The run closed April 13, 1980
- Opened
- February 14, 1972
- Closed
- April 13, 1980
- Performances
- 3,388
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Eden Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 3rd longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Grease 4 more that season
| 1973 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 1994 | Eugene O'Neill Theatre Revival · Jeff Calhoun | 1,505 perf. |
| 2002 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 2007 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival · Kathleen Marshall | 554 perf. |
Who was in it118 named
Jessica Stone
Paul
Don Billett
Walter Bobbie
Jim Borrelli
James Canning
Katie Hanley
Ilene Kristen
Dorothy Leon
Timothy Meyers
Kathi Moss
Alan Paul
Marya Small
Garn Stephens
Kerin Blair
Alaina Warren
Meg Bennett
Joy Garrett
Gardner Hayes
Richard Quarry
Jim Weston
Lloyd Alann
Stan Birnbaum
Peggy Lee Brennan
Lorelle Brina
Philip Casnoff
Walter Charles
Carol Culver
Ray Demattis
Karen Dille
Jamie Donnelly
John S Driver
Duffi
Meghan Duffy
Candice Earley
Greg Evigan
Shannon Fanning
Joela Flood
Char Fontane
Peter Gallagher
Bob Garrett
Livia Genise
Richard Gere
Rebecca Gilchrist
Ilene Graff
Stephen M Groff
Randee Heller
Marilu Henner
John Holly
Scott Holmes
Albert Insinnia
Danny Jacobson
Lori Ada Jaroslow
Judy Kaye
Mimi Kennedy
Robin Lamont
Matt Landers
Jim Langrall
John Lansing
Ellen March
Ann Ngaire Martin
Katherine Meloche
Marcia Mitzman
Mary Murray
Denise Nettleton
Lisa Orberg
David Paymer
Pippa Pearthree
Richard Peterson
Elaine Petricoff
Frank Piegaro
Randy Powell
Paul Regina Jr
Joe Rifici
Michael Riney
Jill P Rose
Forbesy Russell
Ruth Russell
Jim Shankman
Barrey Smith
Diane Stilwell
Randy Stumpf
Patrick Swayze
Barry J Tarallo
John Travolta
Michael Tucci
Stephen van Benschoten
Barry Vigon
Bill Vitelli
Andrea Walters
George Wentzler
Treat Williams
Dan Woodard
Nicholas Wyman
Jerry Zaks
Sandra Zeeman
Adrian Zmed
Laurie Graff
Vincent Otero
Tom Wiggin
38 of these 118 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 80 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters17 roles recorded
Doug Stevenson Barry Bostwick
Leslie Goto Carole Demas
Susan Williams Adrienne Barbeau
Bruce Hickey Timothy Meyers
James Canning Derek James
Gary Houston Walter Bobbie
Gerald Bolnick Jim Borrelli
Hedda Lubin Marya Small
Marilu Henner Katie Hanley
Sheila Ray Ceaser Garn Stephens
Judy Brubaker Dorothy Leon
Steve Munro Tom Harris
Polly Pen Ilene Kristen
Barbara Munro Kathi Moss
Mike O'Connor Don Billett
Bob Santelli Alan Paul
Mac Hamilton Andrew Kennedy
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Tom Moore
- Choreographer
- Patricia Birch
- Producer
- The Tommy Tune production presented by Barry and Fran Weissler and Jujamcyn Theaters, in association with Pace Theatrical Group, the Broadway Fund and TV Asahi
- Orchestrations
- Michael Leonard
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
Grease is a 1971 musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of peer pressure, politics, personal core values, and love. The score borrows heavily from the sounds of early rock and roll. In its original production in Chicago, Grease was a raunchy, raw, aggressive, vulgar show. Subsequent productions toned down the more risqué content. The…
- Grease in December 1979.) Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 202
- The record, however, was broken by Grease in December 1979. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 233
- Grease! (exclamation point added for this production), which ran for 1,503 performances. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 230
- It became the longest-running musical in Broadway history with 3,388 performances. (In September 1983, it was surpassed by A Chorus Line, and subsequently by others.) At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 256
- the final performances of Grease (1980), from the Royale Theatre; At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 273
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Grease at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.