Vanessa Hudgens

Hot off her well-received performance in Fox’s Grease Live, Vanessa Hudgens has signed on as the lead of NBC’s superhero-themed comedy pilot Powerless, from A To Z creator Ben Queen and Warner Bros. TV.

She crafted a character with the perfect mix of bruised pride and vulnerable maturity, and performed the showstopper “There Are Worse Things I Could Do” with a kind of emotional dignity that deserves even more applause considering what was going on behind the scenes as she was performing: Hudgens’s father passed away the night before Grease went live. She dedicated her performance to him. That she managed such a star turn in spite of that is astonishing, and heartbreaking.

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