“Grease,” the record-setting Broadway musical that became a movie classic with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, will be presented by the Northwest Theatre Company at Northwest Whitfield High School today and Saturday.
The production has a cast of more than 60 actors and singers and will have professional musicians backing them as a band.
The tale focuses on opposites Danny and Sandy, who had a summer romance and are now thrown together in the same high school, Rydell. The setting is the late 1950s, and rock ‘n’ roll is still new.
The production hit Broadway in 1972, ran for more than eight years and included cast members such as Marilu Henner, Patrick Swayze and Richard Gere.
The hit musical was released in 1978, its soundtrack racking up Billboard No. 1 hits for “Grease” and “You’re the One That I Want” and a Billboard No. 3 for “Hopelessly Devoted to You,” which also garnered an Academy Award nomination.