Rotten Tomatoes Ranks 8 TV Musical Adaptations (Sorry, ‘Dirty Dancing’)

Jessica Napoli
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GREASE: LIVE: L-R: Aaron Tveit and Julianne Hough

A little song, a little dance, and it’s live? What’s not to love about Broadway and Hollywood’s best musicals hitting the small screen?

Rotten Tomatoes, the movie and TV review website, complied a list of the TV’s top musicals based on their certified Fresh—or Rotten—rating.

The Wiz Live! (NBC): Fresh at 92%
Grease: Live! (FOX): Fresh at 91%
Hairspray Live! (NBC): Fresh at 79%
The Passion (FOX): Fresh at 60%
Peter Pan Live! (NBC): Rotten at 59%
The Sound of Music Live! (NBC): Rotten at 44%
The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again (FOX): Rotten at 28%
Dirty Dancing (ABC): Rotten at 20%

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    OrangeMagnet

    Really?

    "Peter Pan" was much worse than "The Sound of Music"!

    Though I liked "The Wiz" much better than the movie version.

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      CyanCoathanger

      Both Peter Pan and The Sound of Music were abysmal to me, and I'd put The Wiz much lower on the list.

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      OrangeMagnet

      I kept wishing Audra MacDonald could sing Maria, but she is too old.

      Otherwise, it was good.

      Peter Pan was just miscast all the way for the two leads.

      Christopher Walken looked and sounded like he was sleepwalking.

      Didn't watch Grease, Hair spray or Dirty Dancing.

      And The Passion had some weird song choices.

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      CyanCoathanger

      I'd rate both Grease and Hairspray very high for what they were. I didn't like Dirty Dancing (I didn't like the movie to begin with), so I just peeked at it to see what was going on.

      Believe it or not, I once saw Marie Osmond in The Sound of Music, and she was quite good. I don't know who I'd cast in it today.

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