Le monde des musicals

Etats-Unis, années 50. Alors que Danny et Sandy doivent se résoudre à se séparer après un été passé à flirter, ils se retrouvent par coïncidence dans le même lycée de Rydell. Mais là, les choses sont différentes : Danny est un petit caïd local qui ne peut donner à ses copains l'impression d'être amoureux... Il feint donc d'ignorer Sandy alors que les sentiments de cette dernière restent fort. Le concours de danse de l'école que gagne Danny avec une superbe danseuse achève de mortifier Sandy. Elle adhère à un gang de filles, ce qui la dégourdit un peu. Avec un nouveau look ravageur, et une assurance nouvelle, elle reconquiert Danny qui au même moment renonce à sa façade de "dur". Les tourtereaux sont à nouveaux réunis.

The way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual conservatism of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual revolution of the 1960s. Grease embodies this cultural friction in its two leads, Sandy (as the 1950s) and Danny (as the 1960s).
The show takes its name from the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 in fictional Rydell High in Chicago, follows ten working-class kids as they navigate the complexities of sex, cars (and sex in cars), and drive-ins (and sex at drive-ins). The score is a highly authentic re-creation of early, raw rock and roll, invoking early groups including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Huey "Piano" Smith, Paul Anka, The Diamonds, ea Queens, The Cadillacs, The Mello-Kings, The Kodaks, The Penguins, and many more. In its record-breaking original Broadway production, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show which has since been sanitized and tamed down by subsequent productions.[1]

The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.

The show became the longest-running Broadway musical in history, until it was beaten by A Chorus Line, and went on to become a West End hit, a hugely successful film, a popular 1994 Broadway revival, and a staple of regional theatre, summer stock, community theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups.[2] It remains Broadway's twelfth longest-running show in history.

1 Grease peut-être considéré comme un Top musical

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