She is joined by Academy Award-winning singer and actress, Jennifer Hudson (as Maybelle “Motormouth” Stubbs), who rose to fame as a finalist on the third season of TV talent contest, American Idol, and made her Broadway debut in the role of Shug Avery in The Color Purple. Hairspray Live will be available to watch through The Shows Must Go On from Friday 29th May.Friday’s livestream stars American actress Maddie Baillio, best known for her appearance in the 2018 comedy film, Dumplin’, in the lead role of Tracy Turnblad. This production also features choreography by Jerry Mitchell. Tracy’s mother is the indomitable Edna, and she eventually encourages Tracy on her campaign to integrate the all-white “Corny Collins Show.”įeaturing music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Hairspray includes songs such as ‘You Can’t Stop the Beat’, ‘Without Love’ and ‘Welcome to the 60’s’. When against all odds Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight and meets a colourful array of characters, including the resident dreamboat, Link the ambitious mean girl, Amber an African-American boy she meets in detention, Seaweed and his mother, Motormouth Maybelle, the owner of a local record store. Plump teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to dance on “The Corny Collins Show,” a local TV program. The television special version of Hairspray will be the next show to feature in the Shows Must Go On series, streaming from Friday 29th May and available to UK audiences for two days after.įollowing on from last week’s The Sound of Music, this 2016 production of Hairspray stars Maddie Baillio, Billy Eichner, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short, Dove Cameron, Harvey Fierstein and Ariana Grande.īased on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, “Hairspray Live!” takes place in 1962 Baltimore. Brian Bowen Smith/NBC | 2016 NBCUniversal Media, LLC
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