Hairspray will head to the Universal Studio lot in California. All three before Hairspray were filmed on a contained soundstage in Long Island, NY. Hairspray Live! marks the fourth NBC live musical event it follows The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz. “In terms of recruiting the audience, we are going to be having a website very, very shortly that’s going to be up, and we’re going to be announcing it, where people can kind of sign in in hopes of becoming an audience member.” “Naturally, story-wise, there is an audience for The Corny Collins Show, so we will have that as kind of a natural extension to the story of Hairspray Live! Plus, in another location, we will have just a general audience that will be there to watch, observe, react and hopefully have a really good time. “It’s going to be functioning in two ways, interestingly enough,” Meron told Playbill on a Hairspray Live! conference call October 13 with invited press. You can watch the NBC video featuring the three Tracys below.With three live musical productions behind them, producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are upping the ante this year with their production of Hairspray Live! It will film in Los Angeles in front of a live studio audience, and here’s how it will work. Ricki Lake originated the character in the film. Ricki Lake and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who both played the lead character Tracy Turnblad, had cameos as a Pinkette. Glee’s Darren Criss hosted the show and provided behind-the-scenes tours and interviews with cast members. Hairspray Live! was a success and currently has a 7.4 IMDb rating. The official DVD, meanwhile, was released on December 20. In addition to tonight’s replay, viewers can watch Hairspray Live! on demand at NBC and Yahoo View. Viewers can tune into the three-hour musical hit streaming live online, through the NBC app, and through select cable and satellite television providers.
Hairspray Live! premiered on December 7, as originally reported by the Inquisitr. Check local listings for time and channel. NBC will replay their hit musical Hairspray Live! tonight beginning at 8 p.m.
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