HAIRSPRAY
The Broadway hit with big hair, big girls and even bigger laughs comes to London.
In Hairspray. it’s 1962—the '50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion—to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show and overnight is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. But can a trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program’s reigning princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her ‘do? Only in Hairspray! Welcome to the '60s!
THE BASICS
Started: 11/10/2007
Opened: 30/10/2007
Duration: 2 hrs 40 mins
with 1 interval
Performance Schedule:
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Sun |
Mon |
Tue |
Wed |
Thu |
Fri |
Sat |
No
Show |
7:30pm
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7:30pm
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7:30pm
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3:00pm
7:30pm
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7:30pm
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3:00pm
7:30pm
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Individual tickets booking through:
04/04/2009
Group tickets on sale through:
04/04/2009
Group Minimum:
20 tickets
STARRING
Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad
Among many achievements in musical theatre, Ball starred in The Woman in White and Aspects of Love in London and on Broadway. Other credits include Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Kismet. In 1999, he received the Theatregoers Club of Great Britain Award for Most Popular Musical Actor of the last 21 years. NB: Ball will not be performing in Hairspray between 23 December 2007 and 5 January 2008.
Ben Ellis as Link Larkin
Ellis trained at the Italia Conti Academy and was a runner-up in the BBC casting show Any Dream Will Do, in which he vied for the lead in the current West End production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Hairspray marks his professional debut.
Also Starring:
Leanne Jones as Tracy Turnblad
Tracie Bennett as Velma Von Tussle
Ian Talbot as Wilbur
Natalie Best as Inez
Dermot Canavan as Male Authority Figure
Elinor Collett as Penny Pingleton
Johnnie Fiori as Motormouth Maybelle
Adrian Hansel as Seaweed
Paul Manuel as Corny Collins
Wendy Somerville as Female Authority Figure
Rachel Wooding as Amber Von Tussle
CREATORS
Music by Marc Shaiman
Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman
Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Directed by Jack O'Brien
Choreography by Jerry Mitchell
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