Every time I hear or read about the FOX live broadcast of GREASE, I think about what DR FJL wrote a few weeks ago about the show:
Ancient Grease!
HA!
I loved the irreverent, raunchy, vulgar, original off-Broadway productio of
Grease before the film tamed it, laundered it, sanitized it, and destroyed it. It was a bawdy reversal of the popular teen movies in which the bad boy reforms and a paean to the high school greasers and losers of shop class and beauty school that the upwardly mobile students looked down on. If I thought Fox were doing the original, I might be very happy, but I intensely dislike the current high school version with dumbed down, sanitized lyrics and the movie songs.
I believe Fox is doing the movie version of the show. Pity.