Alyssa is joined by David Baxter (Thank You Five, Friends of the Countess, The Twelve Months of Christmas) to discuss the history of Grease.  

NWI Times: Grease has deep, dark Chica routes

Telegraph: Grease at 50: ‘The Pink Ladies? They’d kill you if you looked at them wrong’

Chicago Tribune: Bring back our own, original R-rated 'Grease'

Yahoo: Everything you didn't know about 'Grease,' from the $171 stage version to the original name of the T-Birds

WTTW: Grease Premiere at Kingston Mines

Chicago Tribune: ‘Grease’ gets its grit back

Chicago Reader: The Original Pink Ladies

Time Out: Writer/composer Jim Jacobs shares his favorite Chicago memories

The Independent: Donna Mills

Playbill: Restored and Raunchy, The Original Grease Begins Performances in Chicago, Where It All Began

Chicago Tribune: The original ‘Grease’ was born in Chicago, wild, funny and new in 1971

The Independent: INTERVIEW / Did you get very far? Aha, aha . . .: Jim Jacobs was happy writing ads and taking bribes. Until Grease. Tell me more, tell me more, pleads Sabine Durrant

Chicago Reader: Exactly how bad are the bad kids of The Original Grease?

Chicago Tribune: `GREASE’ IS HIS WORD

NYT: Think 'Grease' Is the Word? A Lawsuit Says It's 'Piracy'

A Theater of Our Own: A History and a Memoir of 1,001 Nights in Chicago

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