Show Description:
Grease the Musical needs little introduction. Since 1972, the production has been going strong on New York’s Broadway always remaining a popular story of youthful exuberance.
Grease is a high school love story captured by teenage
desire and slick sing-a-long songs. Set in Rydell High,
an American high school in the 1950’s, the story
centers around teen rebel ‘Danny Zuko’, leader
of the T-Birds. Intent on using school as a place to chat
up girls, smoke cigarettes and have fun, ‘Danny’s’
rebel behavior soon begins to change following a new arrival
to the school, ‘Sandy Dumbrowski’, considered
a beautiful but un-cool girl by her peers. ‘Danny’
already knows ‘Sandy’. Both had begun a summer
romance before the start of the new high school term.
Although awkward at first ‘Danny’ realizes
he has fallen for the girl of his dreams but desperately
tries to retain his cool like rebel status as word spreads
of his suspected relationship with ‘Sandy’.
The story is essentially acted out through various high
school subcultures and is very much a rock n roll infused
script about growing up and going steady. The motor vehicle
savvy Pink Ladies and T-Birds give substance to these
1950’s boy and girl characters and their belonging
to an identified group of friends.
While no longer original and not necessarily a fresh
take on the established script, such is the continuing
popularity of the production; Grease on Broadway is still
making box office records leaving Grease Tickets on Broadway
in demand. You’ll find Grease Tickets starting at
about $100 to over $250.
Grease Tickets
Artists/Show Biography:
Perhaps the most recognizable thing to come from Grease
on Broadway is inevitably the music. Most famous and instantly
recognizable are songs ‘Summer Nights’, ‘We
Go Together’ and ‘Greased Lightening’.
Since the Hollywood hit film in 1978 starring John Travolta
and Olivia Newton-John, generations of young and old have
enjoyed the slick hairstyles and stylish dance choreography
of Grease the Musical. Such informed choreography comes
courtesy of Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall and creators
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The show is very much a 1950’s
ode to Rock n Roll and youthful energy. The underling
story is the coming of age and growing up of the central
characters through their final year of high school.
