This GREASE "thing" — Page 2

mejusthavingfun are you forgetting that the tv show is only for 2 parts but the other cast members wil be on as well and they will be multicultural I'm sure. SO no Danny or Sandy might not be black or latino but Kenickie or Marty or any of the others most certainly will be.

Switz78 - That's my point. The only two roles for the reality show are for white people.

I hope the reality show and the show itself BOMBS!!!!!!!!!!

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I too don't understand why they picked Grease, except it should make money and, most imporantly, it is a part of the American lexicon

I wholeheartedly agree with shesamarshmallow - Why, oh why, did they pick Billy Bush to be host!!! WHY!!!!

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Personally, I think this show will garner about as much interest as THE STARLET a couple of years ago.

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hey, ya'll. one of the reasons they probably chose Grease is because the leads are young, and the final bow is pretty equally shared between Danny and Sandy. They had to think strategically in that way.

also, i think we are all going to be surprised by the number of "industry professionals" (translation: somewhat established union actors) trying to be Danny and Sandy. david ian isn't going to hand a $12million production over to novices. there will be familiar faces, be certain. that's what we should be speculating about! and we should get behind them when it's time.

ps-it probably won't be hunter and sutton.

mejusthavingfun i auditioned for the show and while i made it to the second round so didn't many people of different races and ethnicities and i got cut after the second round while others went on. I can't wait to see it...also Billy Bush is not the only host a British woman Denise was hosting at auditions.

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It will not be about putting on a real Broadway show
cause the cameras will be running and there will editing
to make it look more dramatic than usual.
most shows use there rehearsal time to actually rehearse and not "perform" for the camera.
Hopefully the TV audience will see what they think
Broadway is about and skip the actual show.
U can see GREASE in your Local High School anyday.

Bottom line is, in my opinion, if you want theatre to stay alive you've got to conform to the times. The classics will always be there, no one will ever take them away, but don't get lost in a time-capsule. Then again, this is coming from someone who thinks stuff like System Of A Down, The Darkness etc. should be the CURRENT sound of musical theatre :P

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i know ill be watching it. personally, i think the last thing we need is a Grease revival, but...i dunno. i think its good that Broadway is opening its doors to new performers and untapped talent. im really intersted to see what, or WHO, this show brings up.

"They picked Grease because Grease ALWAYS makes money" ~ Mister Matt.

Right you are Matt, for better or worse GREASE always comes out on top for excitement and selling on almost every level. The last production I saw in Philly featured Frankie Avalon as the "special angel" And he still looks good!

But if I have to subject myself to another Rydell High alumin, I know I will launch....but... it is was it is.

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if this thing's a hit it'll spawn a series of spin-offs which will heap attention on broadway (like the man said, any publicity's good publicity). even if it's not, it has the potential to get a whole pisspot fulla people who would normally never think about broadway or have any idea about it being exposed to it. so it's grease. if it's a hit the next one could be something a bit more challenging and more racially diverse. the thing is that it has the potential to focus people's attention on the theatre. can you imagine kids in pig's knuckle, arkansas talking about broadway shows (ok it's a bit of a stretch)? and let's not pretend that because the show is grease that there won't be plenty of clips showing other shows. what if one of the contestants was in something else? are you telling me they won't use footage? are we gonna pretend that kathleen's work on other shows will go unmentioned?

like it or not the reality show is here and it still dominates tv. this project has the potential to be a boon for broadway by putting the words back in the popular lexicon of the all important youth demographics. i don't see how anyone could see this as a bad thing.

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wow! you're so right. i bet that whole thing of having it on national television every week with the power of a network behind it promoting to new audiences won't do anything for the ticket sales. it'll probably arrive dead in the water without any stars! these people obviously have no business sense.

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