:For individuals with the same name, see James Jacobs
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Producers Ken Waissman and Maxine Fox saw the show and suggested to the playwrights that it might work better as a musical, and told them if the creative partners were willing to rework it and they liked the end result, they would produce it off-Broadway.
#"Summer Nights" (Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey) - 3:36, duet with Travolta
Creator Jim Jacobs attended Taft High School, which was used as the backdrop to Grease.
In the mid-1960s, Casey met Jim Jacobs while acting with the Chicago Stage Guild, and the two began collaborating on a play with music about high school life during the golden age of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.
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He wrote (with Jim Jacobs) Island of Lost Coeds, a two-act musical, produced at Columbia College Chicago under the direction of Sheldon Patinkin.
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He is best known for being the writer and composer, with Jim Jacobs of the stage and film musical Grease.
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