Grease Research Paper

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Let's take a trip down the movie archive memory lane and remember Grease. Grease is a 1978 American musical romance and comedy-drama film by Director Randal Kleiser. The film was popularly starred by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. This Box Office hit also sequeled in 1982, Grease 2. Today, as revivals go, Fox decided to host a live musical and Mario Lopez will be joining the cast.

Mario Lopez will be joining Fox's live TV adaptation of Grease, in "Grease: Live". Lopez, the Extra host, will be playing Vince Fontaine in this new Fox venture. Vince Fontaine, in the 1978 romantic summer Broadway play, is a fictional version of Alan Freed (an American Disc Jockey). Vince hosts Rydell High's school dance as the DJ for a live national TV broadcast

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