See Taylor Swift as Sandy in Resurfaced 'Grease' Production Photos
Taylor SwiftTell us about your “summer nights” at Rydell High!
Swift, 34, starred as Sandy Olsson in a local production of Fat before she became a superstar, newly unearthed photos show.
“Thanks mom for digging these pics of @taylorswift and me harmonizing like buttah on summer nights out of storage 25 years ago,” says comedian Tobin Mitnick with caption a Instagram slideshow on Thursday, February 1. “Also the note is F sharp if you're interested.”
In the photos, a young Swift perfectly embraced her role as Sandy, wearing white shorts and a matching hoodie with her hair tied in a high pony as she held her hands together. Mitnick, meanwhile, was Sandy's love interest Danny Zuko and wore a leather jacket to get into character. Mitnick also raised his hand in a “Travolta point,” seemingly replicating it John Travolta's final dance move from the film's “Summer Nights” song.
In a second photo, Swift wore an edgier costume for the show's finale, featuring a strapless black dress and a curly blonde wig.
While Swift eventually pursued her passion as a singer and songwriter, such as musicals Fat have always remained close to her heart.
“The first time I fell in love with performing was when I went to the theater in my hometown of Pennsylvania,” she said during a 2011 concert in Iowa. Taste of the country. “I could see it happening incredibly well – I'm going to see Broadway plays Bad — things like that really inspired me from a young age to love putting on a theater performance with storylines and characters, and you always see one scene change into another scene. I love telling a story in any way.”
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Swift has incorporated similar stories into her own songs and live shows. She reflected on how performing inspired the production of her album Lover in a 2019 interview with British Vogue.
“I was really singing a lot at that time; I just came from a stadium tour and then did that Cats, which was all based on live performances – so a lot of that album is almost entire recordings,” she said. “When you perform live, you narrate and go along with the story and make ugly faces and give a song a different meaning every time you perform it.”
Swift, who played a brief role in 2010 Valentine's Dayreturned to the world of musicals with a role in 2019 Cats movie. (Tom Hooper's adaptation was based on Andrew Lloyd Webbermusical from the 80s.)
“I really had a great time with Cats. I think I liked the strangeness of it. I loved that I felt like I would never get another chance to be like that in my life,” she said British Vogue.