Grease Tickets

Grease is a popular musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, originally mounted in Chicago in 1971. With rousing reviews, the producers carried it over to Broadway where it had its successful debut in 1972.

The musical is a satire of the period in which rock and roll fever was starting to spread among teenagers in the 1950s. It also offered a look into class struggles at that time between middle class teens and those from the wrong side of the tracks. The title Grease was coined from greaser, a term used to refer to the working class youths who styled their slick hair with pomade, donned leather jackets and drove Cadillacs. Grease focuses on the romance between sweet and straitlaced Sandy Dumbrowski with rough-hewn ‘greaser’ Danny Zuko and the company of their respective cliques in Rydell High School.

The original cast production in Broadway produced a smashing list of original songs including “Summer Nights”, “Greased Lightning”, “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee” and “We Go Together”. The popularity reached fever pitch when the musical became a movie in 1978 that featured a fresh-faced Olivia Newton John and John Travolta.

Grease went on to become the toast of London’s West End and was revived successfully in a 1994 US tour, which featured many famous pop stars and Hollywood celebrities. Today, it continues to be one of Broadway’s longest running productions.

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