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  2. Grease (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Grease is a musical, first staged in 1971, 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 [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten ...

  3. Beauty School Dropout - Wikipedia

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    The Teen Angel is Frenchy's guardian angel, and script notes specifically identify him as a Fabian look-alike, dressed in all-white. The Teen Angel appears to Frenchy, who, having recently dropped out of beauty school out of frustration with her teachers, asks for a guardian angel in the mold of those seen in Debbie Reynolds movies.

  4. Billy Porter - Wikipedia

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    Porter played Teen Angel in the 1994 Broadway revival of Grease. Other shows he has been in include Topdog/Underdog at City Theatre (2004), [19] Jesus Christ Superstar and Dreamgirls at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (2004), [20] and the song cycles Myths and Hymns and Songs for a New World (Off-Broadway, 1995). [21]

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    Now playing off-Broadway at New World Stages, this new work features several Petula Clark hits, as well as 1960s songs by Nancy Sinatra, Dusty Springfield and Lesley Gore.

  6. Frankie Avalon - Wikipedia

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    Materializing as a character called Teen Angel, his performance of "Beauty School Dropout" in the hit 1978 film of the musical Grease introduced Avalon to a new generation of viewers. [3] Frankie Valli , who had turned the role down in favor of singing the theme song, noted that both he and Avalon earned substantial profits and a boost in their ...

  7. 17 things you probably didn't know about 'Grease' - AOL

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    Before "Grease" became a movie-musical sensation in the late 1970s, it was a Tony-nominated Broadway musical that opened in February 1972. The show was later revived in 1994 and 2007. Additionally ...

  8. Grease Live! - Wikipedia

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    Grease Live! is an American television special that was originally broadcast by Fox on January 31, 2016. It was a live, televised remake of the 1978 film Grease , executive produced by Marc Platt , directed by Thomas Kail , and starring Aaron Tveit , Julianne Hough , Carlos PenaVega , Vanessa Hudgens and Jordan Fisher .

  9. How 'Grease Live!' kickstarted Jordan Fisher's R&B music career

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    Look at Hamilton, it's a show that's sold out for the next two and a half years on Broadway and if you want to pay 900 bucks for an obstructed view you can, and people will.