Technically this is a "Student Preview", and you are supposed to present an ID, but we have never seen it happen. Never fear, if they do, you can piggyback on someone who does have one, and use this link to purchase your seat for $20!!
https://secure.casamanana.org/grease
https://casamanana.org

Last time we ate at Salsa Limon prior to the show, and had a wonderful time. Stay tuned to see if we go back there, or perhaps something more appropriate like a Grease Burger😁

This is a YouTube video of a Casa performance from 2012:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FzZtd-UZU

Grease is a word....Everyone’s favorite rock-and-roll musical is back! Put on your dancing shoes and hand-jive to the electrifying hits “You’re the One that I Want,” “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’” and more! Fall back in love with the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies to see why \*\**Grease **is still the word**. This show is suitable for mature audiences only.*

***Grease*** is a [musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_theatre) with music, lyrics, and a book by [Jim Jacobs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jacobs) and [Warren Casey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Casey). Named after the 1950s United States [working-class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class) [youth subculture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_subculture) known as [greasers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser_(subculture)), the musical is set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest [Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago). This fictional high school was based on [Taft High School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft_High_School_(Chicago)) in Chicago, Illinois, and named after rock singer [Bobby Rydell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Rydell). The musical follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love.
*Grease* was first performed on February 5, 1971, at [Kingston Mines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Mines_(blues_club)) nightclub in Chicago. From there, it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués (the characters' Polish-American backgrounds in particular are ignored with last names often changed, although two Italian-American characters are left identifiably ethnic) and more generic. The first [Broadway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre) production opened on June 7, 1972; when it closed in 1980, *Grease*'s 3,388-performance run was the [longest yet in Broadway history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Broadway_shows_that_have_held_title_of_longest-running_show), although it was surpassed by *[A Chorus Line](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Chorus_Line)* on September 29, 1983. It went on to become a [West End](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_theatre) hit, a [successful feature film](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(film)), two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and 2007, and a staple of [regional theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_theatre_in_the_United_States), [summer stock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_stock), [community theatre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_theatre), and high school and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's [17th longest-running show](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows).
*Grease* was adapted in 1978 as a feature film also named *[Grease](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease_(film))* starring [John Travolta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Travolta) (who himself had been in stage productions in a different role) and British-Australian singer and actress [Olivia Newton-John](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia_Newton-John). This film version removed the musical's Chicago urban setting and changed some plot elements, characters, and songs while adding new songs and elaborating on some plot elements only alluded to in the musical. Some of these revisions have been incorporated into revivals of the musical. A [2016 live TV musical](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grease:_Live) used elements from both the original stage version and the film.

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