Vanessa Hudgens performs in Grease

These choices neither enhanced Grease: Live nor seriously detracted from it, but they did add to the clunkiness of a production so obviously trying to avoid the pitfalls that NBC’s live musicals have been criticized for.

The cast of Fox’s “Grease: Live” goes together like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong. And speaking of being outside…

Fox is already working on a live version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, with Adam Lambert. But hey – that’s nothing a tent can’t fix!

GREASE: LIVE reintroduced and reimagined some of the show’s most memorable moments, great music and timeless love story to an entirely new generation.

Vanessa Hudgens just had to look to the bleachers for support during Grease: Live. Hudgens’ father had died from cancer just hours before the production. As Rizzo, Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical) demonstrated the theatrical chops that recently earned her the starring role in an ill-fated Broadway revival of Gigi, capturing her character’s combination of ice-cool composure and crushing insecurity.

The report claims that Hudgens had a fill in ready to take her place in case anything had happened, but she refused and went on with the show as planned.

Sandy’s remark is a clear and harmless dig at ABC’s hit program, which Hough competed on for five seasons (winning two of them) before re-joining the show as judge in 2014. “Grease Live!” was very popular on the social media front as well, with the performance garnering 1.397 million tweets during the 8-11 p.m. ET window, according to marketing technology company Amobee Brand Intelligence – just a smidge more than the 1.374 million tweets for NBC’s “Wiz Live!” in December. And we’re totally learning every, single one of those dance numbers!

How much do you want to bet there’s a meeting going on at NBC as we speak about how they’re going to compete with this in their production of Hairspray later this year? “I wouldn’t expect anything less @VanessaHudgens is killing it!“.

With live television, literally ANYTHING could happen!

Behind-the-scenes footage shot during commercial breaks and shown on Facebook revealed wet golf carts zipping along slick pavement to move actors and cameras between sets. Could imagine if that actually did happen?! “I am so sad to say that last night my daddy, Greg passed away from stage 4 cancer“, she wrote. The 10-minute sequence was impressive with the dancing, costume changes, set changes, crowd work – we loved it all! Up against an nearly full night of competition from its fellow Big 4 networks and the NFL’s Pro Bowl, Grease Live scored a 7.4/11 in metered market results for Fox last night.