It's confession time: I've never seen the entire Grease film from beginning to end. While I definitely know the music and the main premise of the story, I've never seen the whole thing and didn't know too much about the film itself. Luckily, I was able to see it with 3000 other people last night. Grease is a film based on a 1972 musical that ran on Broadway for a number of years. Everyone knows the story so I won't go into it but when the movie came out in 1978, Travolta and company made it the highest grossing film of that year. Travolta, who already had a hit film with Saturday Night Fever, became a household name and Olivia Newton John became an international star after being a successful American artist. The movies 1950's setting and music is still incredibly popular today and it's still the best-selling musical film of all time. I personally really liked the film and while the music isn't my style, I enjoyed seeing everyone else singing along.
The show was another easy one and was very similar to the Pixar show. Two big screens were showing the film and there were hardly any problems. People even left the lawn in a normal time despite it being another perfect night weather wise. Because the job was easy, this left plenty of time to watch the film and really enjoy the night. As always, looking forward to more shows in the future!
My favorite part of the show was when the song You're The One That I Want came on. Seeing everyone dancing and singing really exemplified how popular this movie was and I finally understood why it has stood the test of time so well.
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| Hard to imagine this was 36 years ago |
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