Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album [Cast Recording]

Warren Casey, Walter Bobbie, Carol Demas, Jim Jacobs, Grease (Related Recordings), Barry Bostwick | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: Polydor / Umgd
• ASIN: B000001FG6
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,138 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #32 in Music > Broadway & Vocalists > Musicals > Classic Musicals
  • #35 in Music > Pop > By Decade > 1950s

Track Listings

1. Alma Mater/Alma Mater (Parody)

2. Summer Nights

3. Those Magic Changes

4. Freddy, My Love

5. Greased Lightnin'

6. Mooning

7. Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee

8. We Go Together

9. It's Raining on Prom Night

10. Born to Hand-Jive

11. Beauty School Dropout

12. Alone at a Drive-In Movie

13. Rock 'n' Roll Party Queen

14. There Are Worse Things I Could Do

15. Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)

16. All Choked Up

17. We Go Together (Reprise)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 19-SEP-1988

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Broadway Original, February 22, 2001

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Thomas Magnum (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album (Audio CD)

The original Broadway version of Grease is much different that the movie version. The chief difference is that the biggest hits from the movie, the title song, "You're The One That I One Want" & "Hopelessly Devoted To You", were written specifically for the movie and do not appear here. The play also had a harder edge to it, taking place in an urban environment and was more explicit. Fans of the movie will recognize songs like "Greased Lightnin'", "Summer Nights", "Beauty School Dropout", "Born To Hand Jive" and "We Go Together" but other standouts include "All Choked Up", "Those Magic Changes" & "Freddy My Love".

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grease, Grit and Parody, November 17, 2006

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KRA (East End of LI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album (Audio CD)

At some point in the early 1970's, nostaglia for the 1950's started running out of control. At a time when America was dealing with many social changes, somehow the decade of the 1950's became yearned after for
fun, innocence, rock and roll, and postwar prosperity. The realty being it was a decade that also included
economic issues, open descrimination, and very tame music (the name "the quiet generation" was there for a reason).

Grease came to life as a parody of the 1950's nostaglia craze, and it painted a truer, grittier portrait of the late 50's at an urban high school. The movie that came out in 1978, and the Broadway revival of the 90's whitewashed the story, and cleaned up the language so much the original Broadway musical got lost in the shuffle.

The great score is lead by Adrienne Barbaue, Barry Bostwick, and Carol Demas, and a number of songs never made it to the film, including Those Magic Changes, and Freddy My Love. Yes, in the 1950's there still was a draft!. Adrienne's character of Rizzo steals the show with her numbers, Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee, and There Are Worse Things I Could Do, finally the "Bad Girl" is allowed to be human. Summer Nights, It's Raining On Prom Night, and Rock N Roll Party Queen speak to the teenager that remains in all of us.

Enjoy this very real trip into the late 1950's

Ken

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the REAL Grease., January 7, 2007

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Scott E. Miller "author, director, composer" (St. Louis, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album (Audio CD)

Grease, here in its original form, is an adventurous, raw, rowdy, INSIGHTFUL show that paints a very accurate picture of a pivotal moment in American history when rock and roll was giving birth to the Sexual Revolution. Grease is not a silly, brainless 50s parody, but is instead a smart, insightful, alternative piece of theatre (inspired in many ways by HAIR), with real muscle, attitude, rawness, and a thrilling, subversive, over-sexed energy. If you want to hear what Grease SHOULD sound like, if you want to hear the real sound of early rock and roll, get this original 1972 recording. Forget the awful revival, and forget the movie (as fun as it may be) -- THIS is Grease. [...]