WEBVTT - Hopelessly Devoted to Grease 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.440 And That's what You Really Missed with Jenna. 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:07.080 And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:12.440 Welcome to and That's What You Really miss podcast. Live 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.200 to You by Coastal from LA and New York. Kevin 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.439 in New York, Hello to my old stumping around. 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:22.560 Yeah, I'm in your old neighborhood. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:28.840 Very exciting, Kevin Spelling. The rehearsals going good. Yes, you too, 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.120 rehearsal exciting. 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.760 Everything is going. Everyone's very nice. We're all very excited. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.400 I think it's going to be great. It's such a 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.080 good show. So if you're in New York starting November seventh, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:43.599 just come see Spelling. Be at ther World Stages. 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:44.600 Pop on over. 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.320 Yeah, it's quick, it's one act. It's like ninety something minutes. 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.040 Those are the dream shows. I love those shows. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:55.600 Yeah, I think it will be I think it will 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:59.480 be good. It's going to be great because so great 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:01.240 nothing to do with the writing of the show. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.160 Well, we know the show is good, and then the 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:05.760 cast that you've got is excellent. So you guys are 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:07.920 gonna be good. You're gonna be great. It's gonna be 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:14.119 so much fun. It is here though, your first time 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:14.880 living in New York. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.720 Yeah, I've never been here for more than like time. 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.760 It's just so lively all the time. 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.600 It's I take Sophie, my dog for a walk, and 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.360 I look down and like, what are you doing here 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:26.959 in New York? 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:31.679 Sophie's new stomping grounds in New York. She's living in 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:32.880 the concrete junk. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.600 Peeing and pooping on the concrete. No problem. 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:39.640 Oh, Barry used to do that everywhere. He'd be like, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:40.319 I'm no good. 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:43.800 I just wasn't sure if she was, like, literally no hesitation. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:46.920 I mean, this ain't her first rodeo. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:51.520 She knows these street dogs, you know, they've lived, so. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.480 They ate nothing. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:58.960 All right, Kevin, So here we are, we are. We 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.640 are live from New York Saturday night, and we were 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.040 doing Greece today Grease recap. Very exciting. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:08.720 I mean, this is a big one. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:10.560 This would not be complete. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:12.600 This is like the Holy Grail of musicals. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:17.280 Yeah, I mean it's John Travolta and Olivia and John 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.800 which they are, they are King and Queen. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.680 They are and watching this. I haven't seen it in 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.120 a really long time. I thought I had, like, I 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.119 know this like the back of my hand. I don't 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:33.560 technically even really need to watch it. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.080 For this, I know, I literally could have watched this 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.520 like in my sleep with my eyes closed and I 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.519 could see every frame. 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:45.080 However, so much of it I didn't remember at all. Oh, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.520 like a couple things like segments, I didn't remember at all, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.120 And my perspective of it now as like a full 0:02:53.760 --> 0:03:00.880 fully fledged adult's, so it in that way, the stories 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.800 or the characters of who who are my favorites are 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.680 different from when I was a kid? Okay, okay, right, 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:12.240 Like the story I didn't realize how raunchy Grease is. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.359 Very raunchy, Like as a kid wanting to watch Grease 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.160 and your parents being like, you shouldn't be watching that. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:20.240 You're like, but this is so good. 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.640 I was never told that, So I think I didn't realize. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.920 Your child, so this stuff was like off limits. 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.240 But who was in a musical theater growing up and 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.520 didn't see Greece didn't do Grease, didn't do We Go Together, 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:38.080 didn't we do, didn't do summer Nights, Like, it's just 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.240 it's a staple, so you had to see it, and 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:44.280 so you're just like sneaking it, but I yes, okay, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:48.760 so let's get into it. So Greece premiered on June sixteenth, 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:50.920 nineteen seventy eight. 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.040 Can you believe it, ten years before my birth? Oh 0:03:56.080 --> 0:04:01.120 my gosh, wow, almost exactly. The number one song in 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.120 the country was Shadow Dancing by Andy Gibb. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.840 The number of movies was Jaws two and opened the 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:11.400 same weekend as Grease and hit number one. Wow, and 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:16.080 obviously wow we were doing you know, we we were 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.560 not even a thought yet the cast members of Glaze. 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.719 So there's no blue now. But we were deep in 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:25.320 the disco. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.440 So this is all the pop culture snapshots where we 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.159 were nineteen seventy It was peak disco, I mean, give 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.080 me down. Travolta and the Beg's and Andy Gibb. This 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.360 was also the other Blondie and the police started being, 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.680 Oh my god, the police. Wow. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.640 This is the beginning of everything that raised me. 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.520 Grease and Superman were huge blockbusters, The Muppet Show on 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.120 TV and The Love Boat were huge ssh. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.400 Space Invaders came out in nineteen seventy eight two, so 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.160 basically kicking off the whole arcade craze which was like 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.599 so massive in the eighties. I remember growing up. My 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.840 brother was you know, right around that age in the eighties, 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.359 and so everything in our life was games and arcades 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.120 and the whole thing atari, et cetera. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.200 Fun fact, like very very fun fact, the very first 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.760 cell phone system was introduced in nineteen seventy eight. 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:16.760 You know, I would have guessed that was like if 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.560 somebody asked me as a trivia question, I would have 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.760 been like, nineteen ninety eight, you know what I mean, 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.320 Like that seems so early for the first cell phone system, 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:27.839 But I guess you're right. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.080 This is also like the beginning of the age of beebers. 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.320 Oh yeah, that's the thing. I think we think about 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.760 decades in a very like black or white thing. It's 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:41.960 from like nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, in 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.880 nineteen seventy nine, like that's our decade. But they don't 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.440 actually happen like that. They usually there are a couple 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.520 of years ACKed off, Like if you're really talking about 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.599 things that happened in the eighties, they started in the 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:58.280 late seventies. Like everything's shifted just a little bit. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.320 Yes, this is also a big year for history and 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:06.359 social change. So s F San Francisco flew the Rainbow 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.360 Pride flag for the very first time, symbolizing the growing 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.400 LGBTQ plus Rights Movement plus. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.560 Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.360 making him one of the first openly gay elected officials 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.680 in a major US city. 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:21.320 Wow. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:26.080 Wow, it's huge, so grease. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:27.000 Yeah. 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:31.440 This is directed by Randall Kleiser. The screenplay was by 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.920 Bronte Woodard and the adaptation was Alan Carr. 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:38.640 This was also it's based on a stage musical, which 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:39.640 I don't think I knew. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.479 This is the thing we're learning. It's like, oh, things 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:45.320 have to be a book first, or a musical first, 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.640 or whatever. First we were thinking like the movie came first, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.280 and then people are making musicals like now. But it 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:56.240 was stage movie stage yes, correct, always the stage first. 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.359 Yeah, but so at least in this stage musical was 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:03.680 by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, and it premiered in 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:09.440 nineteen seventy two. The movie was choreographed by Patricia Birch 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.360 and most of the music in this movie because also 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:21.320 like what other musical has spawned this many commercial hits. Trually, 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.960 most of the music it's written by Jim Jacobs and 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.760 Warren Casey, who created the original Broadway musical, but the 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:33.840 movie added new songs from Barry Gibb, John Ferrar and 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:38.760 Louis Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Lewis Saint Louis, Louis Saint Louis. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.120 I'm not sure how do you say it? We're unclear 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.600 Arry Gibb, And like some of the songs they added 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:51.000 for this, like hopelessly devoted, I mean, Greece is the word? 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:53.520 You add that? For Olivia Newton, John you add that. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:59.200 So this moved off Broadway in nineteen seventy two, were 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.600 producer Ali car bought the film rights and brought it 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.240 to Paramount. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.880 This is what I love. So Austin and I were 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.360 watching this and he was sort of googling things along 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.400 the way, which is really fascinating because obviously we know 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:17.360 this music and movies so well, right that there's a 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.520 wealth of history that I have no idea about. 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:22.440 I mean so much. Yeah. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.600 So the film had a six million dollar budget and 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.440 was shot over two months at Venice High School and 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:29.080 all over. 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:33.520 LA which was so special, and then also filming when 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:38.000 we did summer nights, we did it at the high school. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:39.760 How was that? Because I wasn't in that. I think 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.000 it's do it you think you could do summer nights. Oh, 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.120 I'm not in it was that super surreal. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:54.160 Yeah, it was pretty full Eric Stilts structed and it 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:59.280 was it's just special. It's really fun. And it was 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:04.079 like you you just walked onto the onto the location 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.840 in the ground, and you're like, right, I know exactly 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.840 where this is, I know exactly what happened here. 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:11.880 This is so iconic. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.719 It felt a little like I felt like I'm a 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.400 little muppety in it because like it's such a cool 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.960 movie and it was such like an iconic part of 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.080 history and in my mind and in my childhood so 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.880 iconic that like I was like here, I am like 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.760 troops in around trying to do this song here, and 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.800 like it's just so everything about Grease was when I 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.640 growing up, was like so cool. Like the characters were cool, 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:42.600 the outfits were cool, the the all the like storylines 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.920 in Greece were like, oh wow, this is so racy 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:45.800 and so bad. 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:46.240 You know. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.120 So I felt a little muppety doing it, but I 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.680 I really appreciated that we got to do it on 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.280 the actual location that we did it, that was they did. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:03.200 It's something I couldn't get over was how cool everybody 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.880 was like the costumes were absolutely incredible on everyone. The 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.679 set deck was, yeah, absolutely incredible. Like the attention to detail, 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.800 the scale of every single scene, like every single frame 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.320 was filled was rich with materials. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.520 Yes, yeah, and like picture worthy, Like each frame was 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:27.679 like picture worthy. You're like, oh so iconic. And this 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:33.040 initially was originally set in Chicago, like you know, gritty 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:38.880 Chicago at the time, and uh, this like LA kind 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.640 of softened that, like the setting and made into like 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.960 more of a like a glossy California vibe versus like 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.680 the grittier like West Side story of it. You know. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:51.520 It was funny though, because a lot of I feel 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.720 like the locations looked pretty dingy, like a lot of 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.080 it. It wasn't as glossy as I remember it being as 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:57.440 a kid. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:58.080 Hmmm. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.640 Interesting, And I loved like. 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.840 Half the cast as like strong like New York and 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.280 New Jersey accents. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.679 Yeah, totally, it was. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.400 It was all like where are these people from here? 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.679 Right? Speaking of so, how they cast John Travolta, I 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.679 also think is fascinating. So he had played duty on 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.560 stage and was under like when they used to do 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:26.200 three picture deals with the producer Robert studios would and 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.559 he got he got the lead after Henry Henry Winkler 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.000 turned it down because he didn't want to be typecast 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:38.000 as you know, it's it is basically the fond. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:43.440 Yeah, it's so interesting that he got he got offered 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.360 this role. Like I get it, the type casting of 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:49.400 it all, but like imagine Henry Winkler doing this role 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.000 in not Travolta like crazy, I. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.520 Think also like going on. I mean we can say 0:11:55.520 --> 0:12:01.360 that now because we have like hindsight of what Travolta 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:05.440 has done and it makes perfect sense with like especially 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.240 like having just watched Hairspray, like it makes sense like 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.520 this is in his wheelhouse. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:11.400 Yeah. 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.079 Yeah, but I wonder like Henry Winkler, we know him 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:19.200 as an older guy obviously happy days, but like I 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.400 feel like you probably could have pulled it off. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.160 It would have been a very different he. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:25.480 Oh, he definitely would have pulled it off. I mean 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:26.199 he was so. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:31.840 Also such a legend, Yeah, but different different. 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.439 I almost feel like, no, it was a smart move 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:40.440 on his part, I think, just in terms of not 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.240 wanting to be pigeonholed into roles like that. 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.400 But and it doesn't hurt that like Travolta already knew 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:50.400 the director Randall Kleising the plastic bubble. 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:56.720 Right, and then after Travalda was cast, he knew Olivia 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:03.280 because Travalda pushed for her and she nailed her screen test. Obviously, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:08.000 she worried about being too old for the role in 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.040 her late twenties, which we all do now, Like she's 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:12.640 at the scene for all of us. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.080 She's hardly the oldest looking one in the movie. Yeah please. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.880 She insisted on script changes that Sandy became Australian and 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:26.440 more assertive, which I love. She was such a just 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:31.160 an icon already, but I mean she had her album 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:35.040 Totally Hot, which mirrored her transformation in her own career. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:40.240 But I this is where I fell in love with 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:41.079 Living in John. 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.520 Yeah, like she was already the world. She had already 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.000 had some hits under her belt when she started this, 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.240 which I didn't even necessarily realized. And there are other 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.440 people like for Sandy that were considered, like Carrie Fisher, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.240 Susan Day and Margaret Deborah Raffin Mary Osmond who turned 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.120 it down. Could you imagine, like we could have had 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:03.640 a Henry Winkler and. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:10.800 Maria that's so funny. So we obviously have also had 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.080 some amazing casting choices, like Rizzo is Stockard Channing. She 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.360 was the oldest cast member, but she thought to keep 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.120 there are worse things I could do. Also, imagine not 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:26.520 having that song in this show, movie, anything, history history. 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:31.200 I also think Stockard, it's just unbelievable. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:32.440 She's a star. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:37.440 Yeah's a star. Just like the power. Yeah, the presence she. 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:45.200 Has standing really insane stand out. Also fun casting casting info. 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:50.160 Elvis Presley and Donnie Osmond other Osmond were both considered 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.480 for teen Angel and sadly Elvis died before filming and 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.440 Donnie was passed over, and so, uh, this is fun. 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.920 So Frankie Valley was offered either a teenage role or 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.040 the theme song, and he chose the theme song, which 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.720 we love Frankie Valley, and that became a hit. And 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.520 so then Frankie Avalon was cast as teenage oll, reviving 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.360 his career, which I thought he was. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:17.000 I said, it was great. 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:24.200 Do you remember like the the first time you saw Grease? 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:29.560 I don't. I remember buying the CD. I do remember 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.920 getting the CD. It was like one of my prize possessions. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.680 Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely that cover. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:40.160 Yeah, and I learned it front to back. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:41.160 Yeah. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.640 I knew all the dance moves, like all the choreography. 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:45.000 Yep. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:50.080 Just fully fully obsessed because it was also like very approachable. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.480 These were songs anybody could sing. 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:57.760 Right school like characters like in school, but they were 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:58.920 cool and they were. 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.040 Like it doesn't feel like a musical somehow, like it 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.560 there's nothing. Maybe it's a style of music because it's 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:14.000 written with like current sounding music right that I think, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.200 like in my head, what I would consider a regular 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.040 musical like this just is not. It feels like a 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.120 jukebox music musical, but even the music is. 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.920 Written for it tak the words out of my mouth. Literally, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.440 it feels like a jukebox musical. But it's I mean, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:33.280 it's perfect. I remember getting the CD as well Kevin 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.840 and putting it into my little CD player like portable player, 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.480 and like we moved the couch. We would get dressed 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.920 in all black and wear my little motorcycle jacket and 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.600 my friend and I would literally put on like performances 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.520 in our living room to You're the One that I Want. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.360 And it was so formative for me and I remember 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.800 seeing it. I don't remember the first time but I 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.680 just remember all I remember it being controversial in my 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.199 house of like should we let her watch this? But 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.040 I knew about it so much in like my all 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.880 my dance classes, everything that I was doing my musical, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:15.320 you know, I was singing all the songs from the show, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.920 like so I think it was just inevitable, like that 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:26.760 Greece was. It's just a staple in musical theater, and 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:33.400 it was so I think there was something I think 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:40.400 Sandy and how innocent she was playing against the contrast 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:42.520 of all these other like you know, the Pink Ladies, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:47.919 and like the Rizzo's was so like relatable, that is 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:51.440 what you were saying, Like Sandy was our way in yeah, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.639 and Danny was and all these the Pink Ladies are 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:02.919 like semi aspirational. And then they did and I mean 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.720 there's just been so many different iterations of Greece throughout 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.080 the years. I mean, we had the sequel with Cool Rider, 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:18.480 of course, I mean my anthem, and and they did 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.200 a series called Grease, the Rise of the Pink Ladies 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.359 and Paramount Pla. They also did Fox did Greece Live, 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:32.360 which I believe Zach Tommy Keale directed it, who directed 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:36.240 Hamilton with like Jordan Fisher, who I remember was like 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.440 such a standout in that that version. And I remember 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.920 thinking with all of the Ted musicals that were being 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.600 like live productions that were being done in that era 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.359 of time Greece, I was like, that's that's how you 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.280 do it. This is how you do it, so all 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.760 of them, like it's just it's it's fun to see 0:18:55.800 --> 0:19:01.359 like the the life that Greece has lived, and but 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:06.160 yet like nobody's like reimagining Greece like a sunset Bulevart 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:10.840 or any of these other musicals like this is it 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:12.920 is what it is, Yeah, and it's I mean perfectly. 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.800 It was the highest grossing movie musical ever until last 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:18.359 year because Wicket came out and. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.000 Unreal, Yeah it earned almost four. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:23.480 Hundred million dollars like it, And. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:24.680 Then there was in nineteen seventy eight. 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.800 Yeah right, you know what's crazy. So nineteen seventy eight, 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.800 it's doing a movie about set in the fifties. That 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:33.359 would be like doing a movie now and setting it 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:46.920 in two thousand and five. But also just doesn't feel 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:47.439 like there are. 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:50.000 Definitive things like that's it's not enough. 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.119 Seventies, eighty nineties all feel very definitive stylistically. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.200 Do you think it's because of like the rise of 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.720 the internet, like that was the change. It wasn't so 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.159 out maybe internal, like it was very internal, like with 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.000 people going inward and hiding behind her screens and all 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:11.080 these crazy things. But like it could be just I 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.199 guess they are of style, Like like the trends in 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.280 the style makes sense to me in their early two thousands, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.960 Like now we're starting to see, like the jokes on 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.679 social media how we used to dress and what the 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:26.080 millennials used to do. But it's not an interesting enough 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.680 fort to be Like let me pitch a movie in 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:30.240 two thousand and. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.919 Five costumes and like that school dance sequence that is 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:37.119 just that whole school dance sequence. Like I want to 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:38.960 ask how long it took to film that? 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:42.399 I bet you pretty fast. Really, I don't know that 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.080 it was like hairspray, where you get all that time? 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:46.160 Like I don't know. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.159 So some things I noticed as an adult but I 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.280 didn't notice as a kid, Like we said how racy 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.840 it is, how creepy? All, like the guys. 0:20:58.520 --> 0:20:59.359 Are adult men. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.560 She's the older man, but even like the guys at 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:08.720 school are looking up girls dresses and stuff, and also 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:11.680 that like the moral of the story is just like nah, 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:12.400 just get hot. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:16.840 Well that's it. It's like the leave it to the 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:20.399 story of like the female having to change to get 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:23.920 noticed and like not that that's the only thing, because 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.000 like Danny does go and he tries to change and 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:28.000 you know, reform. 0:21:28.080 --> 0:21:28.800 Hehrm, that does. 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.960 But like at the end of the day, you're like, 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.200 Sandy doesn't just stay who she is who she is. 0:21:35.400 --> 0:21:38.280 She's just like let me go say goodbye, to say, 0:21:40.359 --> 0:21:43.840 let the woman change and be better than she was. 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:47.240 I love that. She's just like you know what, never mind, 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.479 let's just fly away in a cart and be hot together. 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:51.680 Yeah yeah. 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:58.280 I also realized that Frenchy is sort of the main character. 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:06.520 Well yeah, yeah, like Frenchie I think is end this 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:08.200 movie more than any other character. 0:22:09.200 --> 0:22:13.399 She's she's springs Sandy in we have a whole storyline 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:18.520 about her in not getting into school or you know, 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:23.639 dropping out of beauty school. She's she is the thread. 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.760 She's the thread between like through everything. And it's also 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:30.240 like so good Dedy. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.160 Con Man also just also Vanessa Lenji's playing. 0:22:35.480 --> 0:22:36.680 Right doors out of my mouth. 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:39.679 I was like like She took my breath away when 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:45.040 I saw her coming into that number. The amount of 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:50.680 numbers that Glee did for Grease is actually almost the entire. 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:54.760 Show because it's like it on hits on hits, they're 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:55.960 so good. 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:58.800 And it it I mean, and the story was just 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:03.560 like perfect to like our storyline, like we've perfectly through 0:23:03.840 --> 0:23:07.639 there was like it all just fit into like the 0:23:07.760 --> 0:23:11.040 high school that we were living in as well. Beauty 0:23:11.040 --> 0:23:15.639 School Dropout was by far my favorite number. Well I 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:17.240 guess look at me, I'm synergy. It was really fun 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:20.359 to film, but Beauty School Dropout was also like I 0:23:20.359 --> 0:23:22.160