Hairspray
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Aug 5, 2011
Closed Aug 7, 2011
Opened Aug 5, 2011
Closed Aug 7, 2011
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Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell directs and choreographs the Hollywood Bowl production of the musical Hairspray, with musical direction by Lon Hoyt.
Based on the classic film by John Waters, Hairspray features music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program. When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight and launches a campaign to integrate the show.
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The Hollywood Bowl has travel-sized ther production of the hit musical Hairspray with a lean 90-or-so minute version that is similar to the show's former Las Vegas production. And while it too often speeds and then sputters, it's mostly brash and energetic enough to fill that humongous proscenium stage.
As with the show's Broadway production, it's Jerry Mitchell's nimble choreography and the lead performances from Tony Award winners Marissa Jaret Winokur and Harvey Fierstein as Tracy and Edna Turnbland that mostly make this a buoyant evening.
Winokur, with her booming nasal voice, belts her opening number, "Good Morning Baltimore" as if she's singing it for the first time. And Fierstien[...]