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PEOPLE & ARTSWednesday 27 January 2016
Broadway and Hollywood mix for hybrid musical ‘Grease: Live’
SANDY COHEN Aaron Tveit, left, and Julianne Hough rehearse for “Grease: captured so many of us costume details near the
AP Entertainment Writer Live,” airing live Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 (7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT for so long is you do what face take on new signifi-
BURBANK, Calif. (AP) — Fox tape-delayed), on FOX. you do to make the show,” cance. Long has also been
is gearing up to give Broad- he said. “Our job is to cap- excited to incorporate real
way a serious dose of the (Kevin Estrada/FOX via AP) ture that and see if we can vintage pieces into the
Hollywood treatment. put it through some tubes stars’ wardrobes — items
“Grease: Live,” airing Sun- and Broadway veteran consecutive replays of the and send it into people’s that would be too delicate
day (7 p.m. EST), goes be- Aaron Tveit as Danny, has song “Hand Jive.” homes.” to hold up to the rigors of
yond other made-for-TV taken over Warner Bros. Fresh off the success of — 208: And that’s just the theater.
live musicals such as “The studios with its many sets his Broadway production number of costumes for the Because stars have to
Sound of Music” and “The and stages. “Hamilton” and his Tony show’s 52 extras. Hundreds do quick changes during
Wiz,” both of which were Here’s a look at this ambi- Award for “In the Heights,” more outfits were needed commercial breaks, many
huge hits for NBC. tious Paramount Television Kail is bringing his theater for the dozen main cast of the costumes are held
This hybrid of the stage and production by the num- talents to the production members, most of whom together with magnets.
movie musical blends the- bers: of “Grease: Live,” and he’s change outfits at least Some stars will also be
ater with film, with dynamic — 412: The number of times not daunted by its scope four times each, said Tony wearing layers of outfits on
camera movements cap- “Grease: Live” director and scale. Award-winning costume top of each other for what
turing the dance and dra- Thomas Kail can listen to “The spirit of theater that’s designer William Ivey Long, Long calls “magical trans-
ma on multiple sets housed who commandeered an formations that were not in
in two massive soundstag- entire empty soundstage the Broadway musical and
es. “The scale is insane,” on the Warner Bros. lot just were not in the film either.”
said TV director Alex Rudz- to house the show’s collec- — 45: The number of cam-
inski. “It’s almost half a kilo- tion of clothing. era positions needed to
meter from one end of the Creating costumes for this shoot scenes in disparate
site to the other.” live TV production is differ- locations from multiple
Cast and crew members ent than working onstage, angles. Using 20 cameras,
will rely on golf carts — or he said, where outfits have Rudzinski is doing some-
fast feet — to get between to be built “super-duper, thing almost unprecedent-
the stages during commer- eight-shows-a-week for ed in live TV: taking cam-
cial breaks. a year.” Because of this eras offline so they can be
“Grease: Live,” which stars show’s more cinematic ap- moved and reset for the
Julianne Hough as Sandy proach to photography, various scenes.q
