If your chills are multiplying, fair enough. But now isn’t the time to lose control.
Because the power that Grease has been supplying for 47 years remains electrifying.
But there’s no need to go back to high school: We will tell you more about the enduring classic right here, and the result should be a pleasant nostalgic glow, warm as a summer night—though side effects may include hallucinations that your guardian angel is Frankie Avalon.
In any case, the 1978 musical was an automatic, systematic and quite possibly hydromatic classic upon arrival and became the top-grossing movie of the year, burnin’ up the box office to the tune of $160 million—and the biggest movie musical of the 20th century.
John Travolta told E! News in 2018 at a celebration for the film’s 40th anniversary that the memory that stood out to him from that time was “meeting Olivia, beyond a shadow of a doubt.” Olivia Newton-John, standing beside him, added, “John came to talk me into doing it, and that was a magical, magical day.”
