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Grease, 1994

Shows · Grease · Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 1994

Grease
We hold no picture of this staging. This one is filed against Grease and could document any of its runs. None
Revival BroadwayEugene O'Neill Theatre 1,505 performances

The run closed January 25, 1998

Opened
May 11, 1994
Closed
January 25, 1998
Performances
1,505
Previews
Unknown

Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and carry 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 5 more that season

1972 Eden Theatre Original · Tom Moore 3,388 perf.
1973 Transfer Transfer
2002 Victoria Palace Theatre Original
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

33 of these 120 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 87 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.

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.

Recordings 19 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Grease, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • Which of the 19 recordings of Grease document this run, if any.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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