who played betty rizzo in grease?
Stockard Channing
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 Marcia Mitzman Gaven ( born February 28 , 1959 ) is an award @-@ winning American actress from New York . Since studying at the High School of Performing Arts and the State University of New York at Purchase , she has appeared in many musicals during her career singing in both mezzo @-@ soprano and soprano roles . Her Broadway debut came in 1979 when she played Betty Rizzo in Grease , serving as the replacement for the original actress of the role . In the 1980s she appeared in the musicals The Rocky Horror Show , Oliver ! , Zorba , Nine , Anything Goes , Chess , and Welcome to the Club , and in the operas Brigadoon , South Pacific , and Sweeney Todd . 

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 A Philco Television Playhouse presentation , " Murder at the Stork Club " , was aired on NBC Television on January 15 , 1950 . Franchot Tone and Billingsley had cameo roles in the television drama . The television show was an adaptation of Vera Caspary 's 1946 mystery novel , The Murder in the Stork Club , where the action took place in and around the famous nightclub , with Sherman Billingsley and other real @-@ life characters appearing in the plot . 

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 In December 2015 , ABC ordered a three @-@ hour musical remake of Dirty Dancing , starring Abigail Breslin , Colt Prattes , Debra Messing , Sarah Hyland , Nicole Scherzinger , Billy Dee Williams & Shane Harper . 

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 John Travolta as Edna Turnblad , Tracy 's mother and agent , an agoraphobe ashamed of her obesity . Travolta 's casting as Edna continues the tradition of having a man in drag portray the character , going back to the original 1988 film , which featured drag queen Divine as Edna and at Hairspray 's Broadway version , which featured Harvey Fierstein as Edna . Executives at New Line Cinema originally expected the part to be filled by an actor accustomed to playing comic roles , tossing around names such as Robin Williams , Steve Martin , and Tom Hanks . However , Travolta was aggressively sought after by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for this role because he had starred as Danny Zuko in Grease , the second most successful movie musical to date , beaten only by Mamma Mia ! . 

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 Paul Mazursky 's 1982 modern @-@ language adaptation of The Tempest , with Philip Dimitrius ( Prospero ) as a disillusioned New York architect who retreats to a lonely Greek island with his daughter Miranda after learning of his wife Antonia 's infidelity with Alonzo , dealt frankly with the sexual tensions of the characters ' isolated existence . The Caliban character , the goatherd Kalibanos , asks Philip which of them is going to have sex with Miranda . John Cassavetes played Philip , Raul Julia Kalibanos , Gena Rowlands Antonia and Molly Ringwald Miranda . Susan Sarandon plays the Ariel character , Philip 's frequently bored girlfriend Aretha . The film has been criticised as " overlong and rambling " , but also praised for its good humour , especially in a sequence in which Kalibanos ' and his goats dance to Kander and Ebb 's New York , New York . 
