"played its essential part in moving ""Grease Live"" along with enthusiastic applause replacing the dead air that followed key moments in the earlier live broadcasts, set a new standard for this kind of presentation that will be tough to top."" ""Variety""s Maureen Ryan felt that the performance of Hough and Tveit was weak, explaining that ""when Danny has all the presence of a glass of milk and even the black-clad Sandy of the final scenes exudes all the sexual danger of a church choir director, well, rest assured that those concerned about the ""Grease"" legacies of Travolta and Olivia Newton-John"
"Los Angeles. During her stage career, she appeared in a musical version of ""Tarzan"". Donnelly is an acting coach who lives in La Canada, California, with her husband Stephen Foreman, a noted novelist. She has two adult children. Jamie Donnelly Jamie Donnelly (born May 8, 1947) is an American actress. Donnelly was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. Donnelly is best known as Jan, one of the Pink Ladies from the musical and film ""Grease"". While her film co-stars John Travolta and Jeff Conaway had also appeared in the stage version of ""Grease"" as different characters, and Frankie Avalon would reprise"
"Susan Buckner Susan Buckner is an American film and television actress. Prior to her acting career she was crowned Miss Washington in 1971 and in September went on to become a top ten finalist in the Miss America 1972 pageant (she tied for first in the swimsuit preliminary), which was eventually won by Miss Ohio Laurel Lea Schaefer. Her acting career is sprinkled with supporting roles in television, stage, and film. Susan is probably best remembered for her role as high school cheerleader ""Patty Simcox"" in the summer blockbuster of 1978 ""Grease"" starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta. She also"
"aired, using components from both the 1978 movie and the original Broadway show. Starring Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, and Vanessa Hudgens, the adaptation received positive reviews and ten Emmy nominations. Grease (film) Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 1971 musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Written by Bronte Woodard and directed by Randal Kleiser in his theatrical feature film debut, the film depicts the lives of greaser Danny Zuko and Australian transfer student Sandy Olsson who develop an attraction for each other. The film stars John Travolta as Danny,"
"Annette Charles Annette Charles (born Annette Cardona; March 5, 1948 – August 3, 2011) was an American actress best known for her role as Charlene ""Cha Cha"" DiGregorio in the 1978 feature film ""Grease"". She made several appearances on television as well. Charles was born Annette Cardona in Los Angeles, California. She died on August 3, 2011, in Los Angeles due to complications from cancer. She had initially been hospitalized for pneumonia. She died of brain cancer three months after her ""Grease"" co-star Jeff Conaway who died of pneumonia. Charles became an actress, and was best known for her role"
"Sagal, are notable in the industry and her other brother, David Sagal, is an attorney married to actress McNally Sagal. Liz Sagal Elizabeth Sagal (born October 9, 1961) is an American actress, screenwriter and film editor. In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin sister Jean Sagal in the television series ""Double Trouble"" that ran from 1984 to 1985, as well as the 1982 movie ""Grease 2"", a sequel to the 1978 film starring John Travolta. She has since appeared on such shows as ""Knots Landing"" and ""Picket Fences"". She has worked as a writer on such shows as ""Mad"
"Jamie Donnelly Jamie Donnelly (born May 8, 1947) is an American actress. Donnelly was born in Teaneck, New Jersey. Donnelly is best known as Jan, one of the Pink Ladies from the musical and film ""Grease"". While her film co-stars John Travolta and Jeff Conaway had also appeared in the stage version of ""Grease"" as different characters, and Frankie Avalon would reprise his film character on stage, Donnelly was the only person to reprise her stage character on film; she was 31 years old by the time the film was released and had to dye her graying hair to continue"
"anniversary, Paramount released Grease on 4K, UHD, Blu-Ray and DVD on April 24, 2018. The sequel, ""Grease 2"" (1982), stars Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer. While only a few cast members from the original movie such as Dody Goodman, Sid Caesar, Eddie Deezen, Didi Conn, Dennis Stewart and Eve Arden reprise their respective roles. Dick Patterson returned, playing a different character. It grossed $15 million on its $13 million budget. Patricia Birch, the original movie's choreographer, directed the sequel. It would be the only movie that she would direct. On March 12, 2013, ""Grease"" and ""Grease 2"" were packaged together"
"John Travolta John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977) and ""Grease"" (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), and he has since starred in films such as ""Get Shorty"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Face/Off"", ""Swordfish"", ""Be Cool"", ""Wild Hogs"", ""Hairspray"", and ""The Taking of Pelham 123"". Travolta was nominated for"
"and directed by Vladimir Perez at the beginning of the end of 2008 and accepted by Boomerang and Venevisión in early 2009. The series was based on the American film, Grease, directed by Randal Kleiser and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The film is in turn inspired by the eponymous musical 1972 created by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey and released for the first time in 1971, at the Kingston Mines Theatre in Chicago, a theater located in a former tram depot. The script of the series was adapted by writer Vladimir Perez. Filming of the series began on"
"debut in the 1971 romantic drama ""Jennifer on My Mind"", which also featured future stars Robert De Niro and Barry Bostwick. The following year Conaway appeared in the original cast of the Broadway musical ""Grease"", as an understudy to several roles including that of the lead male character, Danny Zuko, and eventually succeeded role-originator Barry Bostwick. He played the role for 2 1/2 years while his friend John Travolta, with whom he shared a manager, later joined the show, playing the supporting role of Doody. The two would reunite in the 1978 motion picture musical ""Grease"", in which Travolta played"
"""Grease"", without the stars, without the energy, without the freshness and without the grease."" However, Pfeiffer received positive notices for her first major role. The ""New York Times"" review cited her performance as the ""one improvement"" on the original film: ""Miss Pfeiffer is as gorgeous as any cover girl, and she has a sullen quality that's more fitting to a ""Grease"" character than Miss Newton-John's sunniness was."" ""Variety"" wrote that she was ""all anyone could ask for in the looks department, and she fills Olivia Newton-John's shoes and tight pants very well."" Pfeiffer told the ""Los Angeles Times"" three years"
"1982 North American Physical Tour, performances from which a home video entitled ""Olivia in Concert"" was produced. The ""Physical"" era marked the height of Newton-John's solo career, gaining her wide acclaim as one of the most successful female artists of the early 1980s. In 1978, Newton-John starred as the female lead, ""Sandy"", in the musical film ""Grease"", which was a worldwide blockbuster and had a best-selling soundtrack. Before the film, Newton-John was known for country pop and adult contemporary songs. Following the huge success of ""Grease"", and inspired by her character's transformation from goody-goody ""Sandy 1"" to the sexy, spandex-clad"
"as Charlene ""Cha Cha"" DiGregorio in the 1978 feature film ""Grease"". She made several appearances on television as well. Charles later became a speech professor at California State University, Northridge. Annette Charles Annette Charles (born Annette Cardona; March 5, 1948 – August 3, 2011) was an American actress best known for her role as Charlene ""Cha Cha"" DiGregorio in the 1978 feature film ""Grease"". She made several appearances on television as well. Charles was born Annette Cardona in Los Angeles, California. She died on August 3, 2011, in Los Angeles due to complications from cancer. She had initially been hospitalized"
"featuring Perrine, leaving director of cinematography Bill Butler to direct in her place. Producer Allan Carr was coming off a massive worldwide hit with the pop musical ""Grease"" when shooting took place between May and July 1979 at the height of the disco craze. Carr took a hands-on role with the production, and personally directed and cast the male athlete extras for the ""YMCA"" musical sequence. He had attempted to cast ""Grease"" star Olivia Newton-John in this film as Samantha, but after discussions between her producer, John Farrar, and Morali over who would write Newton-John's numbers, Newton-John instead signed on"
"with David Keith, ""Catch Me If You Can"" with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, ""National Security"" with Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn, ""High Fidelity"" with John Cusack and Jack Black (as John Cusack's mother), and ""While You Were Sleeping"" with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. Her television credits include the recurring roles of Dr. Helen Boyd on ""NYPD Blue"" and Sister Mary Margaret on ""Days of Our Lives"", and guest starring appearances on ""The Drew Carey Show"", ""Strong Medicine"", and ""Early Edition"". Margaret Travolta Margaret Travolta is an American actress and a sister of actor John Travolta. Travolta, one of"
"Didi Conn Edith Conn (née Bernstein; July 13, 1951), professionally known as Didi Conn, is a film, stage and television actress from the U.S., best known for her work as Frenchie in ""Grease"" and Denise in the TV series ""Benson"". Conn was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a clinical psychologist. Conn made her debut as an actress in the 1960s. Her notable characters since the 1970s, when she first became prominent, include: Conn provided the voice for Raggedy Ann in the animated feature """" (1977) directed by Richard Williams. Her voice is one of her trademarks. She"
"Liz Sagal Elizabeth Sagal (born October 9, 1961) is an American actress, screenwriter and film editor. In the 1980s, she co-starred with her twin sister Jean Sagal in the television series ""Double Trouble"" that ran from 1984 to 1985, as well as the 1982 movie ""Grease 2"", a sequel to the 1978 film starring John Travolta. She has since appeared on such shows as ""Knots Landing"" and ""Picket Fences"". She has worked as a writer on such shows as ""Mad About You"", ""Monk"" and ""Charmed"", also serving as executive story editor on the last. She played a part in the"
"1978 as the second-best selling album of the year in the United States, behind the of the 1977 blockbuster ""Saturday Night Fever""; also starred by Travolta, and earned the film its lone Oscar nomination for ""Hopelessly Devoted to You"" (which lost the Academy Award for Best Original Song to Donna Summer's ""Last Dance"" from ""Thank God It's Friday"" at the 51st Academy Awards). A sequel, ""Grease 2"", was released in 1982, starring Maxwell Caulfield and Michelle Pfeiffer as a later class of greasers. Few of the original cast members reprised their roles. In the summer of 1958, greaser Danny Zuko"
"an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, making him, at age 24, one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar. His mother and his sister Ann appeared very briefly in ""Saturday Night Fever"" and his sister Ellen played a waitress in ""Grease"". Travolta performed several of the songs on the ""Grease"" soundtrack album. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film ""Urban Cowboy"", in which he starred with Debra Winger. After ""Urban Cowboy"", Travolta starred in a series of commercial and critical failures that sidelined his"
"second American network television special, ""Olivia"", featuring guests ABBA and Andy Gibb. ""Grease"" became the biggest box-office hit of 1978. spent 12 non-consecutive weeks at No. 1 and yielded three Top 5 singles for Newton-John: the platinum ""You're The One That I Want"" (No. 1 Pop, No. 23 AC) with John Travolta, the gold ""Hopelessly Devoted to You"" (No. 3 Pop, No. 20 Country, No. 7 AC) and the gold ""Summer Nights"" (No. 5 Pop, No. 21 AC) with John Travolta and the film's cast. The former two songs were written and composed by her long-time music producer, John Farrar,"
"part of a megamix of several songs from the movie version. In the movie version of ""Grease"", Travolta and Newton-John played the lead roles of Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson. The song's genesis stems from a summertime love affair between Danny and Sandy, which had ended upon Sandy's revelation that she was moving back to Australia with her family. However, Sandy soon learns that her family is staying in the United States and subsequently enrolls at Rydell High School, where Danny is also a student. (In the original stage version, Sandy Dumbrowski, who like many other characters in the play"
"Press. The novel was co-written by Michael Scott. The first sequel ""Love Bites"" was published in 2010, and the second, ""Make Me Dead"" was published in 2015. Adrienne Barbeau Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical ""Grease"", and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Beatrice Arthur) on the sitcom ""Maude"" (1972–1978). In 1980 she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including ""The Fog"" (1980), ""Creepshow"" (1982), ""Swamp Thing"""
"Peru, with several different B-sides, including ""All Strung Out On You"", ""Can't Let You Go"", and (in the US) ""Greased Lightnin'"". Sandy (Grease song) ""Sandy"" is a song from the 1978 film ""Grease"", written by Louis St. Louis and Screamin' Scott Simon (of Sha Na Na), and performed by John Travolta, in character as Danny Zuko. It was released as a single in several countries, giving Travolta a no. 2 hit in the UK. ""Sandy"" was one of the songs written specifically for the film that was not in the original musical, which instead had a song named ""Alone at"
"She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party at Helen Reddy's home. Burned by her ""Toomorrow"" experience and concerned that she was too old to play a high school senior (she turned 29 during ""Grease""s 1977 filming), Newton-John insisted on a screen test with the film's co-star, John Travolta. The film accommodated Newton-John's Australian accent by recasting her character from the play's original American Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olsson, an Australian who holidays and then moves with her family to the U.S. Newton-John previewed some of the film's soundtrack during her"
"film ""Grease"". Baker and Mullard, then aged 73 and 68, dressed in wigs and costumes similar to the John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John characters from ""Grease"" and appeared on the BBC show ""Top of the Pops"" and the Granada Television music show for children ""Get It Together"". The pair recorded an album of pop covers entitled ""Band on the Trot"". Her final television appearance came the same year in an episode of the BBC arts documentary show ""Omnibus"" about comedians, broadcast on 28 December 1978. Baker suffered two ectopic pregnancies which led in part to the breakdown of her marriage."
"science-fiction films of the '50s in a manner more elegant and more benign than anything that was ever made then, ""Grease"" is a multimillion-dollar evocation of the B-picture quickies that Sam Katzman used to turn out in the '50s (""Don't Knock the Rock"", 1956) and that American International carried to the sea in the 1960s (""Beach Party"", 1963)."" Gene Siskel gave the film three stars out of four, calling it ""exciting only when John Travolta is on the screen"" but still recommending it to viewers, adding, ""Four of its musical numbers are genuine showstoppers that should bring applause."" ""Variety"" praised"
"Randal Kleiser John Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946) is an American film director and producer, best known for directing the 1978 musical romantic comedy film ""Grease"". Kleiser was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Harriet Kelly (née Means) and John Raymond Kleiser. He was raised in the Pennsylvania Dutch community in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Kleiser attended Radnor High School. Kleiser directed several television movies in the mid-1970s, including 1975's """" and 1976's ""The Boy in the Plastic Bubble"", which starred John Travolta. Kleiser was then tapped to direct his first feature film, the 1978 film ""Grease"", in large part"
"the 1978 film ""Grease"". After decades of exposure to the elements and vandalism, the original concrete statue was removed from display in 2002, and replaced in 2010 by a bronze duplicate paid for through an alumni-led fundraising campaign. Loy left school at the age of 18 to help with the family's finances. She obtained work at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre, where she performed in elaborate musical sequences that were related to and served as prologues for the feature film. During this period, she saw Eleonora Duse in the play ""Thy Will Be Done"", and the simple acting techniques she employed made"
"be the second film (and first sequel) in a proposed ""Grease"" franchise of four films and a television series. (The third and fourth films were to take place in the sixties and during the counterculture era.) However, the projects were scrapped due to the underwhelming box office performance of ""Grease 2"". Maxwell Caulfield was unhappy with the film's ""drab"" title, and unsuccessfully lobbied to change it to ""Son of Grease"". Birch proposed an idea to feature Travolta and Newton-John reprising their characters as a now married couple running a gas station near the end of the film, which did not"
"Adrienne Barbeau Adrienne Jo Barbeau (born June 11, 1945) is an American actress, singer and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical ""Grease"", and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (played by Beatrice Arthur) on the sitcom ""Maude"" (1972–1978). In 1980 she began appearing in horror and science fiction films, including ""The Fog"" (1980), ""Creepshow"" (1982), ""Swamp Thing"" (1982) and ""Escape from New York"" (1981). Other films included: ""Back to School"" (1986) and ""Argo"" (2012). During the 1990s, she became known for providing the voice"
"had previously appeared in the stage version of ""Grease""; he had played Danny Zuko during the show's run on Broadway. Jamie Donnelly reprised her role as Jan from the Broadway show, the only cast member to do so; as her hair had begun to gray by this point, she had to dye her hair to resemble her stage character. Kelly Ward had previously appeared as a similar sarcastic supporting character in ""The Boy in the Plastic Bubble"" with Travolta under Kleiser; he was cast as Putzie, a mostly new character. Lorenzo Lamas was a last-minute replacement for Steven Ford, who"
"Jeff Conaway Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway (October 5, 1950 – May 27, 2011) was an American actor and singer known for playing Kenickie in the movie ""Grease"" and for his roles in two American television series, ""Taxi"" and ""Babylon 5"". Conaway was also featured in the first and second seasons of the reality television series ""Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew"". Conaway was born in Manhattan and raised in the Astoria, Flushing, and Forest Hills neighborhoods of Queens, New York. His father, Charles, was an actor, producer and publisher. His mother, Helen, an actress who went by the stage name"