Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Broadway revival of Grease next year?
JRTO
Stand-by Joined: 4/19/05
#0Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 2:59pmAnyone heard any info about this? Something mentioned about it in the NY Post today.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:07pm
The article in the Post was about how the writer, Jim Jacobs, is protecting his show by not allowing it to be done illegally (without rights permitted, or, changing it to suit your own purpose) on cruise ships and other venues. Apparently there have been over 350 illegal performances and he wants his due.
Yes, it did mention a Broadway revival next year. However, note that the column was written by a staff writer, not one of the regular theater columnists, Mike Riedel, Barbara Hoffman, or Clive Barnes.
#3re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:18pmWe JUST had a successful GREASE revival.
#4re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:24pm
I was just about to post about this because I read it in the article about the cruise lines in the news section.
Aren't there like 500 high schools in the NY area already putting on productions of Grease in the next year? Why do they need a Broadway revival of something that's already so omnipresent?
Wanting life but never knowing how
#5re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:25pmOn the Carousel Dinner Theater WebSite, who is doing Grease! this year, it says something about see this classic here before it goes back to Broadway soon. Or something like that. Wonder if it's that production going to Broadway. I say TOO SOON!!!!! The Tommy Tune revival just played '94 - like '98 or '99. Sorry, but five or six years is too few too think about another revival!
BSoBW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/06
#6re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:40pm
http://www.backstage.com/bso/news_reviews/nyc/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001957908
Last lines of the article.
#7re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:41pmplease god no! not unless they did something radically drastic with the concept - modern day, futuristic....i dunno.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:42pmLike skittles said, why we'd need a revival of something that essentially everyone is already overly familiar with is beyond me.
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#9re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:53pmSeriously, who listens to the Post?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 3:58pmI hope they do something different with it. The version they did on Broadway the last time was a little too much. I thought I had taken ACID.
#11re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 4:09pmThey should never do another production of Grease. "Summer Nights" is the only good song. How the original production took the longest running show record away from Fiddler on the Roof is beyond me.
OOTI2004
Broadway Star Joined: 10/29/05
#12re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 4:22pmI absolutely love Grease, it was my first favorite musical and still one of the best to me, but even I think it is way too soon.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 4:24pm
Same reason Wicked is still on broadway.
Everyone likes it.
#14re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/6/06 at 4:31pmOh God I hope they get Rosie O'Donnelle as Rizzo again.
#15re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 3:24amThey need to add a gay character or two. Grease could use a homo lovin' boost!
-Kad
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alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#16re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 6:49amI think GREASE has worn out its welcome, however that said it would be interesting to see it as it was originally done in 1972, more edgy a little less dayglow pink and orange.
MusicalComedyMan
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/03
#17re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 9:46amI hope Suzanne Sommers can star in it!!!
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#18re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 10:27am
If they bring Billy Porter back, I'm there! 
#19re: Broadway revival of Grease next year?
Posted: 2/7/06 at 2:01pmI think that they based the 'revival' idea off of a suggestion a while back that there might be a fundraiser (Actors Fund?) event that has an all-star cast performance of Grease (recall the benefit performance of Hair). I'm pretty sure that this idea was quickly sent to the furnace and there has been no talk of it since. Reviving Grease makes no sense especially since the recent revised revival (hurray alliteration!) has only been closed for less than 8 years -- and that had the benefit of a simultaneous re-release of the movie. Any producer who would get behind a full revival would be nuts.
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