0000002869 00000 n Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and continued to work within the entertainment industry in both television and film. Putzie is bad with words and dates a member of the Pink Ladies named Jan. Wards Resume: Tom Shuster in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), Doug in CHiPs (1978), Frank Thatcher in The Waltons (1979),Pvt. Danny loves Sandy and because of this it never occurs to him that they will never see each other again; he trusts that somehow they will find a way back together. She also likes to eat toothpaste. 0000005713 00000 n Tough looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. When a guy picks a chick over his buddies, something's gotta be wrong. 3. Cast of Grease: John Travolta, Olivia Newton and others who appeared in Find the Countries of Europe - No Outlines Minefield. She has also worked with the Foundation for Educating Children With Autism, performing in benefit concerts. It's easy to imagine Centineo delivering the classic line, "a hickey from Kenickie's like a Hallmark card," and he could no doubt hold his own in a fight as well. Despite her efforts to keep this quiet the news spreads like wildfire and she is socially shunned and whispered about at school. Without further ado, here'swhat the hypothetical cast of a 2020sGrease remake could look like. Doody Sonny GradeSaver, 10 September 2019 Web. Must be able to convincingly play an older teenager (16+) Youngest of the guys. He is a horny Italian-American man who dates a member of the Pink Ladies named Marty. I was just going for a walk. Greases preppy cheerleader Patty Simcox. Principal McGee : The Grease cast features John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing. : In the novelization, his surname is never stated but his real first name is given as Donald. Frenchy do you want some? : The Pink Ladies (and Jan herself) may crack unkind jokes about how much she likes food throughoutGrease, but Jan is actually one of the group's best members and by far the least self-absorbed. [the T-Birds have just pulled into the driveway of Frenchy's house, where the girls are having a slumber party]. Characters | Grease Wiki | Fandom Tuccis Resume: Norman Briggs in Diagnosis Murder (1993-97),Judge in Evasive Action (1998),Dr. Bay in Blow (2001), Mr. Mullins in The Heat (2013), Weezi Abramowitz in The Rich & the Ruthless (2018), Read More at VV Know the Voice Cast & Characters: Guillermo Del Toros Pinocchio. Heres every actor and character in Grease, an adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Caseys 1971 musical. More Memorable Characters from Grease: John Travolta as: "Danny Zuko" Olivia Newton-John as: "Sandy Olsen" Stockard Channing as: "Betty Rizzo" Jeff Conaway as: "Kenickie" Michael Tucci t;P>}aMoA\n,x`&tH:,_$v 8ya. . She is a master of the French Inhale who gets accepted into La Cafury Beauty School. The whole gang sings and dances around Danny and Sandys romance, through such hit songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "We Go Together, and Mooning, recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. Sonny Aren't you supposed to be in homeroom right now? Sandy is an Australian transfer student in her Senior year at Rydell High. Has an off-beat sense of humour. [the T-Birds have just pulled into the driveway of Frenchy's house, where the girls are having a slumber party] Sonny : Hey Putzie, why don't you call her? Related:Grease: The Actors Who Almost Played Sandy And Danny. Danny has never been an academic star at Rydell, nor has he been an athlete, but when he sees that Sandy is dating track and field letterman Tom he manages to convince Coach Calhoun to let him work out with the track team; his running career gets off to a shaky start because Danny is a smoker and consequently struggles to make it half way around the track. Jeff Conaway had "Greased Lightning" on his mind well before Grease the film was released. Mrs. Murdock was portrayed by Tony-winning actress Alice Ghostley, who brought decades-long acting experience with her to Grease. Kenickie Principal McGee polisher, smug and pompous but gullible. : *Our system only provides suggested monologues or songs for select characters if we have matching monologues and song information in our database. Fortunately the pregnancy is a false alarm; she and Kenickie get back together at the school carnival. Rizzo is the kind of person who fears rejection and so rejects others before they have the chance to reject her first. Thus, a 2020s retelling ofGrease would also require a pretty heavy-hitting cast. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. Humorously austere Principal McGee and her bumbling secretary Blanch provide some ofGrease's best comic relief, which is whyAmy Poehlerand Tina Fey would be perfect for reimagining the duo in the 2020s. Cha-Cha also helps Balmudo create the rift between Kenickie and Rizzo. 0000002531 00000 n Sandy and her family moved to America from Sydney, Australia, after summer vacation. Must be able to convincingly play a celebrity (25+) Songs / Dance / Other Skills Required Vocal Range Summer Nights (with Sandy) D High B Alone at the Drive In Movie Good Falsetto (Solo) All Choked Up (with to High Db Sandy) Greased Lightning (with (optional) Kenickie & T Birds) Youre The One That I Want (with Sandy) - TBC Excellent dancer Greased Lightning (Lead) D F# Those Magic Changes (Lead) RocknRoll Party Queen (with Roger) Greased Lightning (with Kenickie & T Birds) Mooning (with Jan) Greased Lightning (with Kenickie & T Birds) Greased Lightning (with Kenickie & T Birds) Alma Mater (with Choral Group of 12) Non singing Shaking at the High School Hop (Lead) Born to Hand Jive (Lead) Good energetic solo performer Beauty School Dropout (Lead) Good dancer D G Good Falsetto to High Eb (optional) F G A C Good Falsetto to High C (optional) E B Good Falsetto to E. You have already flagged this document.Thank you, for helping us keep this platform clean.The editors will have a look at it as soon as possible. To mark Grease's 40th anniversary, The Hollywood Reporter is looking back at the stars who made beauty school dropouts and summer flings iconic and who sang the songs that have been iconic to generations of high school students. Can Danny maintain his cool dude status and still get make demure Sandy his girl? [They start heading out when Sonny stops him]. Recasting Grease If It Was Made In The 2020s, Grease: The Actors Who Almost Played Sandy And Danny, Grease: Rizzo Is The Real Hero (Despite The Musical Shaming Her), Grease 2: Why Sandy And Danny Didn't Return For The Sequel, Grease: Sandy Is Dead All Along - Theory Explained, Harry Potter: Why Goyle Disappears Halfway Through Prisoner Of Azkaban, Harry Potter: Why Peeves Wasnt In The Movies, MCU Vibranium Theory Answers Major Origin Questions. : 0000009889 00000 n Avalons performance of Beauty School Dropout was a hit and continued to be a song he would reprise in 1990s and 2000s performances. He is also happy to try to humiliate Kenickie by going to the dance with Rizzo when she is trying to hurt her former boyfriend. Principal McGee Grease Live his character (played by Jordan Fisher) sings "Those Magic Changes". : Wherefore art thou, Sandy? Sonny : I'm not taking any of her crap, that's all, I'll take no crap from nobody. Character Profile: An Australian teenager. Sonny Lantieri Grease Character Descriptions - The Alliance Theatre - YUMPU Kenickie is an unlucky kind of guy; bending down to pick up the "lucky penny" that Jan gives him before the race, he ends up being hit very hard in the head by the car door opening and gets a concussion. Either way, it would just be fun to see Sprouse play a greaser, as he would probably be quite convincing. : An editor Sandy is a naive teen girl without much life experience and seems to have lived a sheltered existence; she has never had friends like the girls in the Pink Ladies before, and it certainly shows. . New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. Conaways Resume: Rocko in Happy Days (1975),Bobby Wheeler in Taxi (1978-82), Zack Allan in Babylon 5 (1994-98), Marcies Father in Jawbreaker (1999), Self in Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew (2008), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: The Fabelmans. He's best known as Peter Kavinsky inTo All the Boys I've Loved Before, a role that shows off his impeccable charm and winning smile. Character Descriptions Grease DANNY ZUKO: Male, High School Teen(Range: tenor, D4- . Grease Character Descriptions - The Alliance Theatre. : Brown Not affiliated with Harvard College. Hough (@QVHough) is Vague Visages founding editor. 7kp."f~3DOu3L1 TR:}:/4m\!0iO4kg~XI qaUI3I^Zg=/~'@tVj]jaak`aly-2Ag56 :>O#$ 5}Iqi#>y#y Character Profile: A member of T-Birds. F 5a*+J (Ek$T,&/$2T|S*(n)]%dkvxjQy-A6WH5.+d0kU2.Pr&Zy'Y0NE5UG4Hwg[0cK!,yRRr o`VF` Waldy/Mutzy in Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (2018-21), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. He returned to television, portraying character Norman Briggs in the show Diagnosis: Murder. Copyright 1999 - 2023 GradeSaver LLC. Grease is one of the 20th century's most iconic musicals and high school dramas, but what would it look like using a cast of today's actors? Grease Character Descriptions !"#$%#! Thus, a 2020s retelling of Grease would also require a pretty heavy-hitting cast. After a slight slump in his career in the 1980s, Travolta received his second Academy Award nomination for his performance in Quentin Tarantinos 1994 film Pulp Fiction and continued on a wave of critical success due to his roles in films such as Get Shorty and The Generals Daughter. Though he flirts with Marty, Sonny's romance is the most humorously unsuccessful of the bunch. Magazine: Grease Character Descriptions - The Alliance Theatre. After Grease, Donnelly went on to make appearances in projects including Family Affair, Monk and Ray Donovan. Are you just going to stand there all day? I'm sure glad you didn't take any of her crap, Sonny. Grease, released on June 16, 1978, is now celebrating its 40th anniversary this month. thissection. Doody develops a relationship with a member of the Pink Ladies named Frenchy. Sonny She is friendly enough to Sandy but is often reluctant to really extend the hand of friendship to her because she wants to impress Rizzo. Well, which is it? Grease Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Principal McGee : It follows the life of an Australian transfer girl and a "greaser boy" who fell in love over the summer. : (Possibility. Leo's girlfriend is trouble; she still seems to hanker after Danny, whom she once casually dated, and blatantly steals him away from Sandy at the school dance so that they can win the dance contest together and be seen on national television. Travolta eventually made his way back to the world of movie-musicals in 2007 with his role of Mrs. Edna Turnblad in Hairspray. Aside from Danny, Kenickie is The T-Birds' biggest personality, and he boasts even more confidence most of the time. Principal McGee Grease cast now - tragic deaths, drug addiction and 30-year cancer T-Birds Danny Zuko Kenickie Sonny LaTierri Doody (Anthony DelFuego) Putzie Grease 2 T-Birds Johnny Nogerelli Goose McKenzie Louis DiMucci Davey Jaworski Michael Carrington / Lone Rider Pink Ladies Betty Rizzo Frenchy Marty Maraschino Jan Sandy Olsson PDF Grease Character Descriptions - attic-communitytheater Character Profile: The leader of a female group known as the Pink Ladies. Adult, a typical teen audience radio disc jockey. 0000002755 00000 n He leads a gang known as the T-Birds. Doody, is a member of the T-Birds . The world was a much nicer place, in many ways (a song sung by every generation that has preceded us).". You know, if we fix up this car, it could be make-out city, you know that. She finds that she does not have as much aptitude for this as she had hoped and has a mishap in hair color class, accidentally coloring her own hair bubblegum pink. Oh, Sandy. Yeah, [football player gets his foot stuck in his helmet]. Must be able to convincingly play an older teenager (16+) Second-in-command of the T-Birds. She knows that as a preppy, inexperienced girl she is not really his speed and she is not a girl he feels comfortable bringing his friends around; she decides to change into the kind of girl she believes he would prefer to be with. : : ; Badass Biker: The T-Birds in Grease 2 all ride motorcycles. He is able to laugh at himself just as much as the others laugh at him. Sensibilities were different in the '50's. He is portrayed by Barry Pearl, in the 2016 live performance by Jordan Fisher. Grease (1978) - Michael Tucci as Sonny - IMDb Sandy Dumbrowski - New in town, a wholesome, pure, kind, clumsy, and innocent girl. Characters Edit Below is a list of characters that have appeared in Grease and Grease 2 . So cool that a British girl band named themselves after him, Kenickie is the leader of the T-Birds greaser gang. Warren Casey, Doody is the youngest of the Burger Palace Boys. | For clarity, the year Grease was released, the youngest cast member was John Travolta at 24. Your file is uploaded and ready to be published. : Marty is probably the group's most self-assured member, which is why Melissa Collazo would be a good fit. Danny Zuko is one ofGrease's iconic protagonists. Balmudo's partner in crime, Charlene "Cha-Cha" DiGregorio, iconically steals the winning contest dance from Sandy, swooping in totake Danny at the last second. pineapple!". Character Doody Show Grease Gender Male Age Range Early Teen Role Size Supporting Dancing Mover Voice Tenor High Note A4 Low Note D3 Vocal Technique Falsetto Time & Place 1950s, rydell high school and surrounding locations Tags young boyish small open disarming deferential awestruck guitarist foolish gullible guitar Analysis He also plays the guitar. 0000001133 00000 n He is a troublemaker and the instigator of the mooning incident on camera at the school dance. Student at Rydell High (graduated) 16 0 obj <> endobj xref 16 30 0000000016 00000 n Palmer, Know the Cast & Characters: George & Tammy, Know the Cast & Characters: Ginny & Georgia, Know the Cast & Characters: Kaleidoscope, Know the Cast & Characters: White Noise, Know the Cast & Characters: The Fabelmans, Know the Cast & Characters: The Banshees of Inisherin, Know the Voice Cast & Characters: Guillermo Del Toros Pinocchio, Know the Cast & Characters: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Know the Cast & Characters: Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, Know the Cast & Characters: The Recruit, Dennis Cleveland Stewart as Leo Crater-Face Balmudo, Annette Charles as Charlene Cha-Cha DiGregorio, Johnny Contardo and Sha Na Na as Johnny Casino & The Gamblers, Ellen Travolta as a Frosty Palace Waitress. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. 17 Doody is Frenchy's casual high school boyfriend. Yes, ma'am. Doody Uh no, ma'am. When he challenges the T-Birds to a race, he employs a number of methods to cheat and to try to run the Greased Lightnin' off the road completely. After Grease, Ward went on to make appearances in television shows such as M*A*S*H and Magnum, P.I. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. Danny A nerdy apple polisher, smug and pompous but gullible. before turning his attention to behind-the-camera work. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike . Perpetually sneering, he insults The T-Birds throughout the movie and shows off his much nicer car, finally challenging Kenickie to a race to try to steal Greased Lightning. She is a Pink Lady, but seems on the periphery of a lot of their activities. Pearls Resume: Recruit Mignone in CPO Sharkey (1976-77),Dr. Abbott/Strip Club Manager in Days of Our Lives (1986-99), Dr. Aikman in Port Charles (1998),Dr. Paulson in House (2009), Auctioneer Sims in The Walls Are Watching (2022), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: The Banshees of Inisherin. Putzie also develops an adorable relationship with Jan. Joel Courtney, another Netflix teen rom-com star, shows inThe Kissing Booth series that he can deliver an endearing and somewhatgoofy/naive character with charm, which is perfect for Putzie. Stewart, simultaneously to Grease, had a dancing role in the 1978 musical comedy film Sgt. : Grease's final Pink Lady is Marty, the "one-woman USO" who keeps upnumerous pen pal relationships with army guys and is most noteworthy for flirting with Vince Fontaine at the dance contest. You really put your foot into it this time, Chisum! Character Profile: A member of the Pink Ladies. Charles had roles in series including The Incredible Hulk in 1980 and Magnum, P.I. Sonny Conaway left Taxi after the third season finished filming due to health concerns. Jim Jacobs He is hailed as one of the greats, with Billy Crystal writing in 2005, What kind of comedy would I be doing if I hadn't seen Sid Caesar?. Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: George & Tammy. Every teacher I got this year has flunked me at least once! Performing this action will revert the following features to their default settings: Hooray! Danny also wants to remain cool in the eyes of the T-Birds and so pretends to be nonchalant and uncaring, rebuffing Sandy and putting a real damper on her excitement that they are together again; in short, he acts like a jerk. Black Finding his way to theater, Pearl starred in the Broadway musical Baby Its You! Sonny x[}WLZ\SI'K[]k-`Err3g0H1}ejTnUux~T^}P+N("n7jKmfl3y^SOUiw7thuFm#uVVPWPky|ViSvL>>KxQBm|zQ]/_>~1?gVEBVg,oFTtEU&SVpUh3VUTL~kkQUeZ_@U>S~n X_R_m>zXgM6"-X6fqz(m:I}b5Wd{;'&M[C2Z+)~ ! Frenchy hosts a sleepover party. "What do you drive?" : Thomas McKenzie would be quite convincing as a sweet Pink Lady trying to show Sandy the ropes, and her role as Eloise inLast Night in Soho would provide strong inspiration for Frenchy, as Ellie faces similar uncertainties about whether she can hack it in fashion school.
