Grease 1993 and 1994 Revival synopes?

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 10:42am

Hi. I have a question: does anybody have synopses for the 1993 London and 1994 Broadway Revivals of Grease?

 

I'm interested in seeing how the changes/additions for those two versions altered the story, especially the context of Sandy being used as the opening of the '93 London revival and the context of Rizzo's Greased Lightning reprise and Sandy's Since I Don't Have You from the '94 Broadway revival.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 11:03am

I'll go you one better. Here is a copy of the production script from the '94 revival by the time Lucy Lawless joined the cast. A lot of the stage directions, both hand- and type-written, will be incomprehensible to someone who doesn't know the choreography or the staging associated with those notes, but it's a start. I'm guessing another fan script in the offing?

Updated On: 2/1/16 at 11:03 AM

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 11:15am

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "I'll go you one better. Here is a copy of the production script from the '94 revival by the time Lucy Lawless joined the cast.

 

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Thanks very much.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 1:15pm

The 1994 Broadway revival stuck to the original 1972 Broadway book and only added "Since I Don't Have You" to its score.  It did not use a single song written for the 1978 film ("Hopelessly Devoted to You", "Grease" (Is the Word), "You're the One that I Want", etc).  

[Speed]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 2:21pm

I love love loved the 1994 production.  The arrangements were out of this world.  Billy Porter's Beauty School Dropout is my favorite production number performance in my 24 years of Broadway theater going.  I don't know how he did it 8 times a week.  Sam Harris' Those Magic Changes was pretty great too.  Listen to the recording if you haven't already.

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 2:21pm

@BrodyFosse123: It also added Rizzo's reprise of "Greased Lightnin'", and may or may not have renamed
Alma Mater (Parody)" to "We Go Together" (I can't figure out if the two songs are the same or not).

 

@g.d.e.l.g.i.: The reason for this query was simple curiosity. I was listening to the '94 Revival OBCR, but because Wikipedia doesn't specifically mention either the "Greased Lightnin'" reprise from Rizzo or "Since I Don't Have You", I was unsure of the context of the new material, and wanted to be better-informed of what exactly they added to the storyline of the show.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 2:42pm

The Rydell High School Alma Mater and its parody and "We Go Together" are completely different songs - no shared melody, etc.  

[DigificWriter]

Posted: 2/1/16 at 2:52pm

Speed said: "I love love loved the 1994 production.  The arrangements were out of this world.  Billy Porter's Beauty School Dropout is my favorite production number performance in my 24 years of Broadway theater going.  I don't know how he did it 8 times a week.  Sam Harris' Those Magic Changes was pretty great too.  Listen to the recording if you haven't already.

 

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I think the actor playing Danny gets a little too nasally at times and I wasn't really impressed with Rosie O'Donnell's Rizzo (surprisingly) or Megan Mullally's Marty (again, too nasally) but I did like the '94 recording overall and have added it to my Spotify playlist.

 

 

BrodyFosse123 said: "The Rydell High School Alma Mater and its parody and "We Go Together" are completely different songs - no shared melody, etc.  

 

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Thanks for the clarification.

 

Can anybody help me out with a synopsis or outline of the '93 London Revival now that my curiosity about the '94 Broadway Revival has been sated?

Updated On: 2/1/16 at 02:52 PM