Grease 2 (1982) is the sequel to the musical film Grease (1978), which was itself based upon the musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Grease 2 was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, the choreographer of the first film. The sequel was set at the fictional Rydell High School (also the setting for the first film), but featured an entirely new set of main characters, led by unknown young a...
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Grease 2 (1982) is the sequel to the musical film Grease (1978), which was itself based upon the musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Grease 2 was produced by Allan Carr and Robert Stigwood, and directed and choreographed by Patricia Birch, the choreographer of the first film. The sequel was set at the fictional Rydell High School (also the setting for the first film), but featured an entirely new set of main characters, led by unknown young actors Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. The film reversed the social characteristics of the first film's romantic leads (played by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John), so that in the sequel, the boy (Caulfield) was the bookish milquetoast, while the girl (Pfeiffer) was the hip greaser groupie, a Pink Lady.
It is 1961, three years after the events of the first film took place, and a new academic year is just beginning at Rydell High School (Back To School Again). The Pink Ladies are now led by the beautiful Stephanie Zinone (Michelle...
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