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Fall Musical

Regular Season 2021-22
2021-22 x Regular Season

Jackie Hoffman

Director (jahoffman@rochesterschools.org)

Rachel Obranovich

Stage Design and Production

Leslie Meyer

Musical Assistant - Choir


SEE BOTTOM OF PAGE FOR PERFORMANCE DATES and TICKET INFORMATION


OVERVIEW

A musical about teens in love in the 1950s. It's California 1958 and greaser Danny Zuko and Australian Sandy Olsson are in love. They spend time at the beach, and when they go back to school, what neither of them knows is that they both now attend Rydell High.


Grease: School Version” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.

www.concordtheatricals.com

GREASE: SCHOOL VERSION
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

JIM JACOBS (Book, Music and Lyrics). Jacobs, who created Grease (in 1970) with Warren Casey, was born and raised on the mean streets of Chicago’s far northwest side. During the golden era of rock ‘n’ roll (1956-1960) he was a guitar-playing “greaser” student at Taft High School. In 1963, Jacobs met Warren Casey when they were both cast in a local theatre production of A Shot in the Dark.  Seven years later they wrote what was to become one of the greatest musicals of all time. Grease opened in 1971 in a former trolley barn called the Kingston Mines Theatre in Chicago. A year later, Grease made it to Broadway and “Greasemania” took off, resulting in one of the longest running shows in Broadway history. The 1978 movie became and remains the highest grossing movie musical of all time.  Originally an actor, Jacobs has been seen on television, in motion pictures, regional theatre, national tours, and on Broadway. He is the co-author of several other plays and musicals including Island of Lost Coeds, a musical spoof of the low budget sci-fi/horror/jungle movies of the 1950s, which he wrote with Warren Casey. In May 2014, Mr. Jacobs was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Columbia College in Chicago. He currently resides in Southern California and remains active in the theatre, especially with the American Theatre Company of Chicago.

WARREN CASEY (Author, Composer and Lyricist) was born in Yonkers, New York, and attended Syracuse University. During the late ‘50s, he learned all about “greasers” while working as an art teacher in upstate New York. He moved to Chicago in 1962, where he hoped to pursue an acting career. He appeared in dozens of productions, including creating the role of Bernie Litko in David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago. He supported himself with jobs in retail, including working as an assistant manager of a chain of apparel stores, and as a record salesman. In the meantime, he taught himself how to play the guitar and began writing songs. Mr. Casey acted with the Chicago Stage Guild (where he met Jim Jacobs), the Old Town Players, and the Kinston Mines Theatre. The latter company staged the original production of GREASE which he wrote with Jim Jacobs. After the incredible success of both the musical and the movie, the two collaborated on Island of Lost Coeds, a musical satire of the B-movies of the 1950s. Mr. Casey died in 1988.


2022 Century Winter Musical Performance Dates/Times

Wednesday, March 16, 7:00pm

Thursday, March 17, 7:00pm

Friday, March 18, 7:00pm

Saturday, March 19, 7:00pm

Tickets for this musical will be general admission and sold ONLINE $10.00 (very few sold at the door).

DOORS open at 6:30pm

Online tickets (through HomeTown Ticketing) - OPEN your camera on your smartphone and SCAN one of these codes (that coincides to your smart phone) OR click the link below on your computer/tablet - 
 

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