Sing Along with GREASE at Schimmel Center Before FOX's Live Production Today

Today, Saturday, January 30th, Schimmel Center at Pace University hosts SING-A-LONG-A GREASE after a wildly successful run in the fall of 2014. Audiences can sing along to the great movie musical, complete with on-screen lyrics and the chance to become a T-Bird or Pink Lady for the night and enter the costume competition.

The FOX Network will premiere a live adaptation of GREASE, starring Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit, tomorrow, Sunday, January 31st.

"It's the one that you want," says producer Ben Freedman, who previously brought us SING-A-LONG-A SOUND OF MUSIC. "SING-A-LONG-A GREASE is the show that audiences have been asking for since we first presented a singalong show back in 1999."

"SING-A-LONG-A GREASE is much more than 'just a movie'," says Freedman. "It's an event, an interactive experience and the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

SING-A-LONG-A GREASErs will be decked out in their own versions of fifties high school garb worn at Rydell High, including poodle skirts and saddle shoes, black leather biker and powder-pink bomber jackets, chiffon scarves and skinny ties. Costumes are most definitely encouraged, but singing is mandatory!

The performance starts with a Sing-a-long-a host who warms up the audience, trains them how to "hand-jive," deploy the contents of their free magic moments fun packs and heckle in all the right places as well as judge the costume competition. "The rules are, there are no rules."

A costume contest will be judged by the producer of the original 1972 Broadway production of GREASE, Ken Waissman.

Mr. Waissman has given Broadway one of its longest running musicals, GREASE and two of its longest running plays, AGNES OF GOD and TORCH SONG TRILOGY. He is currently preparing a new musical, JOSEPHINE, inspired by the legendary 'jazz-age' star of the Folies Bergère in Paris, Josephine Baker. Waissman is one of only two producers in the history of Broadway to have a musical run over 3000 performances and a play run over a 1000 performances. (The other producer who shares this distinction is the infamous David Merrick.) Waissman's prolific Broadway efforts have resulted in four motion picture features, a PBS TV special, 25 Tony Award nominations, 5 Tony Awards and a personal Tony Award as 'Best Play Producer.'

The 1972 Broadway musical, about two lovers in a 1950s US high school, was based on an earlier, grittier "play with incidental music" called Grease Lightning, first staged in Chicago the previous year.

In 1978 it spawned into a movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The movie was a huge hit on its first release. Twenty-five years later it was voted the greatest musical ever in a 2003 poll conducted for the UK Channel 4's show on the 100 Greatest Musicals. It was voted the number 20 greatest musical film by AFI in 2006.

Ticket prices for SING-A-LONG-A GREASE at Schimmel Center at Pace University are $25. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit schimmelcenter.org or call toll-free (866) 811-4111. Performances take place at the Schimmel Center at Pace University located at 3 Spruce Street between Park Row and Gold Street in downtown Manhattan. Wine is served in the Schimmel Center lobby from our cash bar starting one hour prior to show.

Schimmel Center at Pace University, located within the University's downtown campus, has been an active part of Manhattan's artistic community for 35 years. Located one block east of City Hall and immediately adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge, Schimmel Center's 655-seat theatre regularly hosts academic and community events in addition to its yearly schedule of the world's finest music, theatre and dance. Over the past twelve years, Schimmel Center has served as a founding venue for The River-to-River Festival (2002), hosted both The Tribeca Film Festival and The Tribeca Theatre Festival (2001), provided a headquarters for The National Actors Theatre (2002 to 2004), presented the only Democratic Presidential Debate to present all ten candidates for the 2004 election, and actively hosts James Lipton's award-winning Bravo series Inside the Actors Studio, taped on Schimmel Center's stage since 2005.

For more than 100 years, Pace University has helped prepare students to become leaders in their fields by providing an education that combines exceptional academics with professional experience. Pace has three campuses in New York City, Westchester and White Plains. A private metropolitan university, Pace enrolls approximately 13,500 students in bachelor's, master's, and doctoral programs in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, via its rapidly growing Performing Arts Department, Lienhard School of Nursing, Lubin School of Business, School of Education, Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and School of Law.