Grease: Live (TV)

"Director Thomas Kail's ambition will be hard to top for future live TV musicals." 

"It was (...) so solidly and smartly crafted that the dullness of the central duo didn’t matter all that much. Kail and fellow director Alex Rudzinski (...) gave the affair energy and momentum, their cast was game and their commitment never lagged." 

"It was an exuberant, technically audacious staging." 

"'Grease: Live' was a lesson in what a televised musical ought to look like in the 21st century: able to keep all eyes on the screen rather than the Twitter feed." 

"[It] was so expertly executed and choreographed visually and exuberantly performed by most of the actors that it more than compensated for its flaws." 

"The actors did fine, but the characters and their arcs became secondary (...) This, in other words, was a show that was more about individual moments than about building a story."