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| mouser | Jul 24 2009, 08:08 AM Post #1 |
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TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT GO ON SALE JULY 27, 2009 Grease Starring American Idol winner Taylor Hicks as Teen Angel November 10-15, 2009 In Dreyfoos Hall A rousing slice of ‘50s pop culture, this perennial tribute to coll dudes (T-Birds) and hot chicks (Pink Ladies) will transport you back to high shool life in the first days of rock and roll. The new production features the classic songs made famous by the original show including “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’” and “We Go Together,” as well as the additional smash-hit film songs “Grease,” “You’re The One That I Want,” “Hopelessly Devoted To You” and “Sandy.” Tickets: $25-$88 Edited by mouser, Nov 12 2009, 12:35 PM.
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| mouser | Nov 5 2009, 01:48 PM Post #2 |
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'Grease' slides into Kravis with 'Idol' winner Taylor Hicks By Hap Erstein Posted November 5, 2009 at 2:24 p.m. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/nov/05/its-the-word-grease-slides-into-kravis-with-idol/ WEST PALM BEACH — Jim Jacobs may be a one-hit wonder, but that single long-running show has given him a career for life and a tidy enough income that he will never have to write another word. The show is “Grease,” which began in a small Chicago community theater, garnering such attention that if moved to off-Broadway and then on to Broadway, where this affectionate spoof of student life at Rydell High in the late 1950s played 3,388 performances — at one time the longest-running musical in Broadway history. Since then, it has been often revived, including most recently in 2007, when its leading performers were chosen on a TV reality show, “You’re the One That I Want.” That production then spawned a national tour, which arrives Tuesday at the Kravis Center, where it plays through Nov. 15. Jacobs, who penned the music, lyrics and book for “Grease” with his writing partner, the late Warren Casey, is candid about the show’s success. “I’m the first one to admit it, it’s timing, luck, being in the right place at the right time,” Jacobs said. “Who would have ever thought that a little personal show about the 1950s would still be running 40 years later, all over the world.” Jacobs and Casey, both active in amateur theater in the 1960s, were sitting around dreaming up a musical to write between acting assignments. As Jacobs recalls saying, “Let’s get away from Rodgers and Hammerstein and blow everyone’s mind with rock ’n’ roll tunes for the score.” The characters came from Jacobs’ own experience. “It’s about the people I went to high school with, plus there’s a little bit of me in all those characters,” hesaid. And Casey had long had a knack for writing rock songs with a comic twist, like “Beauty School Dropout,” a song he had written three years earlier which became one of “Grease’s” showstoppers. At the center of the show are cool Danny Zuko and square Sandy Dumbrowski, a newcomer who has to learn how to fit in to win Danny as her steady guy. Over the years, major names such as Richard Gere, Patrick Swayze and Treat Williams have played Danny onstage, as well as John Travolta, who also starred in the 1978 blockbuster film version that features added songs by The Bee Gees. Playing the Kravis will be “American Idol” winner Taylor Hicks in the cameo role of Teen Angel. “Flash bulbs go off when Taylor comes onstage,” Jacobs said. “He’s very funny and he milks it for all it’s worth.” Warning: Do not indulge in the usual Kravis dash at the end of the show. “He also does one of his current hit songs on his new CD after the curtain call,” Jacobs added. Over the years, Jacobs has been kept busy consulting on “Grease” revivals and he still gets a kick out of seeing the show. “I am most proud of the fact that at many performances, around the world, people sing along with the songs,” he said. “They are that well known.” But even if you have never seen “Grease,” Jacobs feels certain you will relate to these characters. “It’s not just for anyone who went to high school in the ’50s. It’s for anyone who went to high school,” he said. “You will know these people immediately.” |
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| Gr8fulheart | Nov 6 2009, 10:03 AM Post #3 |
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Looks like I don't have to bring the link here, since mouser beat me to it!  Loved the way this was printed: 'Milks It'!
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| Oldiebutgoodie | Nov 6 2009, 10:16 AM Post #4 |
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I like milk-its good for you!!!! HEHEHEHEHEE!! |
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| mouser | Nov 6 2009, 04:09 PM Post #5 |
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Hicks featured in ‘Grease’: Taylor-made for the stage? By Leslie Gray Streeter November 06, 2009 Before making his Broadway debut last year in the eternally popular musical Grease, Taylor Hicks had never acted. But for the musician and Season 5 American Idol winner, every opportunity is a chance to keep up with fans and gain some new ones. “It’s imperative for me to stay out there and work,” the 33-year-old singer explains, in his polite, distinctive Alabama drawl. “I’ve been living out of a suitcase for four years. This is one of the things I love to do. Later, it’ll all settle down.” Since he won the country’s biggest talent show in 2006, Hicks’ career has experienced the usual highs and lows but never settled. His first post-Idol album, the self-titled Taylor Hicks, went platinum, with the hit Do I Make You Proud, and recently, What’s Right Is Right, off 2009’s The Distance, released on Hicks’ own label, charted on the Adult Contemporary Chart. That album was written between his Broadway run as Teen Angel in Grease, and his current stint in the touring version, which comes to the Kravis Center starting Tuesday and runs to Sunday. “It came out in March. I’d been writing it since January of last year, and I recorded it in three months, between the Broadway run and the tour,” Hicks says. “And I use the vehicle of the tour to stand out in the lobby and sign records.” Hicks’ onstage role is record-related as well. The Teen Angel character, played by ’50s heartthrob Frankie Avalon in the movie version of Grease, and by other teen idols like Davy Jones, Chubby Checker and Jimmy Osmond, is now the work of another sort of “Idol.” Teen Angel has one big number, where he tries to persuade “Beauty School Dropout” Frenchy to go back to high school. As many famous people have proceeded him in the role, Hicks says he preferred to find his own way to that mythical malt shop in the sky. “I had never seen the play before, but I had seen the movie. To be honest, I wanted to make sure that the role was a signature one, from the design of the costume to the way the music was performed,” he says. “You have to find your own style. I just thought, you know, this guy comes from Rock and Roll Heaven, so what would someone look like, at that time. The first thing that came to mind was rhinestones.” Rhinestones? Do tell! “I’m not gonna give away anything,” Hicks demures, “but the costume itself is quite over the top. The actual entrance… well, this is my complete interpretation. But as long as Frenchy goes back to high school, my job is safe.” Hicks will say that this version of Grease combines the original play’s songs as well as those added to the 1978 film version like You’re The One That I Want and Hopelessly Devoted To You. A fan of the film, Hicks says he jumped at the chance to try acting, even as he learns on the job. “It’s a very unique way to learn. It’s a very important role — small, but something I can build off of to get my feet wet,” he says, adding that even as a new actor, the role’s musical aspects help his learning curve. “When you play someone from a musical standpoint, there are a lot of similarities (in approaching the performance), but instead of actual instruments, you’re using personality,” he says. “Learning the part is tough at first, but I’m settling into the role.” Because Grease usually plays in theaters for a week at a time, Hicks has also gotten to settle into the specific locales of each performance, something he didn’t get to do during one-night stands as a musician. “What’s great is that you get to sink your teeth into each city. Usually, you do one night and you move to the next town. This tour allows me to experience what each city has to offer.” It also allows Hicks to get acquainted with his loyal fans, who were dubbed “The Soul Patrol” during his stint on American Idol. “There are always a lot of fans around. Some of them couldn’t come to Broadway and see (Grease) in New York, so a lot of my reasons for doing (the tour) was to take it to them,” he says. “They’re excited about how my career is growing, seeing me expand my horizons. The sky’s the limit.” As a treat to his fans, and hopefully as a nod to the new ones, Hicks ends each performance of Grease by doing one of his own songs — sans the rhinestones. “That’s a cutting-edge way of expanding my fan base,” he says. “It’s an added bonus.” TAYLOR HICKS IN GREASE Tuesday-Sunday, Kravis Center, West Palm Beach. (561) 832-7469 http://www.pbpulse.com/arts-and-culture/theater-reviews/2009/11/06/hicks-featured-in-grease-taylor-made-for-the-stage/ |
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| Gr8fulheart | Nov 6 2009, 07:56 PM Post #6 |
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Nice write up. Each one has its similarities; yet always something new to see. |
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| mouser | Nov 9 2009, 11:25 AM Post #7 |
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MEDIA BLITZ FOR GREASE: Wednesday, November 11 1. 7:40 am Live phone interview with Joel Malkin, WJNO-AM 1290 (conservative talk) http://www.wjno.com/main.html 2. 8:05 am Live interview with “Sunny Morning Show” with Michelle & Rick WEAT-FM 104.3 DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE http://www.sunny1043.com/ 3. 8:15 am Live interview with “Jeff Elliott in the Morning” WIRK-FM 107.9 (country) http://www.wirk.com/ Thursday November 12 Looks like they posted it early 4. West Palm Beach news wpbf 25 :  http://www.wpbf.com/video/21582329/index.html Twochix Productions Interview with American Idol Taylor Hicks at the Kravits on Wed.... YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/twochix Edited by mouser, Nov 11 2009, 01:09 PM.
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| mouser | Nov 12 2009, 06:02 AM Post #8 |
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An inteview with Jim Jacobs, the creator of "Grease" http://www.pbartspaper.com/2009/11/theater-feature-grease-co-creator.html Wednesday, November 11, 2009 'Grease' co-creator marvels at show's enduring appeal Grease celebrates a 'very simple time' for teens, co-creator Jim Jacobs says. By Hap Erstein Grease was never supposed to make it to Broadway. Let alone play 3,388 performances (the longest-running Broadway show at one time), let alone become a mega-successful film starring John Travolta (the highest-grossing movie musical ever, a record that still stands), let alone receive major revivals at regular intervals (as it did in 2006, the production that led to the tour that plays the Kravis Center this week). No, when Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, two amateur performers in Chicago, sat around in 1970 scribbling a satire of ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll movies, their highest hope for Grease was that it would be produced by a local community theater. That it became a national institution that has turned Jacobs into one of the idle rich -- when he is not consulting on productions of Grease over the years, that is -- is one of those long-shot legends on which the theater thrives. “I think the odds are similar to winning the Lotto,” says Jacobs from his Southern California home from which he avoids Chicago winters. “Who would have ever thought that a little personal show about the 1950s would still be running 40 years later, all over the world?” As a child of the ’50s, who went to high school from 1956 to 1960, what Jacobs calls “the golden age of rock ’n’ roll,” he yearned to hear that music onstage. “As I said to Warren, 'Let’s get away from Rodgers & Hammerstein and blow everybody’s mind with rock tunes for the score.' ” He knew that Casey had a trunk of funny songs, like Beauty School Dropout, on which they could loosely hang a story line. Grease is based on the characters Jacobs went to Chicago’s Taft High with. “I knew those guys, though the names were slightly changed to protect the innocent,” he says. “And there’s a little bit of me in all those characters.” The original production of Grease, staged in a drafty old former trolley barn, was much grittier than the show that eventually opened in New York. “By the standards of 1971, this would be the raunchiest, dirtiest, most politically incorrect show, lacking all family values,” says Jacobs. While that show was a runaway hit in Chicago, the writers were advised to clean it up before bringing it to New York. Undoubtedly that sanitizing process was responsible for Grease’s widespread success, a point that Jacobs concedes. Still, it disappoints him, “because I have such a personal fondness for the original production.” Since 1978, the movie version has eclipsed the stage show in the public eye. “That became Grease for most people, without a doubt,” concedes Jacobs, who has since allowed numbers written for the movie to be incorporated into the show. He is not the biggest fan of the movies (“Well, I grew to like it more as time went on,” he says without enthusiasm), but do not bring up the painful sequel, Grease 2, to Jacobs. “That’s a big thorn in my paw, for sure. We had nothing to do with that.” As to what Grease’s enduring appeal is, Jacobs laughs. “We’ve been trying to answer that question for all eternity. My feeling is it taps into an innocence in teenagers from a time when it wasn’t quite as crazy as it is now, ever since the hippies. It was a very simple time.” Marketing musicals was simpler years ago as well. Jacobs was initially skeptical about casting the leads of this latest Grease revival through a reality TV show, You’re the One That I Want. But he was won over enough that he agreed to one of the program’s judges and he is a big fan of Taylor Hicks, the American Idol winner who plays -- briefly -- Teen Angel in the current tour. “Flash bulbs go off when Taylor Hicks comes onstage,” he says. “He’s funnier than hell and he milks it for all it’s worth.” Although Hicks only has one song in the show, he makes up for it afterwards. “He also does one of his current hit songs on his new CD after the curtain call. So tell the people not to rush out at the end of the show.” Although Jacobs wrote Grease for and about his high school crowd, its appeal turned out to be much wider than that. “It’s not just for anyone who went to high school in the ‘50s. It’s for anyone who went to high school.” |
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| mouser | Nov 12 2009, 12:24 PM Post #9 |
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Rachel Leigh from Fox 29 showed up at the "Grease" cast party and it says Taylor grabbed her camera and did his own "thing" reporting. Here is a link to that video. DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE http://www.wflx.com/global/category.asp?c=151146&clipId=&topVideoCatNo=15107&topVideoCatNoB=126358&topVideoCatNoC=114415&topVideoCatNoD=115608&topVideoCatNoE=145712&clipId=4295344&topVideoCatNo=15107&autoStart=true Edited by mouser, Nov 12 2009, 01:19 PM.
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| tishlp | Nov 12 2009, 06:42 PM Post #10 |
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That's hilarious!!
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