Grease
Shows · Grease
At fictional Rydell High School in 1959, tough greaser Danny Zuko and sweet new girl Sandy Dumbrowski struggle to reconcile their summer romance with the social pressures of teenage cliques. Danny must choose between maintaining his cool image with his T-Birds gang and showing his true feelings for Sandy, while she navigates the world of the sassy Pink Ladies and ultimately transforms herself to win Danny back.
- Opened
- 1972
- Performances
- 3,388
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions6 on Broadway
| 1972 | Eden Theatre Original. February 14, 1972 · Tom Moore | 3,388 performances |
| 1973 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 1994 | Eugene O'Neill Theatre Revival. May 11, 1994 · Jeff Calhoun | 1,505 performances |
| 2002 | Victoria Palace Theatre Original. | |
| 2002 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer. | |
| 2007 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival. August 19, 2007 · Kathleen Marshall | 554 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 19 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| US | Theatrical Rights Worldwide | not stated by this source |
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48 passages naming Grease, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Grease in December 1979.) book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p202
The record, however, was broken by Grease in December 1979. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-green-stanley-green-kay-5th-ed-rev-and-updated-by#p233
Grease! (exclamation point added for this production), which ran for 1,503 performances. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p230
It became the longest-running musical in Broadway history with 3,388 performances. (In September 1983, it was surpassed by A Chorus Line, and subsequently by others.) book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p256
the final performances of Grease (1980), from the Royale Theatre; book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p273
A huge hit (for a while it was the longest-running musical in Broadway history) was Grease. It originated off Broadway and moved to the Broadhurst on June 7, 1972. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p104
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