Grease,Rydell High,Yearbook?

Question

My theatre director asked me to make a "Rydell High/Grease" Yearbook,I'm kind of stuck. I have a binder that's white with a label sticker on it for Summer 2007. I'm taking head shots of main characters and the couples. Pink Ladies and the T- Birds will have there own pages. I thought about having the cast sign the binder, should they be like Danny or his real name? This is all I got so far, I need ideas of the cover. The public, Art Council, Family Members, I mean everyone is looking at this. My Executive Artistic Director is going to have to close her studio soon so I want to make it really nice, help!!!!!!

Also, I really don't want to spend alot of $ on this because I'm spending a lot on costumes.

Answer 1

You shouldn't be spending any money that will not be reimbursed... keep your receipts and make notes as to what the materials were used for exactly. It sounds like you're putting a lot of effort into this and they should not expect you to absorb the cost.

For the cover, why not design it on the computer and print out a nice glossy sheet to use? You could do a retro drive-in scene, a logo from the show that is licensed in the package from MTI, a collage of the photos you take (make them the candid mess up shots where they look like they weren't ready for the picture), caricatures of Danny & Sandy, etc. or any combo of those. Take a look at what they used in the film, maybe you could use that.

For the names you could use their real names and put the character's first names as their middle names / nicknames in quotes - James "Danny" Dean or Connie "Cha Cha" Chang or whatever.

For the ensemble, you could add superlatives (Miss Congeniality, Most likely to act like Doody in real life, make them up!) Have as much fun as you can with it... Lots of backstage photos would be fun. Pics from a night or two out at a restaurant, etc. You could download art like a photo of a Drive in and anything 50's just to use as accents. Maybe you could use old pics of local landmakrs, that would really be something. I don't have a clue as to how much time you have, but I'm sure you could ask the librarian for help finding old photos or maybe a town historian.

Good luck!

Answer 2

It sounds like you're on the right track...I've done this exact same thing (except it was for Bye Bye Birdie) and it turned out great. The answer above has good advice about the names. For the cover, go to a local sign shop, and let them design (and install!!) the lettering...it is extremely cheap and so much better than anything you could do yourself. have fun!

Answer 3

have the cast sign as their characters...that should be good. the cast list should be enough...don't use the cover art that the movie used. it was not that great...GOOD LUCK!