Grease NEW BILLBOARD on Times Square..

[jaystarr]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 3:32pm

Grease is the word! ?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=24206


Updated On: 1/10/08 at 03:32 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 3:53pm

The #1 Musical of the Year...hmmm, of the year it first opened on Broadway, perhaps? No, not even.

[StephanietheStar]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:18pm

that is not cute.

[RetroBoy]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:26pm

I know this musical started off (in 1971) as a satire of the rock era but nowadays it's just a plain joke. Granted the original wasn't a masterpiece but it was edgy, raunchy and a lot of fun...now it's just a mindless piece of fluff and this production has officially made me dislike this musical. I just cannot listen to anything from it....ditto for the film.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:26pm

Hrmm.. All they did is replace the old on with the new one. (The older one looked better imo)

[tazber]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:38pm

what it really means is

"#1 musical of the year that began it's current life as a reality tv show".

Read between the lines people!

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:38pm

they look awkwardly posed and just stupidly fake... Miss J. would not approve.

and it looks like Laura borrowed the Tracy wig from Hairspray.

Updated On: 1/10/08 at 04:38 PM

[BroadwayEnthusiast2]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 4:41pm

TIME Magazine never called it "The #1 Musical of The Year."

[blaxx]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 5:45pm

Maybe not, but in their 10 Best Theater Shows list of the year, it was the only musical that was mentioned... The only one they saw maybe?

[worrell4077]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 5:51pm

The commercial for it came on, and the voice over says it's the one that you want. Is it really the one that I want? I mean, the movie was great and all, but I don't really care to see it.

I still can't believe that this made any top lists over alot that's out there like Xanadu and Spring Awakening.

[Malice]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:53pm

I happened to see the commercial last night and just said what??? Grease beating out the others, especially Xanadu?

[yankees1253]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 8:58pm

i saw it and i hated it.....max/laura are way to big on it. my mom saw grease first and then saw LB this past saturday matinee. grease is on the bottom of her list of broadway shows she has seen because she didnt like a chrous line so much and its number one on mine.

[philly03]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:04pm

Not a grease fan eitehr, and I don't necessarily understand why Broadwayworld felt the need to post it. But just curious...is this ad located where "The Little Mermaid"'s one was and "Beauty & The Beast"'s (in the summer) where its liked attached to a big office building overlooking timesquare? Or is it where the Les Miserables revival one was..hmmm?

[Robos89]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:06pm

The group pictures look decent!

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:32pm

It looks like "All Shook Up" in that billboard.

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 9:39pm

I like it - let the flaming begin.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 10:03pm

I like the billboard but not that show :)

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 1/10/08 at 10:16pm

I like both.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 12:19am

I like Lynnespock.

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:01am

let the flaming begin

Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking?

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 9:34am

WBAF: the feeling is mutual. Your wit always make me laugh. Thanks for that.

dramaparoxysm23: Don't know what you are thinking, care to share?

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:17am

There two ways you could interpret "flaming". Since this IS a Broadway board...
It doesn't seem quite as funny to me now. (But you know where I'm going with that, right?)

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 10:31am

I read it one way, but yes, I get it the other way.

I get grief about my taste in shows at times.

[UCan'tScareMeITeachD]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:03pm

Not living in NYC I think all the Billboards look cool! Just so happens I'm also a Grease fan, so I like it even more. I realize the show is fluff, but it is so much fun to introduce that fluff to Jr. High students! Can't wait to bring them to town this summer!

[truman]

Posted: 1/11/08 at 5:06pm

I actually like the new production...