Grease news - NY Daily News article

[colleen_lee]

Grease news - NY Daily News article#1

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:14pm

The Grease website is now live with cast and creative team bios, but most interestingly (I think, anyway) is that set renderings by designer Derek McLane have been posted in the photo gallery section of the site.

www.greaseonbroadway.com

Updated 06/22 - Laura and Max are in the June 22nd issue of Entertainment Weekly:
http://www.greaseonbroadway.com/news/ew_grease.pdf

Updated 7/10 - Visit the www.greaseonbroadway.com website, look under "photo gallery" to see Martin Pakledinaz's costume renderings for the production.

Updated 7/24 - Article in today's NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/culture/2007/07/24/2007-07-24_greasers_get_all_slicked_up.html

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Updated On: 7/24/07 at 11:14 PM

[catstagestud]

re: Grease website - set designs#2

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:17pm

I think they look really cool; particularly at the Drive-in. Hope the show is a success!

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[broadwayguy2]

re: Grease website - set designs#2

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:18pm

derek MCLane turns in good work here. Let's hope everyone else is up to par with his sets....

[shesamarshmallow]

re: Grease website - set designs#3

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:22pm

Not sure I like the cafeteria, but everything else looks great.

I must be the only person super excited for this show...

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[BrodyFosse123]

re: Grease website - set designs#4

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:33pm

Just judging by those set designs alone, this is going to be one great production. Having seen the original Broadway production several times in my youth, I'm quite pleased they are remaining somewhat faithful to it's set design instead of that day-glo neon explosion of the 1994 Broadway revival, which I loved also.

I love that fold-out design for Frenchie's bedroom -- very reminiscent of the fold-out sets from the recent Roundabout revival of THE WOMEN.

Here's hoping their actual reproduction surpasses these sketches.

[Broadwayboy2631]

re: Grease website - set designs#5

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:38pm

i like the image that they created for the drive in.

[ElFantasma14]

re: Grease website - set designs#6

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:40pm

Pretty cool looking. Still doesn't make me want to see this show, but at least the set designs look neat.

Haha, the bedroom reminds me of a Polly Pocket house. =)

[Princeton78]

re: Grease website - set designs#7

Posted: 6/21/07 at 11:41pm

I think they're great.
Imaginative and appropriately retro.
Can't wait!

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[goofy108]

re: Grease website - set designs#8

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:04am

they look good.
it will be interesting to see how this show turns out.

[BwayBaby18]

re: Grease website - set designs#9

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:12am

i think they look tacky. Except the ranch house, the hat box house, and the drive in... everything else has a thick layer of cheese to it... but you know that is probably the directoral and design concept... cheez whiz...

sets, leads, poster... continuity is great

[timote316]

re: Grease website - set designs#10

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:19am

...but that IS Grease. If you don't camp up Grease and make it as cheesy as possible, it falls flat.

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Grease website - set designs#11

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:21am

Yikes. Let's see... I do like the drive in set, the football(?) field set and what might be the auditorium or gym set for the dance. As for everything else I hope they look better on stage. I really want to like this revival, but I'm not liking the sets so far. I don't like the tower of lockers that seem to be present for most of the design. They remind me of the last scene in the second Men in Black movie. I don't like the show curtain if that's what that first picture is. It looks like they're gonna spend most of the design money on the burger palace set with looks like a burger palace from outer space. I don't get the band being on top of the sets for some of the scenes and not all of them. Pick one please, and I despise "split screen" effects if that's what third to last rendering is.

[timote316]

re: Grease website - set designs#12

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:36am

I saw a set design for Grease when my college did it years and years ago, and they did a similar thing with the band, on a second level.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Grease website - set designs#13

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:42am

Zzzzzzz.....

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[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: Grease website - set designs#14

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:51am

Like it.

How will it fit in the Atkinson?

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[yankees1253]

re: Grease website - set designs#14

Posted: 6/22/07 at 12:55am

hey. i am going to the third night of the previews, so i will give you the feedback about the sets and everyhing. I like what i saw on da website and i love da website all together.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

re: Grease website - set designs#15

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:00am

"hey. i am going to the third night of the previews, so i will give you the feedback about the sets and everyhing. I like what i saw on da website and i love da website all together."

What is "da"?

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[Carl Magnum]

re: Grease website - set designs#15

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:45am

Almost worth seeing for those sets alone. Although I miss the black and white photos at the back of the wall from the original production, they look like they have the style nailed. Not a big fan of the "Rock and Roll" thing on the football field set. Too cliche.

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[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

re: Grease website - set designs#16

Posted: 6/22/07 at 1:51am

Wow, their website looks pretty nice.

EDIT: Damn, I want to see it for the sets alone. Updated On: 6/22/07 at 01:51 AM

[IMsooHyprToday]

re: Grease website - set designs#17

Posted: 6/22/07 at 2:06am

hmm... looks awfully dark to to me, and rather flat....

fishes,
Graham!

[bially082]

re: Grease website - set designs#18

Posted: 6/22/07 at 2:16am

hmmm funny...I liked everything BUT the drive in....especially the gym and diner. :)

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[dramarama2]

re: Grease website - set designs#19

Posted: 6/22/07 at 5:38am

The towers of lockers really annoy me for some reason. I don't really get what's so special about the drive in set. But, however, I really like the idea of being able to see the band above the stage.

A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.

[Yankeefan007]

re: Grease website - set designs#20

Posted: 6/22/07 at 7:41am

I was gonna say...interesting but very flat.

[songanddanceman2]

re: Grease website - set designs#21

Posted: 6/22/07 at 8:29am

i think it looks flat to , it doesn't have the grease feel to it.

I still prefer the london sets

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[Justin D]

re: Grease website - set designs#22

Posted: 6/22/07 at 8:59am

I live the idea of the lockers, and thought of something similar while watching the TV show, but not that it looks too flat, but looks too centralized and symetrical, nothing is happening off to the sides, and i am sure they could find a more creative solution to the legs/wings in stead of just black legs. I like the split level though, but is this a trend these days for not using the orchestra pit?

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