The high school-set Grease: Live will feature a live audience, who will participate in the performance, and is directed by with set design by , the duo behind Hamilton.
The cast also includes as Sonny, as Putzie, Kether Donohue as Jan, Jordan Fisher as Doody, as Principal, as Rizzo, as Frenchie, as Vince Fontaine, Carlos PenaVega as Kenickie, Eve Plumb as Mrs. Murdock and KeKe Palmer as Marty.
The creative team for the live musical, which is executive-produced by , also includes award-winning theatre vets (music supervision) and (costume design).
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Broadway writers and are writing the television adaptation based on the original musical Grease by and , and Paramount Pictures鈥� 1978 feature adaptation. Musical numbers will be staged live outside (come rain or shine!), an audience will be incorporated into the set (and the action), and the Greasers of 2016 will hand jive their way into the hearts of teens across the country.
Unlike NBC's annual live musical event, which has proved to be a success year after year by bringing the theatre into millions of homes, Fox is taking a slightly different approach. This television event will be more of a hybrid between film and stage. The cast is shooting on multiple locations on the Warner Bros. Studio lots in California with sets that resemble those seen on TV and in movies ("It's going to be like you're watching a live movie," says star Aaron Tveit. "I think that's the best way to describe this."), and an audience will surround them.
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DNCE, the four-member band fronted by Joe Jonas, will play Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, "the questionably wholesome school dance band that takes the stage at Rydell鈥檚 high school hop."
Grease begins airing at 7 PM ET (4 PM on the West Coast). , and follow 半岛体育 on social media for exclusive coverage throughout the entirety of the broadcast.
