The telecast will emanate from the Warner Bros. lot where “Grease: Live” will be produced on two soundstages and the backlot and there will be a live studio audience viewers at home will see, including folks seated in the bleachers for a scene in the high school gym. The show will have a live audience that will play a role in the performance. “The audience is actually designed into the sets and there are many, many sets so they may be characters”, Platt said.
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Some of Them Have Done This Before: While Broadway vet Tveit hasn’t actually been in a production of Grease, several of his castrates have. Star Hough said, “I put the production on in my basement…” “I mean, growing up I saw Olivia as Sandy and I’m like, ‘I wanna be her so bad!'”
The roaring applause accompanying the announcement that Carly Rae Jepsen would appear in Fox’s Grease: Live petered to a golf clap when we learned she would be portraying Frenchie, the only non-singing Pink Lady in the show.
And, they revealed that they’ll be performing both inside AND outside!
“#GreaseLive”, the Dancing With the Stars judge simply captioned the black-and-white pic, along with a series of emojis. “This is my hero, this is my 5-year-old dream, so for her to give me that blessing to take that weight…I hope I make her proud has been very opening and I can come her and discover Sandy for myself and still honor what Olivia did”.
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“Rizzo does still have a pregnancy scare”, Vanessa Hudgens, who plays the tough girl in the nostalgic musical set at a 1950s high school, said of her character in the new version, which is scheduled for Fox on January 31.
