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Jim Jacobs (born October 7, 1942) is an American actor, composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre, long associated with the Chicago theater scene. Jacobs is best known for creating the book, storyline, characters, and lyrics for the 1971 musical Grease with Warren Casey .
He wrote (with Jim Jacobs) Island of Lost Coeds, a two-act musical, produced at Columbia College Chicago under the direction of Sheldon Patinkin. He also contributed incidental music to Twelfth Night in 1976 and new lyrics to June Moon in 1977. In addition, Casey worked in the musical Cats.
Jacobs owned six copies of a rare Detective Comics issue from 1938, worth $10,000 each at the time of his death. [6] Larry Merchant, who knew Jacobs well, characterized him: Jimmy Jacobs is the only guy I ever knew who had Three Greatest in front of his name: He's the greatest handball player who ever lived, he's regarded as the Babe Ruth of ...
Jim Croce’s son A.J. Croce as a child. Jim and Ingrid welcomed A.J., born Adrian James Croce, on Sept. 28, 1971. Before his father’s death, A.J. lived with his parents in a farmhouse outside ...
Jack and Jackie Harbaugh, parents of Chargers coach Jim and Ravens coach John, cherish football memories with their sons.
Grease is a musical, first staged in 1971, 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 ...
Mills, 81, said in the clip that she had gone to school with Jim Jacobs, who co-wrote the musical on which the iconic 1978 film was based. ... Jacob's Grease musical has been adapted several times ...
Jacobs was a co-owner with his son, Jeff Jacobs, of Jacobs Entertainment, Inc., a casino and racetrack company after they merged companies in 2002. [4] Jacobs died on June 5, 2009, after a long illness at his Westlake home. [5] The funeral was held at the Rocky River United Methodist Church. [6]