Close

If We Controlled Your Remote… 12/7/16

Dec 07, 2016 Posted by in External Contributions | Comments

Tonight NBC will once again prove that You Can’t Stop The Beat, saying Good Morning Baltimore as it opens the curtains on its latest live musical event, Hairspray Live!. The production is based on the the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical (which itself was based on the cult 1988 John Waters film of the same name). The story is set in 1962 where plump teenager Tracy Turnblad’s (Maddie Baillio) biggest dreams come true when she is selected to join a local Baltimore dance show, “The Clifton Collins Show”, and becomes an instant celebrity. She then sets out on a campaign to integrate the all-white dance show, and over the course of the production we meet a wide variety of crazy characters, including Tracy’s mother Edna (Harvey Fierstein) and father Wilbur (Martin Short), best friend Penny Pingleton (Ariana Grande) and her mother Prudy (Andrea Martin), African American classmate Seaweed J. Stubbs (Ephraim Sykes) and his record store owner mother Motormouth Maybelle (Jennifer Hudson), dance show host Corny Collins (Derek Hough), racist show producer Velma Von Tussle (Kristin Chenoweth) and her mean girl daughter Amber (Dove Cameron), teenage heartthrob Link Larkin (Garrett Clayton), dance show contestant Little Inez (Shahadi Wright Joseph), plus-size dress shop owner Mr. Pinky (Sean Hayes), Health Ed Teacher (Rosie O’Donnell) and Rob Barker (Billy Eichner)

Read Full Article at : TVisMyPacifier.com