Grease
Musical
'Wonderettes' rewards those who stay for the second act...been best known until now for her work as a company actor at Honolulu Theatre for Youth. True, she has played "adult" roles as well -- Jan in "Grease" at Army Community Theatre in 2007, Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Show" at MVT in 2008 -- but... In this article: Act II, The Rocky Horror Show, Grease, and Act I |
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Wales Online | 1 day ago
Theatre: Noel Sullivan rides greased lightening from Cardiff to the West End
...have been pigeonholed to make a name in something else. " Sullivan is delighted that his West End debut comes with Grease too. "Grease was the first big musical I came to see in the West End," says the 29-year-old. "I think Shane...
In this article: Noel Sullivan, Cardiff, Shane Richie, and ITV
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Wales Online | 2 days ago
Theatre: Noel Sullivan's great role in Grease
...better than people thinking, 'You are only here because you are famous'," he says. It's ironic that his West End debut is in Grease. "Grease was the first big musical I came to see in the West End. I think Shane Richie was playing Danny,"...
In this article: Noel Sullivan, Hear'Say, Flash Player, Cardiff, JavaScript, and ITV
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Wales Online | 2 days ago
Columnists: Inside Track: Karen Price
...star's footsteps by taking on the legendary role of Danny on the stage. And although the Cardiff boy has appeared in touring musicals, Grease marks his West End debut. Sullivan has spent hours in rehearsals mastering the jive and...
In this article: Noel Sullivan, Trademark, Summer Nights, Hear'Say, Alison Moyet, John Travolta, and 101 Dalmatians
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Playbill.com | 2 days ago
Brian Conley to Return to West End's Hairspray, Joined by Former Monkees Star Micky Dolenz
...the hit children's show "Metal Mickey." He has also appeared in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida on Broadway and on stage in the USA in Pippin, Grease and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. In 1983, Dolenz directed a stage version of...
In this article: Brian Conley, Micky Dolenz, Hairspray, Monkees, The Monkees, and Daydream Believer
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BBC News | 2 days ago
Supporting Joe
...Mr Lynch and pupils at the college "He was a wonderful lad when he was at school. He came to light in the school's production of Grease when Mr Lynch gave him the lead role. "He used to sing in the Christmas concerts and he really...
In this article: South Shields and The Customs House
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HitFix | 2 days ago
Glee musical recap: McKinley meets its rivals in 'Hairography'
...sabotage mode. He whips Rachel up into a hussy, with a costume change that includes Olivia Newton-John's getup from the final scene in "Grease," complete with teased hair and arching her back on various piece of furniture. Finn "really likes"...
In this article: Cyndi Lauper and Britney
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Playbill.com | 2 days ago
Reel Good Productions Acquires Film Rights to Love Autobiography
...Darlene Love, whose pop hits include such sixties classics as "He's a Rebel" and "Da Doo Ron Ron," has appeared on Broadway in Hairspray, Grease, Leader of the Pack and the cult classic Carrie. She was also nominated to the Rock 'N Roll...
In this article: Darlene Love, Hairspray, Rock, Da Doo Ron Ron, He's a Rebel, William Morrow and Company, Phil Spector, and Leader of the Pack
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Fox News Entertainment | 4 days ago
Marie Osmond Doesn't Regret Turning Down 'Grease,' Is Rooting for Donny on 'DWTS'
...starlet. Did Marie Osmond make the biggest mistake of her life when she turned down the role of Sandy in the hit 1978 movie musical "Grease"? "Initially the script came to me, and the script was much edgier then what Olivia...
In this article: Marie Osmond, Donny Osmond, Hollywood, God, and Los Angeles
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TC Palm | 5 days ago
Grease is the word
...of Children's Home Society of Florida's Baines Hall. The Majestic Theatre in Vero Beach held a special showng of the coming-of-age classic, "Grease," starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton John on Oct. 3, with net proceeds going to...
In this article: Vero Beach, Olivia Newton John, and John Travolta
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TC Palm | November 05, 2009
'Grease' slides into Kravis with 'Idol' winner Taylor Hicks
Posted November 5, 2009 at 2:24 p.m. The cast of "Grease" will perform Tuesday through Nov. 15 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach. Photo provided The cast of "Grease" will perform Tuesday through Nov. 15 at the Kravis Center in...
In this article: Jim Jacobs, Taylor Hicks, American Idol, Warren Casey, West Palm Beach, You're the One That I Want, and Richard Gere
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Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey about the way rock and roll changed American sexuality and culture during the pivotal moment when America took its first tentative steps out of the conformity and social/sexual oppression of the 1950s and toward the individualism and sexual freedom of the 1960s. Like The Rocky Horror Show does, Grease embodies this very real-world cultural friction in its two leads, Sandy (as the 1950s) and Danny (as the 1960s). The show takes its name from the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 in fictional Rydell High in Chicago, follows ten working-class kids as they navigate the complexities of sex, cars (and sex in cars), and drive-ins (and sex at drive-ins). The score is a highly authentic recreation of early, raw rock and roll, invoking early groups including Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Huey "Piano" Smith, Paul Anka, The Diamonds, The Tea Queens, The Cadillacs, The Mello-Kings, The Kodaks, The Pengiuns, and many more. In its record-breaking original Broadway production, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show which has since been sanitized and tamed down by subsequent productions.
An extensive background and analysis essay about the stage show is online at http://www.newlinetheatre.com/greasechapter.html The New Line Theatre website contains a chart of the original script as the show played on Broadway and the later rewrites that removed much of the vulgarity.
The show tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict.
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