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As BroadwayWorld previously reported, GREASE: LIVE! director Thomas Kail and Production Designer David Korins joined BroadwayWorld and other media outlets on a conference call in which they revealed exciting details about the upcoming live broadcast. Among the big announcements, a live audience will not only be in attendance for the show, but will actually be participating in certain scenes!

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[Check out Production Designer David Korins' rendering of the 'Hand Jive' scene below!]

"My feeling always, about Grease, has been that the spirit of those companies and that film felt like a party and everybody was invited and that's really what we're trying to do with our production," explains Kail. "Because of the nature of the show and the musical comedy rhythms, one of the really early conversations Marc Platt and I had last fall was about how to try to capture that feeling that can exist in the theater and see if we can transmit and translate that... and really early on we settled on this idea that we could try to create and use and harness the energy of a live audience. "

Adds Korins, "When Tommy and Marc approached me about the project and they said we have this idea about infusing the show with a live studio audience because, you know, there's a lot of Grease that's really funny. There's an energy and an undeniable vitality that real humans give back to real humans that are performing that we want to try to capture and exploit." He continues, "We created some locations that are very real like the gymnasium and the front of Rydell High and things like that. There are moments in the show that blow up and move into heightened theatricality and we've tried to put people where people would exist... so in a pep rally or when we're seeing the hand jive we are going to flesh out the world with real giving-back audience members."

In certain instances, the audience will actually be immersed in the production. Kail shares, "The audience will function in multiple ways. There will be scenes that they are seen on screen as an audience in the way when you watch a live event like Dancing with the Stars and you see the audience and they are part of it, in a more traditional audience setting." He continues, "Then, there are certain scenes, when we go into the gym, where it is an immersive experience. It's a four wall set so there's a 360 degree opportunity for us to explore where they will function both as an audience and also as the people that would be populating the outside of a dance-the people that sat where I sat, that weren't quite brave enough to go and dance. They'll also be there and that's something that we think is going to give a certain dynamic energy to those scenes that allows all of those real reactions-when there is the big dance off, it has the ability to capture the energy and energy transfer between the audience and then the dancers and the actors that are telling the story in front of them. "

GREASE: LIVE airs on FOX, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 (7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT.

Julianne Hough ("Safe Haven," "Rock of Ages"), Vanessa Hudgens (GIGI, "High School Musical," "Spring Breakers") and Aaron Tveit (NEXT TO NORMAL, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN) will star in GREASE: LIVE, airing live on FOX, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 (7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed)

With Hough as the angelic "Sandy" - Rydell High's most talked-about newcomer, Hudgens as iconic bad girl "Rizzo," and Tveit as Danny Zuko, this first-ever live television production of "Grease" will re-imagine the hit crossover musical for an entirely new generation. Additionally, Carlos PenaVega ("Big Time Rush") will play "Kenickie," Zuko's tough-guy sidekick and Keke Palmer (Broadway's CINDERELLA, SCREAM QUEENS, "Masters of Sex") as "Marty."

GREASE: LIVE will be executive-produced by acclaimed film, television and theater producer Marc Platt. GREASE: LIVE is based on the original musical "Grease" by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, and Paramount Pictures' 1978 feature adaptation. It will be a Paramount Television production. Thomas Kail will direct.

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Live audience rendering for GREASE LIVE by Production Designer David Korins