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In throwing back to the 1960s, Hairspray Live! offered a glimpse of a better future. Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Dec 8, 2016. Neil Genzlinger New York Times. TOP CRITIC. All in all, it wasn ...
Dec 7, 2016 · Hairspray Live!: Directed by Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski. With Dove Cameron, Harvey Fierstein, Martin Short, Andrea Martin. A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
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- Comedy, Drama, Musical
- Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski
- 2016-12-07
HAIRSPRAY LIVE! stars newcomer Maddie Baillio as plucky Tracy Turnblad, a high school student with dreams of stardom beyond her humble beginnings. To that end, she auditions for a local TV show, where she's roundly mocked for her generous size by the show's star, Amber ( Dove Cameron ), and her mother/producer, Velma Von Tussle ( Kristin Chenoweth ).
- Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski
- Emily Ashby
- NBC Studios
In 1960s Baltimore, a teenage dance-loving girl dreams of getting a spot on a popular television show. Director Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski Screenwriter Harvey Fierstein, Marc Shaiman, Scott ...
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- Kenny Leon, Alex Rudzinski
- TV-PG
- Maddie Baillio
- Broadway’s Edna Wrote The Adaptation
- The Movie Songs Are in
- For The Fourth Time, Hairspray Discovered A New Star
- Chenoweth Always Wanted to Play The Villain
- Ariana Grande Is A Theater Geek
- It’S Time For Musical Healing Again
- Grease Live! Did WB Lot, Hairspray Has Universal
- They’Re Going Outside, Rain Or Shine
- Grease Live Made Derek Hough Interested
- Chenoweth and Hudson Fangirled Each Other
Fierstein returns to the role of Edna Turnblad, a role for which he won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards and a role always played by a male ever since Divine played her in the movie. This time Fierstein is also in charge of adapting the musical to television as a writer. “Truthfully, they came to me, and they asked if I would write it months before t...
Marc Shaiman, composer for the Broadway musical, wrote two new songs for the 2007 movie: “Ladies’ Choice” and “Come So Far (Got So Far To Go).” Zadan said the live TV edition found a way to incorporate the new songs. “It’s kind of a hybrid, and Harvey worked out really great places [for the songs],” Zadan said.
The role of Tracy Turnblad, an optimistic Baltimore girl who ends up fighting for racial integration, has always been an unknown. In the 1988 movie it was Ricki Lake’s breakthrough role. The Broadway production gave Marissa Jaret Winokur a much deserved lead. The 2007 movie discovered Nikki Blonsky. So Hairspray Livegave Maddie Baillio her first jo...
Chenoweth is a Broadway legend from Wicked, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Promises, Promises among many others. She’s sort of America’s sweetheart, too, with her upbeat personality. Velma Von Tussle is the villain of Hairspray, a television producer holding back African-American singers, but this is the role Chenoweth always wanted to play. ...
Ariana Grande has become a hit recording artist since her turn on Nickelodeon’s Victorious. Hairspray Live! brings her back to her theater roots, playing Tracy’s friend Penny Pingleton. She says “theater geek” has always been her true calling. “Penny’s been my favorite character since the start,” Grande said. “I got my start on Broadway. I did a sh...
Through catchy songs, the musical actually educates the audience on Civil Rights and promotes tolerance. Fierstein believes the world of 2016 is ready for this message again. “We can change laws, but the war is to change hearts, and nothing does that like song does,” Fierstein said. “Music just brings us all together in a way that words just don’t....
Grease Live! was an incredible production with the cast running from stage to sage across the Warner Brothers lot in real time. After the magnitude of that production, NBC hired Grease Live! director Rudzinski to stage Hairspray at Universal. “I’m hugely excited to be able to use the Universal backlot as a space,” Ridzinski said. “In fact, Hairspra...
Several of those scenes take place on the streets of Baltimore. “It’s four or five times,” Leon said. “But when we go outside, we really go outside, so it feels natural and organic to me.” Weather shouldn’t be a problem at Universal Studios, since it hardly ever rains in California. Just in case, there are backup plans, and it actually did rain dur...
Another thing Hairspray Live! shares with Grease Live is the Hough family. Julianne Hough played Sandy in Grease Live! and Hairspray cast her brother as Corny Collins, host of the dance show for which Tracy auditions. “Actually, seeing how much she enjoyed the process just turned me on to the idea,” Hough said. “So when I was asked to be a part of ...
Both Hudson and Chenoweth are powerhouses in the world of music, but when they met, they were each fans first. “I was watching this child on American Idol,” Chenoweth said. “Singing live is what you are born to do, but she got it. Then I saw her at a benefit. In passing from below, I yelled out ‘Jennifer! Jennifer!,’ and she looked down and was lik...
BeaconSky 7 December 2016. With audio drop outs, shaky camera work, poor direction and a lead actress constantly out of breath and whose dancing was fair at best, this was difficult to watch. The frequency and length of commercial breaks was annoying. The stand out was Derek Hough.
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Dec 7, 2016 · December 7, 2016 7:15 pm. "Hairspray Live!" Trae Patton/NBC. Wednesday night, NBC is laying it all on the line by airing a live production of “Hairspray!,”. Marc Shaiman’s musical adaptation ...
