Ten Fabulous Sold Out Performances
June 23 , 24 , 25 , 25, 29 , 30 and
July 1, 2 at 7:30pm
July 2 & 3 at 2:00pm
Marblehead Little Theatre is pleased to welcome the return of Director Steve Black, Music Director Lianne Goodwin and Choreographer Lara Finn to the Firehouse for this Summer’s production of Hairspray.
Hairspray – a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and “downtown” rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, teenager Tracy Turnblad’s dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show. When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight. She then launches a campaign to integrate the show. Hairspray is a social commentary on the injustices of parts of American society in the 1960s. The musical’s original Broadway production opened on August 15, 2002and won eight Tony Award.
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Full Cast and Production List
MUSIC: MARC SHAIMAN
LYRICS: M. SHAIMAN & SCOTT WITTMAN.
BOOK: MARK O’DONNELL & THOMAS MEEHAN
Staff:
Producer: Janet Shehan
Producer: Lori Lord
Director: Steve Black
Musical Director: Lianne Goodwin
Choreographer: Lara Finn
Associate Director: Alex Grover
Stage Manager: Vicky Silva
Set Designer: Nathan Bertone
Lighting Designer: Tyson Miller
Costume Designer: Elvira Schoenthal
Props Designer: Adelaide Majeski
Technical Director: Andrew Barnett
Cast:
Tracy Turnblad: Katy Geraghty
Edna Turnblad: Jim Kopycinski
Wilbur Turnblad: Bobby Kerrigan
Penny Pingleton: Tara Feeley
Female Authority Figure: Judith Black
Male Authority Figure: Bruce Whear
Motormouth Maybelle: Alex Newell
Seaweed J. Stubbs: Jeffrey Jean-Philippe
Little Inez: Ariel Sargent
Duane: Adrian Davis
Thad: James Zissulis
Corny Collins: Christopher King
Velma Von Tussle: Allison Duff
Amber Von Tussle: Amanda Richard
Link Larkin: DJ Plunkett
Dynamite/Lorainne: Maritza Bostic
Dynamite/Cindy: Stephanie Espinal
Dynamite/Gilbert: Elyse Seltzer
Leona: Katherine Henry
Tammy: Alea Moscone
Shelly: Kara Nelson
Louann: Kathryn Jancsy
Brad: Jake Corcoran
Fender: Bernie Baldassaro
I.Q.: Owen Grover
Brenda: Ari Conte
Sketch: Ryan Buchanan
The story was adapted into a Broadway play by Dale Wasserman in 1963.
The book’s epigraph is:
…one flew east, one flew west,
One flew over the cuckoo’s nest.
Songs for a New World sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle, but it is neither; it is an abstract musical, a series of songs all connected by theme rather than narrative.
