It’s taking all my willpower not to tell you more give you more Grease puns than you need to set up these first-look images from Fox’s upcoming musical event Grease Live.
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Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit as Sandy and Danny from Grease.
“Umm will someone send me the grease pics i wld like to look at them”, I wrote into the abyss of a dysfunctional Slack room.
In these images, Julianne Hough, Aaron Tveit, and Vanessa Hudgens, who will be playing Sandy White, Danny Zuko, and Rizzo, respectively in the retelling of the classic musical. The Fox live broadcast will be seen Sunday, January 31.
“Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy”, Hough said in a statement at the time her casting was announced.
The show will also star Scream Queens’ Keke Palmer as Marty, singer Carly Rae Jepsen as Frenchy, You’re the Worst’s Kether Donohue as Jan, and David Del Rio as Putzie. ” will be the ideal mix of faithful to previous beloved adaptations and a new interpretation”. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway.
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Acclaimed film, television and theater producer Marc Platt (“Wicked”, “Into the Woods”) will executive-produce, Tony Award-nominated director Thomas Kail (“Hamilton”, “In the Heights”) is the director overseeing the stage direction and Alex Rudzinski (“Dancing with the Stars“) will serve as the live television director.
