Hairspray
Broadway Show Tickets: Show Closed No Longer Available
Hairspray on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed
Hairspray Summary
- Show Status: Closed
- Genre: Musical
- Hairspray is 2 hours and 40 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Began: July 18, 2002
- Show Opened : August 15, 2002
- Show Closed: January 4, 2009
Hairspray the musical follows Tracy, a teenage girl, from the stage of a 1960's dance show to an R&B record shop and along the streets of Baltimore.
What's Hairspray Like?
Hairspray is based on the cult film classic written and directed by John Waters, with a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Hairspray is directed by Jack O'Brien and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell.
Is Hairspray Good for Kids?
Hairspray is suitable for all ages as it contains many messages about inclusion, loyalty and kindness.
Hairspray on Broadway Background
Welcome to the '60s! The stuffy 1950s are over and change is in the air. Baltimore's Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and a bigger heart, has just one passion, and that's to dance. Tracy wins a place on a local television dance program, "The Corny Collins Show" and, overnight, she is transformed from an outsider to a teen celeb. But can a trendsetter in dance beat the show's reigning queen, win the favor of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a popular TV show without denting her 'do? Only in Hairspray!
Theatre Information
Neil Simon Theatre
250 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
New York, NY 10019
Seats:
1,428
Entrance:
52nd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue.
Theatre
Information
Hairspray Marquee
Gallery
Cast Members
- Tracy Turnblad
- Marissa Jaret Winokur
- Edna Turnblad
- Harvey Fierstein
- Amber Von Tussle
- Laura Bell Bundy
- Motormouth Maybelle
- Mary Bond Davis
- Penny Pingleton
- Kerry Butler
- Velma Von Tussle
- Linda Hart
- Wilbur Turnblad
- Dick Latessa
- Link Larkin
- Matthew Morrison
- Seaweed J Stubbs
- Corey Reynolds
- Prudy Pingleton
- Jackie Hoffman
Past Cast Members
- Corny Collins
- Clarke Thorell
Producers
MArgo Lion
Adam Epstein
Rick Steiner
The Gordon Frost Organization
Production Credits
- Direction
- Jack O'Brien
- Choreography
- Jerry Mitchell
- Scenic Design
- David Rockwell
- Costume Design
- William Ivey Long
- Lighting Design
- Kenneth Posner
- Sound Design
- Steve Kennedy
- Music Direction
- Lon Hoyt
- Lyrics
- Scott WIttman
- Music
- Marc Shaiman
- Book
- Thomas Meehan
- Book
- Mark O'Donnell
Creative Team
- General Manager
- Laura Green
- Company Manager
- Marc Borsak
- Casting Director
- Telsey & Company
- Advertising Representative
- Serino Coyne
- Press Agent
- Richard Kornberg & Associates
- Production Stage Manager
- Steven Beckler