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Hairspray Live!
This show talks about the story of a Baltimore teenager Tracy Tumblad with a big physique and her journey on fulfilling her long time dream on getting on a Baltimore TV dance show.
18 September 1978, New York City, New York, USA
16 December 1964, Buffalo, New York, USA
6 June 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
1998, Los Angeles, California, USA
12 September 1981, Chicago, Illinois, USA
December 09, 2016
This is an impressive, jubilant production of a story that's rich in messages about diversity, inclusion, and loving yourself.December 09, 2016
A lot of people tune into live musicals to hate watch (ahem, looking at you Sound of Music), but Hairspray Live! totally nailed it thanks to Hudson and Grande.December 08, 2016
There was a lot to enjoy, but also so many wrong-headed choices as to make viewers sometimes wonder exactly why we were bothering.December 08, 2016
In the end, it was more on the good side in terms of the story and performances. But the bad network business surrounding the songs was almost too much to bear at times.December 08, 2016
Credit the show for its timeliness -- and for getting more clever, or maybe just less abashedly decadent, as it went along.December 09, 2016
Listen: Any day we get to see Harvey Fierstein performing in full drag on network television is a good goddamn day in America.December 08, 2016
In throwing back to the 1960s, Hairspray Live! offered a glimpse of a better future.December 08, 2016
The problem with delivering that timely message here was the absence of a star capable of selling Tracy's irrepressible spirit.December 09, 2016
Well! That was something. NBC's Hairspray Live! didn't just raise the bar for live TV musicals -- it bedazzled it, twirled it around and threw it up in the air while doing cartwheels.December 08, 2016
Hairspray Live! was a snappy, happy, candy-colored and newly relevant delight.December 14, 2016
There may have been enough aerosol spray to burn off the rest of our ozone layer, but Wednesday's ambitious live version of the musical Hairspray on NBC was worth the environmental damage. It was light and fun and soon had you stuck.December 08, 2016
Hairspray Live! worked best of NBC's recent live musicals because the show captured the excitement of live performance.