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Grease (musical)

Grease
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Original Broadway Cast Recording
Music Jim Jacobs
Warren Casey
John Farrar
Lyrics Jim Jacobs
Warren Casey
John Farrar
Book Jim Jacobs
Warren Casey
Productions 1971 Chicago
1972 Broadway
1973 West End
1978 Film
1979 West End revival
1993 West End revival
1994 Broadway revival
1994 US Tour
1999 Madrid
2001 West End revival
2002 Toronto
2006 Barcelona
2007 West End revival
2007 Broadway revival
2008 Second US Tour
2011 Barcelona
2011 Chicago
2011 Gdynia
2012 Copenhagen
2012 Madrid
2012 Spain Tour
2013 Philadelphia
2013 Hong Kong
2014 Karachi
2015 Sutton Coldfield
2016 Québec
2016 Television special
2017 UK Tour

Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar (movie and post revivals). Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers, the musical is set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on William Howard Taft School in Chicago, Illinois) and follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love. The score attempts to recreate the sounds of early rock and roll. In its original production in Chicago, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions sanitized it and tamed it down. The show mentions social issues such as teenage pregnancy, peer pressure and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence, and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.

Grease was first performed in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines nightclub in Chicago (since demolished). From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more generic. At the time that it closed in 1980, Grease's 3,388-performance run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although it was surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to become a West End hit, a successful feature film, two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007, and a staple of regional theatre, , community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's 15th longest-running show. Aspects of the stage play would be incorporated into the production's 2016 live TV musical.


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