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Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
Jekyll & Hyde – UK tour, co-produced with UK Productions; Keeler – 2007, producer and director; A Tale of Two Cities – Upstairs at The Gatehouse 2008, producer and director; Grease – West End 2007 and US tour 2008–09, co-producer; Jest End (musical parody) – London Players and Jermyn Theatres 2009, producer; Grease – South Africa ...
Rhydian made his debut in the 2010 European tour of The War of the Worlds – Live on Stage! (Parson Nathaniel), [23] He then toured the UK in musical theatre. From 2010 to 2013 he appeared in We Will Rock You (Khashoggi, Chief of Police), [24] Grease (40th anniversary tour, playing "Teen Angel") [25] and Rocky Horror Show (Rocky). [26]
After touring the UK with the Who in autumn 1968 [20] and Gene Pitney and Marmalade in early winter 1969, the Grease Band embarked on their first tour of the US in spring 1969. Cocker's album With a Little Help from My Friends was released soon after their arrival and made number 35 on the American charts, eventually going gold. [21]
Grease was originally released in the United States on June 16, 1978, and was an immediate box-office success. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8,941,717 in 862 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking at number 2 (behind Jaws 2 ) at the box office for the weekend [ 34 ] and with the all-time opening weekend records. [ 35 ]
Cover Images Actress Susan Buckner, best known for playing cheerleader Patty Simcox in the 1978 film Grease, has died at age 72. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of ...
Immediately after graduating from Laine in 1998, Dearman joined the touring cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as the Narrator. [4] Then, after performing in the ensemble of Whistle Down the Wind in Bromley, she portrayed Jan in the Grease UK tour in 2000, which she later returned to in 2003 at the Victoria Palace Theatre. [8]
18 August – The Who release their eighth studio album Who Are You. It is the Who's last album with Keith Moon as the drummer; Moon dies twenty days after the release of the album. September – Second anti-racism event staged in Brockwell Park, South London, featuring Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers and Aswad, with 150,000 people in ...