Tomorrow starts the first “official weekend of Summer,” the season that has inspired a long list of hit songs, including “Summer Nights” from “Grease” which was a hit on Broadway in the early 70’s–when most Boomers weren’t even driving yet, and, then, in the late 70’s it was a hit all over again, this time as a movie.
Now, 40 years later, it’s still winning scores of young fans. In January, Fox-TV aired a live version, directed by Thomas Kail, who just won a Tony for his direction of “Hamilton,” the hottest show on Broadway.
In the original 1978 film one of the standout scenes beween John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John was so real you could almost smell the freshly cut grass and the perfumed air, and feel the waves on the beach, shiver with the inevitable stolen kiss and thrill to those “Summer Nights.”
Here’s to the start of another Summer!