GREASE freaks me out. I shall explain: The musical is set in 1959. It was first produced in 1971, and the movie came out in 1978. This highly stylized nostalgia-fest celebrated a time *just 12/19 years past.* For us, it would be like having a nostalgia-fest for 2000 or 2007.
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Replying to @kellyoyo
*musical theater pedant alert* The original 1971 version was quite raunchy and spoofed the 50s. What happens is, with each iteration, is revised to be more nostalgic than the previous iteration. (The movie sped up the process. Otherwise, it’s about once every 20 years.)
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Replying to @john_chu
Oh, the original was satire??? That explains it.
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Replying to @kellyoyo
Yes, the GREASE we see now is *very* different from the original. (I blame a big chunk of it on the movie, which inevitably watered everything down. And gave it an unabashedly disco title song. Which I like a lot, BTW. But not in period.)
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Replying to @john_chu
HUH! This makes so much sense. Thank you for this perspective, John!
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This is super interesting, and also explains why the 70s movie is so campy and full of 70s fashions. (For example, when Olivia Newton John finally becomes a greaser, she's wearing spandex disco pants.)
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And a perm!!!
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The 80s perm that everybody wanted
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You could rock it, Gailey.
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I assumed they already were
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