It was a Tuesday night and the Grease rehearsals had changed venues from the gracious living room of Pierrette Jensen to the top floor of the old Packard Library.

Some tacky idiot carpeted the once-wonderful hardwood dance floor, but then, it is true now as it has always been: in this world there are more geese than swan.

Director Staci Johnson was working with the actors in the first-day-of-school scene in which Sandy Dumbrowski is introduced to the Pink Ladies and then runs into Danny Zuko and the Burger Palace Boys.

Two songs were rehearsed, "We Go Together," and "Summer Nights," this time with the dancing moves laid out.

Candee Jensen, who's doing the choreography it seems was present, but the blocking out of the routine had been done the previous week. Everyone seemed to know roughly where they were supposed to be, and what they were supposed to be doing with their hands, feet and voices.

Austin Dixon, who plays Doody, was there catching up on what he'd missed, being out so long sick as he was.

The whole cast was rather thin on the ground since it was one of the last days of real school -- not Rydell High --and the ceremonies that such times entail for many of the school age actors.

They all seem to be getting comfortable, not only with their parts, but with their cast mates.

Meanwhile, Stage Door Canteen garnered an actual reader -- W. Curt LaFrance -- who contacted SDC to find out how to get in touch with Warren Casey, one of the writers of Grease.

"I think he's dead. Expired in 1988," I replied.

LaFrance came back: "Oops. What about Jim Jacobs?" the other writer of Grease.

Jacobs presented a different problem in tracking down. There's a gazillion references to Grease on the web, and I was interested to learn that Jacobs produced a documentary about Joe Louis, the boxer, and apparently, another about Muhammed Ali, the Greatest. But he had no web site and no obvious affiliations -- SAG. Authors Guild, etc.

But I did locate a 2001 news story out of the Hermosa Beach/Redondo Beach Easy Reader showing him alive and affiliated with a dance studio there. There was even a picture of him.

Quite by coincidence, another email came in from one Joan Sonnier correcting an error in Gypsy Journal, the weblog kept for the Ponderosa Theatre Company production last year of Gypsy

Erik Lee Preminger had been listed as the husband of Gypsy Rose Lee, when he was in fact her illegitimate son.

Rehearsals for Grease resume this week. Perhaps with the whole cast present, not that School is Out -- and if that isn't an expression and a title straight out of the real rock 'n' roll years.