Grease is
a 1972 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.
This
show takes its name from the 1950s United States working-class
youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in
1959 at fictional Rydell High School (loosely based on William
Howard Taft High School (Chicago)), follows a group of working-class
kids as they navigate the complexities of love, cars, and drive-ins.
The score attempts to re-create the sounds of early rock and
roll in its record-breaking original Broadway production.
At
the time it closed in 1980, Grease's 3388-performance
run was the longest yet in Broadway history, although surpassed
by A Chorus Line a few years later. It went on to
become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, a popular
1994 Broadway revival, and a staple of regional theatre, summer
stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school
drama groups. It remains Broadway's twelfth longest running
show.
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