Grease Live! Official Thread- Page 9
Grease Live! Official Thread
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Grease Live! Official Thread#200
Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:17pm
I highly doubt that's Aaron and Julianne singing. It doesn't sound like either of them.
Grease Live! Official Thread#201
Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:18pm
Julianne already confirmed that it's not them. Don't worry, they'll be great.
Grease Live! Official Thread#202
Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:18pm
Thanks so much for the clarification because lord those vocals were horrendous!
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Grease Live! Official Thread#204
Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:48pm
Come. On. Really? Ugh.
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Grease Live! Official Thread#205
Posted: 1/27/16 at 10:54pm
My hope is that since the DVD is being released in March that they will include a lot of cool behind-the-scenes videos and featurettes. Maybe even some of the second screen stuff they are going to be showing live online during the broadcast. I have the DVDs of all three NBC live musicals, but I wish there were some bonus features like that besides those making of documentaries that air beforehand.
Grease Live! Official Thread#206
Posted: 1/28/16 at 12:22am
That's really the artwork they're going for...
Grease Live! Official Thread#207
Posted: 1/28/16 at 7:48am
I'm not surprised by the cover, having worked on DVDs for a decade. They go for big stars' heads or full figures over a white background with red letters. It's the "safe" marketing concept. I can't tell you how many times we were asked to do that on our menu designs and key art. Ugh.
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Grease Live! Official Thread#208
Posted: 1/28/16 at 10:39am
Wow. Their DVD art is so edgy. And cool. And rad.
Grease Live! Official Thread#209
Posted: 1/28/16 at 10:57am
I can create a better DVD cover blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back on an old Apple II from 1977.
Grease Live! Official Thread#210
Posted: 1/28/16 at 11:00am
Way to make them all look 40!
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Grease Live! Official Thread#211
Posted: 1/28/16 at 11:01am
Not to harp about it "too much" but the artistry behind advertising for music, movies, etc has just gone out the window. When I was a kid I used to marvel at the time and attention to detail given to movie poster, etc. Everything is so damned generic and superimposed heads on other peoples bodies.
Another lost art form....
Grease Live! Official Thread#212
Posted: 1/28/16 at 12:52pm
The playbill is out.
I thought they gave Frenchie a song because she was the only Pink Lady without one? But Jan doesn't have a song on their song list.
Grease Live! Official Thread#213
Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:05pm
I see they've cut "Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)". I don't think any production to date has done that before, but I may be wrong.
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Grease Live! Official Thread#214
Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:21pm
It'll be in the broadcast AND included as a bonus track on the Target release of the soundtrack.
Grease Live! Official Thread#215
Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:23pm
I don't think they cut it from the production. At least I hope to God they didn't. Maybe they just didn't see the deluxe track list? Other than that, why do they go back and forth with Frenchy's spelling? It is Frenchy, but in the playbill it's Frenchie, then Frenchy, then Frenchie. It's weird. It's easy to google that sort of thing. Other than that, I'm happy Carly Rae is closer to the top with fifth person billing. Wish she had made it on the DVD/Album covers. She is definitely a draw, more so than Vanessa, I'd say. Especially after her critically raved 2015 album. But oh well.
Grease Live! Official Thread#216
Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:32pm
jacobsnchz14 said: "It'll be in the broadcast AND included as a bonus track on the Target release of the soundtrack."
It's not listed as one of the musical numbers in the playbill linked by Phyllis Rogers Stone. Which leads me to believe that it's not going to be in the broadcast. The fact that it was also left off the soundtrack and only included as a bonus track on the Target edition also leads me to believe this as well.
But if you can provide me a source confirming that it was not cut I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
Grease Live! Official Thread#217
Posted: 1/28/16 at 1:58pm
What bugs me is that any credit for the other songwriters has disappeared. How hastily was this thing slapped together anyway?
Allow me:
"Grease (Is The Word)"
Written by Barry Gibb
"All I Need Is An Angel"
Written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
"Hopelessly Devoted To You"
"You're The One That I Want"
Written by John Farrar
"Sandy"
Written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon
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Grease Live! Official Thread#218
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:08pm
g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "What bugs me is that any credit for the other songwriters has disappeared. How hastily was this thing slapped together anyway?
Allow me:
"Grease (Is The Word)"
Written by Barry Gibb
"All I Need Is An Angel"
Written by Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey
"Hopelessly Devoted To You"
"You're The One That I Want"
Written by John Farrar
"Sandy"
Written by Louis St. Louis and Scott Simon"
Oh, that's a good catch g.d.e.l.g.i.
It seems this was a rush job. That's a major oversight.
Grease Live! Official Thread#219
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:13pm
So I brought it to PLAYBILLder's attention on Facebook, and tag L. St L. They get all snarky on me. "Actually, check the song list, it's there." Suddenly, 28 minutes later, an "Additional Music Credit" footnote has popped up on the song list page. They now claim it was hidden by a technical error.
You're welcome?
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Grease Live! Official Thread#220
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:15pm
Yup, that was all you. Sometimes Playbill gets on my nerves like that. It happens a lot.
Grease Live! Official Thread#221
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:18pm
As a producer myself who looks only to credit and pay people for what they've done, it seemed like a grievous omission that needed rectifying. After ten years in the business, too often one is coming across bodies that are buried. If it has an innocent explanation, fine. They're content to report it, I'm content to 'accept' it.
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Grease Live! Official Thread#222
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:30pm
Wow, Playbill is so high and mighty that they are beyond reproach in regards to an error being cited. That's rich. Then they try to cover it up by claiming it was "hidden" due to a technical error?
"Technical error". I need to use that one one of these days.
Maybe, just maybe "Look At Me I'm Sandra Dee (Reprise)" is hidden by this technical error.
They may need to look into the title page as the title of the show is not displaying at all.
Sloppy, sloppy, slo-ppy!
Grease Live! Official Thread#223
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:38pm
They should really be crediting the costume design to whoever designed the movie costumes.
Grease Live! Official Thread#224
Posted: 1/28/16 at 2:42pm
Yes, I agree with you Phyllis Rogers Stone.
William Ivey Long is taking credit for lifting Albert Wolsky's designs from the 1978 film version.
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