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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 ...
Jeff Conaway as Kenickie in ‘Grease’ (Paramount Pictures/Grease) Conway had already played Kenickie, Danny’s best friend, in the stage version of Grease before being cast in the film adaptation.
Carole Demas (born May 26, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress, best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical Grease and the title role in the original 1976 production of The Baker's Wife, for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role in the long-running children's television show The Magic Garden.
Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2007 Broadway production of the hit musical, Grease.The show, directed by Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall, played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City.
Before "Grease" became a movie-musical sensation in the late 1970s, it was a Tony-nominated Broadway musical that opened in February 1972. The show was later revived in 1994 and 2007. Additionally ...
Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress and author. She came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Bea Arthur) on the sitcom Maude (1972–1978). [1]
Grease was re-released in May 1979 in 1,248 theatres in the United States and Canada, Paramount's biggest ever saturation release at the time, and grossed $4.5 million in its opening weekend. [12] [13] During the reissue, it overtook The Godfather and became Paramount Pictures' highest-grossing film of all-time. [14]
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