HAIRSPRAY
Subject: Quicktake - "Hairspray" by O'Donnell & Meehan, Shaiman & Wittman
based on film by John Waters
Date: Thurs, Oct 26, 11:30PM
Quicktake on HAIRSPRAY
See NSMT do the first regional theatre production of "Hairspray", A Tony Award winning musical based on John Waters' 1988 film. Listen to an affectionate parody of a not so affectionate parody, book by Mark O'Donnell & Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. Watch a large energetic cast in costumes originally designed by William Ivey Long, on a set by Howard C. Jones, who's done a dozen or more shows for NSMT. Catch Boscon grad Bridie Carroll as Tracy Turnblad, appropriately padded out and madTV personality Paul C. Vogt as her mother Edna, augmented for and aft. He did the role in the Las Vegas production as well.
Joining them are Inga Ballard as Motormouth Maybelle, the Black D.J. —once a month—on the TV show based on American Bandstand. Todd DuBail is Corny Collins the M.C. of 20 or so. North Shore favorite . IRNE winner David Coffee plays the show's sponsor, Tracy's high school principal, and Mr. Pinky, who hires her—once she's become a local celebrity—to be a spokesman for his boutique for large women. Tracy's true love, a budding rock & roll singer, Link Larkin is David Larsen, seen in NSMT's "West Side Story" in 2003. The other pair of lovebirds is Sarah Elizabeth Nischwitz as Penny Pingleton, Tracy's best friend and Dashaun Young, as Seaweed J. Stubbs, Maybelle's son.
The rest of director/choreographer Barry Ivan's integrated ensemble is equally talented and ready to dance the night away. Music director Dale Reiling doesn't stop the beat, except when a ballad is called for. Lighting, sound support, and effects are as usual top-drawer and really cool. The show's message "Can't we all dance together?" is welcome as ever, given the divisiveness in today's society, even when delivered as a modern fairy tale with almost cartoon characters. Welcome to the early '60s.
"Hairspray" by O'Donnell & Meehan, Shaiman & Wittman, Oct.24 - Nov. 19
Nortth Shore Music Theatre at Dunham Woods
Dunham Rd., Beverly MA, (978) - 232 -7200
North Shore Music Theatre
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