Hum (film) Songs
Amit Bolds
Has anyone done Grease recently and added the movie songs? Here is my problem: I have secured the rights to perform all the movie songs: Hopelessly Devoted to You; Sandy; You're the One That I Want; and Grease (the title song from the movie.) Now Samuel French has the music and orchestrations for only 2 of the songs: Hopelessly Devoted, and You're the One... Now when I went through Warner/Chappel to secure the performance rights, they sent me to a music company that has the sheet music, but it's the typical vocal sheet music you can get at any music store with piano and the guitar chords. I'm wondering if anyone has orchestrations for the two songs (Sandy and Grease) that they are willing to share. Or do you know where I can find them. I am searching but I thought this is definitely one of the first places I should put out feelers.
We just performed Grease this past spring with the movie songs added, and I can tell you that the arrangements were the biggest pain I could possibly imagine -- it certainly tested my music director greatly. I can see if he still has what he came up with for Grease -- Sandy, I believe, we did just piano and vocals using a Chorus book for that arrangement. Grease was a little bit of a mess, to be honest, but I know our music director did the best he could...
Has anyone done Grease recently and added the movie songs? Here is my problem: I have secured the rights to perform all the movie songs: Hopelessly Devoted to You; Sandy; You're the One That I Want; and Grease (the title song from the movie.) Now Samuel French has the music and orchestrations for only 2 of the songs: Hopelessly Devoted, and You're the One... Now when I went through Warner/Chappel to secure the performance rights, they sent me to a music company that has the sheet music, but it's the typical vocal sheet music you can get at any music store with piano and the guitar chords. I'm wondering if anyone has orchestrations for the two songs (Sandy and Grease) that they are willing to share. Or do you know where I can find them. I am searching but I thought this is definitely one of the first places I should put out feelers. I'm also doing this in frustration of my band leader telling me that he wants more money to figure out the arrangements for the two songs...? Which is his MOD. Very disappointed in him.
I just want to chime in here with a vote AGAINST adding the movie songs. The original script, with the original songs, including using "All Choked Up" instead of "You're the One That I Want," still get HUGE reactions from audiences who only know the show because of the movie versions.
I saw it done at a local "Children's" theatre (the actors were 15-20) and they kept pure to the original script, the only exceptions changing two or three words (as we did when I was in it when I was 16) and it was such a breath of fresh air to see the kids playing Sandy and Danny, not Olivia and John.
Hello, I am afraid I can not help you with sheet music but the rehearsal and performance music ROCS has that is sold through Samuel French does contain all four movie songs. From the research we have done, that is the only way to hear the full orchestrations for Sandy and Grease is the Word in the United States and Canada.
We did Grease in 2016 - so I was able to grab my file to see what we did to use these songs - here's some info:
Samuel French only holds the stage rights to GREASE - so to license the additional songs, you need to contact Warner/Chapell - and that contact information was in the licensing contract. Warner/Chapell, however, does not send you the sheet music. Samuel French can send copies of You're The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted - for us it was an extra $200.
I received a questionnaire prior to our licensing application being fully accepted -and I had to submit a seating chart of our space (because they charge by the seat, not average sales history). One of the questions was: Will you be requesting permission to perform the movie songs - They are "Grease", "Sandy", "Hopelessly Devoted to You", and "You're the One That I Want"
One of the other documents in th efolder isa "Theatrical License Request Form" for the movie songs - and it says to allow 3-4 weeks for clearance of requests.
Hope this helps a bit! I will say that Grease was the most expensive show we ever produced for licensing costs and rental materials, etc (not production costs like costumes, lumber). Contract costs were over $9000 - we did 5 performances, and we have an 1100 seat house, tickets were $6-9. But we had to rent additional chorus books for $10 per person. Buy the script books for dialogue from SF. License additional songs through Warner/Chapell. It felt like a lot of nickel-and-diming because there are so many factors to take into consideration.
For years, I said that we'd never to do Grease - and that if we ever did, it would be because we either needed more community support for our program, or more money. At the time, we needed both. When everyone asks WHY? - I bring up the themes of the storyline - smoking, drinking, Rizzo's situation, Sandy changing to please a guy... it has toe-tapping music, but the messages are mixed at best. We did cover our costs - but we didn't sell out the place.
But if your audience members are like mine - they will want what they see on stage to closely resemble the movie - so we felt we needed to add those songs.
We did Grease in 2016 - so I was able to grab my file to see what we did to use these songs - here's some info:
Samuel French only holds the stage rights to GREASE - so to license the additional songs, you need to contact Warner/Chapell - and that contact information was in the licensing contract. Warner/Chapell, however, does not send you the sheet music. Samuel French can send copies of You're The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted - for us it was an extra $200.
I received a questionnaire prior to our licensing application being fully accepted -and I had to submit a seating chart of our space (because they charge by the seat, not average sales history). One of the questions was: Will you be requesting permission to perform the movie songs - They are "Grease", "Sandy", "Hopelessly Devoted to You", and "You're the One That I Want"
One of the other documents in th efolder isa "Theatrical License Request Form" for the movie songs - and it says to allow 3-4 weeks for clearance of requests.
Hope this helps a bit! I will say that Grease was the most expensive show we ever produced for licensing costs and rental materials, etc (not production costs like costumes, lumber). Contract costs were over $9000 - we did 5 performances, and we have an 1100 seat house, tickets were $6-9. But we had to rent additional chorus books for $10 per person. Buy the script books for dialogue from SF. License additional songs through Warner/Chapell. It felt like a lot of nickel-and-diming because there are so many factors to take into consideration.
For years, I said that we'd never to do Grease - and that if we ever did, it would be because we either needed more community support for our program, or more money. At the time, we needed both. When everyone asks WHY? - I bring up the themes of the storyline - smoking, drinking, Rizzo's situation, Sandy changing to please a guy... it has toe-tapping music, but the messages are mixed at best. We did cover our costs - but we didn't sell out the place.
But if your audience members are like mine - they will want what they see on stage to closely resemble the movie - so we felt we needed to add those songs.
Originally the film producers wanted a period appropriate song with lutes and lyres. When they heard the finished product they panicked and hid it away at the halfway point of the closing credits, not realising what a worldwide smash they had on their hands.
By the mid-90s the name Bryan Adams had started to become synonymous with power ballads and blockbuster action adventures. However, his next collaboration with Michael Kamen was a fairly leftfield choice.
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