Incoming Gigi Star Vanessa Hudgens & Dancing with the Stars' Julianne Hough Tapped for Fox's Grease: Live

Grease is the word for Vanessa Hudgens and Julianne Hough! The Broadway-bound Gigi star and Dancing With the Stars victor/judge will headline Fox’s previously reported live telecast of the musical as Rizzo and Sandy, respectively, according to Deadline. The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association Press Tour on January 17. The event, tentatively titled Grease: Live, will hit the small screen on January 31, 2016 (it had initially been scheduled for this year).

Hudgens is best known for playing Gabriella, love interest of Zac Efron's Troy, in Disney’s High School Musical movies. Recent screen credits include Bandslam and Spring Breakers. In 2010, she played Mimi in Rent at the Hollywood Bowl. Gigi will mark her Broadway debut this spring.

Hough, who took the gold in the fourth and fifth seasons of Dancing with Stars, and is now a permanent judge on the competition. She is no stranger to the movie musical, having appeared on screen in Burlesque, Footloose and Rock of Ages.

The popular tuner, which features a score and book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, follows teenagers in love during the soda shop culture of the 1950s. The show premiered on Broadway in 1972 and has been revived on Broadway twice since. The 1978 film adaptation starred John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John and Stockard Channing.