Grease

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Grease

• Book, music and lyrics by
• Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

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History of Grease

• Originally a play with incidental music
• Incidental Music
• Music that is performed during the show but not
  used to move the story line along
• Can also be background music
• It was performed off-Broadway for a year
• Its success lead to a Broadway premiere on June
  7, 1972

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Main Characters

• Danny Zuko
• Sandy Olsen
• Betty Rizzo
• Frenchy

• Kenickie
• Leo
• The Teen Angel

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Danny Zuko

• Leader of the T-Birds
• High school bad boy
• Falls in love with Sandy

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Sandy Olsen

• Exchanged student from Australia
• High school goody-two-shoes
• Falls in love with Danny Zuko

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Rizzo

• Leader of the Pink Ladies
• Portrays a bad-girl image
• In love with Kenickie

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Frenchy

• Member of the Pink Ladies
• Befriends Sandy and invites her to join the Pink
  Ladies
• Drops out of high school to go to Beauty School

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Kenickie

• Second in command of the T-Birds
• In love with Rizzo

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Teen Angel

• Guardian Angel to Frenchy
• He advices her to leave Beauty School because she
  is no good at what she does

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Leo

• Leader of The Scorpions, the rival gang
• Wants to date Rizzo

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Synopsis

• Takes place at Rydell High School in the 1950s
• Sandy and Danny meet the summer before school
  starts and fall in love
• Sandy is supposed to go back to Australia but
  enrolls at Rydell High School as an exchange
  student
• Sandy re-meets Danny and realizes he is not the
  same person she fell in love with over the summer

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Synopsis (cont.)

• Sandy becomes friends with the Pink Ladies
• Throughout the movie, each character faces their
  own conflict
• Danny begins to realize he actually does like
  Sandy
• Danny and Sandy work to impress each other

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Song List

• Grease
• Summer Nights
• Look at Me, Im Sandra Dee
• Hopelessly Devoted
• Youre the One that I Want

• Beauty School Drop Out
• Grease Lightning
• There Are Worse Things I Could Do
• We Go Together