"Hairspray"
Music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman & Shaiman
Book by Mark O'Donnell & Thomas Meehan
Directed by Anamaria Cammarata Kalet
Music Direction by Rory Chalcraft
Choreography by Megan Ferentinos
Show dates: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, June 3 - 26, 2011
HAIRSPRAY delights audiences by sweeping them away to 1960's Baltimore, where the 50's are out - and change is in the air. Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy Turnblad, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Overnight she finds herself transformed from outsider to teen celebrity. Can a larger-than-life adolescent manage to vanquish the program's reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love (singing and dancing all the while, of course!) without mussing her hair?
Teenage characters must look like teenagers, Adults must look like adults and it WILL be an interracial cast as it deals with integration in Maryland in 1962! Auditioners are asked to prepare 16 bars of a song with a 60's Motown sound and come dressed to dance.
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