The Hollywood Bowl’s Grease sing-a-long occasion was computerized, systematic, hydromatic and grease lightning — due to a really particular cameo from movie star John Travolta.
“Tonight on the Hollywood Bowl, for the primary time I shocked everybody on the GREASE Sing-A-Lengthy and dressed up as Danny Zuko,” Travolta, 71, wrote through Instagram on Friday, June 27. “Nobody knew. Not even the forged. Thanks for a fantastic night.”
To get into character, Travolta wore a black T-shirt beneath an identical leather-based jacket with a pair of tight-fitting darkish denims. He additionally wore a blond wig, styled like Danny’s well-known pompadour. (In fact, Travolta’s Danny famously had jet-black locks within the movie adaptation.)
“That’s cool, that’s cool,” Travolta quipped on the stage, quoting Danny’s nonchalant feedback to Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) after discovering out she moved to city. “You recognize, [I’m] rocking and rolling.”
Grease is the phrase! When Grease hit theaters in June 1978, it was an instantaneous hit — and its forged members grew to become instantaneous stars. Primarily based on the 1971 musical of the identical title, the movie follows college students at Rydell Excessive Faculty after they return from summer season break in 1958. As memorably recapped within the music […]
Travolta was joined onstage by the remainder of the OG T-Birds.
“Are you able to [sing] collectively?” he requested, main the viewers within the “We Go Collectively” chant. “Shoo-wop-sha-whada-whadda-yippidy boom-da-boom. Benefit from the present, we love you!”
John Travolta in ‘Grease.’ Paramount Footage/courtesy Everett Assortment
Travolta starred in 1978’s Grease as Danny Zuko, a greaser who learns his summer season fling, Sandy Olsen, moved to city from Australia for her senior yr of highschool. The catch? Danny by no means instructed goody-two-shoes Sandy about his less-than-angelic clique.
“I actually had the thought, ‘At some point after they do the film, possibly I’ll get to play Danny,’” Travolta recalled to Yahoo! Entertainment in 2019, noting he was first drawn in by the stage present. “I knew that character just like the again of my hand. I knew what labored, and I knew what didn’t work.”
He added, “I knew what was humorous, and I knew what wasn’t humorous. I knew what was cool wanting, in films. I knew tips on how to comb my hair, tips on how to pose and tips on how to be cool, as a result of all I may do as the opposite character [Doody] was watch the good character — which was Danny — for over a yr.”
Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in ‘Grease.’ Paramount/courtesy Everett Assortment
After starring in Grease, Travolta and Newton-John stayed shut till her loss of life in 2022. The actress died that August on the age of 73.
“My dearest Olivia, you made all of our lives so significantly better,” Travolta wrote through Instagram on the time. “Your impression was unimaginable. I like you a lot. We are going to see you down the highway and we’ll all be collectively once more. Yours from the primary second I noticed you and perpetually! Your Danny, your John!”