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The story of the show's often rocky beginnings into a pop culture juggernaut is told in the new oral history book “Grease: Tell Me More, Tell Me More,” culled from stories submitted by some ...
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 ...
"Summer Nights" is a popular song from the musical Grease. Written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, [1] its best-known version was recorded by American actor and singer John Travolta and British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John for the 1978 big-screen adaptation of the musical, and released as a single that same year.
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.
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway [1] (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011) [1] was an American actor. He portrayed Kenickie in the film Grease and had roles in three television series: struggling actor Bobby Wheeler in Taxi (1978-1982), Prince Erik Greystone in Wizards and Warriors, and security officer Zack Allan on Babylon 5.
Tracht was born and grew up in the South Bronx with his younger sister, Diana, and parents, Alfred and Gertrude Tracht. His father was a native New Yorker, who sold dental supplies; his mother was a Lutheran immigrant from Germany who stayed home to raise her two children until they were in high school, then became an educator.
Britney Spears' highs and lows — a timeline from 'The Mickey Mouse Club' to her tell-all memoir. ... He told her "I'm Britney Spears now," she wrote in her book. Read more: ...
Anthony George and Arden in "Death by Design", Checkmate (1961). Eve Arden was born Eunice Mary Quedens on April 30, 1908, in Mill Valley, California, [1] [2] [3] to Charles Peter Quedens, the son of Charles Henry Augustus Quedens and Eunice Meta Dierks, and Lucille Frank, the daughter of Bernard Frank and Louisa Mertens.