The First-Ever Live Television Production of the Iconic Musical
GREASE is Available Now on Digital HD!
GREASE LIVE!
DVD Debuts March 8, 2016 with Exclusive Bonus Features
Grease is the word! The landmark, live television production of the beloved musical
Grease makes its home entertainment debut with GREASE LIVE! now available on Digital HD and coming to DVD March 8, 2016 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. Hailed by critics as “the best
Grease ever” (Darren Franich, EW.com) and “a big old win in every
possible column” (Amber Dowling, The Wrap), the live event produced by
Paramount Television garnered an average of 12.2 million viewers,
delivering Fox’s largest overall audience of the
season. GREASE LIVE! also ranks as the #1 most viral live musical event ever, based on unique posts and audience impressions on social media.
Featuring a young ensemble cast,
GREASE LIVE! reintroduces and reimagines some of the
show’s most memorable moments, great music and timeless love story to an
entirely new generation. The production
draws upon both the original 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and
Warren Casey and Paramount’s 1978 feature film adaptation to create a
never-before-seen version with many modern surprises.
The sensational cast includes Julianne Hough (Safe Haven, Rock of Ages) as the angelic Sandy; Aaron Tveit (“Graceland,”
Les Miserables) as bad boy Danny Zuko; Vanessa Hudgens (Broadway's Gigi,
Spring Breakers) as bad girl Rizzo; Keke Palmer (“Scream Queens,”
“Masters of Sex”) as sassy Pink Lady Marty Maraschino; Carlos PenaVega
(“Big Time Rush”) as Kenickie; and multi-Platinum Grammy®
Award-nominated singer and songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen
as Pink Lady and beauty school dropout Frenchy.
The production also features special cameo appearances by
multi-platinum pop superstar Joe Jonas and his pop-disco band DNCE as
Johnny Casino and the Gamblers; actor and television
host Mario Lopez as Vince Fontaine in the iconic high school dance
scene; and Grammy Award®-winning R&B group Boyz II Men as Teen
Angel, singing “Beauty School Dropout.” Plus, two stars from the
original 1978 film
Grease, Didi Conn (Frenchy) and Barry Pearl (Doody), also make appearances.
The
GREASE LIVE! DVD boasts exclusive bonus features including
a behind-the-scenes look at the monumental efforts behind the live
production, the actors’ transformations into their characters, the
choreography, cast interviews and more.
GREASE LIVE!
DVD
The GREASE LIVE! DVD is presented in 16x9 widescreen with English 2.0 Dolby Digital. The disc includes the following:
·
Live television production
·
Without a Net: Performing GREASE LIVE!
·
Becoming the “T-Birds” and Pink Ladies
·
Greasin’ up the Joint
·
Be-Bop, Swing and Jitterbug: The Choreography of
GREASE LIVE!
·
When Was Your First…?
·
My Favorite Grease Moment
GREASE LIVE! was produced by Paramount Television. Acclaimed film, television and theater producer Marc Platt (Wicked, Into the Woods) served as executive producer; Tony Award-nominated director Thomas Kail (Hamilton, In the Heights)
was the director overseeing the stage direction and Alex Rudzinski
(“Dancing with the Stars”) was the live television director. The live
television adaptation was written by Broadway writers Robert Cary (Anything but Love, Ira & Abby) and Jonathan Tolins
(Buyer & Cellar, The Last Sunday in June).
About Paramount Home Media Distribution
Paramount
Home Media Distribution (PHMD) is part of Paramount Pictures
Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed
entertainment. PPC is a unit
of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), home to premier media brands that create
television programs, motion pictures, consumer products, and digital
content for audiences in 180 countries and territories. The PHMD
division oversees PPC’s home entertainment and transactional
digital distribution activities worldwide. The division is responsible
for the sales, marketing and distribution of home entertainment content
on behalf of Paramount Pictures, Paramount Animation, Paramount Vantage,
Paramount Classics, MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy
Central and CBS and applicable licensing and servicing of certain
DreamWorks Animation titles. PHMD additionally manages global licensing
of studio content and transactional distribution across worldwide
digital distribution platforms including online, mobile
and portable devices and emerging technologies.
About Paramount Television
Paramount
Television develops and finances a wide range of creative television
programming across all media platforms. Paramount Television is part of
Paramount
Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed
entertainment. PPC is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), a global
content company with premier television, film and digital entertainment
brands.
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