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(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 sort of easier.
“Cinderella was a wonderful understanding 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 simply all of these Brand-new challenges that I locate truly exciting.”
Grease Live! likewise stars Julianne Hough as Sandy, Aaron Tveit as Danny, Vanessa Hudgens as Rizzo, Keke Palmer as Marty, and Carlos PenaVega as Kenickie. There likewise 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 truly wishes everyone to be friends and grab 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 several of the costumes tried on,” she tells ABC Radio. “And the period piece bras, the crazy hair, the nails, the pencil skirts — every one of that makes you walk, talk and act differently and that actually truly helped along with the character as well.”
Also aiding 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 2 sort of crying happy tears together.”
“She’s revealed up on set bringing the original Frenchy Pink Lady coat and permit me attempt it on,” she adds. “[She’s] simply a very, pretty generous spirit and I feel love I gained a great deal of self-confidence from having her insight as I’ve been through this process.”
In that scene, Jepsen gets to perform a song that was written simply for this production. It’s called “Angel” and the “Call Me Maybe” singer says she was “so honored” to have the ability to grab the opportunity 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 simply sort of sitting alone and she’s simply sort of reflecting concerning needing this guidance,” she says.
Since Grease debuted as a stage musical in 1971, it’s been through rather a couple of iterations, However Jepsen says it’s the universal themes of the storyline that always will certainly appeal to people, no matter just 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 every one of these friends, and that belief that they’re gonna remain connected throughout…that sort of childlike pointer that this is gonna be just what life is forever.”
Grease Live! airs on Fox Sunday night at 7 p.m. ET.
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