"Bronte Woodard" isn't a terribly well known figure in Hollywood history despite writing Grease - his only other credit was Can't Stop the Music. He died age 39 in 1980.
This is a pretty good script - it hits all the beats, tells a simple story well and manages to sketch out the key characters. It's interesting to compare this to the final film - I'm not sure what draft it is. Sandy isn't Australian; there's a lot more Danny-Sandy dialogue (were they trying to attract stars?). Also the big print sketches out the characters of the T Birds and the Pink Ladies more - in particular it refers to character dynamics among T Birds that aren't really visualised or expressed in dialogue (eg a Sonny-Danny rivalry). The structure is the same. The key jokes are the same.
The script is quite lecherous - actually the film is too but I didn't notice it has much: Danny feels up a girl, tries to date rape Sandy basically. There's a lot about sex.
These scripts are harder to do than they seem and Woodard did good work.
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