From Canada’s CVT news-July 22,2010 – TORONTO- Like many fans of the 1978 movie-musical “Grease,” Torontonian Mary Ivy longed to see her all-time favourite film on the big screen once more.
Ivy will get her wish when “Grease: Sing-A-Long” rolls into the Scotiabank Toronto theatre for a two-night engagement on July 23 and 24.
“You don’t understand,” Ivy tells CTV.ca. “‘Grease’ changed my life back in the 70s. I wanted to dance. I wanted to sing. I wanted to date guys like John Travolta and look like Olivia Newton-John. It still gets me every time I see it. I know I’m not alone.”
She definitely is not, judging by the turnouts for “Grease: Sing-A-Long” screenings in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, and others North American cities since July 8 — all of which were demanded by fans by going online to http://www.Eventful.com/Grease.

Women show up in 50s’ poodle skirts and big, bouffant hair.
John Travolta look-a-likes cruise around wearing pompadours and tight T-shirts.
Little kids sport Travolta’s Danny Zuko wigs, shades and attitude.
“I think 12,000 of the 17,000 people who came to the Hollywood Bowl screening had big, pink hair,” says Didi Conn, 59, who played Frenchie- one of the Pink Ladies in the original film.
“There is always a generation that is discovering this movie for the first time,” Conn tells CTV.ca.
“But this sing-along version is just wild,” she says.