Grease The Musical Script

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In 1959, Rydell High School's students are starting a new year. (Alma Mater Parody)
Sandy Dumbrowski, the new girl at school and Danny Zuko, the leader of the 'Burger Palace Boys,' had a brief love affair over the summer. Sandy recounts her version of the fling to the 'Pink Ladies' (Jan, Marty, Frenchy, and Betty Rizzo), while Danny tells the Boys (Roger, Doody, Sonny, and Kenickie) his rendition (Summer Nights). Sandy and Danny soon bump into each other at school, and while Sandy is happy to see him, he plays it cool. Meanwhile, the kids gather in the hall as Doody shows off his new guitar. The rock star wannabe gives an impromptu concert in the hall (Those Magic Changes).
At Marty's pajama party, the girls experiment with wine, cigarettes, and pierced ears, and talk about boys. Marty tells about her long-distance courtship with a Marine (Freddy, My Love). Meanwhile, the Burger Palace Boys are busy stealing hubcaps and teasing Kenickie about his new (used) car (Greased Lightning).
Danny sees Sandy again and tries to apologize for his behavior, but she is hurt to find out that he has told his friends that she is 'easy.' Head cheerleader Patty Simcox interrupts to prompt Sandy to join the squad and to tease Danny about his latest indiscretions (Rydell Fight Song). The kids take their newfangled portable radios for a rock and roll picnic in the park and plan how they will pair off at the upcoming school prom, while Roger shares his love for Jan and his favorite hobby (Mooning). Rizzo teases Danny for falling for a girl who resembles the excessively proper teenage ingenue, Sandra Dee (Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee). Sandy realizes that Danny is putting her off to be cool and wishes she had never met him.
Then Danny suggests that Marty go out with Eugene, and she chases after him. Act I ends with a spirited pledge of friendship (We Go Together).
At the High School Hop, everyone is dancing, except Sandy (Shakin' At the High School Hop). She is home feeling sorry for herself (It's Raining on Prom Night). Meanwhile, favorite radio DJ Vince Fontaine, is warming the kids up for the hand-jive dance contest. Kenickie dumps his blind date, Cha-Cha DiGregorio, and pairs up with Rizzo. Danny and Cha-Cha then proceed to win the dance contest (Born to Hand Jive).
A few days later at the Burger Palace after school, a couple of the guys run into Frenchy, who flunked out of Rydell and has now dropped out of beauty school (Beauty School Dropout). Danny, who has taken up track in order to win back Sandy's affections, does not know that Cha-Cha's boyfriend's gang has challenged the guys to a rumble. He is more concerned about patching things up with Sandy at the Twi-Light Drive-In, but he moves too fast for her, and she leaves (All Alone at a Drive-In Movie). A couple of days later, the 'greasers' are having a party in Jan's basement, as Doody and Roger sing 'Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen.' Rizzo is worried that she is pregnant, but she is so mad at Kenickie that she tells him he is not the father. Rizzo rejects the kids' offers of help, especially Sandy's (There Are Worse Things I Could Do). Sandy wonders what she needs to do to fit in at Rydell (Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee - Reprise).
The next time Sandy meets up with the Burger Palace Boys and the Pink Ladies, she has transformed herself into a greaser's dream date (All Choked Up). Rizzo reveals that she is not pregnant, and she and Kenickie reunite. All ends happily (We Go Together - Reprise).

If you require the JUNIOR VERSION of the script please click here (This version cuts Rizzo’s scene and song “There are Worse Things I Could Do” as well as more appropriate language throughout the script).

a '50s Rock 'n' Roll musical in 2 acts, 15 scenes: Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

Broadhurst Theatre, Broadway - 14 February, 1972 (3388 perfs)
Produced at the New London Theatre 1973
Revived at the London Astoria 1979 (124 perfs)

First thing first, this is not the script as seen in the 1978 movie. This is the original stage play script, before commercialisation. This version does not feature certain songs from the film, in this although advertised as a school edition, it is definitely. Grease - School Edition. Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs Book, Music and Lyrics by Warren Casey; Full Length Musical, Drama, Comedy, 1950s; 9M, 8F; ISBN: TRW-9117; Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950’s.

Read Musical Scripts Scripts. Read Musical Scripts Scripts. Browse hundreds of screenplays Browse 2018 Oscar Nominated 2019 Oscar Nominated 2020 Oscar Nominated A24 ABC Action. Grease (1987) Bronte Woodard, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, Alan Carr. Film, Romance, Musical. Glee (2009) Pilot. Grease is the way we are feelin’ this is a life of illusion, wrapped up in troubles laced in confusion, what are we doin’ here? Grease is the word is the word that you heard it’s got groove, it’s got meanin’ grease is the time is the place is the motion grease is the way we are feelin’ grease is the word, is the word, is the word. The film adaptation of Grease premiered in 1978 and became the highest-grossing movie musical of all time. Grease returned to Broadway twice, in a 1994 revival directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun and a 2007 revival directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.

Synopsis

Rydell High's spirited class of '59-gum-chewing, hub-cap-stealing, hotrod-loving boys with D.A.s and leatherjackets and their wise-cracking girls in teased curls, bobby sox, and pedal pushers-capture the look and sound of the 1950s in a rollicking musical that salutes the rock 'n' roll era. While hip Danny Zuke and wholesome Sandy Dumbrowski resolve the problems of their mutual attraction for each other, the gang sings and dances its way through such nostalgic scenes as the pyjama party, the prom, the burger palace, and the drive-in movie.

'A lively and funny musical-as well as the dancingest one in town-that brings back the look and sound of the teenage world of the late 1950s with glee. It's a winner... The songs... are dandies [that portray] the early rockers ... with zip and charm .... The sheer energy of Grease carries all before it.' New York Daily News

Story

Grease is a class reunion flashback to the 'days that were' in the fabulous fifties.

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Miss Lynch, still the old-maid English teacher, and the high achievers of the class, Patty Simcox and Eugene Florcyk, are presiding at the head table once again, but the Greasers and all the gang are back in the '50's reliving their hell-raising days at Rydell High.

Kenickie, Roger, Sonny, and the group are pressing Danny about his 'hot' summer. Concealing the fact that he met a girl he really cared about and didn't score at all, he leads them on.

Rizzo, the tough-talking leader of the Pink Ladies, joins with other members (Frenchy, Marty, and Jan) in meeting Sandy Dumbrowski, a perfect Sandra Dee, girl-next-door type. As it turns out, Sandy was Danny's summer love.

When Rizzo forces a confrontation, Danny plays the 'big deal' for his peers rather than show the tenderness he shared with Sandy last summer. Sandy is confused and hurt by his strange behavior.

At a pyjama party Sandy tried to get into the groove with the other Pink Ladies but gets sick. Rizzo mocks Sandy and splits to join the boys.

Kenickie and the guys customize 'Greased Lightnin',' a fouron-the-floor hot rod, guaranteed to snag any girl.

Sandy, still puzzled about Danny, becomes a cheerleader. Danny longs for Sandy but doesn't know how to approach her. It's time for the school dance, a special event to be hosted by Vince Fontaine, the nationally known D.J. There is a dance contest won by Danny and Cha-Cha, an obviously loose lady who seems to drive the final wedge between Danny and Sandy. Frenchy becomes a beauty-school dropout, encounters her teen angel, then flunks out. Rizzo confides that her period is late, and word spreads that she is knocked up. Danny and Sandy are briefly united, but he makes a pass at the drive-in and Sandy walks home.

On second thought, she turns to the girls for help and becomes a greaser's dream girl. Danny is knocked out. Frenchy is back in school and Rizzo is not P.G. Everyone is back together to rock 'n' roll happily ever after.

Cast

DANNY: - The leader of the 'Burger Palace Boys.' Well-built, nice looking, with an air of cool easy-going charm. Strong and confident.
SANDY: - Danny's love interest. Sweet, wholesome, naive, cute, like Sandra Dee of the 'Gidget' movies.
THE 'PINK LADIES' - (The club-jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swing ing girls' gang that hangs around with the 'Burger Palace Boys')
RIZZO: - Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable: Thin, Italian, with unconventional good looks.
FRENCHY: - A dreamer. Good-natured and dumb. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance-particularly her hair. She can't wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician.
MARTY: - The 'beauty' of the Pink Ladies. Pretty, looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Tries to act sophisticated.
JAN: - Chubby, compulsive eater. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys.
THE 'BURGER PALACE BOYS' - (A super-cool, D.A.-haired, hard-looking group of high school wheeler-dealers . . . or so they think)
KENICKIE: - Second-in-command of the Burger Palace Boys. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humour.
DOODY: - Youngest of the guys. Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. He also plays the guitar.
ROGER: - The 'anything-for-a-laugh' stocky type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on.
SONNY: - Italian-looking, with shiny black hair and dark oily skin. A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he's a real ladykiller.
PATTY: - A typical cheerleader at a middle-class American public high school. Attractive and athletic. Aggressive, sure of -herself, given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Catty, but in an All-American Girl sort of way. She can also twirl a baton.
CHA-CHA: - A blind date. Slovenly, loud-mouthed and homely. Takes pride in being 'the best dancer at St. Bernadette's.'
EUGENE: - The class valedictorian. Physically awkward, with weak eyes and a highpitched voice. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible.
VINCE FONTAINE: - A typical 'teen audience' radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talkinb A veteran 'greaser.'
JOHNNY CASINO: - A 'greaser' student at Rydell who leads a rock 'n' roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock 'n' roll idol.
TEEN ANGEL: - A good-looking falsetto-voiced, Fabian-look-alike. A singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958.
MISS LYNCH: - An old maid English teacher.

For the Chorus

Two gangs, the Pink Ladies and the Burger Palace Boys are involved in twelve of the musical numbers.

Singing Principals

Sandy, Danny, Doody, Kenicke, Marty, Roger, Rizzio and Jan.

Other Principals

Frenchy, Jan, Sonny.

Smaller Parts

Patty, Cha-Cha, Eugene, Vince Fontaine, Johnny Casino, Teen Angel, Miss Lynch.

Scenes and Setting

2 acts, 12 scenes. Unit set with various set pieces. The basic unit is a raised platform with metal stairways up to each side. Posters and ads create the mood of the period, plus rows of school lockers, brick walls, banners, graffiti.

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ACT I

Scene 1: Rydell High School Class of '59 Reunion
Scene 2: The High School Cafeteria
Scene 3: A Hallway in the High School
Scene 4: Marty's Bedroom
Scene 5: A Street
Scene 6: Cheerleader Practice
Scene 7: A Deserted Section of the Park

ACT II

Scene 1: The High School Hop
Scene 2: Outside the Burger Palace
Scene 3: The Twi-Light Drive-In
Scene 4: Jan's Basement
Scene 5: Inside the Burger Palace

Cached

Musical Numbers:

All Choked Up - Sandy and Danny, Pink Ladies & Burger Palace Boys
Alma Mater - Miss Lynch, Patty & Eugene
Alma Mater Parody - Pink Ladies, Burger Palace Boys
Alone at a drive-in Movie - Danny & Burger Palace Boys
Beauty School Dropout - Teen Angel, Frenchy and Choir
Born To Hand-Jive - Johnny Casino and Company
Freddy My Love - Marty & Pink Ladies
Greased Lightnin' - Kenickie & Burger Palace Boys
It's Raining on Prom Night.. - Sandy
Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee - Rizzo
Moonin' - Roger and Jan
Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen - Doody and Roger
Shakin' At the High School Hop - Entire Company
Summer Nights - Sandy & Danny, Pink Ladies, Burger Palace Boys
Those Magic Changes - Doody, Burger Palace Boys & Pink Ladies
There Are Worst Things I Could Do - Rizzo
We Go Together - Pink Ladies and Burger Palace Boys

Orchestration

1 Bass, 1 Reeds (Tenor Saxes 1 & 2), 1 Drum, 1 Guitar 1 & 2

Period and Costumes:

The '50s. All the stereotyped outfits: matron school teacher dress and sweater, full 'poodle' skirts, bobby socks, saddle oxfords, pastel blouses, 'Pink Lady' pink windbreaker jackets, pedal pushers, muu-muus, fuzzy slippers, school sweaters and slacks for 'straights,' pegged pants, white T-shirts, black leather jackets, baggy gymsuit, cheerleader outfit, crinolines, high school formals, skinny neckties, boy dress-up pegged slacks and loud sports jackets, jogging suit, white Fabian sweather, white chinos, white boots, white plastic dropcloth sheets for beauty school girls.