Hairspray
From: Thursday, 11th October 2007
To: Sunday, 28 March 2010
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Synopsis
Hairspray tells the story of geeky teen Tracy Turnblad - a big girl with a big heart, big dreams, a big stage mother and even bigger hair - who finds celebrity on TV dance programme. Can Tracy get the guy and still have time to change the world?
Our Review:
31 October 2007
It is hard to credit that some preview punters failed to recognise Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray at the Shaftesbury Theatre. Sure, he’s wearing dress and looks a few kilos overweight, but there’s no undue effeminacy in his performance, and none of the savage grotesquerie Harvey Fierstein brought to the role on Broadway, or the plasticized timorousness of John Travolta in the recent film of the musical.
Although that film is a brilliant translation of the stage musical (and a far cry from the art house, rackety ebullience of the John Waters 1988 original cult movie), the stage show is the real business in its hymn to racial integration in downtown Baltimore circa 1962, and its suddenly politically incorrect celebration of triumph in obesity.
A cynic might reflect that the Broadway version, now in its fifth fatty year, is a hit because it makes the New York audiences of out-of-towners ...
Latest User Review
sarah - 1 May 2011:
this show was stupid iloved the film version...
Cast
Chloe Hart (Tracy Turnblad)
Phill Jupitus (Edna Turnblad)
Micky Dolenz (Wilbur Turnblad)
Belinda Carlisle (Velma Von Tussle)
Nicola Brazil (Amber Von Tussle)
Gavin Alex (Corny Collins)
Adrian Hansell (Seaweed)
Sharon D Clarke (Motormouth Mabel)
Liam Tamne (Link Larkin)
Raquel Jones (Inez)
Dermot Canavan (Male Authority Figure)
Verity Rushworth (Penny Pingleton)
Wendy Somerville (Female Authority Figure)
Gavin Alex
Fem Belling
Philip Catchpole
Lewis Davies
Helen Dixon
Emma Dodd
Tim Frather
Jate Gillespie
Ewan Gillies
Nicky Griffiths
Jenii Hicks
Holly James
Sandra Marvin
Terel Nugent
Michael Peters
Adam Price
Charlotte Riby
Dominic Shaw
Neil Toon
Michael Vinsen
Zara Warren
Jacqui Zvimba
Creative
Mark O'Donnell (Book)
Thomas Meehan (Book)
Marc Shaiman (Music)
Scott Whitman (Lyrics)
Marc Shaiman (Lyrics)
Stage Entertainment (Producer)
SEL and GFO New Line Cinema (in association with Live Nation) (Producer)
Jack O'Brien (Director)
David Rockwel (Design)
Kenneth Posner (Lighting)
Steve C Kennedy (Sound)
Jerry Mitchell (Choreographer)
William Ivey Long (Costume)
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