*Chris Plante: *2016: the year the live musical broadcast arms race began. Last night, Fox responded to a trilogy of successful NBC musicals with Grease: Live. The celebrity-dipped three-hour event didn’t reach the heights of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John in a flying car, but it scaled the low bar set by NBC’s versions of The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz. Those live shows stranded their rosters of talented singers and actors in front of a few crummy flats and a rear-projection system; Grease: Live opted for a more cinematic approach, connecting the dots between the live-to-tape soap operas of the 1940s and the "live music videos" you see at contemporary MTV awards shows.
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