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Hairspray Live! is an American television special that aired live on the American television network NBC on December 7, 2016. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and hosted by Darren Criss, it is a performance of a new adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray.
- Musical Romantic Comedy Live Television
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! (TV Movie 2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Hairspray is an American musical with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, with a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on John Waters's 1988 film of the same name. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues.
- 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...
Hairspray Live! was produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and hosted by Darren Criss. The soundtrack was released 5 days prior to the live event and included tracks from the 2007 film remake's performers.
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Dec 8, 2016 · Darren Franich. Published on December 8, 2016 03:59PM EST. Photo: Paul Drinkwater/NBC. “Three thousand lightbulbs,” said Darren Criss, “50 thousand feet of audio cable, 58 cameras, over 600...
