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The Story Behind Grease
Grease takes its name from the 1950s United States working-class youth known as the greasers. The musical, by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, is set in fictional Rydell High in 1959 Chicago with lead characters Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski in a romantic entanglement. Various social issues are taken on such as teenage pregnancy, gang violence and teenage rebellion. The show's score is reminiscent of '50s rock-and-roll, with doo-wop and an added clash of contemporary styles. It became the longest-running Broadway musical in history until beaten by A Chorus Line.
The show's origin dates back to 1971 staged at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of Chicago. Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the play and suggested it might work better as a full-scale musical, offering to help rework it to that end and produce it off-Broadway. After heading to New York and much work on the production, Grease opened at the Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan on February 14, 1972 to excellent reviews and good box-office business. The success led to a full Broadway production, directed by Tom Moore and choreographed by Patricia Birch, opening that same year on June 7 at the Broadhurst Theatre. After it's move seven years later from the Royale Theatre to the Majestic, the show completed a record-setting 3,388-performance run.
Original cast members included Barry Bostwick as Danny and Carole Demas as Sandy, with Adrienne Barbeau, Timothy Meyers and Walter Bobbie in supporting roles. Later cast as replacements were Jeff Conaway, Marilu Henner, Peter Gallagher, Ilene Graff, Judy Kaye, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta, Jerry Zaks, Treat Williams, and even Richard Gere as a recurring understudy. Gere starred as Danny in June 1973 in the original London production. Other notable stars in future productions were: Brooke Shields and Rosie O'Donnell (as Rizzo), Sally Struthers (as Miss Lynch), and Davy Jones (as Vince Fontaine). A second Broadway revival, directed/choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, began on July 2007 and opened on August 19. Max Crumm and Laura Osnes were cast in the lead roles as a result of the viewer votes cast during the run of the NBC reality series, Grease: You're the One that I Want!