Events Bangor Daily News, Thursday, January 28, 2016 C3 Live TV Version of ‘Grease’ Aims to Get Viewers Dancing

events Bangor Daily News, Thursday, January 28, 2016 C3 Live TV version of ‘Grease’ aims to get viewers dancing

BY YVONNE VILLARREAL Pan” and recent go-round did,” he said. “I wanted loca- background by having LOS ANGELES TIMES (TNS) “The Wiz,” broadcast com- tions that felt like real plac- Sandy dance more than she petitor Fox is diving in with es that could ground us so usually does — including in During a recent rehearsal “Grease: Live” on Jan. 31 at when we lift off and go to the a scene in which she’s audi- for Fox’s live broadcast of the 7 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. fantasy of ‘Greased Light- tioning to be a cheerleader. musical “Grease,” Aaron As networks contend with nin” or the Teen Angel ar- The show also will feature Tveit and Julianne Hough shifting audience habits that rives, you have something an original song, “All I Need waited for their musical cue to increasingly favor time-de- to depart from.” Is an Angel,” written specifi- jump in the fray and gambol layed viewing, networks are The musical delves into the cally for Jepsen’s Frenchy by alongside a troupe of frenetic scrambling to create events lives of working-class teenag- “If/Then” duo Tom Kitt and dancers. spectacular enough to battle ers during the early 1950s rock Brian Yorkey. And given the The number was “We Go the power of the DVR. Fox, ‘n’ roll era. Originally a 1971 show’s 7 p.m. start time, ad- Together,” and during the perhaps of all the legacy net- theater production in Chicago, justments were made to rehearsal on a backlot in works, is a natural fit for a the musical became a cultural some of the more suggestive Burbank, the Broadway musical production because touchstone when it was adapt- lyrics in the soundtrack (in heartthrob and “Dancing it’s the home base for musical ed for the big screen in 1978 those cases, the school-sanc- With the Stars” alum tried powerhouses of the present with Travolta and Newton- tioned production versions their best to lock down those and recent past: “Empire,” John as its leads. of the lyrics were used). seemingly impossible shoo “Glee” and singing competi- “When we first got togeth- “I think we’re very much bop sha wadda wadda yippi- tion “American Idol.” er to do the photoshoot, I re- doing our own slant on it,” ty boom de boom foot move- “Any time that you can member thinking, ‘Are we said the show’s live director, ments as choreographer send a message to a broad actually doing this?’” Hud- Alex Rudzinski, who has di- Zach Woodlee (“Glee,” audience that there is some- gens said. “It’s sort of surre- rected more than 500 hours “Annie”) hollered com- thing special happening, like al to be a part of introducing of live broadcasts on “Danc- mands over the music. live sporting events, where this iconic musical to a new ing With the Stars.” “It The couple were dressed in people are flying without a generation.” would be fickle to try to do a comfy, casual workout cloth- net and bringing a level of Playwrights-screenwrit- copycat live broadcast. This ing, but come Sunday, they’ll showmanship that you can’t ers Robert Cary and Jona- is a live TV production. If be doing these same moves have with a drama that’s than Tolins were charged you get too close then all during the live broadcast been highly edited, is a good with writing the three-hour people will do all night is wearing black, body-hugging thing,” said Fox Television production, using the famil- just compare take for take ensembles similar to those Group Co-Chairman Dana iar Paramount Pictures film and you open yourself up for made famous by John Tra- Walden, who noted her two FOX | TNS as a starting point. But they problems.” volta and Olivia Newton- daughters have done ver- Aaron Tveit and Julianne Hough in a promotional image also worked in elements The NBC productions John in the 1978 film rendi- sions of “Grease” at school. for “Grease: Live” on Fox. from the stage show — par- were big ratings draws, but tion of the musical. The revamped-for-live-TV ticularly since the film’s run they also proved fodder for “I used to steal the VHS event, a Paramount Televi- Jan, Carlos PenaVega as Rydell High and the carnival time is 1 hour, 50 minutes. plenty of snark of social tape from my parents’ bed- sion production, features Kenickie, David Del Rio as grounds (during rehearsals, “We had to figure out how media. And if “grease” is the room because I wasn’t al- well-known names among Putzie, and more. however, the lot was still the to expand the show without word, “Grease: Live” will lowed to watch PG-13 mov- the millennial set. The elaborate NBC render- town of Rosewood seen in it feeling drawn out and pad- surely be a conversation on ies,” Hough said during a In addition to Hough and ings rotated scenes on one “Pretty Little Liars”). ded,” Tolins said. “And, of Twitter. break from rehearsal. “I Tveit as leads Sandy and New York soundstage; the “Ask me after it’s all over course, the other job was Good or bad, the cast say used to go down to the base- Danny, others donning Fox affair is even more ambi- if I think the multiple sound- coming up with where to put they’re ready for it. ment and mimic all the leather jackets and poodle tious. The production will un- stages was a good idea,” 11 commercial breaks.” “Sing along and enjoy it dances and sing the songs. skirts include Vanessa Hud- fold over two soundstages joked stage director Thomas Two songs from the origi- and maybe introduce it to And now look at me.” gens (Disney’s “High School housing a number of sets on Kail, known most recently nal stage show — “Freddy someone new,” Hough said. Three years after NBC re- Musical,” Broadway’s the Warner Bros. lot in Bur- for his celebrated stage work My Love” and “Those Magic “It’s inevitable that people are turned to TV musical waters “Gigi”) as tough girl Rizzo, bank. Production also will with Lin-Manuel Miranda Changes” — made their way going to say stupid [things]. ... with live renditions of such singer Carly Rae Jepsen as take place on Midwest Street in the smash “Hamilton.” into the Fox production. But I’ve had the best experi- stage productions as “The Frenchy, Keke Palmer as — i.e., a backlot that they’ll “I wanted it to feel vibrant Cary and Tolins also found ence of my life doing this, and Sound of Music,” “Peter Marty, Kether Donohue as use for exterior scenes of and vital the way the film ways to play up Hough’s I don’t give a crap.”

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