Grease [DVD] [1978]

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Henry Winkler on 'Barry,' 'The French Dispatch' and some of his missed career chances". Newsweek. October 15, 2021. On May 15, 2020, it was announced that CBS, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS, which also owns Paramount, would air this version of the film on June 7, 2020, which was to be the date of the 74th Tony Awards, which was postponed indefinitely due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. [71] Prequel [ edit ]

About Grease: Live". Fox. Archived from the original on November 24, 2018 . Retrieved November 24, 2018. Director Randal Kleiser took numerous liberties with the original source material, most notably moving the setting from an urban Chicago setting (based on William Howard Taft High School [10]), as the original musical had been, to a more suburban locale, reflecting his own teenage years at Radnor High School in the suburbs of Philadelphia. [8] He had little control over the musical aspects of the film; his choice of theme song, a composition by Charles Fox and Paul Williams, was overruled when Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr commissioned a song from Stigwood's client Barry Gibb at the last minute. [11] [12] Casting [ edit ] Grease: 40th Anniversary Edition - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Ultra HD Review | High Def Digest". ultrahd.highdefdigest.com. Archived from the original on May 4, 2018 . Retrieved May 4, 2018. Falcone, Dana Rose (January 27, 2016). "Grease: 10 things you didn't know about the 1978 hit film". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved October 27, 2021.Grease was released in the US on VHS by Paramount Home Video in 1979, 1982, 1989, 1992 and 1994; the last VHS release was on June 23, 1998, and was titled the 20th Anniversary Edition following a theatrical re-release that March. Fox, Charles (2010). Killing Me Softly: My Life in Music. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810869929. OCLC 678101101. Topel, Fred (May 15, 2020). " 'Grease Sing-A-Long' airing June 7 on CBS". UPI. Archived from the original on May 15, 2020 . Retrieved May 15, 2020.

Loughrey, Clarisse (January 28, 2016). "Carrie Fisher almost played Sandy in Grease". The Independent . Retrieved June 25, 2021. Myers, Justin (June 14, 2018). "The UK's biggest selling singles of all time". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018 . Retrieved April 26, 2021. Hood, Micaela (January 27, 2016). "Carrie Fisher could have played Sandy in 'Grease' ". New York Daily News . Retrieved October 27, 2021.Greatest Musicals: Channel 4 Film". Channel4.com. Archived from the original on May 19, 2009 . Retrieved March 29, 2017.