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America has spoken! After 12 weeks of nationally televised auditions, 90 million viewers and millions of voters, LAURA OSNES and MAX CRUMM are the ones that America wants to play the iconic roles of "Sandy" and "Danny" in the new Broadway production of GREASE. The two winners were announced during the live finale episode of the NBC talent competitions series "GREASE: YOU'RE THE ONE THAT I WANT" on Sunday, March 25, 2007. GREASE, by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, is the all-American musical, based on the sub-cultures of high school life in the 1950's. The show takes place at the hyperactive Rydell High School, where Danny Zuko fronts his gang - the raucous T-Birds - who romance their sassy female equivalents - the Pink Ladies. When the "good-girl" Sandy Dumbrowski arrives in town, the Pink Ladies take her under their collective wing. In 1978, GREASE became "the word" with the hit feature-film adaptation starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John as the lovelorn leads. A Broadway revival played from 1996 - 1998. The new Broadway production will feature the smash Jacobs-Casey songs made famous by the original musical including "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightning" and "We Go Together" as well as the additional film songs "Grease is the Word," "You're The One That I Want," "Hopelessly Devoted to you" and "Sandy." GREASE is now playing on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 West 47th Street.