CAROLE DEMAS Broadway Star, TV Legend, GREASE, The Magic Garden, Rare Interview with Jim Masters

In this rare, intimate, warm, conversation and exclusive interview on this episode The Jim Masters Show, Jim welcomes beloved American actress, singer, Broadway Star, TV Legend, the one and only Carole Demas. Best known for originating the roles of Sandy in the 1971 Broadway musical Grease and the title role in the original 1976 production of The Baker's Wife, for many prime time television roles, hundreds of commercials, and for her role co-hosting the long-running children's television show, The Magic Garden with Paula Janis. Jim sings Happy Birthday to Carole too as we celebrate her 85th birthday and share news about her show, Firefly in NYC at famed 54 Below. The winding path of Carole's career, highlighted in Schirmer, Citadel and Applause Books chronicling the trials and triumphs of Broadway, has taken her from her early days as Miss Vermont in The Miss Universe Contest, to major roles from coast to coast. Her cabaret and concert performances have brought funds and attention to many worthy causes. Carole and co-star Paula Janis starred in the immensely popular and highly acclaimed children's TV program The Magic Garden, which was seen on WPIX-TV for over 12 years. During this time, they formed CAP Productions, Inc., and produced and marketed three records for children, selling over 100,000 copies to date. They wrote and starred in over 100 "Live" SRO appearances, bringing music and fun to thousands of children and their families at their many performances at Town Hall, Symphony Space, The Shubert Theatre (New Haven), The Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford, Connecticut), The Paper Mill Playhouse, The McCarter Theatre, The Bardavon Playhouse, Colden Center, The Walt Whitman Theatre and at various fund-raising events. In addition to the three children's albums already completed (“Paula and Carole in the Magic Garden”, “Tales from the Storybox” and “Musical Goose on the Loose”), CAP Productions will release “Cottonmill Girls”, a collection of folk songs of the American textile mills, arranged and performed by Alex Demas. Also in the works is “Tales from the Storybox, Volume 2” a sequel to the already successful Volume I. Under their CAP Productions banner, Carole and her partner wrote, produced and starred in “A Magic Garden Christmas”, a one-hour television special. This program received a local Emmy nomination and will soon be available on home video. Off-Broadway, Demas sang the ingenue lead in Fred Ebb's Morning Sun (with Patricia Neway and Bert Convy). She was also seen Off-Broadway in Rondelay and starred in How to Steal an Election and as “The Girl” in The Fantasticks at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. Demas' association with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, creators of The Fantasticks (the longest running Off-Broadway show in theatre history), led to her participation in the workshop “Portfolio”. As an active member of “Portfolio”, she was seen off-off-Broadway as the original female lead in Philemon. On Broadway, she played in A Race of Hairy Men and Grease (Broadway's second longest running musical) in which she was critically acclaimed for her creation of the female lead, “Sandy”. Her credits in Stock and Regional Theatre include major roles in Barefoot in the Park (with Joan Bennett), Enter Laughing, Absence of a Cello (as Hans Conried's daughter), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum as “Philia”, Oh, What a Lovely War and her favorites, Another Part of the Forest as “Regina” at the Pennsylvania State Repertory Theatre, and Celebration at A.C.T. in Seattle as “Angel." In New York and Los Angeles, Carole has also been seen in her Cabaret Act, which is an ongoing project. She was delighted to be one of the many stars assembled by Lorimar Productions for their taping of “The Best Of Broadway”—in which memorable moments from Broadway musicals were recreated by the original stars as part of the PBS series Great Performances. Carole has guest-starred on many TV shows, among them Barnaby Jones, Kojak, Mannix, Fantastic Journey, The Man from Atlantis, and The Edge of Night; playing everything from victims to girlfriends to murderers. Recently, she played the recurring role of Hannah Lafferty on As the World Turns. Carole has continued performing in concert and Cabaret all over the world, headlining on Crystal Cruise to French Polynesia, In Barbados for 2 years, on St. Croix for 2 benefit concerts. She has done numerous benefit/fundraising concerts in New York for worthwhile causes. She has performed at most of the major Cabaret spaces including Feinstein's 54 Below, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Don't Tell Mama, Urban Stages, etc. Like, Comment, Subscribe to our YouTube channel Jim Masters TV Thank you! The Jim Masters Show Jim Masters TV Grease Carole Demas Birthday Carole Demas Interview The Magic Garden Carole Demas Sandy in Grease The Fantastiks Jim Masters Celebrity Podcasts Celebrity Interviews #caroledemas #themagicgarden #grease #thejimmastersshow #jimmasterstv