Fox Taps DWTS ‘s Julianne Hough for “Sandy” in “Grease Live”
Wow. You go girl. Good thing I wasn’t hoping for a part for Derek in this thing or that would be TWICE you crushed my dreams (see: Footloose). 😀 From Hollywood Reporter:
The network has tapped Footloose star Julianne Hough and High School Musical’s Vanessa Hudgens to co-star in its musical installment of Grease. In a bid to defeat the increasingly powerful DVR, the three-hour production from executive producer Marc Platt will air live at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016.
“Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy,” said Hough, a two-time Dancing with the Stars champion whose resume is lined with film, TV and music credits. “My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.”
This is gonna be fun -now I hopened with all my heart that derek does stuff like this as well and never ever ever return to that stupid dreadfull gross moroniic show called dwts. That man is so talented he deserves to be on broadway and movies. For all those people that keep saying that he “must” come back or should “come”back etc… ya’ll r being selfish. It’s not fair to D man.
Hope
if they want a good Danny I kinda hope they keep James Maslow in mind. Kinda awesome that they cast her though (someone had told me Ashley tisdale the other day and I was like “ugh”).
Wow. too awesome!!!! Congrats to Julianne!!!
Wow, good for her! This is huge! I would love to see Julianne in Grease!
#josi, it’s not fair to Derek? He is the one who is in control of his decision if he wants to come back to DWTS or not, not the audience. He clearly likes the show and likes to be apart of it, he says that all the time. 😉
Congrats, Jules! 🙂
Wow! What a wonderful opportunity for Jules! Congrats, Jules!
The audience has way more say in what Derek does than I would like. He specifically said more than once that he came back for Season 19 because of all the fans on MOVE Live begged him to. I don’t necessarily agree with how Josi put her comments, but I have to say – she has a point. Fans are selfish. They also tend to think small.
#Tamera the reason why he keeps coming back is becuse of what Heidi siad all the annoying selfish idiotic so called “fans” keep saying that he either has to or needs to etc…
Throughout the whole entire move tour selfish selfish people who only cared for themselves kept begging and demanding derek to come back. It was like he sorta ambushed. It was ridiculous. It’s starts to get old real fast. He dosent like to let fans down- but fans shouldnt call themselves fans if they r just plain stupid and selfish sorry not sorry – I call myslef a real fan of dereks because I enocurage him to do stuff that he really deep down wants to do I.e…. broadway etc… dwts has let him down seasons ago and has been throwing him under the bus for crap things. If u look at recent pics of Derek like at the aerie event he is absolutely beaming from head to toe. I have been a fan of his since 2010 and I have never seen him in such a happy state. And the rEason why he is so happy is bcause he’s getting to what he loves which is broadway. He is so much happier not being held down by dwts duties. He is even realizing it – he did say that he “would” be back for season 21 but that was before he got to NY 😉 broadway will not let him go so easily once hey see him shine on that stage in march and it will be the ssame with derek- he will have a hard time letting go because he loves it so much haha- he is loving his new chapter of his life so much – if ya’ll selfish people don’t see how happy he is now adays ya’ll need eye exams sorry not sorry hahahahaha
I was thinking about it last night and this production of grease could get interesting. John travolta signed on recently to star in American crime story on fx (aka a channel that is a spinoff of fox). If they could get him for the sid Caesar role (coach Calhoun) I would die. (Side note I am kinda obsessed with that movie and show and even was in it when my high school did it in my sophomore year….I can sing but I wasn’t Danny……I had like seven to twelve lines and got to be in a recreation of my favorite scene (“what car did you steal this from? Your mothers”) lol.)
Congrats to Julianne.
I don’t buy that poor Derek was manipulated in to doing dwts. Perhaps if he was sitting on the fence about it and he heard his fans who came to his show express how much they want to see him, maybe it tipped him into doing it, but if he wasn’t on the fence he couldn’t be tipped. Clearly there’s something about the pressure of being that creative on that tight timeline facing the challenges of whatever celeb he’s paired with, the idea of week after week creating a memorable performance that fuels something within him. If he didn’t get something out of it personally he wouldn’t do it since he’s free to decide. I just don’t buy it that by me stating that I personally prefer dwts when he’s on than not on that I’m being selfish and trying to ruin his future. I’m completely thrilled for him that he’s reaping the benefit of his hard work and that the wider world is recognizing his talent.
#josi, watch your words, please. If someone wants Derek back on DWTS isn’t an idiot or stupid, that’s just mean 😉 And if someone wants Derek back on DWTS, doesn’t mean that they’re not a fan. 😉 DWTS is a dance show. Yes, it’s a show and all the drama (Len vs. Derek) is because that’s the show. Yes, it’s annoying, but Derek gets that. Some of you clearly don’t.
You know what Derek wants deep down? Do you know him personally or how can you say that? And he looks pretty happy to me basically all the time 🙂 I do get your point, but your choice of words is very questionable. That’s why I commented your post.
And by the way – my name is Tamara, not Tamera. 😉
#tamAra sorry auto correct messed up ur name but I stand by my words about dwts and derek on broadway and fans being selfish. Sorry not sorry. And no I don’t no him on a personal level never siad that I jsut stated an opinion based on what I see and I see sunshine lots of great energy (more then last season when he was on dwts) and just a happy go happy man who is doing what he loves finally and I just hate that there r “fans” if that’s what u like to call them are trying to take that away from him by constantly demanding/asking he be back
It is RIdiculous and immature
Grease will be great live I think. Sound of Music was quite good live. Peter Pan was awful live. I think Grease will be a lot of fun live. Looking forward to it.
The one thing I will remeber for the rest of my life is the “are you a scary pirate” performance that walken did with the other pirate actors. I have never laughed so hard in my life. They were like “are you a scary pirate” and I’m like “nope”.
And Tamara, don’t tell other people how to post. Not your job. Josi, dial it back a notch or two.
I do agree with Josi when she says that Derek looks happier than he has in a long time. Was he manipulated into coming back? I don’t think anyone claimed that he was, although I confess I can only read so many typos and misspellings before I move on. But fans begging him at every stop certainly had an impact. We’re saying the same thing, Jess.
I will also say that it’s very possible that once he gets a taste of life outside DWTS, he might not come back. That didn’t happen last time, because I don’t think he found movie making exciting or challenging after the first week. He as much as said so.
Does anyone know which version of Grease? The stage production is different than the movie version
Sorry Heidi :))
Katy, I don’t know which version but if I had to guess I say an adaptation of the movie. That’s the one most people are familiar with.
I saw a touring production in the 90’s and remember it had several songs that I’d never heard before. Which was fine but I would imagine the producers of the TV version will go with the movie song list.
Either way this is a very smart musical to pick. People really have an emotional connection to the movie and I imagine it will get great ratings.
I’d like to put forward Cecily Strong from SNL for Rizzo. She’s got a great singing voice!
@katy: I saw the one they did with Laura oanes and whatever the guy who won was and they mixed the two. It was fun. My guess it would be that. Side note, I kinda am hoping that they get heather Morris to play frenchie. For some reason I feel like her and Julianne would have killer chemistry.