TCMan
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Grease QuestionsHi...
About five years ago I saw an ad in a paper in town that Grease was coming to town with the newly added Your The One That I Want song in it. About three years ago, a local high school did the production with that song in it as well. I just ordered the script from Samuel French and was looking through it, and low and behold....no Your The One That I Want. Can anyone shed some light on this mix-up, please. Thanks in advance...
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Luc
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Just add it in, simple as that.
It was written for the movie, so there's no reason why it would be in the script for the musical.
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TCMan
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Grease Song...Adding a song to the stage production from the movie production?!??! Does that not break copyright laws or anything? I would hate to do something I am not supposed to do. All I want to do is add Your the One That I Want.
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Salome
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All Choked Up is a much better song.
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jonvaljohn
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If you can find the orchestrations for that song, and pay the royalties for it, you can just place it. Call Samuel French and see what they have to say about it. If they say no, do it anyway.
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BEaSTARandSINGlove
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i don't know the details about your situation..but i know when i was in grease a couple years ago we used "you're the one that i want" instead of "all choked up" and there was no problem..
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MsDivaKate
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I would contact French about it. As with some other musicals, Bye Bye Birdie comes to mind, some of the songs written for the revised film version were made available to be licensed and added into the show for an extra fee. This may be the way "You're The One That I Want" is with Grease. However, now that there is the television reality programme of the same name and the newest Broadway revival coming in the spring (don't even get me started on that), there has been mention of revising the stage script to make it similiar to the film, so in the future this newly revised script (if this is actually a true fact) may be available and the song eventually included. We shall see though.
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jonvaljohn
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It's true.
They're adding You're the One that I Want, Grease is the Word, Hopelessly Devoted to You, and Sandy.
I'm simply ADDICTED to the show, but I really don't want the show to become the movie on stage.
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libbslovestheater
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it drives me crazy that they are adding movie songs to a show that was made BEFORE the movie... i was sandy in grease last year and we did All Choked Up .. i liked it that way..
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theatre4life
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| jonvaljohn wrote: | It's true.
They're adding You're the One that I Want, Grease is the Word, Hopelessly Devoted to You, and Sandy.
I'm simply ADDICTED to the show, but I really don't want the show to become the movie on stage. |
whats your source on this information??
i hope it's not true - why do all musicals do this shit! Rocky Horror is all dumb now, too.
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Salome
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what does this have to do with Rocky Horror??
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theatre4life
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| Salome wrote: | | what does this have to do with Rocky Horror?? |
what i'd meant was every time a musical is turned into a movie, it seems the musical changes to more match the film. Grease did it, Rocky Horror did it, Little Shop even did it to an extent.
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Salome
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actuyally the recent Broadway revival went ottally opposite of the film..except in the fact that they let audiences participate. the music was livelier,the staging much more elaborate and the voices alot better than the film cast.
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MsDivaKate
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| libbslovestheater wrote: | | it drives me crazy that they are adding movie songs to a show that was made BEFORE the movie... i was sandy in grease last year and we did All Choked Up .. i liked it that way.. |
Well since Jim Jacobs (co-writer of Grease) has been so involved in the newest revival, as well as the film, its his perogative to make the revisions as he see's fit, to open it to other audiences.
I don't mind so much adding songs (look what they did with Bye Bye Birdie after the most recent film) as long as they are made optional in the rights.
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theatre4life
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| MsDivaKate wrote: |
Well since Jim Jacobs (co-writer of Grease) has been so involved in the newest revival, as well as the film, its his perogative to make the revisions as he see's fit, to open it to other audiences.
I don't mind so much adding songs (look what they did with Bye Bye Birdie after the most recent film) as long as they are made optional in the rights. |
i dont know. the only time i think this worked was with the revivial version of Cabaret.
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theatre4life
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| Salome wrote: | | actuyally the recent Broadway revival went ottally opposite of the film..except in the fact that they let audiences participate. the music was livelier,the staging much more elaborate and the voices alot better than the film cast. |
well, i could comment on the show more, but this isnt the right thread.
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