Rise of the Pink Ladies
Avon "Attraction" 25-26
Time: 1954
The series takes place in 1954, four years before the events of Grease, and follows four fed-up and misfit students who band together to bring out the moral panic that will change Rydell High forever and become the founding mothers of the first female high school gang, known as the "Pink Ladies".
Google Image Keywords:
- Rise of the Pink Ladies
- Rydell H.S.
- Grease Movie 1 & 2
- 1950s soda shop
- School autobody shop/Greased Lightning
The series takes place in 1954, four years before the events of Grease, and follows four fed-up and misfit students who band together to bring out the moral panic that will change Rydell High forever and become the founding mothers of the first female high school gang, known as the "Pink Ladies".
Google Image Keywords:
- Rise of the Pink Ladies
- Rydell H.S.
- Grease Movie 1 & 2
- 1950s soda shop
- School autobody shop/Greased Lightning
Opener: Alma Mater/Different This Year/Back to School
Setting: Outside of School
Props/Set Dressing Needed:
-Lockers: On stage the whole show
(A) 2 sets of 3 connected lockers in full.
Locker doors must open
Ideally, a barstool will go inside each locker
Each set on wheels so that it can spin
Locks needed
Once turned, a soda shop image will be displayed on the back. (Song #2)
Color: Red (?)
(B) 8 single lockers
Facades only
Each on wheels so that it can spin
Locks needed
Once turned, a soda shop image will be displayed on the back. (Song #2)
- School Sign: On stage the whole show.
- I'm thinking white sign with red lettering or red sign with white lettering
- Could hang between center 2 light trusses
- I would be open to additional smaller banners as shown in the center picture below.
- IDEA: It would be AMAZING if the big center school sign could flip/rotate and be a sign for the soda shop. Here is an example:
Video Link: (11:10)
- School Books/Any Books
- Approx 20-30
- Multiple can be connected with a belt (as shown in picture below)
- Back Packs
- Approx 12-15
- Vintage style as shown below
- Smaller black or brown faux leather would also work
- Retro Purses
- Up to the students
- Approx 8-10
- Brown Lunch Sacks
- Up to the students
- Approx 10-12
- Pie in the Sky Wishlist
- 1 set of 3 lockers has a picture on the back that looks like a bedroom for the soloist:
- Approx 20-30
- Multiple can be connected with a belt (as shown in picture below)
- Back Packs
- Approx 12-15
- Vintage style as shown below
- Smaller black or brown faux leather would also work
- Retro Purses
- Up to the students
- Approx 8-10
- Brown Lunch Sacks
- Up to the students
- Approx 10-12
- Pie in the Sky Wishlist
- 1 set of 3 lockers has a picture on the back that looks like a bedroom for the soloist:
Song #2: 50's Medley
Setting: Soda Shop
- Lockers flip to reveal 50's Soda Shop
- Color Palette: black and white checks, red, silver, teal, white, (hot pink?)
- Images can be AI generated. Realistic, but not a true picture.
- School sign flips to show diner sign: "Frosty's Palace" (that's the name in the show. We can change it)
- 6 soda shop stools (color of tops?)
- Accents 24/25 podium
- Reinforced so soloist can stand on it
- A way for her to get up there
- Decorated in diner theme
- Jets of smoke rise from it to reveal soloist standing on the top
- Color Palette: black and white checks, red, silver, teal, white, (hot pink?)
- Images can be AI generated. Realistic, but not a true picture.
- School sign flips to show diner sign: "Frosty's Palace" (that's the name in the show. We can change it)
- 6 soda shop stools (color of tops?)
- Accents 24/25 podium
- Reinforced so soloist can stand on it
- A way for her to get up there
- Decorated in diner theme
- Jets of smoke rise from it to reveal soloist standing on the top
Pie in the sky wishlist:
- 1950 microphone on a stand for the soloist (can be totally fake). As shown below. (1)
- Fake milkshakes (10?) Oversized?
- Menus? (6-8?) Oversized?
- 1950 microphone on a stand for the soloist (can be totally fake). As shown below. (1)
- Fake milkshakes (10?) Oversized?
- Menus? (6-8?) Oversized?
#3 Ballad:
Setting: Soda Shop or School...TBD
- Nothing
# 4: New Cool/Greased Lightning
Setting: School
- Car parts
- All machinery welcome (whatever we have room for in the trailer)
- Safety measures taken
- Painted? (fine with me if it all looks rough)
- Working headlights- handheld is great.
- All machinery welcome (whatever we have room for in the trailer)
- Safety measures taken
- Painted? (fine with me if it all looks rough)
- Working headlights- handheld is great.
#5: Closer
Setting: School
Nothing
