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Lance Bass will join the Broadway production of Hairspray as television show host Corny Collins, August 14- January 6. In other casting news, Ashley Spencer, a runner-up on the reality series Grease: You're the One That I Want, will play the role of Amber Von Tussle, July 24-October 28.
Bass is best known as a member of the once-popular boy band N'Sync. He will soon be seen on the big screen in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and has appeared on the ABC reality series Dancing With the Stars as well as on the TV series Touched by an Angel, 7th Heaven, and Kim Possible.
The cast of Hairspray includes Paul Vogt as Edna, Shannon Durig as Tracy, Alexa Vega as Penny, Jerry Mathers as Wilbur, Ashley Parker Angel as Link Larkin, Tevin Campbell as Seaweed, and Darlene Love as Motormouth Maybelle.
The show will officially celebrate its fifth anniversary on Broadway on August 15. A film version of the musical, directed by Adam Shankman and starring John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, and Nikki Blonsky, will be released nationally by New Line Cinema on July 20.
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