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-->''"You're just dawdling, aren't you? That's a fine way to start the new semester, Mr. LaTierri."''

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This is the club-jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swinging girls' gang who hang around with the T-Birds.

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This is the club-jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swinging girls' gang who hang around with the T-Birds.
greaser boys.
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The descriptions for the non-film-exclusive characters come directly from the play bios, which can also be found on [[http://www.greasethemusical.co.uk/about-grease-characters.php the official website of the West End (London) production for Grease]].

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The descriptions for the non-film-exclusive characters come directly from the their play bios, which can also be found on [[http://www.greasethemusical.co.uk/about-grease-characters.php the official website of the West End (London) production for Grease]].
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->Played by: Alan Paul (Broadway, 1972), John Contardo (film, 1978)

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Coach Calhoun is a coach who is passionate about his field of study.

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* CompositeCharacter: In some productions of Grease (such as the 2007 Broadway revival) Vince Fontaine also takes Johnny Casino's role and sings "Born to Hand Jive".
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Principal [McGee=]'s faithful assistant. She can be a bit lightheaded at times.

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A teacher who has a mutual friendship with the greasers.


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Tom is a jock who is fit and well-built.


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Vi is a waitress at the Frosty Palace who keeps in touch with the greasers.


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Leo is the leader of the greasers' rival gang.
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->Played by: Carole Demas (Broadway, 1972), OliviaNewton-John (film, 1978)

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-->''"I met a boy, cute as can be!"''

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->Played by: Dody Goodman (film, 1978)

-->''"When I hear music, I just can't make my feet behave."''




->Played by: Alice Ghostley (film, 1978)

-->''"How many days until Christmas vacation?"''




->Played by: Lorenzo Lamas (film, 1978)




->Played by: Sid Caesar (film, 1978)

-->''"We're gonna slaughter 'em! And, after the slaughter is over we're gonna come back here and ring that victory bell... like we always wanted to."''




->Played by: Joan Blondell (film, 1978)

-->''"You're too young to know."''




->Played by: Dennis C. Stewart (film, 1978)

-->''"The rules are... there ain't no rules!"''



->Played by: Don Billett (Broadway, 1972), Edd Byrnes (film, 1978)

-->''"Okay, cats! Put your mittens around your kittens, and away we go!"''



-->''"Okay, alligators, here it is. The big one... the Hand-Jive Dance Contest."''

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-->''"Okay, alligators, here it is. The big one... the Hand-Jive Dance Contest.-->''"Before I was born late one night, my papa said everything's alright..."''



-->''"They call me Cha Cha because I'm the best dancer at St. Bernadette's."''

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->Played by: Donagh Crowe (Broadway, 1972), Jeff Conaway (film, 1978)

-->''"Go Greased Lightnin', you're burnin' up the quarter mile!"''


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->Played by: James Canning (Broadway, 1972), Barry Pearl (film, 1978)

-->''"What's that playin' on the radio? Why do I start swayin' to-and-fro?"''


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->Played by: Walter Bobbie (Broadway, 1972), Kelly Ward (film, 1978)

-->''"I spend my days just moo-oo-oo-ooning, so sad and blue..."''


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-->''"I met a boy, cute as can be!"''


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->Played by: Adrienne Barbeau (Broadway, 1972), Stockard Channing (film, 1978)

-->''"There are worse things I could do..."''


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->Played by: Marya Small (Broadway, 1972), Didi Conn (film, 1978)

-->''"Was it love at first sight?"''


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->Played by: Katie Hanley (Broadway, 1972), Dinah Manoff (film, 1978)

-->''"Freddy, my love, I miss you more than words can say..."''


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->Played by: Garn Stephens (Broadway, 1972), Jamie Donnelly (film, 1978)

-->''"Why must you go on moo-oo-oo-ooning so all alone?"''


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->Played by: Ilene Kristen (Broadway, 1972), Susan Buckner (film, 1978)

-->''"Hit 'em again, Rydell Ringtails..."''


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->Played by: Kathi Moss (Broadway, 1972), Annette Charles (film, 1978)

-->''"They call me Cha Cha because I'm the best dancer at St. Bernadette's."''


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->Played by: Alan Paul (Broadway, 1972), Frankie Avalon (film, 1978)

-->''"Beauty School Dropout, no graduation day for you..."''

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A super-cool, DA-haired, hard-looking group of high school wheeler-dealers... or so they think.



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-->''"I met a girl, crazy for me!"''

Danny is the leader of the T-Birds.greaser boys. He is well-built, good-looking, strong and confident, with an air of cool easy-going charm.



Kenickie is second in command of the T-Birds. He is tough-looking, tattooed, surly and avoids any show of softness. He has an offbeat sense of humour.

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->Played by: Jim Borrelli (Broadway, 1972), Michael Tucci (film, 1978)

-->''"I don't take no crap from nobody."''


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->Played by: Dorothy Leon (Broadway, 1972), Eve Arden (film, 1978)

-->''"You're just dawdling, aren't you? That's a fine way to start the new semester, Mr. LaTierri."''


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->Played by: Tom Harris (Broadway, 1972), Eddie Deezen (film, 1978)

-->''"Miss Lynch, fellow graduates, honored guests, and others. Looking over these familiar faces really takes me back to those wonderful bygone days. Days of working and playing together, days of cheering together for our athletic teams—Yay, Ringtails!—and days of worrying together when examination time rolled around."''


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-->''"Okay, alligators, here it is. The big one... the Hand-Jive Dance Contest."''
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Danny is the leader of the T-Birds. He is well-built, good-looking, strong and confident, with an air of cool easy-going charm.




Kenickie is second in command of the T-Birds. He is tough-looking, tattooed, surly and avoids any show of softness. He has an offbeat sense of humour.




Doody is the youngest of the guys. He is small, boyish and open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude towards the other guys. Doody also plays the guitar.




Sonny is an Italian-looking guy, with shiny black hair and dark, oily skin. He is a braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he's a real lady-killer.




Roger is the anything-for-a-laugh stocky type of boy. A clown who enjoys winding people up, he is full of mischief and is always dreaming up half-baked schemes and ideas.




Sandy is Danny's love interest. She is sweet, wholesome, naïve and cute, like Sandra Dee of the Gidget movies.




She is the leader of the Pink Ladies. Rizzo, a thin Italian with unconventional good looks, is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable.




Frenchy is a dreamer - good-natured but dumb. She is heavily made up, fussy about her appearance, particularly her hair. She can't wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician.




Marty is the 'beauty' of the Pink Ladies. She is pretty and looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Marty tries to act sophisticated.




Jan is a chubby, compulsive eater. She is loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with the boys.



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Miss Lynch is an old-maid English teacher.




Eugene is the class valedictorian. He is physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. He's a typical 'apple-polisher' - both smug and pompous, but gullible.




Patty is a typical cheerleader at a middle-class American public high school. She is an attractive, athletic, sure-of-herself type of girl who can be given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Patty can be catty, but in an All-American Girl sort of way; however, she can also twirl a baton.




Vince is a typical 'teen audience' disc jockey, who is slick, egotistical and fast-talking. He is also a veteran 'Greaser'.




A "greaser" student at Rydell who leads a rock 'n' roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock 'n' roll idol.



* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the character bios for the musical, Cha-Cha is described as being a plain, slovenly type of girl, and was originally played by plus-size actresses who were otherwise made up to look less attractive. In the film and some stagings of the musical, she's made out to be more conventionally beautiful.

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Cha-Cha is a blind date. She is slovenly and loud-mouthed but homely. She takes pride in being the best dancer at 'St Bernadette's'.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the character bios for the musical, musical (see the description provided for her on this page), Cha-Cha is described as being a plain, slovenly type of girl, and was originally played by plus-size actresses who were otherwise made up to look less attractive. In the film and some stagings of the musical, she's made out to be more conventionally beautiful.


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Teen Angel is a good-looking, falsetto-voiced, Fabian lookalike. He is a singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958.
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!!Blanche Hodel
* BumblingSidekick: To Principal [=McGee=]

!!Mrs. Murdock
* TeamMom

!!Tom Chisum
* DumbJock: From Danny's perspective, at least.

!!Couch Calhoun
* RousingSpeech: Gives one for the Rydell Rangers' football team

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* HaremNanny

!!Leo Balmudo
* TheRival: To Kenickie and Danny
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* EmbarrassingNickname: "Rump", although he does not seem to particularly mind. Jan is more concerned, however.
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* OddNameOut: Compare her name to Sandy, Betty (Rizzo), Frenchy, and Marty

!Miss Lynch
* AdaptationNameChange: In the movie, she is no longer an English teacher, and is referred to as "Principal McGee"

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* AdaptationNameChange: He was originally called "Miller", but after the show went to Broadway, his name was swapped out with another greaser's and it's stuck ever since (while the ''original'' Kenickie now has the Miller name when the Chicago version gets performed).



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