Description

"Grease" is the word this week, as Alex and Daisha chat about the movie everyone knows and loves, Grease, from 1978! Join the Broadway Babies as they dive into this teen drama that is either loved, or dismissed as problematic. Topics for the week are: performing gender in the film, Grease as satire, viewing a 1978 film with a 2018 lens, and OF COURSE, we chat about Grease's take on nostalgia. We hope you enjoy! 

Songs:

• "Grease," performed by Frankie Valli*
• "Greased Lightnin,'" by John Travolta, Jeff Conaway and T-Birds
• "Beauty School Dropout," by Frankie Avalon
• "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," by Stockard Channing
• "You're the One That I Want," by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John**
• "We Go Together," by cast of "Grease"

Music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

*By Barry Gibb

**By John Farrar

Distributed by RSO Records

Show Notes

• ScreenPrism has a really insightful video about how this movie demonstrates the teenage performance of gender.
• Director Randal Kleiser did a "Notes on a Scene" session with Vanity Fair about shooting the carnival and "You're the One that I Want."
• Another piece by Vanity Fair about how "Grease" beat the odds to become the biggest movie-musical of the 20th century...and the story of its eccentric producer, Allan Carr.  
• There are no words about this *cringe* music video reunion of Travolta and OLN…
• On the other hand, what's basically this "Summer Nights" recreation from "Glee" isn't that...bad?
• The trailer for Disney's "Teen Beach Movie" — up to you to decide to watch it or not.