Increasingly in the USA, networks are broadcasting live
musicals. They seem to be bringing in generally good reviews and ratings
boosts, however, last night’s ‘Grease: Live’ took everything to a whole new
level.
Simply put, the show was electrifying; an absolute knockout.
The shining star of the evening was Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo
who utterly embodied the mantra ‘the show must go on’. Hudgens tweeted on the
morning of the performance that her father, Greg Hudgens, had died as a result
of stage 4 cancer. With absolute professionalism and total fearlessness, she
stole the show in dedication to her late father. Her version of ‘There are
worse things I could do’ was spine-tingling and poignant. She offered a real
layer of vulnerability to the otherwise outspoken and brazen Rizzo with enough
conviction to make even the coldest heart warm.
