GREASE MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY LICENSE

My contact person for those songs was Cameron Sargent ( quite an investment, as I'm sure you know, but of course audiences expect to hear them. and cost us $750 for 5 shows ($50 per song, per show).

My contact person for that song was Himeko deGuzman ( 'Hopelessly.', and 'You're the One.' are licensed through Warner Chappell Music Inc. It cost us $125 for 5 shows ($25 bucks a pop). We produced 'Grease' last Fall and, despite the somewhat outdated messages, had an absolute blast! The song 'Grease' is licensed through Universal Music Corp. We did cover our costs - but we didn't sell out the place.īut 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. it has toe-tapping music, but the messages are mixed at best. When everyone asks WHY? - I bring up the themes of the storyline - smoking, drinking, Rizzo's situation, Sandy changing to please a guy. It felt like a lot of nickel-and-diming because there are so many factors to take into consideration.įor 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.

GREASE MOVIE PRODUCTION COMPANY LICENSE

License additional songs through Warner/Chapell. Buy the script books for dialogue from SF. But we had to rent additional chorus books for $10 per person. Contract costs were over $9000 - we did 5 performances, and we have an 1100 seat house, tickets were $6-9. 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). 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.

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' 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). Samuel French can send copies of You're The One That I Want, and Hopelessly Devoted - for us it was an extra $200. Warner/Chapell, however, does not send you the sheet music. 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. 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: Hopefully someone who has done this in the past can shed a little light! If so, who is then? I really can't find any pathways online that lead me towards obtaining these rights. From what I understand, this is not something that the licensing company (Samuel French/Concord) is in charge of. I am directing a production of 'Grease' and am wondering if anyone knows about the process of obtaining performance rights for the songs from the film version (You're the One that I Want, Sandy, Hopelessly Devoted to You, the title song).

If you do get the licenses, make sure you make a notation in your playbill. It's great you want to do the right thing! So many companies have added these songs illegally. You have to buy the licensing to the Grease songs from Warner Chappell Music, Inc

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