Airdate: Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies
US musical series inspired by the stage and movie musicals to premiere in April.
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New US musical series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies will premiere on Paramount+ in April.
The 10 part stars Marisa Davila as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia, Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy, Shanel Bailey as Hazel, Madison Thompson as Susan, Johnathan Nieves as Richie, Jason Schmidt as Buddy, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Wally and Jackie Hoffman as Asst. Principal McGee.
The musical series takes place four years before the original Grease; in 1954 before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up, outcasts dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever.
Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies is written and executive produced by Annabel Oakes (Atypical, Transparent), who also serves as showrunner and director. Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey executive produce for Temple Hill, Adam Fishbach also executive produces, and Alethea Jones (Made For Love, Dollface, Evil) directed the pilot plus two more episodes and executive produces. Erik Feig and Samie Kim Falvey executive produce via PictureStart, and it’s produced by Grace Gilroy. Choreography by Jamal Sims, who also directed, and music by Grammy award nominee and executive music producer Justin Tranter.
Friday, 7 April on Paramount+ and continues weekly.
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I’m not a fan of Grease but this looks too woke for my tastes
I read about it and saw this on YouTube and I hope as a “prequel” (not always successful) to the classic Grease I they do justice to it. As an aging rocker myself and proudly showing my age with that, I will be interested to listen to the new songs written for the show hoping they do justice to the era along with the music from Grease itself. Rock and Roll ruled our house way before 1954 which was the year “officially” RR gained that term. RR was around in 1940s (1934 song did have the term RR in it) being a mixture/fusion of Jazz, Jump Blues, RNB, BW, Country and Gospel. All of which propelled the music and the industry into what we enjoy today.
And Grease songs penned in early 70s (extra film tracks a bit later), but echoing the 50s.
Thanks for that David I use Tunefind.com to track songs (rather than buy albums) from TV/Movies shows to add to my playlists.