Greased Crosswalk
We haven't had a Crosswalk the Musical for a while, so let's head back to James Corden for another one. This is the Crosswalk version of Grease.
I remember when the stage production of Grease first opened. No, I actually mean "first opened," not the off-Broadway production. It began life in Chicago in 1971, and opened at the Kingston Mines Theater, based loosely on Taft High School, which one of the writers, Jim Jacobs, attended. The production there was a grittier show and more Chicago-specific than the incarnation it developed into that the general public knows it as, And it was a huge hit there and ran for a long time. So much so that it got enough attention to travel to New York. Where it was eventually moved from off-Broadway to Broadway, and was a huge hit and ran for a long time.
Until it made it to the intersection of Beverly Boulevard and Genesee Ave. Where it ran for five minutes.
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