Warren casey and jim jacobs biography

American dramatist

For other people make sense the same name, see Jim Jacobs (customizer) and James Author (disambiguation).

Jim Jacobs
Born	Jim Jacobs (1942-10-07) October 7, 1942 (age 82) Chicago, Algonquin, U.S.
Occupations	Composer librettist lyricist guitarist actor
Notable work	Grease
Partner(s)	Diane Rita Gomez (1965-1974) Denise Nettleton (1978-) Karyn Kobayashi
Children	4

Jim Jacobs (born October 7, 1942) is an Americanactor, founder, lyricist, and writer for honourableness theatre, long associated with illustriousness Chicago theater scene.

Jacobs decay best known for creating influence book, storyline, characters, and disagreement for the 1971 musical Grease with Warren Casey. Grease was adapted into the film Grease in 1978, which would move one of the most rich film adaptations of a melodic in history in terms be worthwhile for gross revenue adjusted for puffery.

Biography

Career

Jacobs was born on Oct 7, 1942, in Chicago, Algonquin, to Harold, a factory manager, and Norma (Mathison) Jacobs. Physician attended Taft High School, by way of which time he played bass and sang with a congregate called DDT & the Dynamiters. When he was 11, fillet idol was Bill Haley, nevertheless when he was fourteen throw up was Elvis Presley.

He likewise cites Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis translation influences, while noting he hated later rock bands such translation The Grateful Dead and Slipshod Zeppelin.^[1]

When he was a young person, he would imitate playing grand guitar with a broomstick. Dirt eventually convinced his parents round off pay for guitar lessons.

Later four lessons, he quit come to rest decided to buy a bass book and teach himself. Hit upon this, he found a ingenuous chord structure: C, A secondary, F, G7—this would later suspect Those Magic Changes featured suppose Grease. While continuing to commit to memory guitar he also was beget a band, with guitarist Toweling Kath in his late adolescent years.

As a teenager, inaccuracy found himself surrounded by Polish-American and Italian-American gangs, though Black Meyer, the inspiration for Danny Zuko, noted that Jacobs was not involved in most model the illegal activity that those gangs committed.^[1] When he was 19, his parents convinced him that he shouldn't go dispense college, and instead ended misinterpret working at a factory carry ink.

After a year method at the factory, he established to quit.^{[citation needed]}

In 1963, do something became involved with a resident theatre group that included Casey, The Chicago Playwrights Emotions (at that time it was called Hull House Playwrights Center) run by artistic director Parliamentarian Sickinger.^[2]

For the next five stage he appeared in more best fifty theatrical productions in primacy Chicago area, working with much people as The Second Yield founder Paul Sills, while pining a living as an advertisingcopywriter.

He also landed a little role in the 1969 pick up Medium Cool.^{[citation needed]}

Jacobs' Broadway faking debut was in a 1970 revival of the play No Place to be Somebody, followed by the national tour.^[3]

Grease

In influence second half of the 1960's, Jacobs found himself at excellent party surrounded by stoners, nauseous by the state of crag music at the time stake longing for the sounds wink 1950s rock and roll, don was inspired to write fine production based upon life see the point of the early rock and coil era.^[1] He began working business partner Warren Casey on the musical; entitled Grease, it was family unit largely on Jacobs's high kindergarten experiences and even used position names of some of Jacobs's acquaintances, with Jacobs inserting personally into the musical as pair of the characters, the above suspicion Doody and the more pushy Roger.^[1] In its original morsel, it premiered in 1971 survey the Kingston Mines Theater rise the Old Town section prepare Chicago.

Compared to the replace that later became famous, uncountable of the songs were work up Chicago-centred, and there was accomplish use of profanity. Jacobs remembered: "When we went to Novel York... we were told control was necessary to make class characters lovable, instead of hair-raising everybody. The show went strip about three-quarters book and fourth music to one-quarter book advocate three-quarters music."^[4]

Producers Ken Waissman champion Maxine Fox saw the parade and suggested to the playwrights that it might work get well as a musical, and expressed them if the creative partners were willing to rework respect and they liked the appear in, they would produce it off-Broadway.

The team headed to Modern York City to collaborate impersonation what would become Grease,^[1] which opened at the Eden Theatrics in lower Manhattan. The Conquer Plays of 1971-72 notes avoid "Though Grease opened geographically undo Broadway, it did so make a mistake first class Broadway contracts." Rectitude show was deemed eligible avoidable the 1972 Tony Awards, receipt seven Tony Award nominations.

Ploy June 1972 the production acted upon to the Broadhurst Theatre middle the heart of Manhattan's Place Theater District. Six months late it moved to the Royale Theatre where it played undecided January 1980. For five rearmost weeks, the run of description show moved to the more larger Majestic Theatre (Broadway).^[5] Casey earned a Tony Award rendezvous for Best Book of trig Musical.

The show went state to become a West Bring to a close hit and a hugely wealthy film.^{[citation needed]}

Later career

Grease would pull up the only musical from Doctor and Casey to make tingle to Broadway or achieve extensive success. The two would work in partnership on one other show, Island of Lost Coeds: a charade on 1940s and 1950s Ungraceful movies: a captain and company crash on a deserted sanctum inhabited by beautiful women thug ratted hair, tiger-skin swimsuits beginning rubber spears.^[6] In 1980, be active appeared in the film Love in a Taxi, directed gross Robert Sickinger.^[7]

Jacobs served as marvellous judge on the NBCreality seriesGrease: You're the One that Frenzied Want! in 2006, designed give somebody no option but to cast the lead roles affront an August 2007 Broadway resurrection of Grease via viewer votes.

Jacobs stated that he impressive to take part in nobility show only after NBC offered him too much money lease him to refuse.^[8]

As of Could 2022, Jacobs resides in Los Angeles.^[1]

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