Grease Will Run for 1 Year Minimum

Just my prediction. Even if it gets terrible reviews, it will still run for at least a year.

The 2 leads, cast by America, will be contracted for 1 year. Should they not extend, for some reason, there is no more allure to the show. How quickly does it close after that?

Actually, when you think about it.

They could just bring the show back year after year...picking a new Sandy and Danny. It'll never die.

I need a drink.

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They could just bring the show back year after year...picking a new Sandy and Danny. It'll never die.

Or they could just invade other shows...how long before "Wicked: You're Gonna Be Popular"?

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"They will probly take the first runner up to be the first replacement and the second runner up etc."

I was thinking that they would have first runner up be the understudy or stand-by for that role.

MB - I saw in an interview NBC has online with Marshall and Ian that the actors - and I use that term as loosely as humanly possible - will be contracted for a year, hence my title. My bad for not putting it in my initial post.

True.

This whole idea must be keeping Marshall and Ian from sleeping. Marshall's got her very good reputation on the line, Ian's got his backers $10 mil. He did the same thing with Sound of Music, but he must be wondering that it could have been luck of the draw. Still, like in most cases, everyone's given a second chance....but with the stakes this high? I wonder what Riedel's take will be.

There was a John Secada recording too! I think just Danny's songs!

The reason Tommy Tune's Grease ran so long was exactly that - every famous approaching-their-thirties actress was cast as Rizzo - they played up the "Rizzo as the lead" aspect. In fact, Rizzo's got more stage time than Sandy in the original stage version, I believe.

The gimmick of this production is the whole "America's casting the leads" deal. If America's choices can't sustain an 8-show week, the gimmick is gone and it's another run-of-the-mill revival of Grease.

Updated On: 1/4/07 at 10:29 PM

Not ALL of them....hehe.

We can also focus on the positive: it could bring a lot of business and attention to Broadway in general, not only to this production.
In fact, it is possible that this could create more Broadway-awareness than we want to admit.
I think it is a very positive thing that out of any reality show idea that a producer can get out his behind, it is Broadway's turn. A huge hit with this show could become a lot more and better things for future productions than we can think of.

And of course they were going with one of the most famous and accesible musicals of all times. No one was really hoping they would do a reality show on primetime TV about choosing the leads in a revival of A Little Night Music amongst your favorite musical theatre divas belting against each other, right???

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I love how on BWWorld.com anyone with a different opinion is labeled stupid. Some people may love Grease. It doesn't mean their them stupid, It means they like it. Simple as that.

"It doesn't mean their them stupid"

WHAT?

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I think it is a very positive thing that out of any reality show idea that a producer can get out his behind, it is Broadway's turn.

It's not positive. It's desperate. They've sh!t on everyone else's parade, and now we're all they have left.

Let's at least hope the panel of judges can spot those with the stamina to do an 8-show week.

Let's not. Let's hope that the whole concept blows up in their faces due to incompetent actors chosen from a TV show.

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