Speaker 1: And That's what You Really Missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's What You Really miss podcast. Live
Speaker 1: to You by Coastal from LA and New York. Kevin
Speaker 1: in New York, Hello to my old stumping around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in your old neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Very exciting, Kevin Spelling. The rehearsals going good. Yes, you too,
Speaker 1: rehearsal exciting.
Speaker 2: Everything is going. Everyone's very nice. We're all very excited.
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be great. It's such a
Speaker 2: good show. So if you're in New York starting November seventh,
Speaker 2: just come see Spelling. Be at ther World Stages.
Speaker 1: Pop on over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quick, it's one act. It's like ninety something minutes.
Speaker 1: Those are the dream shows. I love those shows.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it will be I think it will
Speaker 2: be good. It's going to be great because so great
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the writing of the show.
Speaker 1: Well, we know the show is good, and then the
Speaker 1: cast that you've got is excellent. So you guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be good. You're gonna be great. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: so much fun. It is here though, your first time
Speaker 1: living in New York.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never been here for more than like time.
Speaker 1: It's just so lively all the time.
Speaker 2: It's I take Sophie, my dog for a walk, and
Speaker 2: I look down and like, what are you doing here
Speaker 2: in New York?
Speaker 1: Sophie's new stomping grounds in New York. She's living in
Speaker 1: the concrete junk.
Speaker 2: Peeing and pooping on the concrete. No problem.
Speaker 1: Oh, Barry used to do that everywhere. He'd be like,
Speaker 1: I'm no good.
Speaker 2: I just wasn't sure if she was, like, literally no hesitation.
Speaker 3: I mean, this ain't her first rodeo.
Speaker 2: She knows these street dogs, you know, they've lived, so.
Speaker 3: They ate nothing.
Speaker 1: All right, Kevin, So here we are, we are. We
Speaker 1: are live from New York Saturday night, and we were
Speaker 1: doing Greece today Grease recap. Very exciting.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a big one.
Speaker 1: This would not be complete.
Speaker 2: This is like the Holy Grail of musicals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's John Travolta and Olivia and John
Speaker 1: which they are, they are King and Queen.
Speaker 2: They are and watching this. I haven't seen it in
Speaker 2: a really long time. I thought I had, like, I
Speaker 2: know this like the back of my hand. I don't
Speaker 2: technically even really need to watch it.
Speaker 1: For this, I know, I literally could have watched this
Speaker 1: like in my sleep with my eyes closed and I
Speaker 1: could see every frame.
Speaker 2: However, so much of it I didn't remember at all. Oh,
Speaker 2: like a couple things like segments, I didn't remember at all,
Speaker 2: And my perspective of it now as like a full
Speaker 2: fully fledged adult's, so it in that way, the stories
Speaker 2: or the characters of who who are my favorites are
Speaker 2: different from when I was a kid? Okay, okay, right,
Speaker 2: Like the story I didn't realize how raunchy Grease is.
Speaker 1: Very raunchy, Like as a kid wanting to watch Grease
Speaker 1: and your parents being like, you shouldn't be watching that.
Speaker 1: You're like, but this is so good.
Speaker 2: I was never told that, So I think I didn't realize.
Speaker 3: Your child, so this stuff was like off limits.
Speaker 1: But who was in a musical theater growing up and
Speaker 1: didn't see Greece didn't do Grease, didn't do We Go Together,
Speaker 1: didn't we do, didn't do summer Nights, Like, it's just
Speaker 1: it's a staple, so you had to see it, and
Speaker 1: so you're just like sneaking it, but I yes, okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get into it. So Greece premiered on June sixteenth,
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Can you believe it, ten years before my birth? Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, wow, almost exactly. The number one song in
Speaker 2: the country was Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb.
Speaker 1: The number of movies was Jaws two and opened the
Speaker 1: same weekend as Grease and hit number one. Wow, and
Speaker 1: obviously wow we were doing you know, we we were
Speaker 1: not even a thought yet the cast members of Glaze.
Speaker 3: So there's no blue now. But we were deep in
Speaker 3: the disco.
Speaker 1: So this is all the pop culture snapshots where we
Speaker 1: were nineteen seventy It was peak disco, I mean, give
Speaker 1: me down. Travolta and the Beg's and Andy Gibb. This
Speaker 1: was also the other Blondie and the police started being,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the police. Wow.
Speaker 3: This is the beginning of everything that raised me.
Speaker 2: Grease and Superman were huge blockbusters, The Muppet Show on
Speaker 2: TV and The Love Boat were huge ssh.
Speaker 1: Space Invaders came out in nineteen seventy eight two, so
Speaker 1: basically kicking off the whole arcade craze which was like
Speaker 1: so massive in the eighties. I remember growing up. My
Speaker 1: brother was you know, right around that age in the eighties,
Speaker 1: and so everything in our life was games and arcades
Speaker 1: and the whole thing atari, et cetera.
Speaker 2: Fun fact, like very very fun fact, the very first
Speaker 2: cell phone system was introduced in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 1: You know, I would have guessed that was like if
Speaker 1: somebody asked me as a trivia question, I would have
Speaker 1: been like, nineteen ninety eight, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like that seems so early for the first cell phone system,
Speaker 1: But I guess you're right.
Speaker 3: This is also like the beginning of the age of beebers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's the thing. I think we think about
Speaker 2: decades in a very like black or white thing. It's
Speaker 2: from like nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine, like that's our decade. But they don't
Speaker 2: actually happen like that. They usually there are a couple
Speaker 2: of years ACKed off, Like if you're really talking about
Speaker 2: things that happened in the eighties, they started in the
Speaker 2: late seventies. Like everything's shifted just a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is also a big year for history and
Speaker 1: social change. So s F San Francisco flew the Rainbow
Speaker 1: Pride flag for the very first time, symbolizing the growing
Speaker 1: LGBTQ plus Rights Movement plus.
Speaker 2: Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,
Speaker 2: making him one of the first openly gay elected officials
Speaker 2: in a major US city.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Wow, it's huge, so grease.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is directed by Randall Kleiser. The screenplay was by
Speaker 1: Bronte Woodard and the adaptation was Alan Carr.
Speaker 2: This was also it's based on a stage musical, which
Speaker 2: I don't think I knew.
Speaker 1: This is the thing we're learning. It's like, oh, things
Speaker 1: have to be a book first, or a musical first,
Speaker 1: or whatever. First we were thinking like the movie came first,
Speaker 1: and then people are making musicals like now. But it
Speaker 1: was stage movie stage yes, correct, always the stage first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so at least in this stage musical was
Speaker 2: by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, and it premiered in
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two. The movie was choreographed by Patricia Birch
Speaker 2: and most of the music in this movie because also
Speaker 2: like what other musical has spawned this many commercial hits. Trually,
Speaker 2: most of the music it's written by Jim Jacobs and
Speaker 2: Warren Casey, who created the original Broadway musical, but the
Speaker 2: movie added new songs from Barry Gibb, John Ferrar and
Speaker 2: Louis Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Lewis Saint Louis, Louis Saint Louis.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how do you say it? We're unclear
Speaker 2: Arry Gibb, And like some of the songs they added
Speaker 2: for this, like hopelessly devoted, I mean, Greece is the word?
Speaker 1: You add that? For Olivia Newton, John you add that.
Speaker 1: So this moved off Broadway in nineteen seventy two, were
Speaker 1: producer Ali car bought the film rights and brought it
Speaker 1: to Paramount.
Speaker 2: This is what I love. So Austin and I were
Speaker 2: watching this and he was sort of googling things along
Speaker 2: the way, which is really fascinating because obviously we know
Speaker 2: this music and movies so well, right that there's a
Speaker 2: wealth of history that I have no idea about.
Speaker 1: I mean so much. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So the film had a six million dollar budget and
Speaker 2: was shot over two months at Venice High School and
Speaker 2: all over.
Speaker 1: LA which was so special, and then also filming when
Speaker 1: we did summer nights, we did it at the high school.
Speaker 2: How was that? Because I wasn't in that. I think
Speaker 2: it's do it you think you could do summer nights. Oh,
Speaker 2: I'm not in it was that super surreal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was pretty full Eric Stilts structed and it
Speaker 1: was it's just special. It's really fun. And it was
Speaker 1: like you you just walked onto the onto the location
Speaker 1: in the ground, and you're like, right, I know exactly
Speaker 1: where this is, I know exactly what happened here.
Speaker 3: This is so iconic.
Speaker 1: It felt a little like I felt like I'm a
Speaker 1: little muppety in it because like it's such a cool
Speaker 1: movie and it was such like an iconic part of
Speaker 1: history and in my mind and in my childhood so
Speaker 1: iconic that like I was like here, I am like
Speaker 1: troops in around trying to do this song here, and
Speaker 1: like it's just so everything about Grease was when I
Speaker 1: growing up, was like so cool. Like the characters were cool,
Speaker 1: the outfits were cool, the the all the like storylines
Speaker 1: in Greece were like, oh wow, this is so racy
Speaker 1: and so bad.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: So I felt a little muppety doing it, but I
Speaker 1: I really appreciated that we got to do it on
Speaker 1: the actual location that we did it, that was they did.
Speaker 2: It's something I couldn't get over was how cool everybody
Speaker 2: was like the costumes were absolutely incredible on everyone. The
Speaker 2: set deck was, yeah, absolutely incredible. Like the attention to detail,
Speaker 2: the scale of every single scene, like every single frame
Speaker 2: was filled was rich with materials.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and like picture worthy, Like each frame was
Speaker 1: like picture worthy. You're like, oh so iconic. And this
Speaker 1: initially was originally set in Chicago, like you know, gritty
Speaker 1: Chicago at the time, and uh, this like LA kind
Speaker 1: of softened that, like the setting and made into like
Speaker 1: more of a like a glossy California vibe versus like
Speaker 1: the grittier like West Side story of it. You know.
Speaker 2: It was funny though, because a lot of I feel
Speaker 2: like the locations looked pretty dingy, like a lot of
Speaker 2: it. It wasn't as glossy as I remember it being as
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 1: Hmmm.
Speaker 3: Interesting, And I loved like.
Speaker 2: Half the cast as like strong like New York and
Speaker 2: New Jersey accents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, it was.
Speaker 3: It was all like where are these people from here?
Speaker 2: Right? Speaking of so, how they cast John Travolta, I
Speaker 2: also think is fascinating. So he had played duty on
Speaker 2: stage and was under like when they used to do
Speaker 2: three picture deals with the producer Robert studios would and
Speaker 2: he got he got the lead after Henry Henry Winkler
Speaker 2: turned it down because he didn't want to be typecast
Speaker 2: as you know, it's it is basically the fond.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so interesting that he got he got offered
Speaker 1: this role. Like I get it, the type casting of
Speaker 1: it all, but like imagine Henry Winkler doing this role
Speaker 1: in not Travolta like crazy, I.
Speaker 2: Think also like going on. I mean we can say
Speaker 2: that now because we have like hindsight of what Travolta
Speaker 2: has done and it makes perfect sense with like especially
Speaker 2: like having just watched Hairspray, like it makes sense like
Speaker 2: this is in his wheelhouse.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I wonder like Henry Winkler, we know him
Speaker 2: as an older guy obviously happy days, but like I
Speaker 2: feel like you probably could have pulled it off.
Speaker 3: It would have been a very different he.
Speaker 1: Oh, he definitely would have pulled it off. I mean
Speaker 1: he was so.
Speaker 3: Also such a legend, Yeah, but different different.
Speaker 1: I almost feel like, no, it was a smart move
Speaker 1: on his part, I think, just in terms of not
Speaker 1: wanting to be pigeonholed into roles like that.
Speaker 2: But and it doesn't hurt that like Travolta already knew
Speaker 2: the director Randall Kleising the plastic bubble.
Speaker 1: Right, and then after Travalda was cast, he knew Olivia
Speaker 1: because Travalda pushed for her and she nailed her screen test. Obviously,
Speaker 1: she worried about being too old for the role in
Speaker 1: her late twenties, which we all do now, Like she's
Speaker 1: at the scene for all of us.
Speaker 2: She's hardly the oldest looking one in the movie. Yeah please.
Speaker 1: She insisted on script changes that Sandy became Australian and
Speaker 1: more assertive, which I love. She was such a just
Speaker 1: an icon already, but I mean she had her album
Speaker 1: Totally Hot, which mirrored her transformation in her own career.
Speaker 1: But I this is where I fell in love with
Speaker 1: Living in John.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like she was already the world. She had already
Speaker 2: had some hits under her belt when she started this,
Speaker 2: which I didn't even necessarily realized. And there are other
Speaker 2: people like for Sandy that were considered, like Carrie Fisher,
Speaker 2: Susan Day and Margaret Deborah Raffin Mary Osmond who turned
Speaker 2: it down. Could you imagine, like we could have had
Speaker 2: a Henry Winkler and.
Speaker 1: Maria that's so funny. So we obviously have also had
Speaker 1: some amazing casting choices, like Rizzo is Stockard Channing. She
Speaker 1: was the oldest cast member, but she thought to keep
Speaker 1: there are worse things I could do. Also, imagine not
Speaker 1: having that song in this show, movie, anything, history history.
Speaker 2: I also think Stockard, it's just unbelievable.
Speaker 3: She's a star.
Speaker 2: Yeah's a star. Just like the power. Yeah, the presence she.
Speaker 1: Has standing really insane stand out. Also fun casting casting info.
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley and Donnie Osmond other Osmond were both considered
Speaker 1: for teen Angel and sadly Elvis died before filming and
Speaker 1: Donnie was passed over, and so, uh, this is fun.
Speaker 1: So Frankie Valley was offered either a teenage role or
Speaker 1: the theme song, and he chose the theme song, which
Speaker 1: we love Frankie Valley, and that became a hit. And
Speaker 1: so then Frankie Avalon was cast as teenage oll, reviving
Speaker 1: his career, which I thought he was.
Speaker 2: I said, it was great.
Speaker 1: Do you remember like the the first time you saw Grease?
Speaker 2: I don't. I remember buying the CD. I do remember
Speaker 2: getting the CD. It was like one of my prize possessions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely that cover.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I learned it front to back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I knew all the dance moves, like all the choreography.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Just fully fully obsessed because it was also like very approachable.
Speaker 2: These were songs anybody could sing.
Speaker 1: Right school like characters like in school, but they were
Speaker 1: cool and they were.
Speaker 2: Like it doesn't feel like a musical somehow, like it
Speaker 2: there's nothing. Maybe it's a style of music because it's
Speaker 2: written with like current sounding music right that I think,
Speaker 2: like in my head, what I would consider a regular
Speaker 2: musical like this just is not. It feels like a
Speaker 2: jukebox music musical, but even the music is.
Speaker 1: Written for it tak the words out of my mouth. Literally,
Speaker 1: it feels like a jukebox musical. But it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. I remember getting the CD as well Kevin
Speaker 1: and putting it into my little CD player like portable player,
Speaker 1: and like we moved the couch. We would get dressed
Speaker 1: in all black and wear my little motorcycle jacket and
Speaker 1: my friend and I would literally put on like performances
Speaker 1: in our living room to You're the One that I Want.
Speaker 1: And it was so formative for me and I remember
Speaker 1: seeing it. I don't remember the first time but I
Speaker 1: just remember all I remember it being controversial in my
Speaker 1: house of like should we let her watch this? But
Speaker 1: I knew about it so much in like my all
Speaker 1: my dance classes, everything that I was doing my musical,
Speaker 1: you know, I was singing all the songs from the show,
Speaker 1: like so I think it was just inevitable, like that
Speaker 1: Greece was. It's just a staple in musical theater, and
Speaker 1: it was so I think there was something I think
Speaker 1: Sandy and how innocent she was playing against the contrast
Speaker 1: of all these other like you know, the Pink Ladies,
Speaker 1: and like the Rizzo's was so like relatable, that is
Speaker 1: what you were saying, Like Sandy was our way in yeah,
Speaker 1: and Danny was and all these the Pink Ladies are
Speaker 1: like semi aspirational. And then they did and I mean
Speaker 1: there's just been so many different iterations of Greece throughout
Speaker 1: the years. I mean, we had the sequel with Cool Rider,
Speaker 1: of course, I mean my anthem, and and they did
Speaker 1: a series called Grease, the Rise of the Pink Ladies
Speaker 1: and Paramount Pla. They also did Fox did Greece Live,
Speaker 1: which I believe Zach Tommy Keale directed it, who directed
Speaker 1: Hamilton with like Jordan Fisher, who I remember was like
Speaker 1: such a standout in that that version. And I remember
Speaker 1: thinking with all of the Ted musicals that were being
Speaker 1: like live productions that were being done in that era
Speaker 1: of time Greece, I was like, that's that's how you
Speaker 1: do it. This is how you do it, so all
Speaker 1: of them, like it's just it's it's fun to see
Speaker 1: like the the life that Greece has lived, and but
Speaker 1: yet like nobody's like reimagining Greece like a sunset Bulevart
Speaker 1: or any of these other musicals like this is it
Speaker 1: is what it is, Yeah, and it's I mean perfectly.
Speaker 2: It was the highest grossing movie musical ever until last
Speaker 2: year because Wicket came out and.
Speaker 3: Unreal, Yeah it earned almost four.
Speaker 2: Hundred million dollars like it, And.
Speaker 1: Then there was in nineteen seventy eight.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you know what's crazy. So nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 2: it's doing a movie about set in the fifties. That
Speaker 2: would be like doing a movie now and setting it
Speaker 2: in two thousand and five. But also just doesn't feel
Speaker 2: like there are.
Speaker 3: Definitive things like that's it's not enough.
Speaker 2: Seventies, eighty nineties all feel very definitive stylistically.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's because of like the rise of
Speaker 1: the internet, like that was the change. It wasn't so
Speaker 1: out maybe internal, like it was very internal, like with
Speaker 1: people going inward and hiding behind her screens and all
Speaker 1: these crazy things. But like it could be just I
Speaker 1: guess they are of style, Like like the trends in
Speaker 1: the style makes sense to me in their early two thousands,
Speaker 1: Like now we're starting to see, like the jokes on
Speaker 1: social media how we used to dress and what the
Speaker 1: millennials used to do. But it's not an interesting enough
Speaker 1: fort to be Like let me pitch a movie in
Speaker 1: two thousand and.
Speaker 2: Five costumes and like that school dance sequence that is
Speaker 2: just that whole school dance sequence. Like I want to
Speaker 2: ask how long it took to film that?
Speaker 1: I bet you pretty fast. Really, I don't know that
Speaker 1: it was like hairspray, where you get all that time?
Speaker 1: Like I don't know.
Speaker 2: So some things I noticed as an adult but I
Speaker 2: didn't notice as a kid, Like we said how racy
Speaker 2: it is, how creepy? All, like the guys.
Speaker 1: Are adult men.
Speaker 2: She's the older man, but even like the guys at
Speaker 2: school are looking up girls dresses and stuff, and also
Speaker 2: that like the moral of the story is just like nah,
Speaker 2: just get hot.
Speaker 1: Well that's it. It's like the leave it to the
Speaker 1: story of like the female having to change to get
Speaker 1: noticed and like not that that's the only thing, because
Speaker 1: like Danny does go and he tries to change and
Speaker 1: you know, reform.
Speaker 2: Hehrm, that does.
Speaker 1: But like at the end of the day, you're like,
Speaker 1: Sandy doesn't just stay who she is who she is.
Speaker 1: She's just like let me go say goodbye, to say,
Speaker 1: let the woman change and be better than she was.
Speaker 2: I love that. She's just like you know what, never mind,
Speaker 2: let's just fly away in a cart and be hot together.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: I also realized that Frenchy is sort of the main character.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, like Frenchie I think is end this
Speaker 2: movie more than any other character.
Speaker 1: She's she's springs Sandy in we have a whole storyline
Speaker 1: about her in not getting into school or you know,
Speaker 1: dropping out of beauty school. She's she is the thread.
Speaker 2: She's the thread between like through everything. And it's also
Speaker 2: like so good Dedy.
Speaker 1: Con Man also just also Vanessa Lenji's playing.
Speaker 2: Right doors out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: I was like like She took my breath away when
Speaker 1: I saw her coming into that number. The amount of
Speaker 1: numbers that Glee did for Grease is actually almost the entire.
Speaker 2: Show because it's like it on hits on hits, they're
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 1: And it it I mean, and the story was just
Speaker 1: like perfect to like our storyline, like we've perfectly through
Speaker 1: there was like it all just fit into like the
Speaker 1: high school that we were living in as well. Beauty
Speaker 1: School Dropout was by far my favorite number. Well I
Speaker 1: guess look at me, I'm synergy. It was really fun
Speaker 1: to film, but Beauty School Dropout was also like I
Speaker 1: don't think we knew we were going to be in it.
Speaker 1: And then they're like, you guys are in it, just
Speaker 1: learn it. So we learned it like literally in seconds.
Speaker 1: And then we had those crowing helmets and they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: so do the whole dance with these on instead, and
Speaker 1: you know, like the dancers are like they'll do anything
Speaker 1: you ask because they're just that's the way they were
Speaker 1: trained and brought up to. Like you, We're like meanwhile,
Speaker 1: me and like Becca and I are like what is
Speaker 1: this these heavy things on our head? We were like
Speaker 1: bend down. It was crazy, but it looked phenomenal and
Speaker 1: we had a fun time doing it.
Speaker 2: Uh everybody Okay. Obviously the caveat to this movie is
Speaker 2: everybody looks about forty years old for.
Speaker 1: Sure, but at least say all in it was cohesive.
Speaker 2: Yes, even like the extras looked old, Like everyone looked old.
Speaker 3: I kind of love.
Speaker 1: I think maybe that's also why we loved it. Like
Speaker 1: even at the age we were out, like twenty year
Speaker 1: olds would have been old to us, right, yes, but
Speaker 1: even now I'm like, oh, I like that it's adults,
Speaker 1: Like I love it, and there's something.
Speaker 2: There's something immediately when you see Stockard Channing getting out
Speaker 2: of that car in the very beginning and she's like
Speaker 2: walking in like this is our senior year, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: you know what it is?
Speaker 1: Get a girl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the confidence of being an adult.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 2: I thought the Pink Ladies, all of them individually and
Speaker 2: especially Stockard and d D the way they like light
Speaker 2: up the screen.
Speaker 3: Is an Olidia standard, like just standing unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I feel like everybody was so good. Every single supporting
Speaker 2: character was on all the time, like it looked like
Speaker 2: it was fun to film. It looked like they were
Speaker 2: so in it that like the camera wasn't even there.
Speaker 3: It was really special.
Speaker 1: And I think that's also like all of these movies,
Speaker 1: these like uh kind of hit musical movies that we're
Speaker 1: watching now and recapping, Like there's something like High School
Speaker 1: Musical and Hairspray. There's something about the cast and the
Speaker 1: magic of the chemistry that elevates the already great music,
Speaker 1: great story, great performances, but the chemistry is really like
Speaker 1: kind of the same thing that we talked about with
Speaker 1: Glee was like we all just it just clicked, right,
Speaker 1: and when it clicks, you're like it's special. It's not
Speaker 1: just it's not just excellent, it's special. And I think
Speaker 1: this is definitely this is just I don't know.
Speaker 2: When I had a brief interaction with Dedcon last month,
Speaker 2: she very quickly mentioned that Greece felt like summer camp
Speaker 2: and like they all just got along. Like watching it
Speaker 2: now again, it's like you feel that obviously, and I.
Speaker 1: Just shooting all over La Yeah, are you Like.
Speaker 2: I forgot that? Almost every single time I see the
Speaker 2: quote unquote La River, I think of that scene like
Speaker 2: that is Oh, that's how I first like discovered what
Speaker 2: the La River looks like it's concrete.
Speaker 3: Well in the amount of times, like I wanted to
Speaker 3: dress up like a pink lady for Grease for Halloween
Speaker 3: and was like, I could do it together this year
Speaker 3: if I want.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know how bad and jeans and roll my
Speaker 2: jeans look like a t bver.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: This movie was foundational to who we are.
Speaker 1: No, really, it was into like our love for musical theater.
Speaker 1: It was very formative in that time for us and
Speaker 1: seeing I don't know, musical movies like this that take
Speaker 1: place in relatable places and like you said, like very
Speaker 1: just relatable across the board, even though they were in
Speaker 1: their you know, late twenties thirties, Like it's just elevated
Speaker 1: and fun. And the music was just like NonStop hits.
Speaker 1: Like the music. I mean, we did You're the One
Speaker 1: that I Want twice on our show.
Speaker 3: One was in the pilot of our show.
Speaker 2: By the way, You're the One that I Want is
Speaker 2: like the perfect musical number like sequence that when that
Speaker 2: came on, I was just like, this is so good,
Speaker 2: like how it shot the choreo and like that fun
Speaker 2: house thing you have, like the extra dancer singing the
Speaker 2: backgrounds like up in the bars, and it's just it's perfection.
Speaker 2: It's absolutely perfection.
Speaker 1: I love it. I loved it.
Speaker 2: I also like wonder like how they did some of
Speaker 2: the singing because also like the lip singing was phenomenal, like.
Speaker 1: Straight on, and I would imagine if I had to guess, it.
Speaker 2: Was pre reh it was absolutely prerecorded right like and produced.
Speaker 1: But yeah, everything was like pristine.
Speaker 2: Yes, so many like sequences in this movie that are
Speaker 2: also like just so long, so high school, Like every
Speaker 2: so much happens in this movie, and all of it
Speaker 2: is so good.
Speaker 1: And it's very like it just all molds into each other.
Speaker 1: Everything is like it works to get other. All the
Speaker 1: storylines are crazy but believable for like you know, but
Speaker 1: but not so crazy, I guess. But then there's this
Speaker 1: air of like, uh, like disbelief. What am I? What
Speaker 1: is the there's not to dis believe, like with the
Speaker 1: car and the teen angel and all. Then you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: like there's something it's just aspirational, you know, and I
Speaker 1: just it brings me so much joy. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of these musical numbers and we great the performances
Speaker 1: while we while we do it Grease.
Speaker 2: Growing up, I hated this song.
Speaker 3: I you know what I did too. It's not terrible,
Speaker 3: it's just I think it's great now.
Speaker 1: When it started immediately I was like, ooh, chills, dumb
Speaker 1: my Yes.
Speaker 3: So familiar and exciting. So I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Give an I do hate the cartoon intro.
Speaker 1: Too.
Speaker 2: I do hate it intro at all.
Speaker 1: We don't need it.
Speaker 2: Reminded me of that, like failed Glee intro, that we
Speaker 2: had that one to pull archives. Summer Nights phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I mean it is that.
Speaker 1: It is one of the most I just I know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say that a lot in going through these.
Speaker 2: So if I feel like Summer Nights is the gateway drug, Yes,
Speaker 2: Summer Nights is the number one single. Yes rock to
Speaker 2: sing both parts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know every word every.
Speaker 2: I also just love how it's I love how it's
Speaker 2: staged and blocked and choreographed. M h, it's insane. They
Speaker 2: have that fading in Oliving Newton John space next to
Speaker 2: John Travolta space like.
Speaker 3: The bleachers are just they're it so jealous.
Speaker 2: You got to be on this.
Speaker 3: Very special look at me.
Speaker 2: I'm Sandar d phenomenon as a kid one I didn't
Speaker 2: like really, Yeah, for some reason, I didn't really love it.
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. It's not as much of
Speaker 1: like a singalong song, Like we're not singing to that
Speaker 1: in the car. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I was interested in like the fun songs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and like something about the melody felt weird to me.
Speaker 1: Agreed, Agreed, I totally.
Speaker 2: I think it's no notes. It's just no note. And also,
Speaker 2: and look at me, I'm Sandar d watching each of
Speaker 2: those women. Everybody's just so good. I watched. I tried
Speaker 2: to watch everybody individually for as long as possible. And
Speaker 2: that number is everyone's just going.
Speaker 1: On, and we did it pretty close to the original,
Speaker 1: like we got to do this.
Speaker 2: That yours is also phenomenal.
Speaker 1: That was really fun on That actually revived it for
Speaker 1: me because I was like, you know, like it's it
Speaker 1: is the song it is, but Stucord's perfect for it,
Speaker 1: and so all these by the way, yeah, honestly, I mean,
Speaker 1: but hopeless they devoted to you is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite numbers ever ever in musical.
Speaker 3: It's a perfect song. It's unbelievable, and and Olivia.
Speaker 1: Is just like I hope they wrote that one. They
Speaker 1: cast Olivia because it was actually perfect for her and
Speaker 1: if they didn't, it was perfect.
Speaker 2: Insane it is and we've talked about this before. There's
Speaker 2: not much going on in that number, and she is so.
Speaker 1: Captivating, blasting, blasting grease.
Speaker 2: Laightnon also walked in the room, goes, I hate this number.
Speaker 1: It's like, what this is one of the this is
Speaker 1: a sandru D song for me where it was like,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but over time I've found addition. Only then
Speaker 1: Beauty School Dropout was also not one of my favorites.
Speaker 2: Same.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is fine, but both have been
Speaker 1: in this rewatch were revived.
Speaker 2: I mean Greece and that was one I used to
Speaker 2: perform in the house all the time. I knew all
Speaker 2: the Yes the Boys song it also, you know Austin's
Speaker 2: point was it just completely stops the story, has nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the story. Okay, fine, but it is
Speaker 2: such a good number.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guys needed this song that he could be.
Speaker 2: I also realized in this I think maybe one of
Speaker 2: my first boy crushes was the blonde one in this movie.
Speaker 2: It all came flooding back to me watching I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think I realized That's what I was feeling.
Speaker 1: But here it was for you to just revisal it
Speaker 1: was him Yeah, okay, but makes sense.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, yeah, yeah, beautiful dropout we.
Speaker 2: Loved Honestly, Greece is about French.
Speaker 3: Ye, Greece is Frenchie.
Speaker 1: Greece is French.
Speaker 2: I feel like today I've watched it this morning. I
Speaker 2: was like, how did I miss this? I know she's
Speaker 2: all up in that movie.
Speaker 1: I know, I know everybody.
Speaker 2: She has her own little journey and.
Speaker 3: I know and her little relationship with see ye good
Speaker 3: Born to Hand Dive again wasn't like a song that
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, I'm gonna listen to this.
Speaker 1: In the car, or put it on. Let me put
Speaker 1: my discplayer on Born to Hand Dive. But like this
Speaker 1: whole sequence, the whole dancing, the dancing of it, all
Speaker 1: the production value, the performances. I I think.
Speaker 3: I also didn't love talk Ja.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she like took me out. I was like, ugh,
Speaker 1: I don't like her. She did her job right as
Speaker 1: a character, and you're like I don't like her, but
Speaker 1: you're like, oh wow, she was really good.
Speaker 2: You know what I like about this one? They shot
Speaker 2: danced very well in this entire movie. But what I
Speaker 2: like about it is that, yes, the dancing is clean,
Speaker 2: but yet it's still a little rough around the edges somehow,
Speaker 2: like everyone's doing it as their characters and.
Speaker 1: It's not like in sync.
Speaker 2: But it is like everybody's everybody's doing it correctly and
Speaker 2: it's still clean. You can identify all the movements. It
Speaker 2: looks together. It looks great, but it's not like I
Speaker 2: feel like with a lot of modern dancing or a
Speaker 2: lot of modern movie musicals. Yes, everybody's dancing and the
Speaker 2: exact same like a yes, there's no person.
Speaker 1: They all look the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, everybody's the
Speaker 1: same exact level, hand to the hip like versus like
Speaker 1: giving it.
Speaker 2: It's not like all of a sudden we started doing
Speaker 2: a group group choreo and we all lost our identities
Speaker 2: as a character.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't lose.
Speaker 2: Like everybody is still their characters doing those dances. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: which I think is a note some modern movie musicals
Speaker 2: should take.
Speaker 1: Take agreed, uh C and d No, it's fine. I
Speaker 1: think they added that for that's a skit.
Speaker 2: Did you know the guy who plays Kiniki was Danny
Speaker 2: Zuko on Broadway.
Speaker 3: M and Travolta played duty right, Yeah crazy?
Speaker 1: Is that crazy? Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Sorry, that was just a random fun fact that.
Speaker 1: No, no, for sure, Uh well, there are worse things
Speaker 1: I could do. The fact that Stockard also pushed to
Speaker 1: keep this in the movie and then it was almost
Speaker 1: there was a shot even a second thought. And then
Speaker 1: I think also having the whole Rizzou storyline on Glee,
Speaker 1: this like it created a deeper love. Not that there
Speaker 1: wasn't already a love for this song, but like it
Speaker 1: was a deeper love for this number even after that
Speaker 1: and then rewatching it now you're like, wow, they were
Speaker 1: both stand out, and.
Speaker 2: That's like you have someone who is that good, like
Speaker 2: that strong of an actor like you put you keep
Speaker 2: as much of them in as you.
Speaker 1: Can well, and then you're the one that I wanted
Speaker 1: to we go together.
Speaker 2: Just just perfect, unbelievable. I mean, is that not the
Speaker 2: perfect movie musical ending at BAM Move. What was refreshing
Speaker 2: is like I've seen some grease like stage productions, and
Speaker 2: obviously there was reality shows and the live performance. I
Speaker 2: think all those things make it feel so bright and
Speaker 2: like high school. Obviously it's high school and it takes
Speaker 2: place in high school. But that movie is gritty. It's
Speaker 2: gritty and rough and like controversial, and that's where it feels.
Speaker 1: Right down and dirty, down and dirty. Obviously.
Speaker 3: You know how we feel about Grease.
Speaker 1: We hated it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you never want to see it again.
Speaker 3: Let's see some party takes, Okay, Oh geez, I mean
Speaker 3: there's actually.
Speaker 2: Quite a few.
Speaker 3: There's a lot things didn't not go well.
Speaker 2: No, it was most of the guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, Rinse, he is just problematic. He is problematic,
Speaker 1: all the boys, like you said, problematic, like the jam
Speaker 1: of it, all the weight thing, like.
Speaker 2: Not good, it's so weird.
Speaker 1: Not good. There's just a lot of stuff of treating
Speaker 1: women and looking at women and pulling skirts up and
Speaker 1: just doing things that just did not Yeah, it's not good.
Speaker 3: Uh, best ants.
Speaker 2: Move God honestly, Born to hand drive. Yeahorn the whole sequence.
Speaker 3: I mean, Travolta is just phenomenal in that too.
Speaker 2: The special shoutout though for during year, the one they
Speaker 2: want when they're doing a little box step, it's not
Speaker 2: even a box step, Like what is it? It's like
Speaker 2: a little jazzquare? Is it even a jazzquare? Does it count? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I guess it is a just.
Speaker 1: Best song, Kevin. I'm going with hopelessly devoted to you, Jenna,
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 2: I think I'm I'm going with You're the one that
Speaker 2: I want.
Speaker 3: Okay, wow, that is I'm not what I value.
Speaker 1: You would pick.
Speaker 2: Well, there we are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, performs by a problem, the broken condom, the needle
Speaker 1: for the ear piercing, Oh my.
Speaker 2: God, yes, the wigs. There's so many good props in this.
Speaker 2: All the food in the diner.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: Oh the panda bear, Oh the panda turning look at me.
Speaker 2: I'm Sandra d is incredible. Gosh, best line, Sandy. His
Speaker 2: voice is crazy. The voice he was putting on for
Speaker 2: this is absolutely insane. But I loved it me too.
Speaker 3: It is crazy, though. Marty says, do they make me
Speaker 3: look smarter?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, glasses and is like no, you can still see
Speaker 1: your faces? Was the one liner.
Speaker 2: Punchees tell me about it, stud.
Speaker 1: Yes, nobody puts baby in a corner. That's that one performance. MVP.
Speaker 1: I mean Travolta and Olivia.
Speaker 2: Just I'm throwing out d d con.
Speaker 1: I mean you.
Speaker 3: Said it, she's the star of the show.
Speaker 2: But yes, John Travolta, Olivia Newton, John like they we're
Speaker 2: never better, never better, never better. Okay, so should we
Speaker 2: found on TikTok Sandy Cameron posted stage Geordiva and it's
Speaker 2: presumably an older gentleman and he's wearing a Glee Live
Speaker 2: Tour twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, like sweatshirt.
Speaker 2: Incredible outside the stage of a show. Is that a jacket?
Speaker 1: There's a jacket?
Speaker 2: I love the comments. Oh he knows ball. It's an
Speaker 2: amazing condition.
Speaker 1: Very exciting.
Speaker 2: Uh, this is the exact cody in my closet.
Speaker 1: I love it. Uh, that's Grease. Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for rewatching with us if you did, and if
Speaker 1: you didn't, I hope this makes you want to because
Speaker 1: it's a great watch. And this week we're talking to
Speaker 1: Duty himself, Kevin, one of the T Birds. The original
Speaker 1: T Bird is very pearl.
Speaker 2: Unreal. And your assignment for next week. I don't think
Speaker 2: I've ever seen this.
Speaker 1: Grease too coo better? Oh my god? What to watch?
Speaker 1: What to watch?
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