They’re very excited because for them, Grease is such an iconic part of each of their careers,” executive producer Marc Platt said. “They’ve both been enormously supportive and sent a lot of love, at least I’ve gotten from them. ![]() Joe Jonas & DNCE Added to ‘Grease: Live!’ CastĪlthough original film stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John will not take part in the revival, executive producer Marc Platt revealed he has been in touch with both. ![]() “We do have a moment where we have the generations staring at each other and having this really wonderful scene and that was pretty thrilling to watch to say the last and incredibly moving for all of us,” Kail said. In a “special twist,” Conn will play Vi, the waitress at the local malt shop who interacts with Frenchy, now played by pop singer Carly Ray Jepsen. pay respect to this thing that moved us, many of us, to end up doing this so we had a chance to reach out and have some of these members from the original cast who also were in some of the stage versions of it,” director Thomas Kail told reporters. Grease stars Didi Conn and Barry Pearl, who played Frenchy and Doody, respectively, in the 1978 film have joined the ensemble.
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