Who Watched Grease Live?

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What did you think? I positively loved it. Online, I saw people complaining that Danny Zukko was not John Travolta. Honestly, I think the actor who played Danny did a great job and was trying hard NOT to be John Travolta. There is only one John Travolta and he would have been a fool to try and copy him - though he came pretty darn close. (The person complaining on Facebook was told by others to "turn the channel" and "stop being a Debbie Downer"). A lot of the lines were word for word from the original movie (yes, I know the movie word for word, song for song). I liked what was probably an adlibbed line about unexpected rain because it was raining in L.A. and the opening scenes were filmed outside... in the rain. And if you caught any of the scenes between scenes (you can find them on Facebook on the Grease Live page) you'd seen the actors running out into the rain to the trams that took them from one sound stage to another. Audio dropped for a bit during the live feed on the eastern channel but they got it fixed for the re-air on the western feed. Yup, I'm watching it again. The principal played almost identically to the one in the movie. She was great! I couldn't for the life of me figure out who the mechanics teacher was. She looked so familiar. I looked her up and was surprised to see that it was none other than Eve Plumb - Jan from the original Brady Bunch t.v. show. Apparently she was in the Broadway version of Grease. In searching around I learned that Kinicki (originally played by Jeff Conaway) was one of the stars who competed on the last season of Dancing With The Stars. I saw a comment that Vanessa Hudgeons (who played Rizzo) did great "considering". Considering what, I did not know. But she nailed Rizzo. Further searching led me to learn that Vanessa's father passed away YESTERDAY! But the show must go on, and go it did. What a great movie. Grease has always been one of my favourites and I thought I might be disappointed with the movie because The Sound of Music Live was a bit of a disappointment (but then, it was the first time a live movie was tried so I let them off the hook a bit - Peter Pan was worse). Anyone have any comments to add?