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Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. : hb```b``~ ,@Q. Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. In the novelization, he is described as a redhead and as having a penchant for ludicrous attire, such as shirts with loud prints, mismated socks and mixed patterns. Your file is uploaded and ready to be published. Greases preppy cheerleader Patty Simcox. Character Profile: A member of the T-Birds. We only provide suggested audition monologues or songs for an individual character if our system finds content that matches a character's traits. 1. Doody, a character in the 1978 film Grease (film) This page was last edited on 26 December 2022, at 16:27 (UTC). In the play, his real name is Ronnie Dell. A singer who would have caused the girls (and women) to scream and riot back in 1958. Official Sites Since the ending of the series in 2006, Channing has redirected her career to the theater. 0000005713 00000 n Character Profile: A member of the T-Birds. 3. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! 0000002496 00000 n A veteran greaser. !#(% %$&1&,'+6(/52 Principal Male Roles Principal Male Roles Character Description Danny Kenickie Doody Roger Sonny Eugene Vince Fontaine Johnny Casino Teen Angel The leader of the T-Birds. : Manoffs Resume: Elaine Lefkowitz Dallas in Soap (1978),Karen in Ordinary People (1980),Carol Weston in Empty Nest (1988-95),Maggie Peterson in Childs Play (1988), Evelyn Rayburn in State of Grace (2001-02), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: The Recruit. ~uVci=8t ,KK ;O KKK&`l=T/X:)urL6p>["=ubkdxSu\t^:?Q]wS*`5uR/{tK3JRILE+] *v49+] y+!W0HC/$#1~s~XDH(ZXK3@w'|41'-@%L6/u=! ,l@)vuK<3\T0^?,*E3,PYJz68>Mj/iwu^Ocm?b5Y0tV:[&48z^[`$ Jacob Batalon has made a name for himself as a loyal friend and comic-relief-with-a-heart type of character as Ned in theSpider-Man: Homecoming movies, which would make him a good fit for the lighthearted Sonny. : Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring Male Recasting Grease If It Was Made In The 2020s, Grease: The Actors Who Almost Played Sandy And Danny, Grease: Rizzo Is The Real Hero (Despite The Musical Shaming Her), Grease 2: Why Sandy And Danny Didn't Return For The Sequel, Grease: Sandy Is Dead All Along - Theory Explained, Harry Potter: Why Goyle Disappears Halfway Through Prisoner Of Azkaban, Harry Potter: Why Peeves Wasnt In The Movies, MCU Vibranium Theory Answers Major Origin Questions. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Principal McGee Physically awkward, with. The class valedictorian. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. Here's what the Grease character you wanted to be says about you. Netflix star Noah Centineocould embody Kenickie's lovable swagger perfectly. Grease was a stage musical before it was a movie, so it naturally involves plenty of singing and dancing as well as acting. After taking time away from the industry to raise her child, Newton-John released another album in 1992, but was diagnosed with breast cancer soon after the album was released. Another T-Bird, Sonny feels that he is utterly irresistible to women; unfortunately women just don't feel this way. Sandy is an Australian transfer student in her Senior year at Rydell High. DOODY: Male, High School Teen (Range: Tenor, D4-A5) The youngest of the guys; small, boyish and open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude towards the other guys. Newton-Johns Resume: Olivia in Toomorrow (1970),Kira in Xanadu (1980), Debbie in Two of a Kind (1983), Barbara Ramme in A Few Best Men (2011),Olivia in The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: Kaleidoscope. : Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. Grease Character Descriptions Principal Male Roles Character Description Songs / Dance / Other Skills Required VocalRange Danny The leader of the "T-Birds". Doody is Frenchy's casual high school boyfriend. So cool that a British girl band named themselves after him, Kenickie is the leader of the T-Birds greaser gang. Sonny Actor Mark McKenna would be a good fit to play Balmudo, as his roles inWayne andOne of Us Is Lying highlight. before returning to act in the Lionsgate film The Newest Pledge. Having devoted herself wholeheartedly to this task, she takes it very badly when her decorations meet a sticky end and collapse. | Doody [Putzie looks unsure, then leans forward, gesturing dramatically] Charles had roles in series including The Incredible Hulk in 1980 and Magnum, P.I. 0000016056 00000 n T-Birds Kenickie - The tough and rude, though considerate, second-in-command. (2 READ THE PLAY before auditioning. | The problem's in this rubber band engine. "Grease Characters". of casting two people as Eugene - one as student, one as adult.) : Joan Blondell brought had numerous credits before she signed on to play the gang's waitress at the Frosty Palace. Sonny Doody Youngest of the guys. The Pink Ladies (and Jan herself) may crack unkind jokes about how much she likes food throughoutGrease, but Jan is actually one of the group's best members and by far the least self-absorbed. Sonny 0000023387 00000 n Beginning her career in the 1930s, Blondel starred in more than 100 productions both in film and television, her most notable being her performance in the 1951 film The Blue Veil, for which she received an Academy Award nomination. Danny After Opening Night, Blondell appeared in two more feature films, one of which was Grease. Conns Resume: Helen in The Practice (1976-77),Denise Florence Stevens in Benson (1981-85), Stacy Jones/Gracie Jones in Shining Time Station (1989-93),Waitress in Frida (2002), Mrs. Devlin in Blue Bloods (2022), Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: Bros. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make yourown. He is able to laugh at himself just as much as the others laugh at him. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Putzie Character Profile: An Australian teenager. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. A super-cool, DA-haired, hard-looking group of high school wheeler-dealers. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. Doody is a slim older teenage boy, curly hair. Danny Eugene wasn't the only nerd Eddie Deezen would portray in his career: He also played nerdy characters in movies including I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Stephen Spielbergs comedy 1941. Character Profile: A member of the Pink Ladies. 0000010620 00000 n Frenchy is the first Pink Lady to welcome Sandy to Rydell High, and while she seems a bit more worldly than the naive protagonist, Frenchy also has her share of uncertainly, mainlyabout going to beauty school. Like his Grease co-star Didi Conn, Pearl made a cameo appearance as Mr. Weaver in Foxs Grease: Live in 2016. Craterface is the leader of the rival Scorpions gang who are far tougher than the T-Birds. Character Profile: An image-conscious high school senior. Grease's final Pink Lady is Marty, the "one-woman USO" who keeps upnumerous pen pal relationships with army guys and is most noteworthy for flirting with Vince Fontaine at the dance contest. [imitating McGee] Character Profile: Rizzos love interest. : No, ma'am. Filming & Production He decides to change his image from greaser to prepster, and presents a far more clean cut appearance to her, hoping that this will make her view him as the kind of boy she wants to date. : This info article contains minor spoilers and character details for Randal Kleiser's 1978 movie on Netflix.Check out more streaming guides in Vague Visages' Know the Cast section. Sonny (Possibility of casting two people as Eugene one as student, one as adult.) Starring in soap-opera comedy Soap in 1978, Manoff moved to Broadway and won a Tony award for her performance in I Ought to Be in Pictures. 0000004882 00000 n Hey Putzie 15 minutes! He is particularly attracted to Marty and spends the entire school year trying to get her to notice him, but she finds him annoying, like a constantly-buzzing fly that she can't seem to get rid of. The problem's in your mouth. Caesar died in 2014 at age 91. Keery not only has the hair to pull of Danny Zuko, but he has also demonstrated as Steve that he's perfect as a cool guy character with a heart. Well, which is it? Heres every actor and character in Grease, an adaptation of Jim Jacobs and Warren Caseys 1971 musical. : Doody, who ends up with Frenchy, is most iconic for wielding a yellow squirt gun during fights and his odd comments. Finding his way to theater, Pearl starred in the Broadway musical Baby Its You! Dancer and actor Dennis Cleveland Stewart appeared in Grease as the leader of the T-Birds rival gang, the Scorpions, and in Grease 2 as the leader of the Cycle Lords. At the heart of the story is the romance between hot-rodding gangster Danny Zuko and the sweet new girl in town, Sandy Dumbrowski. When he challenges the T-Birds to a race, he employs a number of methods to cheat and to try to run the Greased Lightnin' off the road completely. Playful, goofy, and a touch brave, having insulted Kenickie's newly acquired rustbucket car, which would later be overhauled and re-christened Greased Lightning, which Danny Zuko called him on. The Grease castfeatures John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing. Sonny : He leads a gang known as the T-Birds. : Ruth Coolidge's favorite part of writing for Screen Rant is that she has a really good excuse to watch movies and TV all the time. Plays guitar (optional). This leads to an epiphany when her guardian angel appears to her and tells her to go back to high school, which she does, and she ultimately graduates with everyone else. Batalon could also provide a refreshing re-imagining of Sonny's brand of humor to make him less of a womanizer. Appearing in Grease as Principal McGee, Eve Arden brought with her a wealth of film and television experience and success. Read More at VV Know the Cast & Characters: George & Tammy. You were just dawdling, weren't you? Gumdrops, man. I don't take no crap from nobody. What are you doing? Thus, a 2020s retelling of Grease would also require a pretty heavy-hitting cast. Sonny Coming off the critical success of his performance in Saturday Night Fever and his breakout role in the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter, John Travolta had established himself as a bona-fide performer by the time Grease was released. To mark Grease's 40th anniversary, The Hollywood Reporter is looking back at the stars who made beauty school dropouts and summer flings iconic and who sang the songs that have been iconic to generations of high school students. I was just going for a walk. Jan changes her look at the end of the film. A nerdy apple polisher, smug and pompous but gullible. *Our system only provides suggested monologues or songs for select characters if we have matching monologues and song information in our database. I've been dieting all day! Avalons performance of Beauty School Dropout was a hit and continued to be a song he would reprise in 1990s and 2000s performances. . Known for her feisty performance as the leader of The Pink Ladies, Channing continued portraying strong female characters well after her days in Grease. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike . Sonny Sandy is a naive teen girl without much life experience and seems to have lived a sheltered existence; she has never had friends like the girls in the Pink Ladies before, and it certainly shows. She has spent the summer at the beach falling in love with Danny Zuko, whom she fears she will never see again. : The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rollicking musical that is both an homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers age-old desire to be rebellious, provocative and rebellious. 0000008381 00000 n Company Credits Well built, good looking, . Characters Grease Danny Zuko Danny Zuko Grease See more characters from Jim Jacobs Warren Casey Breakdown Key Information Character Danny Zuko Show Grease Gender Male Age Range Late Teen Role Size Lead Dancing Dancer Voice Tenor High Note B4 Low Note D3 Vocal Technique Falsetto Time & Place 1950s, rydell high school and surrounding locations Tags Principal McGee Ok, so what do you guys think this is a gang bang? 0000021805 00000 n She returned in 2009 with her performance in Bart Got a Room, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. : "Grease" was released on June 16, 1978. pineapple!". Its mark on U.S. culture however, feels just as fresh today as it did the day it was released. Check out more streaming guides in Vague Visages Know the Castsection. She deliberately engineers a surprise reunion for Sandy and Danny knowing that it is likely to be a complete disaster. Sandy isGrease's other star, a sweet, if somewhat naive, Australian transplant who falls in love with Danny over the summer but is faced with the cruel reality of Rydell High's social scene come fall. Sandy goes through a fight with herself when it comes to her feelings about Danny. Release Dates Grease is one of the 20th century's most iconic musicals and high school dramas, but what would it look like using a cast of today's actors? Sonny After the movie musical, Pearl dabbled in television performances in series such as Benson, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Murder She Wrote and Beverly Hills, 90210. Doody, is a member of the T-Birds . He perseveres and ultimately earns enough athletic credit to become a letter man too. Sonny ,6BkCG>'=btv|)kPgMwm,m-OIB$ ,R4OA=:-d0va]Lm[`9m s2ghlvAe GradeSaver, 10 September 2019 Web. At the [[national dance off]] , he drops his pants at the blue moon song, exposing his white briefs.