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Interview: PINK LADIES Stars Tricia Fukuhara & Ari Notartomaso on How Musical Theatre Prepared Them For the GREASE Prequel
May 17, 2024
BroadwayWorld caught up with Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies stars Tricia Fukuhara and Ari Notartomaso to discuss how their musical theatre training prepared them for the new series, what muical numbers they're most looking forward to other people seeing, and more. Watch the new video interview now!
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Hi guys, how are you? Good, how are you Michael? Hi. Good, I am so excited to speak with the both
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of you today. Starting out, I think both of you have some experience in musical theatre
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if I'm correct. So what was it like getting to bring those skills to the big screen for the series
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It was so satisfying. I mean, we both went to school for musical theatre. I graduated in 2020
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so it's very fresh on my mind. And it's such a great experience to be able to bring all the
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things that you learned and all the things that you've loved your whole life, like all the iconic
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musical theatre performers that have existed, and then be able to create your own character and be
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that for yourself. It's amazing. It's incredible. I feel like I've trained my whole life for this
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moment. And I also felt like I would never have this opportunity on screen. You can do musicals
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but it's not too often that you get to do like several musicals. It's almost like we're doing 10
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musicals for this. So it's really exciting to be able to showcase everything that we love and that
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we hold so dear to our heart for the world to see. Yeah, I mean, and the musical numbers in this
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series are stellar. Do you guys have a favourite one that you can't wait for audiences to see when
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the series comes out? I have to choose? I don't know what we're allowed to say. Oh, yeah
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In the, I love Grease is the Word. I love Grease is the Word. That one you've seen before. In the
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trailer, which is out, there's a moment in an auto body shop, and featuring this one right here
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And I think that is absolutely a standout number. And I would say that's one of my favourites
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Amazing. I didn't say what it was. Yeah, but you might be seeing it very soon. Yes. Well
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I'm sure everyone is going to love them. As two musical theatre professionals, I'm sure you guys
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are fans of the original Grease movie. So what was it like getting to create it for a new generation
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in the series? Yeah, it's kind of scary. Like knowing that Grease has such a huge part, it's
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such a huge part of our culture. And it's so many people have have watched this show or this movie
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their whole life and know these characters and these and these like social groups and the
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expectations for Grease are really high. They obviously set the bar incredibly high. And I think
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what's been so great is the thankfully Annabelle has given us these characters that are very
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different than than any of the characters in original Grease. None of us are trying, there
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was no expectation of us to be like them or to be those characters. And like, we get to be, you
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know, play these characters in our own specific way and make our own choices. And it's been so
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so amazing to do with like this cast of people. It's such an ensemble show. So we all get to play
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off each other. It's just like, it's just the best time. It really is. Yeah, there's so much
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nostalgia too. And you're right, there's a lot of responsibility. But with that responsibility comes
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great pride that we have in our work that we are doing. And just knowing that it's going to be
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different. These characters are different. We're not the same. We're not we're not trying to recreate anything either. It's not a reboot. It's something totally unique and special. And all of
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these stories are going to be so exciting for everyone to see. And they're going to see themselves
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in it. We're really excited for everyone to watch. Good morning, boys and girls
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Thank you for the best summer of my short life. And welcome to the 1954 to 55 school year. Olivia, save your seat for my lap
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Sure to be our greatest year at Rydale, yes. We promised Roy and Bill we'd eat lunch with them
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today. To end the divisions among us. I want to be a T-Bird. And become a truly united Rydale
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He told me exactly what you did to get that jacket. It's not as bad as it seems. These things blow over. Maybe for you. There are a lot of kids in
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Rydale who are sick of feeling like they're not welcome here. I know what it feels like to not be
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like the others. We have to think big, really change things. Everyone already thinks we're
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such bad girls. Watch out fellas, it's a girl game. We're not girls, we're ladies. The Pink Ladies
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We're gonna need some jackets. The Pink Lady pledge is to act cool, to look cool, and to be
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cool. Till death do us part, think pink. The world's changing, boys
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Maybe sometimes you gotta be bad to do good
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