Grease: Live!

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Grease: Live!

2016

2h 11m

Musical

Romance

Comedy

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A live adaptation of the classic musical details Danny and Sandy's summer romance and what happens to their relationship when Sandy unexpectedly transfers to Danny high school for senior year.

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Grease: Live took the pressure and threw away conventionality -- it belongs to yesterday. There was a chance that it could make it so far; we started believin' we can be who we are. Grease: Live is the word.

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Caroline Framke

Vox

02/02/2016

If Grease Live had more moments to work with like "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," it might have been truly special - but there was only so much it could do when the musical itself didn't have anything else to give.

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Alexis Okeowo

The New Yorker

02/02/2016

High school itself is the nineteen-fifties of our imagination, always easier in our memories than it was in reality. With Grease, we can pretend we still want to go back.

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Drew Grant

Observer

02/02/2016

Even within the constrains of a live, televised event-which, let's be clear, Fox DOES know how to blow out, when it wants to-I couldn't help think that Grease: Live was just a dud.

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Marisa Carpico

The Pop Break

12/25/2018

7.5/10

Still, regardless of its flaws, Grease: Live was fantastic television.

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Mariah Smith

Cosmopolitan

03/07/2018

I'm telling the world now, I'd sell my entire immediate family down the river for five minutes alone with Doody.

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Joyce Slaton

Common Sense Media

02/09/2016

4/5

Thrilling live musical is fun, has iffy messages galore.

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BRADY ANDREW S

@BRADY1169420 May 17

great story line great songs

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Zamya F

@zamyafields 04/15/2025

Best live performance ever! The casting was outstanding.

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Taylor Z

@RT87344709 02/06/2025

The best live tv musical I have seen to date! Just as amazing as the original! The casting, costumes, sets, and choreography are supremely well done! It was lovely to see a couple of the cast members from the original film have minor roles in this production! Overall, a great nod to the original film! Highly recommended!

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Kay W

@RT64008465 05/28/2022

It was great. Dazzling.

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05/17/2021

7.0/10. although not as good as the original, this musical is pretty good with it being MUCH Better than Grease 2 and a perfect re-cast.

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04/11/2021

Funny, original, & romantic; just live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Synopsis

A live adaptation of the classic musical details Danny and Sandy's summer romance and what happens to their relationship when Sandy unexpectedly transfers to Danny high school for senior year.

Director: Thomas Kail, Alex Rudzinski
Screenwriter: Robert Cary, Jonathan Tolins
Genre: Musical, Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (TV): Jan 31, 2016
Runtime: 2h 11m