Grease: Live (Fox)

Is it worth watching? Or should I stick to "Midsomer Murders" as usual?

Having watched it last night, it was pretty good. They certainly went to a lot of effort. Everything looks right in terms of the sets, costumes, hair, singing, etc.

I had no problems with any of the leads in terms of their performance and there no obvious mistakes. Choreography is performed extremely well. Very sharp.

The diner set is extremely impressive.

Some well placed camera angles throughout.

Look out for cameos from Didi Conn (the original Frenchie) as Vi the waitress, the original guy from the film who played Doodie, Mario Lopez as Vince Fontaine and Boys II Men and the Teen Angles- again, very good. Very smooth.

So, unlike the film, this included the songs Freddie My Love and Those Magic Changes, as originally written for the stage show, in context. There is also a new song sung by Frenchie in the diner before Beauty School Dropout.

There is A LOT going on in this, especially at the school dance. When watching scenes being carried out, watch what all the members of the ensemble are doing.

I felt there was a bit more expansion of the characters of the workshop teacher, Jan and the Patty Simcox role.

The race at Thunder Road was also staged extremely well.

They also perform Hopelessly Devoted To You, Sandy and You're the one that I Want however take note, one of these songs is out of there order in which we're used to seeing it.

For those curious to know, yes, there carnival scene is included however there rubbing of the cling film/wrap across Danny's groin in Greased Lightning is not. And I gotta admit, Greased Lightning does look extremely impressive. Oh, as originally intended, Kenikie get to sing a whole verse in Greased Lightning.

What you're seeing is a piece truer to the original script.

To me, the only thing that didn't work was Jessie J singing Grease. Nothing wrong vocally but it just didn't 'fit' with the look of the whole piece.

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I would not be happy if I'd paid to see this. I wouldn't be entirely happy if I'd been paid to see it.

It has its moments and some of the cast are good, but I think the gimmick of a live broadcast has demanded too many compromises.

A quick look on the twitter hashtag shows about 99.9% glowingly positive comments. So the most important thing here is that the general public are loving live musicals on TV and are demanding more of them. A win for musicals, I say!

On a personal level, I absolutely loved it. It just got better and better as it went on (apart from the new song) and I had a stupidly huge grin on my face the whole way through. Also thought the choreography was extremely impressive. I think it's by far the most ambitious live musical to date, and possibly the best. If Hairspray is next, I sincerely hope NBC can create what FOX has done with Grease!

Were they mic'd or was it camera/ studio mics? Can't work it out.
Also Vanessa hudgens was dreadful. Her Whitney voice, she just did not suit this role at all. Annoyed as that's my favourite part. Great Sandy and Danny though!

Definitely mic's. There was once scene where Aaron Levitt is wearing whit shorts (when he's trying out for field and track events to impress Sandy) and can clearly see the outline of his mic pack-at the back peoples; lets keep it clean!

Decided to give "Midsomer " a miss this week in favour of "Grease Live" & I was pleasantly surprised. I quite enjoyed it. Some of the cast did look too old - kenekie. Others were good - Doody. The dancing was terrific.

Oh goodness me yes. Those shorts were a thing of wonder. The highlight of the whole show.

Turned over after Midsomer after Sky+it and was very disappointed. It was very flat. None of the leads apart from Rizzo and Patti stood out and there was no connection between any of them. Didnt like the guy playing Danny. No charisma at all. The girl playing Sandy was okay, in bits looking like Olivia Newton John.

Marks out of 10? I'd give it 2.