Carole Demas

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Carole Demas (born May 26, 1940, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actress and singer, best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical Grease and the title role in the original 1976 production of The Baker's Wife, for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role in the long-running children's television show The Magic Garden.

The winding path of Carole’s career, highlighted in Schirmer, Citadel and Applause Books chronicling the trials and triumphs of Broadway, has taken her from her early days as Miss Vermont in The Miss Universe Contest, to major roles from coast to coast.

Her cabaret and concert performances have brought funds and attention to many worthy causes.

Personal life

Demas presently resides in Westchester County, New York with her husband, Stuart Allyn.

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Career

In 1963, Demas' theater career began as the ingenue leader (opposite Bert Convy and starring Patricia Neway) in Morning Sun, an early Fred Ebb effort (before his collaboration with John Kander). She was first cast in a Starring role in Rondelay and then in How To Steal An Election opposite Clifton Davis. She was later cast as a replacement for "Louisa (The Girl)" in The Fantasticks and spent more than two years in the role. She continued with the Portfolio workshop and was seen in their productions of Philemon and The Bone Room, alongside Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. Demas appeared in the title role of No. No, Nanette's revival in 1971, but the actor and the casting director were forced to withdraw from the cast during rehearsals, owing to a rift between the director and the casting director.

In the original Broadway revival of Grease, Demas would have been next cast as "Sandy." She was the oldest member of the principal cast at the age of 31. She worked with writers Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey to develop the role, which, in the original Chicago play (Grease Lightning), was deemed too dark for the mainstream Broadway audience. In addition to the remainder of the original Broadway cast, Grease, Demas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her role in the production.

Demas left Grease to join the cast of a new musical, The Baker's Wife, directed by David Merrick. 182 The play, which was being staged in Los Angeles in anticipation of a national tour before a Broadway opening, was a failure from the start, and several attempts to remedy it, including replacing Demas with Patti LuPone, but to no avail. The Baker's Wife never made it to Broadway.

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"Philia" is one of her regional theatre credits, as "with Joan Bennet"), Enter Laughing, Absence of a Cello (as Hans Conried's daughter), and "Angel" in honor of the Pennsylvania State Repertory Theatre's Centuries of the Civil War are among her notable performances.

Carole reunited with several original Grease cast members for a special performance in 2011 at The New Amsterdam Theatre for Gypsy of the Year.

Paula Janis, a long-time friend, and Grease, Demas, began starring in the television show The Magic Garden for WPIX-TV in New York City. This daily children's television show from 1972 to 1984 remained on television, with live concerts continuing long after the television show was no longer available. They co-wrote and appeared in two 1-hour specials, A Magic Garden Christmas, and The Magic Garden—Still Growing. Magic Garden Moments has continued to include them in news articles and on the web.

Carole was one of the original cast members of Lorimar's showstoppers — The Best of Broadway, in which historic scenes from Broadway musicals were recreated by the original actors. Demas has appeared on numerous daytime and primetime television series, including One Life to Live, Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Kojak, N.Y.P.D., and more recently Blue Bloods and Allegiance.

Carole appeared in the films The 300 Year Weekend (with William DeVane) and her other films include The Space Works for Trans-Lux Corp. and A Beautiful Way to Die for Universal Films.

In her later years, Demas has returned to concerts and cabaret. She has produced her one-woman show Summer Nights at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and she has appeared in Broadway reviews, retrospectives, and benefit concerts:

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