Velma Von Tussle is the villain of Hairspray, a television producer holding back African-American singers, but this is the role Chenoweth always wanted to play. She’s sort of America’s sweetheart, too, with her upbeat personality. CHENOWETH ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY THE VILLAINĬhenoweth is a Broadway legend from Wicked, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Promises, Promises among many others. There were over 1,300 girls there, and I was number 344. the night before of the big open call in New York City that I was going to go out and go do it.

“This was my first audition outside of college and school. So Hairspray Live gave Maddie Baillio her first job. The Broadway production gave Marissa Jaret Winokur a much deserved lead. 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. Hairspray Live! is going to air live, as the title says, so most of what happens will be happening for the first time.

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