Photo of the Grease Marquee- Page 2

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 7:57am

"HIDEOUS!" (to us theatre snobs)

"Wow, Mommy, the TV show! GREASE! GREASE! Money! Tickets! Daddy!" (tourists)

Purpose achieved.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 8:15am

Love it.

Perfectly sells the show.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:12am

Seems fine, I just don't understand why there is a need for yet another revival of Grease. Its not a great show - and there must be other shows that haven't been revived to death that they could have done.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:14am

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Why does nobody get that?

This isn't a revival for artistic purposes.
Updated On: 6/20/07 at 11:14 AM

[Wicked63]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:20am

Well its 1000 timmes better than the new London production. Its not even new its the same one thats been used in the West End and on tour for nearly 10 years! The production is not new either- again the same one thats been around the block so many times and they're plugging it as new ANd charging $115 per ticket! The NY is pretty cool i think. The Broadway one posted above is very cool and a variation of that one is being used for the Spanish, currently in barcelona production!!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:27am

The London Production Logo is the same as normal but thats because its a great Logo and it works well(ive always thought our logo was probably the best one ive seen)

They haven't said anything about the production yet so im not sure how you know its the same one???? .It wouldn't surprise me at all if it was but again its always been a fun production so it works(personally though i hate grease now grr)

[jv92]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:27am

It's really awful looking.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:28am

Yankee Fan,

Thanks for being one of the few who understand.


$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[Wicked63]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 11:34am

I have a few friends up for it and some who alreday have and it is the old David Ian production that originated at the Dominion.

Posted: 6/20/07 at 1:28pm

What goes up must come down....

[HeyMrMusic]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 2:41pm

Wow, I absolutely hate the sign that says "The One That You Want!" Completely tacky. Definitely a turn-off. I don't remember wanting another Grease revival.

At least the title doesn't have an exclamation point. I wouldn't mind seeing a grittier version of the show, but the logo seems to scream bubble gum fluff. O well, maybe next revival.

~Steven

[WOSQ]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 3:02pm

see above

or "Grease is the Turd"?

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 3:09pm

It looks they made it in paint. Doesn't look like they put to much effort into it.

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 3:56pm

Becoz, thats exactly what I thought!

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 4:07pm

It's a hell of a lot better than the tacky, gaudy, ugly 94 revival logo. God, I hated that thing. And then they painted the entire exterior of the theatre hot pink and added black "graffiti". It was hideous. Sure, the new logo is not great, but it will be instantly recognizable by tourists and easliy reproduced for mass marketing. So far, everything about this revival has been very business savvy. Let's hope Marshall can inject some real life into a show that most everyone knows forwards and backwards without having to resort to a glitzy Vegas nightclub act like the last revival.

Regardless, the show will most likely be a hit that runs a few years.

Updated On: 6/20/07 at 04:07 PM

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 4:43pm

"Regardless, the show will most likely be a hit that runs a few years. "

Sadly you're probably right. But at least it will be providing NY actors with jobs. Is it possible that the tv show becomes an annual event to cast replacements?

Either way, I was reminded how beautiful the inside of the Atkinson looks when I was watching Lewis Black's broadway concert. Just a shame they can't put a show in there worth seeing so I have an excuse to go inside.

And yes this revival=$$$$ not Art

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 4:55pm

But $$$$ can still = Entertaining, which is what I hope for in this revival.

Whatever the musical theatre "fans" think, the international general public LOVES Grease and that is a fact. Whether it's at a local high school, the Ecuadorian national tour, or simply singing Summer Lovin' karaoke at the annual company picnic, people love it and don't seem to get enough of it. To pretend one of the most universally beloved American musicals of all time doesn't deserve a revival on Broadway is simply asinine.

[Carl Magnum]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 5:01pm

"Whatever the musical theatre "fans" think, the international general public LOVES Grease and that is a fact. Whether it's at a local high school, the Ecuadorian national tour, or simply singing Summer Lovin' karaoke at the annual company picnic, people love it and don't seem to get enough of it. To pretend one of the most universally beloved American musicals of all time doesn't deserve a revival on Broadway is simply asinine."

Totally agree. Summer Lovin is such a bar karaoke staple at this point even I can admit to putting on my falsetto after a few too many shots. The unfortunate truth however is that the general public loves the sanitized Grease. If half of the parents that take their kids to Grease knew the acctual lyrics to Greased Lightning they'd plotz. The original concept of Grease is long since dead, along with the corpse of the original concept for Chicago. And that original concept is what I felt made Grease work in the first place. Tounge firmly in cheek, actors far too old to be in High School, not taking the whole thing too seriously.

Then along comes the vapid hole of a "film" and ruins Grease forever. Now we get a bevy of John Travolta impersonators and a supporting male cast ripping off the fonz. And now for some reason, it's a musical of fun that takes itself seriously and the whole concept of self parody is lost.

I guess we shouldn't care anymore. What made Grease popular in the 70's probably would never work today. People would laugh at it, and not with it. It's just sad to visit the dead show graveyard.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 5:21pm

It taps into the mentality of a 9 year-old. About the same level as the David Ian production.

It is also quite similar to the new Joseph logo.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 5:36pm

I feel like a teenage girl just barfed on the marquee.

My puke looks better than that marquee.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 5:41pm

While the orignal Grease on Broadway was very popular, its international success is really owed to the film. Most of the world never got to see the original version, so it's pretty hard to tell if it would have turned into the sensation it is now. But that's neither here nor there. A more sanitized version probably would have been licensed for community/high school productions anyway and there was NO WAY a raunchy potty-mouthed musical would have been as successful without the help of midnight screenings, marijuana, transvestites, and the addition of an entirerly new text shrieked by an audience in various states of drag. And even then, it would take years to catch on.

The original writers of Grease are most likely eternally grateful for the sanitization of the show (the composer certainly backs this new revival). Do I prefer the original version? Yes. Do I have a problem with the family-friendly version? Absolutely not. I still have a good time listening to those wonderful songs (though I wish they would have kept All Choked Up). Though not performed in the same style, I do think the safe version still preserves the same spirit.

[Yero]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 5:57pm

I still think the logo looks like a logo made for a toothpaste.

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:06pm

I think so, too, Yero.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:08pm

I rather face the other way and look at the wonderful LOVEMUSIK logo.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 6/20/07 at 6:09pm

I wouldn't want to use that toothpaste.