(l-r) Dove Cameron as Amber Von Tussle, Derek Hough as Corny Collins and Maddie Baillio as Tracy Turnblad, in Hairspray Live! Trae Patton/NBCģ:06 p.m. And especially after last year’s The Wiz raised the bar for these live musicals (and Grease Live, which aired on rival Fox, kept it there), Hairspray Live! may mark the first time one of these has transpired with most viewers tuning in expecting to love it, not just to live-hate-tweet it. The production is aiming its appeal at theater fans, bringing in names associated with the original Broadway production like leading “lady” Harvey Fierstein meanwhile, NBC also hopes to capture the pop diehards with the casting of Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson in key roles. 7), following in the annual pre-Christmas tradition of the network’s three previous live musicals, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, and The Wiz. Hairspray Live! airs on NBC on Wednesday (Dec. but for idealistic Tracy, it’s morning in America. And like every Tracy before her, she will open the live television translation of Hairspray by standing up in a bed that is sitting on its end, all the better to step out of and be instantly transported to a morning street scene that is, in her naïve eyes, glorious with possibility.
Baillio is a Tracy Turnblad for a new generation (albeit not a very, very new generation, since the Broadway show only opened in 2002, and a movie version followed in 2007).
“Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh,” sings Maddie Baillio, by way of introduction, echoing the kind of wordless Ronnie Spector trademark that was written into the Hairspray score.
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