9/13/2023 0 Comments Greased lightning live cast![]() Hudgen’s performance was one of the better parts of the movie, her musical numbers and acting were more enjoyable than those of the rest of the cast. ![]() “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee” was sung by Rizzo to mock Sandy and her perceived goody two-shoes demeanor. “Beauty School Dropout” was pretty good as well, and beautifully sung, though the actual dropout played by Carly Rae Jepsen left much to be desired. “Greased Lightning” was flashy, well-choreographed and engaging, complete with Aaron Tveit playing Danny Zuko doing monkey rolls with six other mechanics. Jordan Fisher’s rendition of “Those Magic Changes” was unexpectedly incredible, and one of the few reasons I didn’t feel like I completely wasted my time watching “Grease Live.” I wanted to like it, but I found myself skipping to the musical numbers for the most part, since the rest of the time everything on screen was bland and forgettable.Ī couple of the musical performances stood out, being fairly good. The whole performance wasn’t a complete flop, though. Still, she seemed to be less than convincing while playing the part, coming off campy rather than genuine and sweet. Julianne Hough, a decent vocalist, had the looks and the dancing skill to play Sandy. The studio singing they’re accustomed to didn’t transfer well to live singing. ![]() Most of the well-known actors were also singers, but they were not stage singers. I think they’re both great actors, but their presence added to the Disney Channel sensation. Others, like Carlos Pena who played Kenicke and Keke Palmer who played Marty, were former Nickelodeon stars whose respective shows are the works of theirs that I’m most familiar with. Some of the main cast, like Vanessa Hudgens who played Rizzo, actually were formerly actors for Disney. They often had the exaggerated personalities of Disney Channel characters. The supporting cast tended to overact, which was annoying. Rather than truly reinvent the story for the stage, the show seemed like an inauthentic hodgepodge of re-enacted and experimental scenes. It’s easier to immerse myself when I don’t have any preconceptions of an actor’s previous roles or offstage personality. They all seemed too invested in their own roles, failing to play off of one another.įor me, the appeal of live-action production is usually the unfamiliarity of the faces. Maybe from the perspective of the live audience the show was more entertaining and engaging, but in my eyes the cast did not mesh well. I couldn’t get sucked into the story like I was with the original, despite not having seen the film in years. “Grease Live” did have the same characters, plot and setting, but it wasn’t really “Grease” at the core. Maybe the show wouldn’t have been as much of a letdown if the commercials hadn’t hyped it up so much and set such high expectations. I can’t blame “Grease Live” for being unable to fix something that wasn’t broken. It’s a film so well-known and widely enjoyed that an attempt to reinvent it was unlikely to improve it. “Grease” has such a long established history. As a fan of the original movie-musical, I was definitely disappointed. I recently watched the Fox production “Grease Live,” which aired on Jan.
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