on a talk show back in the early ‘70s, and it looked far more interesting than the bland product it became in later years.

I come from the timeline where Kenickie sings Grease Lightning in the movie rather than John Travolta. Come with me, we must save the multiverse.

I saw grease on ice. I can't remember it because I got sick by the time we got there. 😂 All I rememeber is the sandy dolls they were setting were the cheapest dolls I'd ever seen.

This was a great video!

"With a a four speed on the floor, they'll be waitin' at the door" "You know that ain't no lie, they'll be givin' me the eye" "Greased Lighting" That's how we did it.

Is there any place where I can listen to Patty's and Miss Lynch's songs? I'm SOOOO curious but I am not able to find them anywhere...

I think it'd be interesting to see the original version once. I don't know if it'd have stood the test of time had it not been adapted for the different productions. Growing up, the film was extremely popular with kids who looked forward to growing into teenagers like Danny and Sandy. I'm not sure it would have had that same aspirational appeal had they stuck to the original version. But then, the original clearly wasn't meant to be seen by kids anyway. I think Grease, along with Happy Days, did a lot for keeping the imagery and music of that era alive for generations to come, even if it's not entirely accurate to the era itself.

Thank you so much for including some original songs in here!! Ever since I learned about the original years ago i’ve always wondered what the songs (especially original grease) sounded like

Thank you so much for doing this! I perfer the original version so much. I recently had to cover a sanitized version of Grease for one of my jobs and I just don’t understand sanitizing it and the high school version is just so grit and abrupt to me and the dialogue in it just sounds off compared to the original script.

I was the sound mixer for my middle school's adaptation of greese, back in like 2014-15 or so. We added tons of zoomer/meme humor to seem hip... despite still acknowledging the story element that it's supposed to be in the 50s/60s, lmao.

R.I.P. Olivia Newton-John

I've been really fascinated by Grease's history after watching this video. Where did you find the audio clips of songs from the original 1971 production? I would really like to hear them.

I would like to see a production of original version.

As much as I think, basing it on the Wikipedia, the Broadway play was messier and all over the place compared to the movie.. I still wish one day, they would make another Grease movie, incorporating more from the original broadway stuff, but more refined.

Played Frenchy in my school production of Grease a while back. I remember my teacher cutting out bits of the already sanitized script lol. I enjoyed the film but I do love the other characters songs in the musical version

I had no idea it was set in Chicago. Now I want to hear Foster Beach. I'm there like every day on my morning walk

When I was like 7 years old in 1982, this was my favorite movie. I didn't even notice the lyrics to some of the songs until like five years ago.