Grease Live!

Film per la TV
2016
TV-14
2h 20min

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7,3/10

10.064

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Vanessa Hudgens, Julianne Hough, and Aaron Tveit in Grease Live! (2016)

Comedy Musical Romance

Dopo essersi goduti una storia d'amore estiva, gli studenti delle scuole superiori Danny e Sandy si riuniscono inaspettatamente quando si trasferisce alla Rydell High. Lì, Sandy tenta di ric... Leggi tuttoDopo essersi goduti una storia d'amore estiva, gli studenti delle scuole superiori Danny e Sandy si riuniscono inaspettatamente quando si trasferisce alla Rydell High. Lì, Sandy tenta di riconquistare il cuore di Danny.Dopo essersi goduti una storia d'amore estiva, gli studenti delle scuole superiori Danny e Sandy si riuniscono inaspettatamente quando si trasferisce alla Rydell High. Lì, Sandy tenta di riconquistare il cuore di Danny.

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VALUTAZIONE IMDb

7,3/10

10.064

LA TUA VALUTAZIONE

POPOLARITÀ

4.426

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Vincitore di 5 Primetime Emmy
- 7 vittorie e 10 candidature totali

Quiz
Didi Conn, who played Vi, the malt shop waitress, in this production, played "Frenchy" in the original 1978 musical movie production. Barry Pearl, who played Stan Weaver, the TV show producer of the National Bandstand TV show for the school dance (uncredited), in this production, played "Doody" in the original 1978 movie musical production. In the end, when Didi and Barry take their bows, they are wearing the original "T-Birds" and "Pink Ladies" jackets that they wore in the movie.

Blooper
In the initial East-Coast airing, during the dance-off, coming back from commercial, Vince Fontaine says "American Bandstand" instead of "National Bandstand." The West-Coast airing replaced this with an alternate take where he says the correct line.

Citazioni
Principal McGee: Nothing makes a cheerleader more nervous then being late!

Versioni alternative
The Fox broadcast version ran roughly 3 minutes longer than the Paramount home video release. As they headed into commercial breaks, Mario Lopez narrated several short behind-the-scenes/making-of segments which were omitted from the DVD.

Connessioni
Featured in The 68th Primetime Emmy Awards (2016)

Colonne sonore
Grease (Is the Word)
Written by Barry Gibb
Performed by Jessie J and Cast

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7/10

Fast as lightning

Obviously it is a big undertaking to mount a live television production of Grease. The stage musical is a mainstay of various theatre productions with regular revivals and the film version is a classic despite some of its cheesiness. Even John Travolta recently admitted the film has become timeless, popular with kids even with the suggestiveness of some of the dialogue and lyrics.

Jessie J kicks of the rainy opening by singing Grease and we get to the setting very quickly and the opening number of Summer Nights. Julianne Hough is good as Sandy really evoking the memory of Olivia Newton John although her character hails from another part of the USA and not Australia. Aaron Tveit does well as Danny but never matches the cockiness of Travolta, which might had been easy to do if you are a young actor who just scored an Oscar nomination and a worldwide smash hit a year earlier with Saturday Night Fever. Vanessa Hudgens was less acerbic as Rizzo than Stockard Channing.

The production has songs that are featured in the stage production which might not be familiar with those who have only seen the film version. The production knows it has go for those big tent-pole numbers like Greased Lightning, Hopelessly devoted, Sandy and the finale You're the one that I want.

As it is a live television number there are stage set changes built in to the production as the cast have to get from one stage to another. There are lots of ad breaks. I cheekily recorded this to my TIVO and watched it 60 minutes after it started and then fast forwarded the ad breaks. The running time for me was about 2 hours and 15 minutes.

I guess some people may not be happy with the diverse casting but Grease was always about people being true to their feelings rather than fitting in with stereotypes. The creators of the stage musical would only be too happy that the show has progressed.

Some of the production limits it to its stage show origins. The car race was rather pedestrian masked by use of lighting and smoke.

Despite the pruning of the lyrics in Greased Lightning, some of the dialogue might be deemed to to be rude to younger viewers but I think some of it flew over my son's head.