Deadline: I suppose you could say they had me at the umbrellas. Over two years in the planning and threatened by heavy rains all day, Fox’s sprawling presentation of Grease Live went forward Sunday evening with nary a hitch and one last-minute change in the out-of-doors opening number that paid tribute to the greatest movie musical of all time, Singin’ In The Rain. As singer Jessie J led the cameras across the soundstage from a brief opening scene onto the Warner Bros backlot, we were brought outside where the rain finally held off but the streets were puddled and the cast sported bright umbrellas for the opening number, Barry Gibb’s “Grease Is The Word.” Announcer Mario Lopez introduced the cast with an ad lib, “and our special guest of the evening, El Niño.”
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