The run closed January 25, 1998
- Opened
- May 11, 1994
- Closed
- January 25, 1998
- Performances
- 1,505
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Eugene O'Neill Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 10th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Grease 4 more that season
| 1972 | Eden Theatre Original · Tom Moore | 3,388 perf. |
| 1973 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2002 | Victoria Palace Theatre Transfer | |
| 2007 | Brooks Atkinson Theatre Revival · Kathleen Marshall | 554 perf. |
Who was in it120 named
Clay Adkins
Melissa Bell
Patrick Boyd
Katy Grenfell
Ned Hannah
Janice Lorraine Holt
Allison Metcalf
H Hylan Scott Ii
Lorna Shane
Farah Alvin
Carrie Ellen Austin
Shannon Bailey
Joseph Barbara
Linda Blair
Debby Boone
Nick Cavarra
Chubby Checker
Danny Cistone
Jennifer Cody
Jeff Conaway
Marilyn Cooper
Douglas Crawford
Laurie Crochet
Gregory Cunneen
Mary Bond Davis
Dominique Dawes
Vincent D Elia
Amy Dolan
Micky Dolenz
Melissa Dye
Sheena Easton
Jeff Edgerton
Joely Fisher
Andre Garner
Steve Geyer
Deborah Gibson
Dody Goodman
Trisha Gorman
Monica Lee Gradischek
Charles Gray
Jasmine Guy
Mimi Hines
Leah Hocking
Jennifer Holliday
Lacey Hornkohl
Al Jarreau
Lesley Jennings
David Josefsberg
Brad Kane
Kevin Anthony
Michelle Kittrell
Alisa Klein
Dave Konig
Mark Lanyon
Lucy Lawless
Beth Lipari
Darlene Love
Maureen Mccormick
Sean Mcdermott
Robb Mckindles
Susan Moniz
Bruce Moore
Cousin Brucie Morrow
Jennifer Naimo
Tracy Nelson
Connie Ogden
Deirdre O Neil
Melissa Papp
Mackenzie Phillips
Joe Piscopo
Angela Pupello
Tom Richter
Tia Riebling
Bill Rolon
Mary Ruvolo
Ric Ryder
Dale Sandish
Nick Santa Maria
Thomas E Schultheis
Sherie Rene Scott
Jon Secada
Kelli Severson
Brooke, Shields
Timothy Edward Smith
Spring
Wendy Springer
Loren Stolarsky
Sally Struthers
Denny Tarver
Ty Taylor
Christine Toy
Jeff Trachta
Lee Truesdale
Vincent Tumeo
Ray Walker
Amanda Watkins
Jody Watley
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Jo Anne Worley
Joanna Young
Christopher Youngsman
Adrian Zmed
32 of these 120 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 88 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
Craig McLachlan Barry Bostwick
Debbie Gibson Carole Demas
Sally Ann Triplett Adrienne Barbeau
Shane Richie Timothy Meyers
Sam Harris Derek James
Drew Jaymson Walter Bobbie
Richard Calkin Jim Borrelli
Jo Bingham Marya Small
Charlotte Avery Katie Hanley
Liz Ewing Garn Stephens
Myra Sands Dorothy Leon
Aidan Treays Tom Harris
Tamzin Outhwaite Ilene Kristen
Heather Robbins Kathi Moss
Gary Martin Don Billett
Glenn Carter Alan Paul
Stephen R. Buntrock 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
- Jeff Calhoun
- Choreographer
- Jeff Calhoun
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.
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…
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.