{"id":2129026,"date":"2025-11-01T16:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2129026"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:04:13","slug":"grease-goes-woke-in-off-broadway-parody-called-vape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/grease-goes-woke-in-off-broadway-parody-called-vape\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grease&#8217; goes woke in off-Broadway parody called &#8216;Vape&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F10%2F114558634.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cGrease\u201d is no longer the word.<\/p>\n<p>Now the word is \u201cVape!\u201d \u2014 an off-Broadway parody that reimagines the beloved musical set in a 1950s high school as it would look in today\u2019s woke world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/r6lccqnab.cc.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001nshlhoTExGFSyrkFsxT2V8NM5GCoQ5hoCZ6X1LEso19CrpEYMjMed113Ixsbdsqqdd001JuUo7RwUhTduBeq287lMy2tRMJLudoJtAFabfBSnOyrBMP1oomCD_pKIiHfZknDmFDMqJkmNslrP1_eX6raCvoIfGOD&amp;c=8fA9EzPV2Duug91c_kCQCTVumGm7HSwMkA0-KNPTySf8-ISHetRUWA==&amp;ch=z6sRqyEfKBqeNb1DOB7Ws-SNgaZGRCVYHdM_gEKs4ItVrQ-YRceQSg==__;!!F0Stn7g!A6O1BmGByW9hGhHDryWDyvdgoetn1ec3b1VmW7Bh-FnfNguQDoOCYS7zZ_WCvhBb3MfLjmkIN8_j6A$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vape! The Grease Parody<\/a>\u201d pokes fun at parts of the 1978 Hollywood blockbuster \u201cthat did not age so well,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lararosestrong\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lara Strong<\/a>, who plays leading lady Sandy, said during a dress rehearsal attended by The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt brought out so many of the extremes that we see in the movie and reminded me of how ridiculous \u2018Grease\u2019 really is,\u201d added <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsilagy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott Silagy<\/a>, who plays Danny, the greaser heartthrob famously played in the film by a young John Travolta.<\/p>\n<p>The Pink Ladies are now the more inclusively named the Pink Squad. Ubiquitous smoking is replaced by vaping. And the Greased Lightnin\u2019 Ford convertible muscle car is swapped out for a Prius.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><figcaption>\u201cVape! The Grease Parody\u201d reimagines the hit movie in the present day. \u201cEven though it\u2019s a spoof and we\u2019re making fun of it, it\u2019s all out of love,\u201d said Lara Strong, who plays Sandy. <span class=\"credit\">Paramount (left) &amp; Helayne Seidman (right)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>To top it all off, the best-friend macho male leads \u2014 Danny and Kenickie \u2014 are sexually fluid and have feelings for each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeens have traded their cigs for vape pens, hot rods for hybrids, and making out to well, making out,\u201d director Jack Plotnick said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Scott Silagy and Lara Strong play Danny and Sandy, who were portrayed by Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in the 1978 movie. <span class=\"credit\">Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show also rewrites the Hollywood movie\u2019s rollicking ending \u2014 which has been criticized by some for sending the wrong message to women, as Sandy, played by Olivia Newton-John, tries to win over Danny with a sexy bad girl makeover. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve decided that Danny just doesn\u2019t appreciate me for who I am,\u201d Sandy laments in the musical, which runs at Theater 555 on West 42nd Street until Jan. 4.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs much as I love Sandy\u2019s iconic tight leather outfit and red shoes at the end of \u2018Grease,\u2019 her completely changing herself for a man highlights the film being a product of its time,\u201d said Strong, a native of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In \u201cVape,\u201d Greased Lightnin\u2019 is swapped for a green alternative Prius. <span class=\"credit\">Paramount (top) &amp; Helayne Seidman (bottom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show also mocks how the movie\u2019s aging cast <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/06\/grease-casting-director-slams-criticism-of-casts-old-ages\/\">portrayed high school seniors<\/a>. Travolta was 23, Newton-John, 29, Rizzo\u2019s Stockard Channing was 33, and Jeff Conaway (Kenickie) was 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis school is stupid and the guys are gross, but we\u2019ve been here so long, our veins are varicose,\u201d the cast sings in the opening number, \u201cVape is the Word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo, who has a pregnancy scare in the original, blames symptoms this time around on menopause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hear that guys? Rizzo\u2019s not pregnant. She\u2019s just old!\u201d Kenickie, the leader of the T-Birds, now renamed the T-Bros, gleefully announces.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWhat I love about our show is that as you\u2019re watching \u2026 you\u2019re also in your mind watching the original. It\u2019s a great way to enjoy the movie that we love in a new and fresh way,\u201d director Jack Plotnick told The Post. <span class=\"credit\">Helayne Seidman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Silagy, a native of Trenton, NJ, said his favorite part of prepping for the role of Danny was getting to channel fellow New Jerseyian John Travolta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo pick out his nuances and the way he moves throughout a scene, like when you watch \u2018Greased Lightnin\u201d in the movie, I mean \u2026 all eyes are on John.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are also nods to the current state of dating \u2014 with Marty revealing she went on 500<br \/>Tinder dates and started an OnlyFans \u2014 and advising Sandy that to win back Danny she should \u201csend him some nudes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women are more aware of men\u2019s psychological games \u2014 as the title of Sandy\u2019s heartfelt solo \u201cHopelessly Devoted to You\u201d is changed to \u201cHopelessly Gaslighted by You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Men, meanwhile, are more mindful of boundaries, with Kenickie shouting, \u201cAs a planet-loving gent, I\u2019ll be getting mad consent,\u201d during the song \u201cGreen Lightnin.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrease\u201d is no longer the word. Now the word is \u201cVape!\u201d \u2014 an off-Broadway parody that reimagines the beloved musical set in a 1950s high school as it would look in today\u2019s woke world. \u201cVape! The Grease Parody\u201d pokes fun at parts of the 1978 Hollywood blockbuster \u201cthat did not age so well,\u201d Lara Strong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2129027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[25538,364346,21741,25404,403836,353687,404691,345885,383632,333830,345420,24047,404692],"class_list":["post-2129026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-actors","tag-classic-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-exclusive","tag-grease","tag-john-travolta","tag-music-parodies","tag-musicals","tag-off-broadway","tag-olivia-newton-john","tag-parody","tag-theater","tag-woke-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Grease-goes-woke-in-off-Broadway-parody-called-Vape.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129028,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129026\/revisions\/2129028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}