1. Carole Demas made her theatrical debut with the Champlain Shakespeare Festival.
15 Facts About Carole Demas
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Carole Demas 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.
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Carole Demas has been seen and heard in over 200 television commercials, promoting everything from peanut butter to tires, and a few times, singing the jingle on camera for the commercial.
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Carole Demas 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.
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Carole Demas 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.
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Carole Demas was next cast in a Starring role Off-Broadway in Rondelay and then in How To Steal An Election opposite Clifton Davis.
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Carole Demas was later cast as a replacement for the role of "Louisa " in The Fantasticks, and starred in that role for more than 2 years.
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In 1971, Carole Demas was cast in the title role of the revival of No, No, Nanette, but was dismissed from the cast during rehearsals, owing to a disagreement between the director and the casting director.
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Carole Demas was next cast as "Sandy" in the original Broadway production of Grease.
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Carole Demas worked with writers Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey to develop the role, which, in the original Chicago play on which the musical was based, was considered too dark for the mainstream Broadway audience.
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Carole Demas left Grease to join the cast of a new musical, The Baker's Wife, produced by David Merrick.
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In 2011, at The New Amsterdam Theatre for Gypsy of the Year, Carole Demas re-united with several original Grease cast members for a special performance.
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Carole Demas was featured in the films, The 300 Year Weekend, and her other films include The Space Works for Trans-Lux Corp.
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Carole Demas has turned to concerts and cabaret in her later life.
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Carole Demas has produced her one-woman show Summer Nights at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, and appears often in Broadway reviews, retrospectives, and fundraiser concerts:.