original grease on film?

[2handband]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 8:50am

I live in a backwater where there is virtually no chance of catching the original unsanitized Grease live. Does anyone know of an available film version?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 5:19pm

Yes.

[2handband]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 5:28pm

Awesome; where can I find it?

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 8:03pm

Available on DVD and Blu-ray everywhere!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 8:24pm

Ooh oooh oooh, honey!

[2handband]

Posted: 4/5/11 at 8:55pm

That ain't the Grease I'm looking for. I want to see it the way it first appeared on Broadway in 1972...

[jpbran]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 12:59am

You could try Doc's Delorean.

[2handband]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:55am

That does seem to be about where it's at. I saw Grease three times during it's initial run back in the '70s, but it seems that ever since that horrible movie came out in '78 every theatrical version has been ruined in one way or another. I saw the Broadway revival of the piece back in the '90s... and frankly it was very nearly as bad as the movie. New Line Theater did a re-enactment of the original a few years ago, but I didn't get to go see it. I've been hoping to find it captured on film somewhere, but after two weeks of digging I'm starting to think it simply doesn't exist.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 11:38am

American Theatre Company in Chicago begins performances of the original pre-Broadway production of Grease (original book and score before changes were made for Broadway). Performances begin April 21st.
Original Grease

[2handband]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 1:30pm

Sigh... why doesn't anything good ever come to Minesota?

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 1:35pm

The Guthrie Theatre would like a word with you.

[2handband]

Posted: 4/6/11 at 8:51pm

Be that as it may, I take it that what I'm looking for probably doesn't exist?