Photo of the Grease Marquee — Page 3

Well, I definitely think the logo looks very elementary and dull. But it's bright and colorful and will definitely catch the eye. You have to admit...it catches y'alls eyes, too?

While I've never been too thrilled about this revival, I am happy that people like Max and Laura can begin their Broadway career with a show that is so known and loved by everyone. This show will definitely get their names out there and give so many other young actors in NY a chance to work. And even though this show is horrible in our eyes, it'll start a whole new generation of young theatre-goers. It sucks that Grease has to be the show to bring in a younger audience, but it might do what Wicked and RENT did for theatre. It's bittersweet.

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I am used to the sign as I have watched every minute of the show. It seems fine to me. Though I am not crazy about The One That You Want sign. Family will be going to the first preview because I love Grease, Max was very entertaining, and the rest of the cast seemed very talented from just the few seconds we saw and it's something different for us to do. As for getting a sanitized version, better that than what I heard the play was like, though a little grittier would also be very entertaining and welcomed.

I fully admit that I was addicted to Grease You're the One that I Want while it was airing, so I'm kinda used to the logo.

That being said, however, I never liked it on the show either - it felt like a cheap photoshop reproduction of the original logo. It feels no less cheap on the marquee, in fact that sort of makes it worse. But despite the fact that it's totally lacking in any sort of artistic merit, it's going to definitely serve it's purpose of getting people's attention quickly and easily and getting it in the theatre, so it's not totally lacking...

I like this one better...

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I think the "Rama lama lama ..." part is kind of funny. But overall, grotesque.

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I would much prefer a gritty, real production of Grease. I know it wouldn't be as big of a success, but I'd rather see a short running version of a great show than a long running version of an okay show.

vfd88 - the thing is, Grease was never meant to be real or, as you call it, gritty.

Grease was always done as a parody of the 50s.

I'm surrprised people here are giving the show two years. The Books Atkinson has never housed a profitable musical, correct?

I just wonder what Marshall will do with this. It doesn't seem like any new groundbreaking staging is going to be used, so it just seems sorta pointless, except for the fact that maybe someone needs to pay off their new Mercedes. But we'll see, she got rave reviews for her past revivals.

"It doesn't seem like any new groundbreaking staging is going to be used, so it just seems sorta pointless, except for the fact that maybe someone needs to pay off their new Mercedes."

How can you be "gorundbreaking" with GREASE? I don't think any critics are going to walk in expecting groundbraking, daring, brilliant staging. It's GREASE for god's sake. Did she do anything groundbreaking with The Pajama Game? She got raves for that, as you mention.

And, jv, as much as you don't think you are going to like Grease, why do you think Marshall's career will be over for five years after this? What if her work gets raves? It could even make her more popualar and give her a higher profile. We won't know until it opens.

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You can be groundbreaking with anything. Doesn't mean it's good. I'm just saying that it seems to me that they could have picked ANYONE to direct the piece because it's inevitably going to be the same show that we've all seen before. It will be colorful with competent performers. I just wonder if she's going to bring anything new to the piece. I'm not talking like "Company" or something, but just a fresh look at an old classic.

"just a fresh look at an old classic."

She did that with The Pajama Game last year, and she could do it again with Grease.

And why would Marshall get burned if the leads suck? She wasn't all responsible for casting them, yes she put them through the first rounds (along with a lot of other people), but America made the final choice, not Marshall.

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It looks like the 4th of July.