in september, xena won her own series, "", lawless was the star in the program during 6 years. lawless first appeared on broadway in september 1997 in the "grease play remake", as the "bad girl" rizzo character. she applied to play the squeaky-clean naive blond girl sandra dee, but she claimed the producers after xena had typed her to playing only "bad girls." she said the sandy character was very similar to her sheltered childhood, growing up in new zealand with many protective older brothers.