The Grease Story
(2017)

Grease is still the word

Released: 2017-11-05

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The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and toning down the original show's darker elements. Plus, a look at some of the actors who could have played the roles made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

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John Travolta

as Danny Zuko

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Olivia Newton-John

as Sandy Olsson

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Jeff Conaway

as Kenickie (archive footage)

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Stockard Channing

as Betty Rizzo

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Didi Conn

as Frenchy

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Dinah Manoff

as Marty Maraschino

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Eddie Deezen

as Eugene Felsnic

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Susan Buckner

as Patty Simcox

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Lorenzo Lamas

as Tom Chisum

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Dennis Stewart

as Leo 'Craterface' Balmudo (archive footage)

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Annette Charles

as Charlene 'Cha Cha' DiGregorio (archive footage)

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Eve Arden

as Principal McGee (archive footage)

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Dody Goodman

as Blanche Hodel (archive footage)

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Sid Caesar

as Coach Calhoun (archive footage)

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Alice Ghostley

as Mrs. Murdock (archive footage)

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Darrell Zwerling

as Mr. Lynch (archive footage)

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