3 Iconic “Grease” Characters Pop Up in the Early Episodes of “Rise of the Pink Ladies”

Paramount Plus’s new series “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” serves as a prequel to the hit 1978 film. The musical follows Jane, Olivia, Cynthia, Nancy, and Hazel as they form the girl gang the Pink Ladies in 1954. In “Grease,” which is set in 1958, Sandy (played by the late Olivia Newton-John) is befriended by the Pink Ladies clique when she becomes a student at Rydell, though Betty Rizzo, Frenchy, Jan, and Marty are all different levels of welcoming toward her.

So how does “Rise of the…