What's the Word on Grease! Live? #GreaseLive #Grease

I honesty have to wonder how those lucky fans present at the taping of Grease Live!got to see the entire show when the production spanned across two sound stages and an outdoor set? Was there a huge screen that it was played on at the Warner Bros Studios lot? The broadcast certainly showed the energy and enthusiasm for the lucky 500 or so folks who got to participate on set (especially in the…

I really liked the idea of doing a performance LIVE (emphasis on LIVE) like ‘peter pan’, ‘the wiz’, and the ‘sound of music’. unfortunately, the settings, lights, and audience gave the performance a more unreal and irritating show. (especially Mr. Lopez, I HATED HIM FROM THE MOMENT I REALIZED HE PLAYED VINCENT FONTAINE YEECH!)the three biggest exciting people were venessa hudgins (may her father rest in peace), the surprise special guests Did Conn (old!Grease Frenchy), and Barry Pearl (old!Grease Doody). i really liked the salute to the old!Grease movie by including those characters and by using the same settings and dance moves! I also loved adding bits of the broadway!Grease, it made me wish i could’ve gone to see the musical because the music was fantastic and helped me understand the character ‘Marty’ more as an individual and not as a group with the pink ladies.

there are somethings that need to be worked on. the biggest one was the ‘thunder road’ scene.

NO.

NONOnononoNONONONOnononONo.

NO.

the settings, lights, steam, and acting was TERRIBLE. it would have been better to use CGI, or have them race in the street to create something that looked real! (a wind machine would have DEFINITELY BEEN NICE).

the gym was a bit odd to use for the pep rally scene when they had that outdoor area to use! by using that gym too often, they made their scene ‘tired’ and boring to use again, and again.

***a general question for all during the performance: did the sound disappear for any of you during ‘hand jive’? or glitched? people have been reporting on facebook but i just wanna confirm.***

so to positives:

great singing, everyone was on tune and showed great enthusiasm to their parts and thus, made their own parts unique to themselves. costuming was interesting (especially Keke Palmer’s costume change and her song!) but was kinda aggravated by using the pink ladies (in disguise of course) as backup singers for every performance that required back ups. (’freddy my love’ was okay-as they were singing backup before the scene change. but ‘grease lightning’ was taking it too far).

biggest part i loved was the entire sequence to ‘you’re the one i want’.

i’m just sad that aaron and Julianne couldn’t sing/dance together more during the show like THAT spine-tingling performance.

I. Love. This. Song.