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Laura Osnes, Max Crumm, and the company. Photo by Joan Marcus.

Very seldom is the mere passage of time sufficient to transform a raunchy midnight romp into a Saturday-morning cartoon.

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But such has been the journey of Grease, which began life in 1971 as a salacious tribute to the 1950s that never were, and in the new revival that just opened on Broadway has become so squeaky clean that you could eat your Sunday supper from it.

The aroma of Lysol hanging in the Brooks Atkinson air is so pungent, no one could consider it accidental.

Whether it's the best thing for the Jim Jacobs-Warren Casey musical, however, has apparently not been considered.

But no matter. There are more important things at stake than the show's well-being: the audience-cultivating popularity of the phenomenally successful 1978 film version (which starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John) that must be respected, to the point of interpolating four of its songs and continuing the sanitization trend