Tommy Garcia/FOX(Brand-new YORK) — For 5 months in 2014, pop singer Carly Rae Jepsen starred on Broadway in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. However she says even that live theater experience didn’t make her role as Frenchy in tonight’s two-hour extravaganza Grease Live! any kind of easier.
“Cinderella was a excellent discovering process for me, However I can’t say that anything could totally plan me for Grease Live,” Jepsen tells ABC Radio. “‘Cause Grease Live! is a whole Brand-new beast!” She explains, “It’s adding camerawork, it’s adding a various degree of choreography and merely all of these Brand-new challenges that I locate actually exciting.”
Grease Live! additionally stars Julianne Hough as Sandy, Aaron Tveit as Danny, Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo, Keke Palmer as Marty, and Carlos PenaVega as Kenickie. There additionally are appearances by Mario Lopez, British pop star Jessie J — who’ll sing the 1978 #1 strike Grease on Sunday night — and 1990s R&B trio Boyz II Men, that serenade Carly’s Frenchy along with “Beauty School Dropout.”
“There’s an optimism to Frenchy which I locate pretty endearing,” Jepsen tells ABC Radio. “In our story, she’s the one that threads Sandy in to the Pink Ladies and actually wishes everyone to be friends and get hold of along.” However being convincing as a 1950s teen didn’t come naturally to Carly.
“I believe I came in to my character once I got a few of the costumes tried on,” she tells ABC Radio. “And the period piece bras, the crazy hair, the nails, the pencil skirts — all that makes you walk, talk and act differently and that actually actually helped along with the character as well.”
Also assisting was the presence of Didi Conn, that played Frenchy in the 1978 movie Grease and that returns in Sunday night’s production in a various role. “I bonded along with her day one of meeting her,” Jepsen tells ABC Radio. “We were listening to ‘Beauty School Dropout’ and we were the two type of crying happy tears together.”
“She’s revealed up on set bringing the original Frenchy Pink Lady coat and allow me attempt it on,” she adds. “[She’s] merely a very, pretty generous spirit and I feel enjoy I gained a great deal of self-confidence from having her suggestions as I’ve been through this process.”
In that scene, Jepsen gets to perform a song that was written merely for this production. It’s called “Angel” and the “Call Me Maybe” singer says she was “so honored” to have the ability to get hold of the possibility to do it.
“It’s a beautiful moment. It’s sort of a beat prior to the Boyz II Men come down from heaven and make all of my dreams come true and Frenchy’s merely type of sitting alone and she’s merely sort of reflecting regarding needing this guidance,” she says.
Since Grease debuted as a stage musical in 1971, it’s been through very a couple of iterations, However Jepsen says it’s the universal themes of the storyline that always will certainly appeal to people, no matter exactly what era they grew up in.
“I believe it’s the classic, very-hard-to-not-fall-in-love-along with story of good girl goes a little bad,” she laughs. “I believe it’s a coming of age story for all these friends, and that belief that they’re gonna continue to be connected throughout…that sort of childlike suggestion that this is gonna be exactly what life is forever.”
Grease Live! airs on Fox Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET.
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