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Grease Live!

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‘Grease: Live’ Taps Carly Rae Jepsen As Frenchy

Grease: Live has found its beauty school dropout. Singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen, who scored two Grammy noms and a global smash with “Call Me Maybe” in 2012, has joined Fox’s musical as iconic Pink Lady Frenchy — the role Didi Conn played in the 1978 film version. In addition, Kether Donahue (You’re The Worst) rounds out the Pink Ladies as Jan and David Del Rio (Spare Parts) is the T-Birds’ Putzie.

They join the ensemble cast that includes Julianne Hough (Sandy), Aaron Tveit (Danny), Vanessa Hudgens (Rizzo), Carlos PenaVega (Kenickie) and Keke Palmer (Marty).

Another Grammy-nommed singer, Jessie J, will open the live event with a new version of “Grease (Is the Word).” The Bee Gees’ Barry Gibb wrote the song, which originally was performed by Frankie Valli in the animated opening title sequence of the movie and went on top the pop charts.
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http://deadline.com/2015/09/carly-rae-jepsen-cast-frenchy-grease-live-1201558831/
 
I think this will be a good broadcast. Too bad they won't have it done in time for the holiday period.....
 
Fox's 'Grease: Live' to Incorporate Studio Audience

Pink Ladies and T-Birds, please assemble.

In a further attempt to bring the immediacy of theater to television, Fox's upcoming Grease: Live will be the first of the recent crop of small-screen live musical events to be staged in front of a studio audience.

Director Thomas Kail and set designer David Korins, who collaborated on this year's Broadway juggernaut, Hamilton, confirmed on Wednesday that an audience "in the multiple hundreds" will populate Rydell High and other locations featured in the 1950s-set musical, which airs on Jan. 31 on Fox, broadcast live from the Warner Bros. backlot.

Kail also revealed that the show will be a combined version of the original stage musical, first produced in Chicago in 1971, and the perennially popular 1978 film that starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It will include songs added for the movie — "Hopelessly Devoted to You," "You're the One That I Want" and the title track — as well as songs from the original show that did not make it into the screen version.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/foxs-grease-live-incorporate-studio-849706
 
umfan said:
I think this will be a good broadcast. Too bad they won't have it done in time for the holiday period.....
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The comments on Deadline are overwhelmingly negative regarding the casting. Before reading that I was wondering how a 1971 performance set in the 1950's would be popular with today's youngsters (The Only Demo That Matters)? What passed for a social concern back in my high school days is so not important given today's much more serious social disasters.
 
‘Grease: Live’ to Honor Vanessa Hudgens’ Late Father

Fox will honor Vanessa Hudgens‘ late father during the broadcast of “Grease: Live,” TheWrap has learned.

According to a Fox representative, the network will run a special tribute card at the end of the show in honor of Greg Hudgens, who passed away on Saturday night after battling cancer for the past six months.

Hundreds of fans voiced their condolences for Hudgens on social media, urging her to stay strong and continue with her performance.

Hudgens is set to play the head Pink Lady, Rizzo, in the live musical, a role originated in the 1978 feature film by Stockard Channing.
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http://www.thewrap.com/grease-live-to-honor-vanessa-hudgens-late-father/
 
I didn't know who any of those people were other than Mario Lopez, Eve Plumb (whose name I saw in the credits, so I made sure to watch for her) and Ana Gasteyer (who was fantastic as the principal). I suspected Julianne Hough was Sandy, but surely she's older than that. She's quite a good singer, and I'm comparing her to the great Olivia Newton-John when I say that.

But I thought it was all quite good. My only major complaint was the sound. When it's live, you can't go back and fix it if you can't hear dialogue when there is singing in the background. Or any other distraction.

Vanessa handled herself quite well.

Eve Plumb was the shop teacher and she was pretty good.

Everyone was good. The dancing was great, the singing was great. I don't know that it quite measures up to the NBC productions and some of the sex talk was anything but family-friendly (despite Rydell's "wholesome" reputation). I think a TV-14 rating may have been overboard.
 
Phoenix's local Fox O&O plugged Grease Live! mercilessly last week so I was interested to see what they would say about it this morning. Not good. Despite being the host station for this special program two of the three people on the morning program were less than enthusiastic about it citing the outdoor venue and light rain as adding to the disappointment. I'm sure letters of reprimand are in the mail. :cool:
 
It didn't look live to me. I could tell by the way it was filmed. It looked more like a movie than a TV show. I mean it was done in front of a live audience and everything, but I don't think it was broadcast live. Could anyone else see this?
 
ssetta said:
It didn't look live to me. I could tell by the way it was filmed. It looked more like a movie than a TV show. I mean it was done in front of a live audience and everything, but I don't think it was broadcast live. Could anyone else see this?
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Unless you live in the west, it was live. I didnt watch but a few minutes, though I think I know what you mean. It was produced with a film filter. I dont know the technical term for it, but allegedly it looks "better" and "more professional" than other live shows, like sports/news, which I guess are filmed in videotape format. To me, that filmish quality does make it look less "live", though that's probably because I am used to seeing live events not produced with filters.
 
It looked more like it was filmed than live... Are there any cameras that are capable of "film look" technology built into the machine?
 
HawkeyeST said:
It looked more like it was filmed than live... Are there any cameras that are capable of "film look" technology built into the machine?
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Not a techie, but given that a quick google search indicates that this is readily done with handheld, personal recorders, there's no doubt that a setting/option must exist on network cameras.
 
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