Reality TV's Grease opens on Broadway
The latest revival of Grease, whose leads were chosen by audience vote on NBC's Grease: You're The One That I Want back in March, faced the critics last night at the prestigious Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
And those New York critics, who once could close a show with the tap of a typewriter key, had the big knives out. Already contemptuous of television and movie stars wedging themselves into Broadway shows to get the tourist dollar in the first place, what would you expect them to think of a show starring amateurs?
The New York Times: The effect is rather like one of those makeover shows in which everyday people are dressed and groomed to resemble red-carpet regulars and wind up looking like game but uneasy impostors...
The New York Post: This crass musical makes Legally Blonde seem like West Side Story... This is where the TV show hits the Broadway fan...
The New York Daily News: Americans may know how to choose pop singers, stand-up comics and ballroom dancers, but they have much to learn about picking Broadway stars... Part reality TV, Broadway revival and marketing gimmick... it all adds up to 2 1/4 hours of likable but lackluster entertainment...
Max Crumm won the role of the rebel Danny Zuko and Laura Osnes was selected to play goody-two-shoes Sandy Dumbroski by you-- us, the folks who might visit New York City and take in a Broadway show. What do the esteemed theatre critics think of our choices?
Oy. Read for yourself... after the jump...
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