She's also worked in various musical productions, including a stage version of Grease, and is still releasing music.
The network has been trying to incorporate more live elements late - perhaps to combat repeat viewing culture - recently airing a live version of Grease.
An obituary by The Associated Press on Saturday about Michael Gibson, a trombonist and orchestrator of musicals, misidentified the version of "Grease" he orchestrated.
Renamed Sha Na Na, they became regulars at Fillmore West and East, appeared in the Oscar-winning Woodstock movie as well as the movie version of Grease, which their act had inspired.
(In 1994, as a drama instructor at her childhood summer camp, she became, as far as she knows, the first person to stage a theatrical version of "Grease 2").
The film version of "Grease," starring a rebellious John Travolta (as Danny Zuko) and a wholesome Olivia Newton-John (Sasdy) as improbable 1950s high school sweethearts, opened in June 1978, with Mr. Conaway in the supporting role of Kenickie, Mr. Travolta's bad-boy sidekick.
Most often it's a celebrity old enough to have watched the funeral of John F. Kennedy on live television, like the songwriter Carole Bayer Sager or Olivia Newhon-John, who played Sandy in the film version of "Grease".
While there, Conaway made his film début as a drug addict in Jennifer on My Mind (1971), but he left university three months before graduation when he was offered the chance to understudy the male characters in the stage version of Grease.
When I first watched the movie version of "Grease," on VHS, in the nineties, the popular girls at my elementary school all fell within a sleek mold: they wore preppy, expensive clothes (with bras, I marvelled), put on makeup, and shaved their legs.
Defying the maxim of Gigi's grandmother to "start by refusing to give an interview to anybody," she had just sat before a man with a video camera, answering questions about her forthcoming appearance as Rizzo in a television version of "Grease" that is to air on Fox in 2016.
