An idea: GREASE and FOLLIES are the exact same musical- Page 2

[NoName3]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 1:02pm

Next you'll be telling us The Lion King = Hamlet.

hmmm....

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 1:07pm

I think Grease and Follies are so very similar! They're also very film noir!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 1:21pm

Comparing Grease to anything but a huge pile of dung is insulting to any self respecting theatre person. Comparing it to Sondheim is grounds for deportation.

Or not. I actually have a lot of respect for Grease. It was a scrappy and bawdy little local show in Chicago that caught fire on Broadway and became a massive success even before the sanitized film was released. Then it went global and became one of the most successful musicals of all time. Kudos to them! Other than being a musical and having a Broadway run, it has nothing in common with Follies or Sondheim, but then most musicals don't have much in common with Follies and Sondheim. I know ridiculing Grease is the "thing to do", but I can't really fault the creative team for doing something so well that it ultimately became an international icon. Gee, how...awful? LOL

[SeanMartin]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 1:55pm

>> "then most musicals don't have much in common with Follies and Sondheim"

I dunno. I bet if we played some "FOLLIES Six Degrees of Separation", we'd find they're a lot more similar than we'd comfortable care to admit.

[chewy5000]

Posted: 12/8/11 at 7:30pm

I thought this was common knowledge.