Grease 2
Grease 2
#2re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 2:05pmi love this movie
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
nasty_khakis
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/15/07
#2re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 2:12pmi enjoy the movie, but in a campy way. if it were on stage, i would want it to be very "xanadu" tongue in cheek, campy, off-broadway style.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#3re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 2:13pm
Having only seen portions of the film since the 80's, I finally watched it in full about a year ago.
I promptly bought the film on DVD a few hours later and have watched it a few times since.
That should speak for itself. 
#4re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 2:18pmDid it do well back in the 80's? It looks like it would be fun to do in a campy style.
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BrodyFosse123
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#5re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 2:30pm
Following the wave of XANADU, GREASE 2 was a colossal flop theatricially but found its audience (and enormous popularity) once it started airing on cable TV and its VHS incarnation.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#6re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 3:41pm
I was at a midnight screening for people working in Broadway theatres. I think Allen Carr sponsored this screening as a piece of goodwill toward the Broadway community.
What is the word for goodwill-backfire? Sewer gas? Felching?
As a whole, that crowd HATED this movie. Hostile is a kind word for the reaction during and after the film.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
gypsy4
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/07
#8re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 3:44pmI adore Grease 2 I think if they reworked this it could work on broadway. some of the songs in the second one are alot more catchy than the songs in the first one.
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#9re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:15pmi will admit.. i like this movie... i can't get enough of that damn bowling musical number! we're gonna scooooore tonight! haha...and the that really really cheesey sex education number.. oh man... reproduction.... awesome!
brochatkid
Stand-by Joined: 5/10/08
#10re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 4:52pm
"Let's do it for our country...the red white and the blue."
I love this movie!
#12re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:02pmI love the REPRODUCTION song.
"I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish labor. They're like animals being forced to pull heavy carts of vegetables at incredible speeds." --- Wallace Shawn
#13re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:38pmAbout five years ago, The Yale Cabaret in New Haven did this as a stage musical. Very minimal sets and costumes, but very clever. They did all of the songs and most of the book from the film. I wish the cast were better--still, it was fun to watch this bit of camp live on stage!
tourboi
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/15/05
#14re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 5:46pm
"I don't think I even know what a pistol is!"
"I got your pistol right here!"
Ah. To have a cast singing Reproduction on an Off-Bway stage.
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#15re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 7:07pm
Let's Do it for Our Country.. oh man... that scene is hilarious.. i love how the girl's singing voice sucks... and i think cracks... but yeah, it fits somehow...
oh randomly... did anyon catch that simpsons episode where they are in branson missouri or somthing and they see this country western revue and one of the lyrics go "we're the stars you thought were dead, like bonnie franklin and adrian zmed"... classic line right there!
#16re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 8:22pmI've loved this movie since I was in elementary school!!!! My friends and I went bowling the other night and definitely sang "Score Tonight" the whole time! As much as I would love to see this on stage, I don't think it belongs on Broadway. Would LOVE to see a fun, campy, Xanadu-esque Off-Broadway production!
broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#17re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 8:27pm
Maxwell Caulfield in leather...nuff said.
Had no idea that (or even if) the movie found an audience on TV and tape, but it's still considered a dud of Xanadu proportions, decent cast and a few decent numbers aside.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#19re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 9:03pmMaxwell Caulfield is hot in that movie that I had to watch it every time is was on cable.
#20re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 9:20pm
Maxwell Caulfield is so incredibly hot in this film. Almost all english guys are.
I can't believe that michelle pfeiffer is so embarrassed by this film. I think it was great. and it was her first movie. and she regrets making it. sad.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
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#21re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 9:20pm
Maxwell Caulfield is so incredibly hot in this film. the best part of the film.
I can't believe that michelle pfeiffer is so embarrassed by this film. I think it was great. and it was her first movie. and she regrets making it. sad.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#22re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 10:54pm
Michelle started talking about the movie in a good way, spoke about it on Ellen.
One of my favorite movies ever, saw it at least twice a week during it's cinema run, sometimes twice a day.
If Xanadua can work on stage, this as long as it has it's tongue planted firmly in cheek, should work as well.
Cheno as Stephanie.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#24re: Grease 2
Posted: 7/7/08 at 11:01pm
Songsstress, see in some strange way, i could see it working.
Cheno = Leather = Ladder = Dressed a Christmas Tree = Swimwear = A Big Happy Gay New Musical.
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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