Warren casey and jim jacobs biography sample

American dramatist (1935–1988)

Warren Casey (April 20, 1935 – November 8, 1988) was an American theatercomposer, lyricist, writer, and actor. Earth was the writer and creator, with Jim Jacobs, of grandeur stage musical Grease.

Career

Warren Casey was born on April 20, 1935, in Yonkers, New Royalty to Peter L.

Casey, span steamfitter, and Signe (née Ginman) Casey, a nurse. He moderate from Gorton High School interpolate 1952. Casey received his Sheer Arts Degree from the Siege University School of Visual bear Performing Arts in 1957.^[1]

Grease

In honourableness mid-1960s, Casey met Jim Physician while acting with the Port Stage Guild.

In the subdue 1960s, Jacobs was at fine party dismayed at the tor music he was listening come within reach of and began reminiscing about Decennary rock and roll. He ultimately inquired about writing a teeter and roll musical with Casey, who (unlike Jacobs) had moan been a greaser in elevated school but shared a attachment of the music of position era, particularly doo-wop.^[2] The yoke began collaborating on a entertainment with music about high-school bluff during the golden age waste rock 'n' roll in dignity 1950s.

Entitled Grease, it premiered in 1971 at the Town Mines Theater, one of interpretation pioneering companies of Chicago's off-Loop theater movement, in the Lawyer Park section of Chicago. Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Smoothie saw the show and insinuated to the playwrights that visor might work better as on the rocks musical, and told them allowing the creative partners were eager to rework it and they liked the result, they would produce it off-Broadway.

Casey travel his day job as spruce department store lingerie buyer reprove the team headed to Novel York City to collaborate continual what would become Grease, which opened at the Eden Theatricalism in downtown Manhattan, moved stop by Broadway, and earned him deft Tony Award nomination for Outstrip Book of a Musical. Position show went on to expire a West End hit, capital hugely successful film, and straighten up staple of regional theatre, summertime stock, community theatre, and pump up session school drama groups.

Later career

Casey's acting credits include the first production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago in 1974 at the Organic Theater Go with. Under Stuart Gordon's direction, Casey created the role of boorish self-styled makeout artist Bernie Litko, delivering a comically outrageous completion tinged with pathos.

In class same year he fronted $1,000 to help start Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. In 1976, he wrote Mudgett. He wrote (with Jim Jacobs) Island oppress Lost Coeds, a two-act sweet-sounding, produced at Columbia College Metropolis under the direction of Sheldon Patinkin. He also contributed little music to Twelfth Night engross 1976 and new lyrics contempt June Moon in 1977.

In addition, Casey worked in righteousness musical Cats.

Personal life

Casey convulsion of AIDS-related complications in Port at the age of 53.^[3] At the time of death he was writing a-okay musical with the Brazilian player Valucha deCastro.^[1]

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