DL Fave Aaron Tveit *IS* Danny Zuko!

I wonder who their first choice was?

Uh oh. They use the word "re-imagining" in the article describing the project. That's never a good thing.

They couldn't get a name people recognize?

Hmmm. I love Aaron, but high-definition TV is very unforgiving.

I hope they keep the scene where Danny jogs past Sandy in his short-shorts. Aaron looks quite handsome without pants

I wish they would stick with the original score. I don't need "Hopelessly Devoted To You" and "You're The One That I Want" Leave those for the movie.

I bet they get David Burka for Kenickie. Gayest Grease evah!

[quote]I hope they keep the scene where Danny jogs past Sandy in his short-shorts.

Keep it? It wasn't in the play to begin with.

[quote]I wish they would stick with the original score.

Me too. If they prefer the movie, why not simply show the movie?

[quote]Uh oh. They use the word "re-imagining" in the article describing the project. That's never a good thing.

Maybe they'll reset it in graduate school, considering the ages.

CZJ as Rizzo

R9 W&W

He's no ME!

NO, NO , NO,Wrong choice...It should have been NICK JONAS

Luv. Huh.

I'm still the right age to reprise my starmaking role as Marty Maraschino! And I still can't sing or dance!

I agree with Nick all the way!

They tried. Why do you think it took so long to announce the male lead after Hough and Hudgins? He played Link at the Hollywood Bowl in "Hairspray" and he wasn't so good but he didn't get great reviews for H2 either. But he has the name but also now a hit recording career so no go.

[quote] They tried. Why do you think it took so long to announce the male lead after Hough and Hudgins? He played Link at the Hollywood Bowl in "Hairspray" and he wasn't so good but he didn't get great reviews for H2 either. But he has the name but also now a hit recording career so no go

Okie, Cool not a fan of Aaron but we'll see?

Who is Aaron Tveit?

Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo and Julianne Hough as Sandy? Aaron Tveit as Danny?

This is going to flop.

Is there a part for me?

Allison can play boys, so she can be Kenickie

Since this is on Fox, I assume the devil spawn of the Fox and Friends hosts will want parts.

big dick!

Eugene Levy should play the coach.

john travolta wishes he could hit that

Aaron does not use filler on his nasal-labial folds, so he is obviously straight.

He also looks like a tool.

Maybe Travolta for the coach

Being rewritten by Jon Tolins, author of Buyer and Cellar, and his husband. Should be supergay.

31?! Bitch looks 45, if a day.

Will I get to play my part? I still look young enough.

[quote]Gayest Grease evah!

The original wasn't exactly the butchest thing on two wheels.

What's the point if they're revising the book again? And the score will just get bowdlerized. This really needs to be on cable.

Who cares about the actors, score or script? I just want Tveit in tight jeans displaying his fabulous ass and legs!!

[quote] Who cares about the actors, score or script?

I like how you think, R33.

[quote] I hope they keep the scene where Danny jogs past Sandy in his short-shorts. Keep it? It wasn't in the play to begin with.

I saw the original back in '76 and do not remember whether or not that scene was in the play, but it was in the Papermill production.

But then again, so was 'Hopelessly Devoted to You', and the title song

He's cute, but no way he could pass as a high-school senior.

[quote]He's cute, but no way he could pass as a high-school senior.

There's a reason professional productions of this usually use adults. Mainly the content.

R37 my high school did GREASE in the 1990s.

[quote] Being rewritten by Jon Tolins, author of Buyer and Cellar, and his husband. Should be supergay.

And superawful.

I liked Michael Urie, but otherwise I was not impressed with "Buyer and Cellar."

I always like pronouncing his name "teh-vit" in my head even though that's not right and the real pronunciation is sexier

On the old MTM show, Mary's friend from camp visits and asks her to be her maid of honor. She's marrying Arnold Tveit. Rhoda said some people just look like their names. Arnold looks like a Tveit.

[quote] She's marrying Arnold Tveit. Rhoda said some people just look like their names. Arnold looks like a Tveit.

Get it right, bitch!

Aaron w/ James Franco

Women Fight... for Aaron Tveit!

The bland leading the blond.

Notice how in R43's animated GIF, Franco's hand limply hovers over his skin with wan disinterest. What lame acting.

I wasn't interested in this production until they cast Aaron. As long as he's at least partially clothed in one scene, I'll be happy!

This seems somewhat strange casting; think they should have gone with someone a little more "street"...

[quote] He's cute, but no way he could pass as a high-school senior.

FWIW, Barry Bostwick and Adrienne Barbeau were 27 when the original show opened.

But you can get away with a lot more in the theater than on hi-def TV

Milquetoast Aaron was so miscast as a student revolutionary in Les Mis. The only protest he could lead is fighting for gluten-free cupcakes at the student union.

Apparently Billy Magnussen was in talks, and was 'rumored' on Imdb for a while but somehow that fell through

Couldn't they have cast someone who doesn't look like he's old enough to have a kid in high school?

R7, the scene where Danny joins the track team for Sandy's sake and we see him jogging on stage in shorts was definitely in the original Broadway production of GREASE, but thanks anyway.

I totally agree that Nick Jonas would have been a much better choice for Danny, as far as both age and type. Aaron Tveit has a nice body but his face is actually kind of goofy, plus he's so bland and so white bread, which is the opposite of what Danny is supposed to be.

Sadly, R52, Aaron Tveit is what Danny Zuko almost always ends up being in productions of Grease....a very bland, pretty, very stereotypical theater boy.

It looks like the Danny casting is becoming like what the Tony casting in WSS became.

[quote] Aaron Tveit is what Danny Zuko almost always ends up being in productions of Grease....a very bland, pretty, very stereotypical theater boy

Not always

Actually, r44, that would be "Women wait for Aaron Tveit."

His face looks like he's on the Trudy so he doesn't get the AIDS

His nasolabial folds are crazy deep for someone his age. He looks protease-y.

Will he dye his hair black?

I'd like to see every place on his body where hair grows.

R58 and R59 you are disgusting.

I would have said proteasesque. Sounds klassier.

R50 Cupcakes or fresh-baked cookies?

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