In the 1988 movie it was Ricki Lake’s breakthrough role. The role of Tracy Turnblad, an optimistic Baltimore girl who ends up fighting for racial integration, has always been an unknown. FOR THE FOURTH TIME, HAIRSPRAY DISCOVERED A NEW STAR Harvey Fierstein, Jennifer Hudson, Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande, Derek Hough, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, show director Kenny Leon and television director Alex Rudzinski clued us in on 11 things we can expect from the event.ģ.
The cast and producers of Hairspray Live! spoke with the Television Critics Association about this week’s big production. With her big break, she ends up leading the charge to integrate black and white performers, and helps her mother Edna come out of her shell. It’s the story of a high school girl in Baltimore who auditions for a local dance show in the early 1960s. Hairspray began as a 1988 John Waters movie, then a Tony Award–winning Broadway show and a hit 2007 movie adaptation of the musical. Still, months and months of rehearsals and preparation go into show night. That’s why live television is exciting and these network musicals - like The Wiz, Grease, and Sound of Music - are bringing it back. The show’s stellar cast also includes playwright and voice actor, Harvey Fierstein, as Edna Turnblad, Tony-winning actress and singer, Kristin Chenoweth (Velma Von Tussle), Disney actress Dove Cameron (Amber Von Tussle) and comedian Martin Short (Wilbur Turnblad).Hairspray Live! is going to air live, as the title says, so most of what happens will be happening for the first time. She’s also a Broadway baby at heart, having debuted on Broadway when she was 15.” Robert Greenblatt, NBC chairman, told Hollywood Reporter: “We’re absolutely thrilled to round out our all-star Hairspray Live! cast with Ariana Grande, one of the biggest recording artists in the world. Meanwhile, pop icon Ariana Grande, named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world in 2019, plays pigtail-wearing Penny Pingleton.
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. 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.
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