Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey - Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album
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Free Music Notes for Grease: A New 50's Rock 'N Roll Musical - The Original Broadway Cast Album
Free Music Review: It Grows on You
Hit: 4 Stars
I didn't know much about the original musical until this summer, when I was cast in a production of it. So listening to this soundtrack, I found some dissapointments, some great songs, and alot that grew on me.'Alma Matter' is fun...but its so strange to not here 'Grease' opening the CD
'Summer Nights' is one of the best numbers on the CD, but I wish the tempo was as fast as the movie version.
'Magic Changes', 'Freddy My Love', are both cute and beware- they get stuck in your head easily.
'Greased Lighting' is great as always
'Mooning' is fun lyrically, but the tune sounds like any popular song you'd hear in the 50s.
'Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee' is ok...but Stockard Channing does it so much better...this Rizzo doesn't make it very fun.
'We go together' is not much different from the movie (i never liked the song)
'It's raining on prom night'- Is good, but Sandy sounds rediculous when she starts speaking the words
'Born to Hand Jive' is a great dance number
'Beauty School dropout' Is good but I miss Frankie Avalon
'Alone at the Drive-In' It bores me...I like 'Sandy' better.
'Rock & Roll Party Queen' This song is alot of fun...and It really grew on me
'There are worse things I could do'- I love this song, but I want to see a little more passion from Rizzo
'All Choked Up' - best number of the musical- it makes the CD worth buying. Although I didn't think anything could beat 'You're the one that I want', this song is almost as good if not better...but you have to listen to it more than once to get into it...
Overall, I thought the CD was boring the first time I heard it. The vocals annoy me...Danny overdoes it sometimes...and Sandy sounds a little too old. But because I'm in the show, its more appealing. And it really grows on you & All Choked Up makes it all worth it.
Free Music Review: It Grows on You
Hit: 4 Stars
I didn't know much about the original musical until this summer, when I was cast in a production of it. So listening to this soundtrack, I found some dissapointments, some great songs, and alot that grew on me.'Alma Matter' is fun...but its so strange to not here 'Grease' opening the CD
'Summer Nights' is one of the best numbers on the CD, but I wish the tempo was as fast as the movie version.
'Magic Changes', 'Freddy My Love', are both cute and beware- they get stuck in your head easily.
'Greased Lighting' is great as always
'Mooning' is fun lyrically, but the tune sounds like any popular song you'd hear in the 50s.
'Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee' is ok...but Stockard Channing does it so much better...this Rizzo doesn't make it very fun.
'We go together' is not much different from the movie (i never liked the song)
'It's raining on prom night'- Is good, but Sandy sounds rediculous when she starts speaking the words
'Born to Hand Jive' is a great dance number
'Beauty School dropout' Is good but I miss Frankie Avalon
'Alone at the Drive-In' It bores me...I like 'Sandy' better.
'Rock & Roll Party Queen' This song is alot of fun...and It really grew on me
'There are worse things I could do'- I love this song, but I want to see a little more passion from Rizzo
'All Choked Up' - best number of the musical- it makes the CD worth buying. Although I didn't think anything could beat 'You're the one that I want', this song is almost as good if not better...but you have to listen to it more than once to get into it...
Overall, I thought the CD was boring the first time I heard it. But it really grows on you & All Choked Up makes it all worth it.
Free Music Review: Original Show is Better than movie
Hit: 4 Stars
The movie does the original musical a great injustice, the musical is meant to be simple and pure, as this recording is. I performed as Doody in my High school production, and sang those magic changes, and based my rendition of Those magic changes around this version. My fellow performer sang her song based on this recording, and they were so much better than the movie rendition. If you are a musical buff at all, and enjoy examining things, you will most likely find this version to be better.Free Music Review: Grease the original Broadway Musical
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought the CD to use in rehearsals for my production of Grease that I am directing. It is very helpful as a guide to the original Broadway production. I actually prefer the music and renditions in this production over the revival.Free Music Review: GREASE ... version one
Hit: 3 Stars
GREASE began at an off-Broadway theatre on Valentnes Day 1972. At first it didn't look like a hit, but it was a cheap show to run: Small cast, small orchestra, and a basic unit set and althouh not selling out, it was attracting enough of a crowd to warrant a move to the Royale theatre on Broadway where it ran..and ran..and ran. It was still running in 1978 when the movie came out and suddenly GREASE became a huge hit on screen and on stage. When it finally closed in 1981 it had become Broadway's longest running show. (A few years later A CHORUS LINE would overtake that record.)The original cast album was done by M-g-M records and was not a well produced affair. Sound is not well balanced and the performers really seem to be overdoing it but after all, the stage show is a satire on the 1950s.
On CD the sound is acceptable and the whole score is here except for the opening of Act II (In the show, "Shakin' at the High School Hop" segues into "It's Raining on Prom Night." On the recording, just the latter song is heard.)
While GREASE wil never be ranked as one of Broadway's great shows, it is still frequently performed by community groups and high schools (though often with a censored script: the original is quite filthy!!) Because of the popularity of the songs written for the movie ("Grease", "Hopelessly Devoted to You", "You're the One That I Want" and "Sandy") many modern productions try to incorporate these songs. Its a mistake because the move script was re-written to set these numbers up and they don't really work in the stage production.