Behind the Scenes
Director
Randal KleiserIf Randal Kleiser were a student at Rydell High, he wouldn't be a popular kid like Danny, and he wouldn't be a nerd like Eugene either. He'd be most like the kid in the green shirt at...
Screenwriter
Alan Carr and Bronte Woodard, based on the playbook by Jim Jacobs and Warren CaseyProducer Alan Carr needed to adapt a hit Broadway musical for Hollywood—a big task made harder by the fact that H...
Production Studio
A Robert Stigwood/Allan Carr Production, Distributed by ParamountRobert Stigwood and Alan Carr were like a real-life Sandy and Rizzo. Stigwood, who died in 2016 at the age of eighty-two, was known...
Production Design
From the Stage to the StreetsGrease the movie is no longer a Broadway show. They're not confined to the stage. So the filmmakers wanted to make the production pop. We imagine the conversation went...
Music
Summer What-in'?!Grease wouldn't be the same without its soundtrack. The music gets the audience up and moving, but the lyrics are where characters reveal their thoughts and feelings, for better or...
Fandoms
People don't really like grease. They use paper napkins to blot it off pizza, get angry if it stains their t-shirt, and scrub to get the scent of deep-fat fryers out of their hair after a shift fli...