Book by: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey
Music & lyrics by: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey
Synopsis: Based on the sub-cultures of high school life in the 1950's. The show takes place at the hyperactive Rydell High School, where Danny Zuko fronts his gang - the raucous T-Birds - who romance their sassy female equivalents - the Pink Ladies. When 'good-girl' Sandy Dumbrowski arrives in town, the Pink Ladies take her under their collective wing.
NEW YORK TIMES:
“Feels like a musical put on by a high school — and I don’t mean a high school of performing arts."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS:
"Without magnetic performances, interest wanes in whether Danny and Sandy will couple up. Chills don't start multiplying, antsiness does."
NEW YORK POST:
"All told, I've seen worse - but then, I've been attending the theater for more than 65 years, so "worse" is a very well-thumbed comparative."
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NEWSDAY:
"How anything can be so perky and yet so bland is yet another mystery for the ages." & "It appears that the rest of the company was cast to keep the youngsters from looking bad in comparison."
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NEW YORK SUN:
"They are (Laura Osnes & Max Crumm), we have been reminded ad nauseam, the ones that we wanted, and they are the ones that we got. (They are also, to be fair, no less ready for the big time than many of the C-list celebrities that were plunked into the even shoddier - and hugely popular - 1990s revival of "Grease.")"
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BLOOMBERG:
"And what about those tried-and-TV-tested leads? Laura Osnes, young but already possessed of serious theatrical credits, is an enchanting Sandy...But, alas, the televictorious Danny, Max Crumm (isn't the very name a warning?), is physically unfavored, falls somewhere between a dork and a goon, and is unable to evince the slightest chemistry with his delightful Sandy."
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ASSOCIATED PRESS:
"As Danny, Max Crumm gives a cautious performance, vocally OK but short on swagger and sex appeal. Laura Osnes nicely gets Sandy's transformation, morphing with enthusiasm from good girl to bad babe... Osnes also sings well and throws herself into Marshall's spirited choreography."
HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:
"Tackily produced and utterly lacking the sort of fun comic spark that the original production and certainly the movie possessed (though not the most recent Broadway revival in 1994), this is a "Grease" that only will be appreciated by young TV viewers who don't know any better."
VARIETY:
"The most dismal thing about this "Grease" is that aside from the two discoveries plucked from a mediocre TV talent pool and thrust into this sorry walk-through, no-one appears to be trying very hard. Like the drag-queeny wig slapped on Sandy when she finally conforms to the cool-kid ethos by unleashing the bad-girl within to win Danny, it all seems somewhat counterfeit."
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