Grease (Live) is the word

On Sunday 31 January 2016, Grease Mania hit the states with a star studded live broadcast. The show and it's audience went together like Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong. In fact it was such a success that ITV 2 decided to show it here in the UK on Wednesday 3 February 2016 and that went down like Shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom.

 
This map takes 9,000 tweets with the hashtags: #Grease, #GreaseLive or directed at the official Twitter page; @GoGrease. The Pink Lady themed dotted show just how many of us around the world sat down to Grease Live this week. 

Grease is still placed quite nicely among twitter trends showing that even 38 years after it's initial release in 1978, Grease is still very much the word:

People were excited over the star-studded cast:

Grease live cast keeps getting better.. Aaron Tveit and now Joe Jonas😻😻

— lauren (@YardleyLaurenx) February 3, 2016

Crying tears of joy bc this Grease live cast 😭❤️ pic.twitter.com/QJJofRddh3

— Kayli (@KayliReeses) January 27, 2016

100% serious question... Is Julianne Hough really singing? Because if so then wow she can seriously do it ALL! #GreaseLive

— nick tangorra (@nicktangorra) February 1, 2016

Some got a bit ahead of themselves:

I know I need to sleep because we're watching Grease:Live and I started crying during the intro because I was so excited

— Aubrey Winn (@aubreywin) February 4, 2016

The majority of tweets showed that people loved Grease's new look:

@bastilledan Grease is goals. #lol

— BastilleBilly_BazzyB (@willyfarquarson) February 3, 2016

So much love for Grease! So many amazing memories! Miss that bunch of people so much! #firstjob

— Emma Kingston (@emkingston) February 3, 2016

Only caught the last 30 mins but Grease Live is astonishingly good. So slick. Come on UK, what you gonna do to top it? We've got the talent!

— Matt Hemley (@MattHemley) February 3, 2016

Consider this: If “grease" is the word, how is it possible that “bird" could also be the word?

— Ben Howe (@BenHowe) February 3, 2016

Grease Live 😍😍😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

— Jessica Daley (@jessicacaca7) February 3, 2016

 I haven't had a chance to watch it myself yet but I rushed home to record it when I learned it would be playing on ITV2. Despite that, I have heard a lot of feedback about Vanessa Hudgens, who played Rizzo. Miss Hudgens made an announcement hours before going on stage:

I am so sad to say that last night my daddy, Greg passed away from stage 4 cancer. Thank you to everyone who kept him in your prayers.

— Vanessa Hudgens (@VanessaHudgens) January 31, 2016

Tonight, I do the show in his honor.

— Vanessa Hudgens (@VanessaHudgens) January 31, 2016

She mostly certainly made him proud: