GREASE SING-ALONG Held at Summer On the Hudson 6/30

Rydell High hits the Upper West Side on Wednesday June 30 at 8:30 PM, with a newly-restored print of the classic high school musical GREASE, the 1978 hit movie version of one of Broadway's long-running musicals, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The free event is a preview, before the July 9 nation-wide release of Paramount Pictures' newly restored print of the highest grossing movie musical ever. Viewers are encouraged to dress as their favorite GREASE character and let loose with the music.

The classic PG rock musical, also starring Stockard Channing, with special guest appearances by Eve Arden, Frankie Avalon, Joan Blondell, Edd Byrnes, Sid Caesar, Alice Ghostly, Dody Goodman and Sha Na Na, is the story of Sandy and Danny's summer romance: once school starts, will they be able to make it again? Along the way are such famous songs as the Oscar-nominated "Hopelessly Devoted to You," "You're the One that I Want," and the title song "Grease."

The free screening will open Summer On the Hudson's Wednesday night "Movies Under the Stars" series. Upcoming films, with this year's theme Tall Tales, include "Neverending Story (July 7)," "Pan's Labyrinth (July 14)," "Inkheart (July 21)," "The Fall (July 28)," "Big Fish (August 4)" and "Stranger Than Fiction (August 11)."

The 10th annual free Summer On the Hudson, presented by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, features more than 80 events for the whole family at Riverside Park South, including movies, the Children's Performance Series, the pop-music "Acoustic Sundays," Globesonic and "Let's Dance" dance parties, kayaking, yoga, pilates, tot's soccer, pee wee basketball and the September 12 West Side County Fair. Food and drink are available at the on-site Pier I Café.

GREASE was a Robert Stigwood/Allan Carr Production, produced by Robert Stigwood and Allan Carr. The screenplay was by Bronte Woodard, and the adaptation by Allan Carr, based on the original musical by Jim Jacobs and WarRen Casey. It was produced on the Broadway Stage by Kenneth Waissman and Maxine Fox in association with Anthony D'Amato, and directed by Randal Kleiser.