Monday, March 19, 2007

GREASE is the Word

Life at our house has been on hold for a couple of weeks while Y-Chromo rehearsed for his high school's production of GREASE. He played "Doody", which was a much larger role in the stage version than in the movie version. According to Wikipedia: Several musical numbers were not used in the film. They appear, however, as "Jukebox" tunes, or band numbers at the high school dance. Among them: ..."Those Magic Changes"... which [was] performed by characters in the stage musical (however, Danny does sing along with the band for a few lines of "Those Magic Changes"; on Broadway, John Travolta's character Doodie [sic] sang the song).
And in between the Friday night show and the Saturday night show, Y-Chromo marched in the local St. Patrick's Day Parade. where his high school marching band took gold. Call me Mom-the-Taxi.
Here's a link to Y-Chromo's moment of glory: Those Magic Changes

4 comments:

Gwyneth Bolton said...

Grease is my all-time favorite musical. Don't get me singing the songs... You won't be able to shut me up. It looks like Y-Chromo is having a blast! I had the soundtrack for the stage version and I know all the words to "It's Raining On Prom Night." LOL.

Gwyneth

mj compton said...

The students did a great job, especially considering that many of them didn't understand a lot of references in the play . . . like Ben Gay and Robert Hall (which had my husband & I totally cracking up.) And Y-Chromo really has Brylcreem (a little dab'll do ya) in his hair. It's still made.
Did you click the link to his solo on You Tube?

Gwyneth Bolton said...

I missed the link the first time. I just listened to it. Wow! That kid had some pipes. He did an excellent job. You must be beaming with pride!

Gwyneth

Anonymous said...

HRH has a crush on the star: she watched the video about 5 times in a row, sitting with her face all but glued to the computer screen!

chris