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by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey Directed by Darlene McCune Assistant Directed by Casey Gilbert Choreography by Mignon Reid of the Natchez Ballet Academy Scenic Design by Leon Hollins & Casey Gilbert GREASE is a production of the NLT 2007 Summer Youth Workshop Thursday - Saturday, August 2 - 4, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 5, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. All Tickets are $15 Grease is a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. It takes its name from the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 in fictional Rydell High in Chicago, focuses on the romance between high schoolers Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski and tackles such social issues as teenage pregnancy and gang violence; its themes include love, friendship, teenage rebellion, sexual exploration during adolescence and, to some extent, class consciousness/class conflict. The show's original 1971 incarnation was a play with incidental music staged at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of Chicago. Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw it and suggested to the playwrights it might work better as a full-scale musical, and told them if they were willing to rework it and if they liked the end result, they would produce it off-Broadway. The team headed to New York City and after additional collaboration and refinements, Grease opened at the Eden Theatre in downtown Manhattan on February 14, 1972. Excellent reviews and brisk box-office business prompted the producers to move it uptown. The Broadway production opened June 7, 1972 at the Broadhurst Theatre, where it ran for five months before transferring to the Royale. It remained there for more than seven years before moving to the Majestic to complete its 3388-performance run. The original cast included Barry Bostwick as Danny and Carole Demas as Sandy. Replacements later in the run included Marilu Henner, Peter Gallagher, Patrick Swayze, John Travolta, Jerry Zaks, and Treat Williams. The show went on to become a hugely successful film and a popular 1994 Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where it ran for 1505 performances. The original cast included Megan Mullally and Rosie O'Donnell. Replacements later in the run included Debby Boone, Mickey Dolenz, Chubby Checker, Sheena Easton, Jasmine Guy, Jennifer Holliday, Al Jarreau, Lucy Lawless, Maureen McCormick, Mackenzie Phillips, Joe Piscopo, Jon Secada, Brooke Shields, Sally Struthers and Jo Anne Worley. A second Broadway revival, directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, is scheduled to begin previews in July 2007. Max Crumm and Laura Osnes were selected to portray Danny and Sandy via viewer votes cast during the run of the NBC reality series Grease: You're the One that I Want!. The original score will be embellished with tunes written for the film adaptation: "Hopelessly Devoted to You," "Sandy," "You're the One That I Want," and the title number.
This project is supported in part by funding from The Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. This project is also supported by partial funding from the Southwest Mississippi Rural Health Coalition.
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