Meet Grease‘s First-Ever Pink Ladies in Trailer for Paramount+ Prequel Series
Who’s up for a trip back to 1954?
Paramount+ on Tuesday released the official trailer for Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, its new musical series about the origins of Rydell High’s first girl gang.
“In 1954, before rock ‘n’ roll ruled, before the T-Birds were the coolest in the school, four fed-up outcasts dare to have fun on their own terms, sparking a moral panic that will change Rydell High forever,” reads the official logline. That much is made clear in the trailer, which also gives us our first taste of some of the original songs being performed on the show.
The leading ladies — Marisa Davila as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Ari Notartomaso as Cynthia and Tricia Fukuhara as Nancy — were all on hand for the premiere of the trailer during Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
Rise of the Pink Ladies also stars Shanel Bailey as Hazel, Madison Thompson as Susan, Johnathan Nieves as Richie, Jason Schmidt as Buddy, Maxwell Whittington-Cooper as Wally and Jackie Hoffman as Asst. Principal McGee.
Paramount+’s Grease prequel premieres Thursday, April 6. Hit PLAY on the video above to meet the “new” (old?) Pink Ladies, then drop a comment with your thoughts below. Will you be watching?
I’m surprised by how good this actually looks!
Sounds and looks awful. Hard pass.
I have qualms about this new series.
The movie “Grease” is iconic.
“Grease 2” failed miserably, which may show that “Grease” is in a class of its own.
If you’re a fan of Grease, I’d say you will not like this! This is definitely geared towards a younger generation & one who hasn’t watched the movie. I’ll pass.
I agree it looks like an updated version of the movie, with social issues that are unrealistic of it’s time. I will give it a few episodes as I tell myself that even ones that don’t look good can stand out. I would encourage you to maybe change your mind and watch at least the premiere and the first episode. As I mostly see the first episode as an introduction of a show and it’s characters.
Shows that are set in the past but written and cast like it’s 2023 are as common and terrible as all the gender/race swapping reboots we get nowadays.
My issue is more that the pink ladies that we see in Grease are verging on just arm-candy for the t-birds. What we are introducing is a girl gang that thinks and acts against the norms, that defies the stereotypes. How does that jive at all with what we know of the pink-ladies?
I could get behind this version I suppose, but I just don’t see why we would want a connection to the Grease universe it doesn’t match at all.
I liked the trailer, but the fact that it’s connected to Grease taints it. Because if the school is going through a diversity revolution, how can it tie in with the film, where it was very traditional and status quo as it started? It makes the arc of the film redundant.
Now there is a thought – if they made this a MODERN version of Rydell High rather than being set in 1954(!), it could work, and make so much more sense. All 4 of the original Pink Ladies are still with us and acting – make one of them a family member or close family friend of one of the new girls, who happens to run across her original jacket. New girl thinks it’s so cool, OG Pink Lady tells her the story, thus sparking the idea for a new generation of Pink Ladies.
This actually looks GREAT …. sort of Glee-ish for sure.
I am in.
I’ll be honest. I was going to pass. But. The trailer actually looks fun. I’m in. Might be interesting.
This looks terrible – a ‘woke’ Grease? You can’t just shoehorn the modern-day issues of 2023 up against the ‘morals & values’ of the mid-1950’s and expect it to make any kind of sense. Back then, anyone who was ‘different’ tried hardest to not draw attention to themselves, for fear of ridicule or much worse. I agree that it might be enjoyed by someone who’s never seen ‘Grease; or knows nothing about 1950’s America, especially if the singing and dancing are good. Heck, they should have just done a musical version of ‘Freaks & Geeks’, where this context would have made so much more sense.
It’s not a documentary, sunshine. You can tell by the fact that they burst into song with a full backing band—another thing that didn’t happen IRL in the 1950s.
Honey, I am as old as the hills, and have seen many a musical in my day. It’s just my humble opinion that these two ideas feel so forced together as to be a major distraction. I still think it would make more sense set in a modern Rydell High – please see my reply to Jordan above. 😊
Since you’ve used ‘woke,’ we all know exactly what you don’t want “forced” into this fictional iteration of the 1950s: brown people.
I tried to be nice. You don’t know me, now you’re just being mean. I thought that ‘woke’ is always used now to blanket ALL types of diversity. It’s not the diversity that bothers me, it’s the CONTEXT in which it’s being placed. Having a group of kids in 1954 act like a group of kids from 2023 is ridiculous, period. Make it Rydell High, circa 2023, call it The Return of the Pink Ladies, and you’ll have something that makes more sense.