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3.0
That visual feast is the saving grace of Grease: Live, which unfortunately doesnt have the powerhouse cast that made The Wiz Live!
Av Club
3.0
Grease: Live reconfirms all the possibilities of the live musical event as a genuine transcendent pop experience: Clever, funny, rapturously huge in a ..
EW
4.5
frequently boasted an impressive sense of momentum and even spontaneity.
Variety
3.0
As a musical, Grease, though beloved, doesnt provide much by way of a compelling script or interesting storytelling.
We Got This Covered
4.5
What a triumph. After three years of watching NBC do summer stock on national television, Fox swooped in and stole the live musical format right out f ..
The Guardian
4.5
Foxs impressive and ambitious staging Sunday night of Grease: Live was a lesson in what a televised musical ought to look like in the 21st century: ab ..
1.5
The sexual revolution isnt sexual or even rock and roll anymore; its conformist and pop.
Vulture
4.5
But dont worry, there were still jokes about date rape and the change yourself to get a boy conclusion to remind you of how clunky this vehicle is whe ..
The Hollywood Reporter
1.5
This... was a show that was more about individual moments than about building a story.
The New York Times
4.5
If you hate musicals and hate Grease, Grease Live! sure wasnt going to change your mind all of the sudden. But for the multi generational fanbase who ..
IGN
4.0
The ambitious $16 million production of the Rydell High School musical was as impressive as it was fun.
Ny Daily News
1.5
MISS: Mario Lopez cant stop hosting Mario Lopez stepped in as Grease: Live!
Tv Guide
4.5
Some technical glitches in such an ambitious production are inevitable... But those were small problems in a production that was otherwise incredibly ..
Usa Today
1.5
As far as overall theatrical to TV events go though, Grease Live was a big old win in every possible column.
The Wrap
4.5
The cast let loose; there was honest to goodness joy, and that soap opera gauze thats so far defined the genre fell away.
New York Post
1.5
Some of this, I know, is systemic of the musical itself: Grease ultimately is a pretty scaled back production and doesnt have a lot of places where tr ..
Observer
1.5
The fact that this time never existed doesnt really matter; the idea of it, and its potential to guide and reform our lives, has fuelled our longings ..
New Yorker
0.5
After this production, every high school in America is going to want to take a shot at staging this. Grease is the word.
Boston Herald
4.5
The show wasnt perfect, but it was great fun with touches of film nostalgia and musical theater earnestness.
Boston Globe
4.5
It had all the infectiousness and emoji big smiles you need from three hours of live musical entertainment.
Hit Fix
4.5
And props to Palmer, Fisher and Kether Donohue, who winningly played Jan, working overtime to overcome a certain charisma vacuum in the lead roles. (
Nj
0.5
Its a lame premise, kept afloat by eager performances and inoffensive songs, better suited to a jukebox than a stage.
Vox
4.5
With this hectic, ambitious and hormonal Grease, Fox proved it could up the ante in the new mini industry of musicals on TV.
Kansas City
4.5
Fox raised the bar on TV musicals Sunday night with its ambitious, wildly energetic and mostly entertaining Grease: Live.
Stl Today
4.5
But thats a pretty high bar and each acquitted themselves more than admirably.
Cleve Land
1.5
It wasnt perfect what stage show is but it came off like, ahem, Greased Lightning.
Sltrib
1.5
It didnt make sense with Frankie Valli, and it doesnt make sense today.
The Verge
4.5
Still, the greatest asset of this Grease may have been its utter lack of pretense, as it channeled retro sitcoms and classic TV variety shows.
Tv Insider
2.0
Director Kail, his crew, and the cast gave audiences an incredible new take on Grease that lives up to the original but also stands on its own.
Showbiz Junkies
1.5
Dannys slightly embarrassed by being in love and doesnt want his friends to see him out.
Cosmopolitan
3.8
Still, regardless of its flaws, Grease: Live was fantastic television.
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