When she’s chosen to perform and gains instant celebrity, the plus-sized dynamo uses it to fight the show’s whites-only rule. “Hairspray Live!” is set in 1962 Baltimore, where “The Corny Collins Show” is TV’s hot dance program and the focus of teen Tracy Turnblad’s dreams. With the country in a “divisive place,” he said, viewers are eager for entertainment “that can be really healing.”

This fun-filled, feel good show is bursting with show-stopping numbers, dazzling costumes, and dizzying dance-routines that you can’t help but shimmy too! Featuring some of musical theatre’s biggest and best hit songs, including Welcome To The 60s, You Can’t Stop The Beat, Good Morning Baltimore and so many more, Hairspray is the hilarious, joyous, and uplifting musical that everyone needs right now! Touring NOW until April 2022 – Book Now!īook by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan Music by Marc Shaiman Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.“People already were excited about it, but after the election they were saying, ‘Boy, do we need this now,’” Meron said recently on a Universal Studios set as the cast rehearsed “I Can Hear the Bells” for Wednesday’s telecast (8-11 p.m. Starring Brenda Edwards as Motormouth Maybelle, Norman Pace as Wilbur Turnblad and Alex Bourne as Edna Turnblad. But can she win equality – and Link’s heart – without denting her ’do? When Tracy becomes a local star, she is able to use her newfound fame to fight for liberation, tolerance, and interracial unity in Baltimore. Welcome to the 60s, where everyone’s grooving to a brand-new sound! Enter our vivacious heroine Tracy Turnblad, who has big hair, a big heart, and big dreams to dance her way onto national TV, and into the heart of teen idol Link Larkin. The international musical phenomenon Hairspray returns to a venue near you this year! After breaking box office records and delighting audiences in the West-End, on Broadway and on the big screen since 1988, this smash hit musical-comedy has quite the legacy, and now we’re heading back out on tour around the UK and Ireland. You can’t stop OUR beat- HAIRSPRAY is BACK ON TOUR – so run and tell that!

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