Joan Blondell brought had numerous credits before she signed on to play the gang's waitress at the Frosty Palace. Beginning her career in the 1930s, Blondel starred in more than 100 productions both in film and television, her most notable being her performance in the 1951 film The Blue Veil, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. In the latter half of her career, Blondell received a Golden Globe nomination for her role in the 1977 film Opening Night. After Opening Night, Blondell appeared in two more feature films, one of which was Grease. She died 1979 at age 73. On June 7, 1972, the production moved to the Broadhurst Theatre on Broadway, and on November 21, it moved to the Royale Theatre there, where it ran until January 27, 1980. For the five final weeks of the run, the show moved to the larger Majestic Theatre. By the time it closed on April 13, 1980, it had run 3,388 performances. On January 31, 2016, in the wake of similar productions that NBC had performed for other musicals, Fox broadcast a live production of Grease, known as Grease: Live, as a television special starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, and Vanessa Hudgens. [51] [52] Synopsis [ edit ] A further UK and Ireland tour of Grease is scheduled to commence from Curve, Leicester, on 30 July 2021. The production has been repeatedly rescheduled from earlier 2021 dates as well as its originally scheduled tour in 2020, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. This production will star Peter Andre as Teen Angel and Vince Fontaine. The production will be directed by Nikolai Foster and choreographed by Arlene Phillips. [28] 2008 U.S. tour [ edit ] Stacie & Gracie were exceptionally pretty, high-spirited, very slim and energetic, but they were as popular in Rydell as a case of skin rash. If `irritating’ took a human form, it was those twins. Stacie & Gracie and the Pink Ladies had a rivalry, as they believed themselves to be better than the girl gang.

Known for her feisty performance as the leader of The Pink Ladies, Channing continued portraying strong female characters well after her days in Grease. Playing a car thief in the 1976 film Sweet Revenge, a stuntwoman in the 1979 film Silent Victory and the First Lady in the television series The West Wing, Channing maintained her career far into the 2000s. The West Wing brought Channing critical success, resulting in an Emmy win for best supporting actress in a drama series. Since the ending of the series in 2006, Channing has redirected her career to the theater. She has performed in off-Broadway and Broadway productions including Other Desert Cities, resulting in a Tony nomination for best performance.

League, The Broadway. "Grease – Broadway Musical – 1994 Revival | IBDB". IBDb.com . Retrieved April 7, 2021. Appearing in Grease as Principal McGee, Eve Arden brought with her a wealth of film and television experience and success. Beginning her career in the 1930s, Arden starred in the 1937 drama Stage Door and won an Academy Award for her role in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce. Playing the role of Miss Connie Brooks in the CBS show Our Miss Brooks from 1952-56, Arden became the first woman awarded the Primetime Emmy for outstanding lead actress in a drama series. After her roles as Principal McGee in both Grease and Grease 2, Arden retired from film and focused on television work, appearing in shows such as Masquerade and Falcon Crest. Arden died in 1990 at age 82. The Robert Stigwood Organization adapted Grease into a 1978 feature film, directed by Randal Kleiser. John Travolta, who had played Doody on Broadway and the national tour, performed as lead Danny Zuko, while Olivia Newton-John, an English Australian country-pop singer, was cast as Sandy; to accommodate the casting move, the character was rewritten as Australian immigrant Sandy Olsson (named after the maiden name of Ann-Margret, who was briefly considered for the role in the film), and parts of the score were replaced. Substantial portions of the script which included replaced or reduced supporting character roles and added on-screen roles for characters unseen in the stage version, were written in by Bronte Woodard, who also, at Kleiser's behest, moved the action to suburban Philadelphia. A second Spanish revival directed and choreographed by Coco Comín ran at Cúpula Las Arenas, Barcelona from November 15, 2011, to January 22, 2012, and then was transferred to Teatro Coliseum, Madrid from March 6, 2012, to May 6, 2012, before starting a national tour. Edurne reprised the role of Sandy, During the Madrid run, the singer Julio Iglesias Jr. guest starred as Teen Angel in some performances. A June 2022 Australian production, directed by Drew Anthony and choreographed by Jamie and Susie Rolton, was staged at Perth's Royale Theatre, with John Berry as Danny, Elaina O'Connor as Sandy, Peter Cumins as Teen Angel, Blake Williams as Vince Fontaine and Lucy Williamson as Miss Lynch. [ citation needed]

Two years later in the Summer of 1960, Sandy's cousin, Michael Carrington, arrives at Rydell High School as a British exchange student in his senior year. Frenchie had gotten a letter from Sandy explaining who Michael was and asked her friend to show him around Rydell. Marty: Given the surname "Maraschino" in the film, Marty is a seasoned member of the Pink Ladies, with much experience in wine, men and cigarettes, and is bigoted against the Japanese and Polish. In Act One, she is said to be engaged to an overseas Marine, mainly because of the expensive gifts she receives by maintaining the relationship. In Act Two, she has a brief fling with DJ Vince Fontaine, and by the end she succumbs to Sonny's advances. At the National Dance-Off, which she had organized, Patty came in wearing a blue strapless dress, gloves, blue hairpiece and matching blue high heels, she was happy and cheering and dancing, but nothing really went well for her. She was laughed at from the start, she got covered in tissue paper when a prop fell on her, when she finally got her chance to actually compete in the dance off, she jumped out in the middle of the whole school (and live television cameras) and jumped and danced while everyone booed her.a b c Woulfe, Molly. "'Grease' has deep, dark Chicago roots" NW Times, January 2, 2009, retrieved January 10, 2017