A rapt viewers was struck with just a little Grease lightning Friday evening when John Travolta stunned them at a particular sing-along screening of the beloved film musical in Los Angeles.

The Hollywood Bowl occasion was simply getting underway when Travolta, who starred as Nineteen Fifties greaser Danny Zuko within the 1978 movie, strutted on stage to greet his equally shocked costars with hugs earlier than addressing the gang.

"L.A.?" he requested, channeling one of many film's iconic traces. "I assumed you had been going again to Australia!"

Sporting a black leather-based jacket, a T-shirt, and denims appropriate for Danny himself, Travolta assured followers that he was "rockin' and rollin' and whatnot" earlier than main them in a refrain of "a-womp-bop-a-looma a-womp-bam-boom" from "We Go Collectively,” the movie's boisterous closing quantity. Afterward, he and the remainder of the solid exited the stage and the sing-along started.

Additionally in attendance on the Hollywood Bowl on Friday had been Didi Conn (Frenchy), Barry Pearl (Doody), Michael Tucci (Sonny), and Kelly Ward (Putzie), together with the movie's director, Randal Kleiser. Forged members not in attendance included Stockard Channing (Rizzo), Jamie Donnelly (Jan), and Dinah Manoff (Marty). Olivia Newton-John, who performed Danny's love curiosity, Sandy, died from breast most cancers in 2022.

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Grease, whichstarted its lengthy life as a 1972 stage musical earlier than getting the big-screen remedy six years later, tells the story of teenage unhealthy boy Danny (Travolta), who falls onerous for Aussie good lady Sandy (Newton-John) over the summer season however then should alter to Sandy's presence — and the way in which she threatens his cool greaser cred — when she strikes to the States and joins the coed physique at California's Rydell Excessive Faculty that fall. The movie acquired 5 Golden Globe nominations, and its quantity "Hopelessly Dedicated to You" snagged an Oscar nom for Greatest Authentic Music. As of Could 2025, Grease is the fourth-highest-grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical, behind Depraved, Mamma Mia!, and Les Misérables. The film is included within the Library of Congress Nationwide Movie Registry.

Travolta shared a shot of his Danny getup on Instagram after the Hollywood Bowl occasion, together with a video of his look on stage.

"Tonight on the Hollywood Bowl, for the primary time I stunned everybody on the Grease Sing-a-Lengthy and dressed up as Danny Zuko," he wrote. "Nobody knew. Not even the solid. Thanks for an amazing night."

In 2019, Travolta and Newton-John reprised their roles for the primary time ever at a Meet n' Grease sing-along in West Palm Seashore, Fla. Newton-John donned Sandy's yellow poodle skirt and cardigan for the occasion, and Travolta wore Danny's duds simply as he did on Friday in L.A.

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