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Williams : The house that I grew up in was owned by a woman named Judy Abbott , who was the daughter of George Abbott , who was the most successful director of Broadway musicals for the first part of the 20th century . Down the street from our house , there was a guy named Bobby Griffith , who was Hal Prince ’ s creative partner , and down the street the other way was Richard Bissell , who wrote Pajama Game . Their friends would all come up in the summer to visit . Stephen Sondheim would come - and they would all play charades and drink together . It was a great little summer retreat . When I got to college , Judy Abbott was working for William Morris Agency . At the time , I was doing three college shows : a comedy , a Shakespeare and a musical . She came down and saw the shows , and she told me , “ I ’ ll represent you .” It was a very big “ in ” for me , but of course , I still had to prove myself . I ’ m incredibly grateful to Judy for getting me my first auditions and exposing me to the process early on . There was another person who really influenced the direction my career took , and her name was Phyllis Grandy . She was a musical accompanist . One day , Phyllis said to me , “ Do you sing rock and roll ?” I said , “ That ’ s all that I did in college .” She said , “ I ’ m going to take you over to the Royale Theatre . They ’ re auditioning for a road company of Grease . I think that you should go over there and sing for them .” I went over , and I sang “ Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ” by Neil Sedaka . Louis St . Louis was the musical director . He said , “ That ’ s very nice . Would you sing it a third higher for me ?” I sang it a third higher , and he said , “ Let me have it a third even higher .” I sang it , going into my falsetto range . He said , “ That ’ s very good . Come back next week , and don ’ t bring your guitar .” I came back and they put me on Broadway as the understudy to four of the male leads , including John Travolta and Jeff Conaway . I covered Teen Angel , Doody , Danny Zuko , and Roger . Within two weeks , I was on Broadway performing . It was a baptism by fire , but it was great .
Treat as ( Danny Zuko ) with Robin Lamont in GREASE