"It’s really important we adhere to the 'death' theme."

I mean...she's not wrong. Also, I love that Nicole and Gracie were originally not part of the list-serv (obvs a total accident!). Why did Caitlin add them onto the thread, I wonder?

This is amazing! I was very lucky and played Rizzo during my senior musical in high school. I remember the script was different from the movie in a few ways. One of them was the relationship between Rizzo and Sandy.

In the original stage version, Rizzo actually sings this song TO Sandy. That's how its scripted, with Sandy and Rizzo alone on stage during this song. I always figured that Rizzo thought Sandy was being fake--she didn't really want to be this wholesome girl, she just thought she had to. And that's what spurred Rizzo to sing this to her. Rizzo is telling her, "I'm a knocked up teen, and I still think you have the worse life--pitying girls like me and lying to yourself about what you really want." So I always interpreted Sandy's transformation as not being for Danny, but being for Rizzo. She was right. Rizzo read her like a book and the end was Sandy's way of being more like Rizzo and owning up to what she really wanted.

I wish there was more exploration of their friendship, because to me, they seem to be so much more than just rivals for a boy's attention.