“It’s amazing to be able to be out here and choreograph in 360 degrees as opposed to one proscenium,” choreographer Jerry Mitchell said. The cast will be shuttled around in golf carts and passenger vans to get to their next scenes, according to our sister site Variety. Hairspray Live! is going to be a musical production unlike anything you’ve ever seen. “We’re jumping in between interior spaces and exteriors on a scale that no other live musical has done before,” director Alex Rudzinski told our sister site Gold Derby.Īlmost half of the show will take place outside on the faux Baltimore streets. NBC has assembled a team with some of Broadways finest and most talented creatives for its upcoming production of Hairspray Live, the networks latest. They’ll be performing the hits we know so well from the Broadway musical and 2007 movie. The show is live, so to get the full impact of the musical event, you need to watch it live! Watch as Maddie Baillio, 20, Ariana Grande, 23, Jennifer Hudson, 35, Dove Cameron, 20, and more stars hit the Hairspray Live! stage to perform what they’ve been rehearsing for months. Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Eastern.Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu
Watch the musical event when Hairspray Live! airs on NBC Wednesday, Dec. Hairspray fans can listen to the special's soundtrack ahead of the premiere on Spotify or Apple Music.
NBC has had success with their live showings thus far, as both The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live! were the most watched program the nights they aired, while The Wiz Live! trailed Thursday Night Football. Stubbs and Martin Short as Wilbur Turnblad. Pinky, Derek Hough as Corny Collins, Jennifer Hudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Shahadi Wright Joseph as Little Inez, Andrea Martin as Prudy Pingleton, Rosie O'Donnell as Health Ed Teacher, Ephraim Sykes as Seaweed J.
The NBC live special stars Maddie Baillio as Tracy Turnblad, Dove Cameron as Amber Von Tussle, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma Von Tussle, Garrett Clayton as Link Larkin, Billy Eichner as Rob Barker, Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad, Ariana Grande as Penny Pingleton, Sean Hayes as Mr. We will have to wait until Wednesday to see whether NBC can capture the musical's magic, but with a star-studded cast and great source material, it is not unlikely that the network will lead the night. The musical production opened on Broadway in 2002 and topped the 57th Annual Tony Awards in 2003 with eight total wins. This smash musical adaptation of John Waters' 1988 cult hit is an upbeat song-and-dance fest about a plump. A mildly successful remake, starring John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, was released in 2007. The Hairspray Broadway musical, on which the live special is based, is itself an adaptation of the 1988 film of the same name starring Ricki Lake.
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