Grease: A New Rock Musical by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey [1972 HARCOVER] BCE • Winter House

Grease - A New Rock Musical by Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey 

FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION [1972] WINTER HOUSE LTD.

Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition with flaws:

Dust jacket has some mild water damage; still clean and in tact but with a slight rippling to upper front of jacket.  Housed in a new archival quality jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint; one small sealed edge tear on 5th page;  otherwise pages are like new and unmarked.

Here it is, Rydell High School's super-cool Class of '59-skin-tight pedal-pushers and black leather jackets, ducktails and fake 1.D.'s, pajama parties and hubcap stealing and sneaking a ciggie-butt at the senior prom-the whole crazy world of a 50's adolescence is on display in Grease, along with the grooviest, raunchiest gang of j.d.'s that ever bopped across a Broadway stage. Their musical idols are Elvis and Little Richard and the Dell Vikings; their favorite pastime, making out at the drive-in during / Was a Teenage Werewolf. They dance the stroll, the slop and the hand-jive, and their Hit Parade is a string of merciless bulls-eye parodies of the Golden Oldies: "Beauty School Dropout," "It's Raining on Prom Night," "Those Magic Changes," and a dozen more.

Grease is the passionate story of Danny Zuko, king of the Burger Palace Boys, and Sandy Dumbrowski, the neighborhood sweetheart in the pink poodle skirt, a romance set against a mind-bending back- ground of shu-bop shu-bop and a-ram-a lam-a ding-dong. It's a mad musical romp, a devastating mock James Dean movie, and a triumph of anthropological re-creation all in one. The critics love it, Broadway spectators stomp their feet and double up with laugh- ter, and so will you. It's "a straightforward, unsentimental look at everything that hap- pened to young people in the Fifties," as The Wall Street Journal put it. Or to quote John Lahr: "Wop-bop-alu-mop-ba-lop-bam- boom! A show with enough energy and fun for any big bopper!"