- John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction". - Randal Kleiser
Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director and producer. Randal Kleiser has directed several feature films, including "Grease" (1978), Other features include "The Blue Lagoon" (1980) with Brooke Shields, "Summer Lovers" (1982) with Daryl Hannah, "Grandview, U.S.A." (1984) with Jamie Lee Curtis, "Flight of the Navigator" (1986), featuring the first use of digital morphing in a film, … - Laura Osnes
Laura Ann Osnes (b. November 19, 1985) is an American stage actress, and the winner of the role of "Sandy" on the televised "Grease: You're the One that I Want!" competition. She will play Sandy in the 2007 Broadway run of "Grease", starring alongside the other winner, Max Crumm, who will play the role of Danny. - Max Crumm
Max Crumm (born 1985) is an American singer, dancer, and actor who is one of the winners of the 2007 "Grease: You're the One that I Want!" televised competition. He will play lead character Danny Zuko in the 2007 Broadway revival of the musical "Grease". - Jeff Conaway
Jeff Conaway (born October 5 1950, New York, New York, USA) is an American actor, known for his role as Kenickie in the 1978 motion picture musical "Grease." He began acting on Broadway at the age of two. Conaway is also known for his role as Bobby Wheeler on the television series "Taxi" (1978-1982) and Sgt. Zach Allan (later Security Chief) on "Babylon 5" (1994 - 1998). - Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon married Kathryn Diebel on January 19, 1963. She was a former beauty pageant winner, and Avalon met her while playing cards at a friend's house. He told his friend that Kay was the girl he was going to marry. His agent warned Avalon not to marry, as it would spoil his teen idol mystique, but Avalon ignored his advice. Still together, the couple has eight children--in order of age, they are Frankie Jr., Tony, Dina, Laura, Joseph, Nicolas, Kathryn and Carla. - Dody Goodman
Dolores Goodman (born October 28, 1915, in Columbus, Ohio) is an American television actress. Goodman is most famous for her portrayal as Louise Lasser's mother on "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman". In fact, her high pitched voice can be heard at the beginning of each episode announcing the show's name. Goodman also had a recurring role on the 1980s sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" as Aunt Sophia. - Jim Jacobs
Jim Jacobs (born 1942) is an American composer, lyricist, and writer for the theatre. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Jacobs attended Taft High School, during which time he played guitar and sang with a band called DDT & the Dynamiters. In 1963, he became involved with a local theatre group that included Warren Casey. For the next five years he appeared in more than fifty theatrical productions in the Chicago area, working with such people as The Second City founder Paul Sills, … - Warren Casey
Warren Casey (1935 - November 8, 1988) was an American theatre composer, lyricist, writer, and actor. Born in Yonkers, New York, Casey received his Fine Arts Degree from the Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts in 1957. In the mid-1960s, Casey met Jim Jacobs while acting with the Chicago Stage Guild, and the two began collaborating on a play about high school life during the golden age of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. - Kathleen Marshall
Kathleen Marshall (born 1962) is an American choreographer, director, and creative consultant. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Marshall graduated from Taylor Allderdice High School and Smith College. She began her Broadway career as assistant to her brother Rob, the choreographer of "Kiss of the Spider Woman", in 1993. The two also collaborated on "She Loves Me" (1993), "Damn Yankees" (1994), "Victor/Victoria" (1995), … - David Ian
David Ian Ian (born Chadwell Heath, Greater London in 1961), is a former actor, who turned theatre producer in 1991 to become the most powerful man in UK theatre in 2005 according to "The Stage". The chairman of former Clear Channel's subsidiary Live Nation’s global theatrical division, he was one of the judges in the BBC TV series "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". The son of a Railway Fitter and a Personal Assistant, … - Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born Samuel Kent Harris, 4 June 1961, Cushing, Oklahoma) is an American pop and musical theatre recording artist as well as a television, stage and film actor. Harris was the winner of the first "Star Search" competition in 1984, and no contestant surpassed his winning streak of fourteen weeks in a row in the entire history of the show. - Didi Conn
Didi Conn (born Edith Bernstein on July 13 1951 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film, stage and television actress. She attended Midwood High School, and is married to composer David Shire; her brother is opera singer Richard Bernstein. Conn's notable roles include: *"Laurie Robinson" You Light Up My Life 1977 * "Frenchy" in the feature films **"Grease" (1978, starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John) **"Grease 2" (1982, … - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Bobby Rydell
Bobby Rydell (born Robert Louis Ridarelli, April 26, 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American teen idol from the early 1960s era of Rock and Roll. - Adrian Zmed
Adrian Zmed (born March 4, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Romanian-American television and film actor. Zmed is better known for his roles as "Johnny Nogerelli" in "Grease 2", and as "Officer Vince Romano" in the "T.J. Hooker" television series, where he starred alongside William Shatner. Zmed took on the role of Danny Zuko in "Grease" twice: first during the original Broadway run in the 1970s, and again during the show's revival in 1995. - Marissa Jaret Winokur
Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2 1973, New York City) is a Tony Award Winner American actress best known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film, "Hairspray". She won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Hairspray", as well as the Drama Desk, Theatre World and Outer Critics Circle awards. - Barry Pearl
Barry Pearl (b. March 29, 1950) played Professor Tinkerputt on Barney's Imagination Island, Barney's Big Surprise and Enma from Mirmo! Barry was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Barry also played the role of Doody in the 1978 hit musical Grease. Full name: Barry Lee Pearl Barry stared in 1 episode of Disney Channel's Even Stevens. - Louis St. Louis
Louis St. Louis is an American songwriter, famous for songs written for Grease. - Allan Carr
Allan Carr (born Allan Solomon on May 27, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, died June 29, 1999) was an American film producer and manager of actors and musicians. Early in his career, Carr worked behind the scenes at "Playboy Magazine" with Hugh Hefner. Through the years, he became known as a great planner of promotional events and parties. In 1977, producer Robert Stigwood hired him to produce the ad campaign for "Saturday Night Fever". - Michael Tucci
Michael Tucci is an American film, TV, and stage actor. He performed T-Bird's Sonny for the film version "Grease", then he performed Vince Fontaine for tour version and Tōkyō tour for stage (2003). Tucci is currently teaching Introduction to Fine Arts and Theater Arts at St. Francis High School in La Cañada Flintridge, California. - Jerry Zaks
Jerry Zaks (born September 7, 1946) is a multiple Tony Award-winning American Broadway theatre and television director and actor. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, the son of Holocaust survivors, Zaks graduated from Dartmouth College and received a Master of Fine Arts from Smith College. He made his Broadway acting debut in the original production of "Grease" and also appeared in "Tintypes". - Barry Bostwick
Barry Knapp Bostwick (February 24, 1945) is an American actor and singer. He is known for playing Brad Majors in the 1975 cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show", and has also had considerable fame in musical theatre. - Walter Bobbie
Walter Bobbie (born on 18 November 1945 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is a dancer, choreographer, director and occasional actor. He attended The Catholic University of America (CUA), at around the same time as Oscar winning actress Susan Sarandon. Bobbie created the role of "Roger" in the original Broadway production of "Grease", and he also starred on Broadway as "Nicely-Nicely Johnson" in the 1992 revival of "Guys and Dolls" starring Nathan Lane, … - Shane Richie
Shane Richie (born Shane Patrick Roche, 11 March 1964) is an English actor, television personality, comedian, actor, singer and television presenter. Richie is probably best known for playing Alfie Moon in the BBC One soap opera "EastEnders". He is set to guest star is series 2 of British teen drama Skins - Kelly Ward
Kelly Ward (born on November 17 1956 in San Diego, California) is an American actor and voice director for TV animation. He is famous as T-Bird's Putzie for film version "Grease". - Jamie Donnelly
Jamie Donnelly is an American actress. Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Donnelly is best known as Jan from the film version of "Grease". Nowadays Donnelly is an acting coach who lives in La Canada, California, with her husband Stephen Foreman and two children, Sevi and Madden Rose. Five years before playing Jan in the "Grease" movie, she played Jan in the play on Broadway. Soon after, she quit the acting business for a while and lost her contract. - Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff (born January 25, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American stage and film actress. She is of Russian Jewish descent. Manoff is the daughter of actress Lee Grant and screenwriter Arnold Manoff. In 1980, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Broadway play, "I Ought to Be in Pictures". - Judy Kaye
Judy Kaye (b. October 11 1948) is a Tony-award-winning American singer and actress. She has appeared with the Santa Fe Opera (1985 and 1990), the New York City Opera (1989), the New York Philharmonic (1990), the Boston Pops Orchestra (1990), and the London Symphony Orchestra (1990). Her Broadway debut, as a replacement Rizzo in the original company of "Grease", could barely have suggested the range of her remarkable singing voice (from low "belt" to high soprano). - Jenny Powers
Jennifer Diane Powers (born August 29, 1979) is an American actress, singer, and beauty pageant contestant. She won the title of Miss Illinois in 2000, and has had major roles in Broadway productions such as "Little Women" and the upcoming "Grease", where she will appear as Rizzo starting in Summer 2007. Powers appeared on Broadway as Meg, the eldest March sister, … - Edd Byrnes
Edd Byrnes (born Edward Byrne Breitenberger, 30 July 1933, New York, New York, United States) is an American actor of German and Irish extraction. His alcoholic father died when he was aged thirteen. He changed his surname to Byrnes, which was his maternal grandfather's surname and appeared in the film, "Marjorie Morningstar" as Edward Byrnes. He was usually billed under the name Edd Byrnes. - Marilu Henner
Marilu Henner (born April 6 1952) is an American actress and producer. Born Mary Lucy Denise Pudlowski<sup></sup> in Chicago, Illinois to a Greek mother and Polish father, Henner was raised on the northwest side of the city in the Logan Square neighborhood. Her mother Loretta was president of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts and ran the Henner Dance School ("disguised as a three-car garage") for twenty years. - Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner is an award winning American theatrical lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway and american regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals Wicked, and Hairspray, both currently running on Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The Coast of Utopia (2007), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Wicked (2004), Hairspray (2003), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001). - Ken Davenport
Ken Davenport attended Johns Hopkins University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors and was named a “University Scholar”. Immediately upon graduation, Ken began his career in the commercial theatre industry with management positions on the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain and Grease with Rosie O’Donnell. While a member of the staff of The Charlotte Wilcox Company, … - Alice Ghostley
Alice Ghostley (born August 14, 1926 in Vernon County, Missouri), is a Tony Award-winning American actress, best known for playing the characters Bernice Clifton on "Designing Women" (Emmy Nomination, Best Supporting Actress; 1992), Esmerelda on "Bewitched", and Cousin Alice on "Mayberry R.F.D.". - Joe Smith
Joseph Genesis Smith (born August 18 1988 in Slough, Berkshire, England) is an English male vocalist. He finished 27th in Series 3 of "The X Factor". He is currently signed to EMI owned label S-Curve Records , who have announced that his first single "Sensuous Barber" will be taken from his fortchoming album "Ultrasoundz". On March 30, Joe will officially open Gallery365 in Slough. Joe Smith was born in Slough to a teacher mother, Maria, … - Eddie Deezen
Eddie Deezen (born March 6, 1958) is an American actor and voice actor, primarily known for playing nerd roles in movies throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. He's mainly known by younger generations for his voice acting work, most notably the character of Mandark on the Cartoon Network series "Dexter's Laboratory". His unique style of acting has garnered him a small but devoted cult following. - Jeff Calhoun
Jeff Calhoun (born 1960) is an American choreographer, theatre director, and dancer. As a high school student in Pittsburgh, Calhoun was interested in both sports and dramatics, playing football and studying tap dance after classes. He made his Broadway debut in the short-lived stage adaptation of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1982). The following year he was cast in "My One and Only", … - Barry Williams
Barry William Blenkhorn (born September 30, 1954), known professionally as Barry Williams, is an American actor best known for his role as Greg Brady in the ABC television series "The Brady Bunch". Williams was born in Santa Monica, California to Doris May Moore and Canadian-born Frank Millar Blenkhorn. He decided as a very young child that he wanted to be an actor, and in 1967 he made his television debut in an episode of "Dragnet". - Kirsten Wyatt
Kirsten Wyatt is an American Broadway actress recently cast as Frenchy in the new Broadway revival of "Grease". Since completing her training at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Wyatt has appeared in a number of Broadway productions. Her Broadway premiere was as the understudy for Kristen Chenoweth (Sally Brown) and Ilana Levine (Lucy van Pelt) in the revival of "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown".
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