Book by Cornell Christianson, music and lyrics by Stephen M. Schwartz and Norman Thalheimer. Grease meets War of the Worlds in this new 1950s sci-fi musical-comedy with Original Staging by Jeff Calhoun, Tony nominee for Grease, director of Tony-winning revival of Big River at the Roundabout, and director of Brooklyn. This fun, campy show centers on a high school kid whose only chance to save his girlfriend is to find the secret hidden in a comic book that can stop an attack from outer space.