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Opened: February 14, 1972
Closing: April 13, 1980

Grease - 1972 - Broadway History , Info & More

Majestic Theatre (Broadway)
245 West 44th St. New York, NY

Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "It's Raining on Prom Night", "Alone at the Drive-In Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An 8-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world's most popular musicals.

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Wolsky, Ming, Vietti and Ridge Receive 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards
by Charlie Piane - Apr 20, 2010


Legendary costume designer ALBERT WOLSKY and world renowned scenic designer MING CHO LEE are among the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Two-time Academy Award-winner Albert Wolsky will receive the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer and educator Ming Cho Lee will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.

GREASE Comes To PlayhouseSquare As Part of KeyBank Broadway Series 5/11-23
by Gabrielle Sierra - Apr 19, 2010


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASETM will come to PlayhouseSquare May 11-23, 2010 as a part of the KeyBank Broadway Series. Tickets are on sale now at www.playhousesquare.org, by phone at 216-241-6000 or at the PlayhouseSquare Ticket Office.

David Essex Brings ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR to the West End; Plays Garrick Theatre 17 April - 5 September, 2010
by BWW News Desk - Apr 17, 2010


After a recent national tour David Essex and All The Fun Of The Fair will make its West End Debut at London's Garrick Theatre previewing from 17 April and running until 5 September with press night on 28 April 2010.

Review: 'Grease' Tour at the Canon Theatre
by Mark Andrew Lawrence - Apr 8, 2010


A revival of GREASE offers a watered down version of the original stage script, needlessly interpolates four songs from the motion picture version, and pointlessly brings in Taylor Hicks to play Teen Angel. Some lively choreography fails to compensate. * (out of 5)

TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards Honor Lee & Wolsky, 4/23
by BWW News Desk - Mar 9, 2010


Legendary costume designer ALBERT WOLSKY and world renowned scenic designer MING CHO LEE are among the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Friday, April 23 at 6:30pm at the Hudson Theatre (145 West 44th Street). Two-time Academy Award-winner Albert Wolsky will receive the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for costume design, and Tony Award-winning scenic designer and educator Ming Cho Lee will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Sustained Excellence in Theatrical Design.

GREASE Starring Taylor Hicks Set for Times Union Center’s Moran Theater, 4/27-5/2
by BWW News Desk - Mar 8, 2010


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASE™, opens in Jacksonville at Times Union Center's Moran Theater on April 27 - May 2, 2010 for eight performances only!

GREASE Starring IDOL Taylor Hicks Closes at Marcus Center, 2/28
by BWW News Desk - Feb 28, 2010


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASETM, will play through February 28 in Milwaukee.

Robin Cousins To Star As Teen Angel In GREASE
by Carrie Dunn - Feb 23, 2010


Olympic gold medallist to star in the West End hit

GREASE Starring IDOL Taylor Hicks to Hit the Marcus Center, 2/23-28, 2010
by BWW News Desk - Feb 23, 2010


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASE, opens in Milwaukee on February 23-28 presented by Broadway Across America-Milwaukee and the Marcus Center as part of the Time Warner Cable Broadway at the Marcus Center Series. Tickets will go on sale at NOON on December 6.

WINTER JAZZ FESTIVAL Heats Up the Blue Note Jazz Club Stage From January 19-31
by BWW News Desk - Jan 19, 2010


Five incredible Latin Jazz legends will heat up the Blue Note stage at the Winter Latin Jazz Festival from January 19 to 31. The festival will start with jazz flutist Dave Valentin and conga legend Candido from Jan. 19 - 20. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his Latin jazz group will finish up the week from Jan. 21 - 24. Argentinian saxophonist Gato Barbieri will play from Jan. 25 - 27, and percussionist Poncho Sanchez will finish up the festival from Jan. 28 - 31.

WINTER JAZZ FESTIVAL Heats Up the Blue Note Jazz Club Stage From January 19-31
by BWW News Desk - Jan 8, 2010


Five incredible Latin Jazz legends will heat up the Blue Note stage at the Winter Latin Jazz Festival from January 19 to 31. The festival will start with jazz flutist Dave Valentin and conga legend Candido from Jan. 19 - 20. Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his Latin jazz group will finish up the week from Jan. 21 - 24. Argentinian saxophonist Gato Barbieri will play from Jan. 25 - 27, and percussionist Poncho Sanchez will finish up the festival from Jan. 28 - 31.

Photo Flash: Toby Anstis Stars As 'Teen Angel' In West End's GREASE
by Gabrielle Sierra - Jan 7, 2010


The smash-hit musical Grease has a new cast from 25 January 2010 including popular Heart presenter Toby Anstis. Making his West End debut, the radio star will gain a host of angels when he joins the cast as ‘Teen Angel' for a limited season from 25 January to 20 March 2010 at London's Piccadilly Theatre.

David Essex Brings ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR to the West End; Plays Garrick Theatre 17 April - 5 September, 2010
by Jessica Lewis - Jan 6, 2010


After a recent national tour David Essex and All The Fun Of The Fair will make its West End Debut at London's Garrick Theatre previewing from 17 April and running until 5 September with press night on 28 April 2010.

Photo Flash: GREASE Celebrates 1000th Performance In London
by Gabrielle Sierra - Dec 17, 2009


The smash-hit musical Grease celebrates its electrifying 1000th performance at London's Piccadilly Theatre today, Wednesday 16th December 2009. To mark the special event, the producers are delighted to announce a new cast from 25 January 2010 including singer and actress Siobhan Dillon.

GREASE Celebrates 1000 Performance At The Piccadilly Theatre December 16
by Gabrielle Sierra - Dec 15, 2009


The smash-hit musical Grease celebrates its electrifying 1000th performance at London's Piccadilly Theatre today, Wednesday 16th December 2009. To mark the special event, the producers are delighted to announce a new cast from 25 January 2010 including singer and actress Siobhan Dillon.

GREASE Starring IDOL Taylor Hicks to Hit the Marcus Center, 2/23-28, 2010
by Gabrielle Sierra - Dec 1, 2009


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASE, opens in Milwaukee on February 23-28 presented by Broadway Across America-Milwaukee and the Marcus Center as part of the Time Warner Cable Broadway at the Marcus Center Series. Tickets will go on sale at NOON on December 6.

GREASE Starring IDOL Taylor Hicks to Hit the Marcus Center, 2/23-28, 2010
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 30, 2009


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASE, opens in Milwaukee on February 23-28 presented by Broadway Across America-Milwaukee and the Marcus Center as part of the Time Warner Cable Broadway at the Marcus Center Series. Tickets will go on sale at NOON on December 6.

GREASE With Taylor Hicks and Lauren Ashley Zakrin Hits Ovens Auditorium 12/1 - 12/6
by Eddie Varley - Nov 27, 2009


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASETM, opens Tuesday (Dec. 1) in Charlotte at Ovens Auditorium. Tickets are on sale now at the Blumenthal box office, by phone at 704-372-1000 or online at BlumenthalCenter.org. Group orders for 20 or more may be placed by calling 704-379-1380.

Review - Cry-Baby: Deliriously Warped
by Michael Dale - May 3, 2008


Check your good taste at the door and have a blast at Cry-Baby, the deliriously warped new musical comedy based on the John Waters flick spoofing the culture clash between squares and juvies in 1950s Baltimore. While jokes about polio and sexually abusive priests and songs about tongue kissing may not be for everyone, this hilarious and spirited tuner serves up its crudeness and with extra helpings of whipped cream and sprinkles from the first notes of its revved-up overture to the final chord of the play-out music. I laughed for over two hours and when I looked down I saw my toes involuntarily tapping. It's a fun night out.

Review - Oh! Calcutta!: Stripped of Its Records or Does The Emperor Have No Clothes?
by Michael Dale - Jan 22, 2008


There's a great moment in Cecil B. DeMille's gloriously overblown epic, The Ten Commandments, when Sir Cedric Hardwicke, playing Pharaoh Sethi, upon discovering that his beloved son Moses is really Hebrew, makes a proclamation that the name of Moses must be stricken from the history books, despite his many heroic accomplishments for Egypt, and that his name never be spoken again.  Moses, as far as Egypt was concerned, will have never existed.

Photo Flash: Noel Sullivan Takes Over As Danny In GREASE
by Gabrielle Sierra - Oct 13, 2009


Singer and actor Noel Sullivan will don the leather jacket of ‘Danny Zuko' and become leader of the T Birds gang when he joins the cast of the smash hit musical Grease from 30 November 2009 to July 2010 at The Piccadilly Theatre.

Groener, McGrath, Scalera & More Star In Sondheim's PUTTING IT TOGETHER At SCR 9/11-10/11
by BWW News Desk - Oct 11, 2009


South Coast Repertory kicks off the 2009-10 Season with Putting It Together, a compilation of Stephen Sondheim songs, that the composer put together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, creating a narrative set at a cocktail party in an elegant Manhattan condo. The non-traditional musical, led by Broadway and television star Harry Groener, has a cast of five (a glamorous but slightly jaded couple, a starry-eyed younger couple and a savvy observer) who sing more than 30 songs that reflect their lives, lifestyles and moods of the moment. Some of the songs will be familiar, some less so, a few were even cut from their original musical scores, but they are all sophisticated, smart and drop-dead droll. All, in other words, Sondheim.

Tickets For The Charlotte Run Of GREASE Go On Sale 9/25
by BWW News Desk - Sep 25, 2009


The new Broadway production of the Tony Award nominated musical GREASETM, opens in Charlotte at Ovens Auditorium on Dec. 1. Tickets will go on sale Sept. 25 at the Belk Theater box office, by phone at 704-372-1000 or online at BlumenthalCenter.org. Group orders for 20 or more may be placed by calling 704-379-1380.

The Broadway League and COBUG Present 'Broadway Salutes' Celebration 9/22
by BWW News Desk - Sep 22, 2009


On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, The Broadway League and the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) will present 'Broadway Salutes,' a unique public celebration honoring the myriad of artists who have made Broadway great for decades - with special recognition for those individuals who have worked 25, 35 and 50 years in their respective theatrical craft.

Brian Stokes Mitchell to Host 'Broadway Salutes' Celebration, 9/22
by Jessica Lewis - Sep 21, 2009


On Tuesday, September 22, 2009, The Broadway League and the Coalition of Broadway Unions and Guilds (COBUG) will present ?Broadway Salutes,? a unique public celebration honoring the myriad of artists who have made Broadway great for decades ? with special recognition for those individuals who have worked 25, 35 and 50 years in their respective theatrical craft.

Other Productions of Grease

1972   Broadway Original Broadway Production
Broadway
1973   West End London Production
West End
1976   US Tour National Tour
US Tour
1979   West End London Revival
West End
1993   West End London Revival
West End
1994   Broadway Broadway Revival
Broadway
2003   Milburn, NJ (Regional) Paper Mill Production
Milburn, NJ (Regional)
2007   Lincolnshire, IL (Regional) Marriott Lincolnshire Revival
Lincolnshire, IL (Regional)
2007   West End London Revival
West End
2007   Broadway Broadway Revival
Broadway
2010   US Tour Touring Revival
US Tour
2014   Milburn, NJ (Regional) Paper Mill Playhouse Production
Milburn, NJ (Regional)
2014   St. Louis, MO (Regional) Muny Production
St. Louis, MO (Regional)
2016   Motion Picture FOX Live Televised Production
Motion Picture
2017   Canada Toronto Production
Canada
2021   UK Tour
UK Tour

Grease - 1972 Broadway Awards and Nominations

Note: Award winners will appear on a background
Year Ceremony Category Nominee
1972 Theatre World Awards Performance Adrienne Barbeau
1972 Tony Awards Best Book of a Musical Jim Jacobs
1972 Tony Awards Best Book of a Musical Warren Casey
1972 Tony Awards Best Choreography Patricia Birch
1972 Tony Awards Best Costume Design Carrie F. Robbins
1972 Tony Awards Best Musical Maxine Fox
1972 Tony Awards Best Musical Kenneth Waissman
1972 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Barry Bostwick
1972 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical Timothy Myers
1972 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical Adrienne Barbeau

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