![]() “We sent out a questionnaire to over 100 actors, musicians, and crew members who had been involved in the show asking them to write down their stories of working on the production,” said Barbeau. ![]() “The stories everybody told were just so delightful and touching and funny and most of them all new to me because I left the show early on.”īarbeau and two others involved in the production began assembling the stories. “It stemmed from a Zoom meeting that the original cast had when the pandemic first shut everything down,” recalled Barbeau from her home in Los Angeles. Did you know that the popular 1978 musical “Grease” was preceded by a Chicago musical theater production? Adrienne Barbeau, who played Rizzo in “Grease” in this premiere production, co-edited a book that goes behind the scenes of this early phenom.īefore “Grease,” the hit 1978 movie, there was “Grease,” the musical theater production first performed in Chicago in 1971 before moving to Broadway a year later for over 3,000 performances.Īdrienne Barbeau, who played Rizzo during the first five months of the show’s run, helped commemorate the 50th anniversary of the production as a co-editor of the 2022 book: “Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More – Stories from the Broadway Phenomenon That Started It All.” It features personal anecdotes from the Broadway cast and crew.
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