Review: You can’t look away from the thrilling, musical version of “The Outsiders,” grease, grit and all

Review: You can’t look away from the thrilling, musical version of “The Outsiders,” grease, grit and all

When S.E. Hinton’s young adult novel “The Outsiders” came out in 1967, it revolutionized the genre. Her raw, redemptive story of a fatal class war between Tulsa teens was part “Rebel Without a Cause,” part “Romeo and Juliet” and part “Great Expectations” but wholly its own creation.More than half a century later, “The Outsiders” is a thrilling, can’t-look-away-even-when-you-want-to musical that captures its source material in tone, spirit and st…