Byron), or by calling 77.'Grease' Turns 40! John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John Reflect on Classic Film's Legacy (Exclusive) Why Selena Gomez Doesn't Feel Any Pressure as She's 'Casually Dating' and 'Doing Well' (Source) Watch BLACKPINK Get Awarded Royal Honor From King Charles III at Buckingham Palace Rob Lowe Shares Regret About His Look in The Go-Go’s ‘Turn on You’ Music Video (Exclusive) ‘Dream Scenario’: Nicolas Cage on Why He Wants to Step Back From Making Movies (Exclusive) Melissa Barrera Fired, Susan Sarandon Dropped by Agent for Israel-Hamas Comments Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Not Spending Thanksgiving Together CBS’ Thanksgiving Day Parade: What to Expect Daryl Hall Granted Restraining Order Against John Oates Amid Their Legal Battle ‘Wonka’: Timothée Chalamet Gives a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Prequel (Exclusive) Hannah Waddingham Duets With Luke Evans and Leslie Odom Jr. Tickets can be purchased online, at the ATC box office (1909 W. Show runs Wednesdays through Sundays through June 26. The Original Grease brings the well-worn, glossy screen version back to its Chicago roots, and is an entertaining and satisfying production. For the most part the storyline was familiar, only with a lot more sexually explicit language, references to Chicago locales, and a few scenes that were added to acknowledge the fact that 1959 was over 60 years ago (the start of the show is a 60 year high school reunion). Once the play began, however, it was easy for those silver-screen ghosts to make way for the live action unfolding in the small but expertly used space at the American Theater Company.Īdrian Aguilar and Kelly Davis Wilson star as the improbable high school sweethearts Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbroski, with a strong supporting cast that includes Tony Clarno as Kenickie, and Jessica Diaz as Rizzo. It took me a while to get the film cast out of my expectations (I couldn't help it, I've watched that movie so many times I can recite entire scenes from it. In the intervening years, the play has been produced innumerable times, but this is the first time that the original script and score have been performed, which is reason enough to go see it. When Grease moved to the silver screen, it became a different story all of the Chicago references were removed, along with any cursing, and even entire songs, rendering what was once a celebration of working-class adolescence into cartoonish nostalgia. It ran at the Kingston Mines Theatre Company for what was supposed to be one weekend in January of 1971, turned into eight months, got enough notice to get produced on Broadway, and became the 1978 film Grease, starring a 24 year-old John Travolta and 30 year-old Olivia Newton-John as Hollywood's best-known teenage couple. In 1970, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey wrote a play about teenagers based on their own high school experience at Taft High School in Chicago. L to R: Carol Rose, Tony Clarno, Jessica Diaz, Robert Colletti, Kelly Davis Wilson, Adrian Aguilar,Īnd Tyler Ravelson in The Original Grease at the American Theater Co. Theater Wed Review: The Original Grease ATC Review: A Lesson Before Dying Lincoln Square Theatre »
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