GREASE

Grease
Paramount, 1978, Color, 110 minutes, ****
Broadway version premiered in 1972
Movie Released June, 1978


Get out your poodle skirts and penny loafers and get ready to rock-and-roll with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in the hit screen rendition of the Broadway musical look at '50s high school life. Songs include "Greased Lightning," "Summer Nights," "You're the One That I Want" and the title track. With Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Eve Arden.
Setting: Rydell High School (Los Angeles), 1958

Produced by: Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr
Associate Producer: Neil A. Machlis
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Assistant Director: Jerry Grandey
Based on the Original Musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Produced on the Broadway Stage by Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox in association with Anthony D'Amato
Screenplay by: Bronté Woodard
Adaptation by: Allan Carr
Music Supervision: Bill Oakes
Dances and Musical Sequences Staged and Choreographed by: Patricia Birch
Song Score: Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; Barry Gibb
"Grease" music and lyric by Barry Gibb; "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" written by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster; "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" written by D. Williams and S. David (sung by Jerry Lee Lewis); "Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay" written by D. White, sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Tears on My Pillow" written by Bradford and A. Lewis, sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Hound Dog" written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Sandy" music by Louis St. Louis, lyric by Scott J. Simon; "You're the One That I Want," "Hopelessly Devoted to You" music and lyrics by John Farrar; "La Bamba" written and sung by Ritchie Valens; "Blue Moon" written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Summer Nights" sung by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John; "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" sung by Stockard Channing; "Freddy My Love" sung by Cindy Bullens; "Greased Lightning" sung by John Travolta and Jeff Conaway; "Beauty School Dropout" sung by Frankie Avalon; "Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen" sung by Louis St. Louis; "It's Raining on Prom Night" sung by Cindy Bullens; "Those Magic Changes" sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Born to Hand-Jive" sung by Sha-Na-Na; "Mooning" sung by Louis St. Louis and Cindy Bullens; "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" sung by Stockard Channing; "Alma Mater" sung by Cast; "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" (reprise) sung by Olivia Newton-John; "We Go Together" sung by John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Cast; written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Creative Music Consultant and Adaptation by: Louis St. Louis
Production Designed by: Phil Jefferies
Set Decorator: James Berkey
Costume Designer: Albert Wolsky
Make-Up Artists: Dan StriePeke, Eddie Allen
Hair Stylist: Christine George
Director of Photography: Bill Butler
Main Titles Animated by: John Wilson
Filmed in Panavision, Color by Metrocolor
Edited by: John F. Burnett

Awards: Oscar nomination for Best Song ("Hopelessly Devoted to You")

Cast: John Travolta [Danny]; Olivia Newton-John [Sandy]; Stockard Channing [Rizzo]; Jeff Conaway [Kenickie]; Barry Pearl [Doody]; Michael Tucci [Sonny]; Kelly Ward [Putzie]; Didi Conn [Frenchie]; Jamie Donnelly [Jan]; Dinah Manoff [Marty]; Eve Arden [Principal McGee]; Frankie Avalon [Teen Angel]; Joan Blondell [Vi]; Edd Byrnes [Vince Fontaine]; Sid Caesar [Coach Calhoun]; Alice Ghostley [Mrs. Murdock]; Dody Goodman [Blanche]; Sha-Na-Na [Johnny Casino and The Gamblers], Susan Buckner [Patty Simcox]; Lorenzo Lamas [Tom Chisum]; Fannie Flagg [Nurse Wilkins]; Dick Patterson [Mr. Rudie]; Eddie Deezen [Eugene]; Darrell Zwerling [Mr. Lynch]; Ellen Travolta [Waitress]; Annette Charles [Cha Cha]; Dennis C. Stewart [Leo]

Musical Program: [0:00] Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (sung by Chorus and played by Orchestra before titles); [0:01] Grease (sung by Frankie Valli behind titles); [0:10] Alma Mater (excerpt sung by Chorus in background); [0:14] Summer Nights (sung and danced by John Travolta with Boys Chorus and Olivia Newton-John with Girls Chorus); [0:18] Alma Mater (instrumental arrangement played by marching band); [0:28] Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee (performed by Stockard Channing and Girls Chorus); [0:33] Hopelessly Devoted to You (sung by Olivia Newton-John); [0:38] Greased Lightnin' (performed by John Travolta and Boys Chorus); [0:42] La Bamba (sung by Ritchie Valens in background); [0:44] It's Raining on Prom Night (sung by Cindy Bullens and Girls Chorus); [0:50] Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (sung by Jerry Lee Lewis in background); [0:52] Alone at a Drive-In Movie (instrumental played in background); [0:55] Beauty School Dropout (performed by Frankie Avalon and Girls Chorus); [1:01] Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen (sung in background by Louis St. Louis); [1:02] Rock 'n' Roll Is Here to Stay (sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by the kids); [1:04] Those Magic Changes (sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by the kids); [1:06] Tears on My Pillow (sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by the kids); [1:11] Hound Dog (sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by the kids); [1:12] Born to Hand Jive (sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by the kids); [1:17] Blue Moon (excerpt sung by Sha-Na-Na as Johnny Casino and The Gamblers, danced by John Travolta and Annette Charles); [1:23] Sandy (sung by John Travolta); [1:28] There Are Worse Things I Could Do (sung by Stockard Channing); [1:36] Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee (reprised by Olivia Newton-John); [1:41] You're The One That I Want (sung by John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Chorus); [1:45] We Go Together (sung and danced by John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and the Company); [1:48] Grease (sung by Frankie Valli and Chorus behind end credits); These songs are in the credits, but I haven't been able to find them: Freddy My Love (sung by Cindy Bullens in background); Mooning (sung by Louis St. Louis and Cindy Bullens)