Hairspray (Full-Screen Edition)
It’s 1962, and change is in the air in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion–to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, “The Corny Collins Show” and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. But can the trendsetting Tracy win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in, despite the program’s scheming stage manager? All she needs is her best friend Penny, a toe-
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Article by Al Terry
Hairspray is the eight longest currently running show on Broadway. As of December 31, 2006, it had completed 1,816 performances that have been well accepted by audiences. Before previewing on Broadway in 2002, the stage adaptation of Hairspray – based on the 1988 movie of the same name by John Water – was first presented at the 5th Avenue Theater at Seattle, Washington. Directed by Jack O’Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, this musical previewed on July 18, 2002 at the Nederlander owned Neil Simon Theater. After 31 previews, Hairspray opened on August 2, 2002.
The foot tapping and head-nodding musical takes you back into the world of the 1960s’ Baltimore, Maryland! Bright colors, and big hairdos, fabulously piled high upon the heads of the actors!
The Story
This is the story of a girl – Tracy Turnblad – who dreams of dancing on the local TV dance program – the Corny Collins Show, which is based on the real life Buddy Dean Show of Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad becomes an overnight celebrity, and then launches a campaign to racially integrate the Corny Collins Show.
Hairspray – the musical, has run a full circle. Initially adapted from the 1988 film by the same name – which had music, but was not a musical, this very popular musical is being re-adapted into a musical movie in 2007. The new movie will star Nikki Blonsky as Tracy, and is having John Travolta in drag, as Edna Turnblad – the mother of Tracy Turnblad!
After four years of continuous run on Broadway, winning eight Tony Awards out of 13 nominations, and with more than 1,816 performances, Hairspray is still an acclaimed great hit on Broadway. The combination of the legendary Harvey Fierstein in drag – later replaced by Michael McKean, integration, end of racial innocence, interracial romance, and the great foot tapping music, appeal to the theater buffs of musical plays.
The eight categories, for which Hairspray – the musical, won the 2003 Tony Awards, are:
Best MusicalBest Book of a MusicalBest Direction of a MusicalBest Original Score (Music and Lyrics) Written for the TheatreBest Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Harvey Fierstein)Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical (Marissa Jaret Winokur)Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical (Dick Latessa)Best Costume Design
Hairspray Tickets
If you want to re-live the 1960s, this rags to riches musical is the ticket. This popular show is on an open-ended run, and is expected to run on Broadway for more than 10 years! Despite the long run predicted, you have to wait for more than a month for your Broadway show Hairspray tickets.
If you are in a hurry to procure your Broadway show Hairspray tickets, your best option is a New York ticket broker. Licensed and competent ticket brokers ensure your premium seats for the show you choose to see. You just need to call the brokers with your Broadway show Hairspray tickets requirements, and they will have them delivered to your door.
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Single-Disc Edition:
* 16×9 widescreen version of the film or 4×3 fullscreen version of the film
* English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX Surround Sound
* English & Spanish subtitles
* Closed captions
Two-Disc “Shake and Shimmy” Edition:
* “Behind the Beat” picture-in-picture option allowing viewers to watch behind-the-scenes footage and on-screen commentary concurrently with the running feature (HD Exclusive)
* All new musical number, “I Can Wait”
* Feature-length audio commentary from director and choreographer Adam Shankman, star Nikki Blonsky and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron
* Deleted scenes with audio commentary from director and choreographer Adam Shankman and star Nikki Blonsky
* “You Can’t Stop the Beat: The Long Journey of Hairspray” documentary
* “Step By Step: The Dances of Hairspray” featurette offering how-to dance instruction
* “Hairspray Extensions” featurette, giving viewers dance breakdowns
* Jump to a song with optional sing-along feature
* “The Roots of Hairspray” featurette
* Interactive menus
* Theatrical trailer
* 16×9 widescreen version of the film
* English 2.0 Stereo Surround
* English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX (on feature, deleted scenes and interactive menus)
* English & Spanish subtitles
* Closed captions
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|Never Goes Limp,
`Hairspray’ is a non-stop, exhilarating song and dance extravaganza. This exuberant remake of the John Waters’ musical is funny, fast, and fabulous. Adam Shankman’s direction is appropriately lilting in the right measure, but balanced with social commentary highlights. Unlike ‘Dreamgirls,’ there are no Oscar worthy performances, but the production is so fun there doesn’t have to be. The entertainment is winning on every level, and, as for the songs, it never goes limp.
Once again we are transported to the early sixties in Baltimore, where flannel is uniform, Blacks and Whites are segregated, and beehives are in fashion. The plot is fairly simple: Overweight teen Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky) wants to break the mold on her favorite TV program “The Corny Collins Show” (an “American Bandstand”-like feature) while discovering a more urgent need to end segregation on a show that only sometimes features “Negro Night”. She gets her big break when teen singing sensation, Link Larkin (Zac Efron) makes advances that bring her to the stage floor. In the meantime, her success is challenged by the show’s program manager, (played with overbearing skill by Michelle Pfeiffer) and her daughter, Amber, the show’s reigning “Miss Teenage Hairspray,” a nasty nemesis . Joining forces with her Afro-American friends, especially Motormouth Maybelle (Queen Latifah) and dancer Seaweed (Elijah Kelly), she works for equal time on the dance floor.
`Hairspray’ is set as perfect entertainment. John Travolta provides likable loopiness as Nikki’s mother while he dances and cross-dresses his way into our hearts. The villains are nasty enough, and the sweetness pervades even amongst important demonstrations on key social issues. When it all comes down to balance, ‘Hairspray’ fills the bill.
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|No Stopping the Beat Here with Such a Game Cast and Surprising Gravitas,
This is the sort of brassy, candy-coated musical to which you either give yourself entirely or not at all because there is little room in between. First, there was the edgy 1988 John Waters comedy followed years later by the sunnier 2002 Broadway musical version. I thoroughly enjoyed the elaborate stage version thanks mainly to Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman’s ebullient music and sharp lyrics and stellar performances from Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur as a most unlikely mother and daughter in 1962 Baltimore. That most of that high-kicking, watusi-gyrating spirit remains intact is quite an accomplishment for director Adam Shankman, whose previous track record consists of mediocre studio comedies. Adapting Mark O’Donnell’s stage book, screenwriter Leslie Dixon seems equally unlikely of pulling it off. Yet, somehow they do and even bring a deeper sense of gravitas than the previous incarnations with the heavier elements of racism and segregation. Starting out his career as a dancer and choreographer, Shankman provides the energetic, in-your-face choreography that is appropriately applied here.
The story centers on Tracy Turnblad, a genuinely optimistic teenager, a bouncing bundle of energy obsessed with the local Corny Collins dance show. Living in a working-class neighborhood with her agoraphobic, self-consciously plus-sized mother Edna and her congenial, novelty store-owner father Wilbur, Tracy only wants to dance on Corny’s show. Standing in her way is the malevolent Velma Von Tussle, an aging beauty who owns the TV station, and her equally venal daughter Amber. Once a month, the station allows the dance show to have a co-host, blonde-tressed Motormouth Maybelle, who holds a “Negro Day” to allow the local black kids to dance on their own. These kids seem to end up in detention a lot since Tracy finds them there and learns new dance moves from them. She realizes the world would be a better place if black and white kids were able to dance together on Corny’s show. This sets up the story’s central conflict, which comes accompanied by romantic complications among the various characters. All of this ends with the Miss Teenage Hairspray pageant and naturally a pull-all-the-stops production number.
The casting is inspired. Following Divine and especially Fierstein in the cross-dressing role of Edna is no easy task, but John Travolta brings a surprising delicacy to the character. The novelty of his casting never wears off, but he also does not stoop that much to parody either. Even with a slightly garbled Baltimore accent, he is convincing as a woman who has accepted life’s compromises for the sake of her family. Alternating quickly between clever and broad, Michelle Pfeiffer has a field day playing Velma, though she has precious little opportunity to show off her long dormant singing talent. As Maybelle, Queen Latifah seems to be cornering the market on musical earth-mother types and gets her shining moments on “Big Blonde and Beautiful” and especially on the gospel-flavored “I Know Where I’ve Been”. Christopher Walken has comparatively less to do as the put-upon Wilbur, though he shows off his singing and dancing skills on his sweet pas de deux with Travolta on “(You’re) Timeless to Me”.
For all the veteran talent on display, it’s Nikki Blonsky who carries the heart of the movie as Tracy, and her sunny demeanor and “American Idol”-caliber talent keep the story aloft. The other teens – Zac Efron as singing heartthrob Link, Amanda Bynes as devoted best friend Penny, Brittany Snow as spoiled Amber, and Elijah Kelley as Maybelle’s son Seaweed – are all played with energetic adolescent brio. Complementing the principal cast are James Marsden as the perpetually smiling Corny and Allison Janney as Penny’s Bible-thumping mother. Everyone is in the right spirit, and the pacing and tone are spot-on. The film’s one weakness is a certain lack of energy in the camera movement around the production numbers, as Shankman’s tendency is to film key dance sequences intermittently at mid-waist level. The net effect is a reduction in the overall energy level at key moments such as Travolta’s Tina Turner-style turn at the end. Regardless, this is fun stuff for those open to this genre.
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