Jim Jacobs

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on3 works

Gease
Grease
Grease (1994 Revival)

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In the literature8 passages

• Like Follies, Grease used a reunion as its jumping-off point. Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey took a look at Rydell High School’s Class of 1959. But instead of showing us what the kids had become for better or probably worse in thirteen years, they spent fewer than ten minutes at the reunion, then flashbacked to high school days and never ret…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Other shows seemed to lead to nowhere. Grease (1972), entirely by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, was not only set in a fifties high school milieu but imbued with it, so that nearly every number revived classic rock and roll. “Those Magic Changes” began as a riff calling out the chords of a standard harmonic progression, from C to a minor th…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
• UNDERSTUDIES: Johnny, Frank Adu; Gabe, David PenLee Roy Giles; Dee, Marv Lou, Rebecca Nahas; Shanty, Cappaletti. Jim Jacobs; Maftucci. Peter Sav-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
• GREASE Book-Music-Lyncs, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; Director, Tom Moore; Musical numbers and dances staged by Patricia Birch; Musical Supervision and Orchestrations. Michael Leonard; Musical Direction-Vocal and Dance Arrangements. Schmidt; Costumes. Louis St. Louis; Scenery. Douglas Carrie F. Robbins; Light'ing. Karl Eigsti; Sound. Bill…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1971-72 Season, v. 28 (Willis).txt
• GREASE Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; Director, Tom Moore; Musical Numbers and Dances Staged by Patricia Birch; Musical Supervision and Orchestrations by Michael Leonard; Musical Direction, Vocal and Dance Arrangements. Louis St. Louis; Scenery. Douglas W. Schmidt; Costumes, Carne F. Robbins; Lighting, Karl Eigsti;…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
• GREASE Book, Music, and Lyrics, Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey; Director, Tom Moore; Musical Numbers and Dances Staged by Patricia Birch; Musical Director, Mack Schlefer; Sets, Douglas W. Schmidt; Costumes, Carrie F. Robbins; Lighting. Karl Eigsti; Orchestrations, Michael Leonard; Musical Supervision-Vocal and Dance Arrangements, Louis St. Loui…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

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• Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
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