#Grease lightning cast 1978 movie
Both the play and the movie have a brief instrumental rendition play when the rules of the Hand Jive dance contest are given, however.
"Rydell Fight Song" was originally sung by just Patty and Sandy, but the Rydell Marching Band plays it instrumentally in the background of the movie during the bonfire scene.The subplot involving Doody's guitar-playing abilities was also cut out of the movie. "Those Magic Changes" was originally sung by Doody as he played his guitar, but is sung in the movie by Johnny Casino before "Born to Hand Jive".Also, in the original, the slumber party was at Marty's house. "Alma Mater (Parody)" was originally sung by all of the greasers after "Alma Mater", but is briefly sung in the movie by just the greaser boys before their car pulls up at Frenchy's slumber party."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.The remaining songs of the original were put into the background and incorporated in other ways: "Shaking at the High School Hop" (a full-cast number) was not on the soundtrack nor in the movie. "Freddy My Love" (sung by Marty), "Mooning" (sung by Putzie/Roger and Jan), and an instrumental of "Alone at a Drive-In Movie" (sung by Danny) were included on the soundtrack. Adaptation Distillation: The musical contains several songs and subplots cut for the movie.This was done by the director to reflect his own teenage years in suburban Philadelphia. Adaptational Location Change: The musical took place in urban Chicago, while the film takes place in a more suburban locale.Actor Allusion: During the "Greased Lightnin'" dance Danny and the other T-Birds do a few moves straight out of the "Bar-bar-bar, Bar-bar-barino" dance.Accidental Hug: Danny and Kenickie participate in one before the big race, complete with slicking back the hair to regain their cool.When a guy picks a trope over his buddies, somethin' gotta be wrong! In December 2020, the 1978 film adaptation Grease was selected for preservation by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry. A prequel series, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, debuted on Paramount+ in 2023. There is a sequel, which carries over almost none of the original main characters (except for some faculty members, and chemistry student Frenchie), but the plot is almost entirely the same except that now the nice foreign kid is male, with a bad-girl love interest played by a young Michelle Pfeiffer. Golden-Age actress Joan Blondell made her last film appearance, as a sassy waitress. The film also featured John Travolta (in the role that solidified his fame after the 1977 blockbuster Saturday Night Fever) as Danny, along with Jeff Conaway (who, ironically, had played virtually every important male character except Kenickie in the stage musical) as Kenickie, Didi Conn as Frenchy, and Stockard Channing as Betty Rizzo. In the film, Sandy was renamed from Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olsson, and her origin was changed from somewhere else in America to Australia to account for the star cast for the role: Olivia Newton-John. The 1978 film version, directed by Randal Kleiser, is more famous than the Broadway musical (or the earlier, off-Broadway version produced in 1971). 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. Caught between his love and his tough-guy image, he snubs Sandy, who leaves broken-hearted. The other girls realize she was with Danny Zuko and arrange a reunion - just as he's bragging to his friends about his conquest. He tells his friends, the T-Birds (or the Burger Palace Boys, if you're going by the play), about the great summer vacation he had at the beach with this girl, Sandy.Īs luck would have it, Sandy has just transferred to Rydell High for her senior year, and as she tries to find her place, she regales the Pink Ladies with her own account of her summer romance. He's a bad boy who wears a leather jacket and hangs out with others who do the same. Grease is The Film of the Play of the same name, made in The '70s about The '50s.ĭanny Zuko is back in Rydell High School for senior year. "It doesn't matter if you win or lose, it's what you do with your dancin' shoes."
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