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'Hairspray' to be NBC's next live musical

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NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt just made the announcement at TCA. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the executive producers behind NBC’s live musical franchise, return. I hear the deal closed minutes before NBC’s TCA presentation. Zadan and Meron also produced the 2007 Hairspray movie. This will be NBC’s fourth consecutive live musical, following The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz.
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https://deadline.com/2016/01/hairspray-live-musical-nbc-1201682009/
 
Mark Your Calendar! NBC Will Broadcast HAIRSPRAY LIVE! on December 7

As BWW has previously reported, NBC will have an open casting call for the lead role of Tracy Turnblad in the upcoming holiday special HAIRSPRAY LIVE!. The network has also set an air date for the live broadcast of Wednesday, Dec. 7th!

The casting call is set for Sunday, April 24 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Telsey + Co., 311 W. 43rd St., 10th Floor in Midtown Manhattan. Sign-in begins at 9 a.m.

Casting directors will be looking for a female, 18 or older to play high school age. She must be heavyset, be outgoing, unstoppable, good-hearted with a vibrant, loveable, high-spirited personality who loves to dance. A strong pop belt singer and great mover who can become a teen heroine.

Candidates need to be prepared to sing the song "Good Morning Baltimore" a cappella.
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http://www.broadwayworld.com/articl...e-for-Holiday-Special-HAIRSPRAY-LIVE-20160411
 
Kristin Chenoweth Joins Hairspray Live!

Hairspray Live! has found its Miss Baltimore Crabs: Kristin Chenoweth will play villainous Corny Collins Show producer Velma Von Tussle in the NBC musical.

The Tony and Emmy winner follows in the cha-cha heels of Michelle Pfeiffer and Blondie’s Debbie Harry, who in the 2007 and 1988 Hairspray movies, respectively, tackled the role of the stage mother who’ll do whatever it takes to make sure that new Corny Collins Show dancer Tracy Turnblad (Maddie Baillio) doesn’t steal the spotlight from her bratty daughter Amber.
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https://tvline.com/2016/06/21/kristin-chenoweth-hairspray-live-cast/
 
How Hairspray’s Live Audience Will Function and How to Get In

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.

“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. “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.

“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.”

Hairspray Live! marks the fourth NBC live musical event; it follows The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and The Wiz. All three before Hairspray were filmed on a contained soundstage in Long Island, NY. Hairspray will head to the Universal Studio lot in California.
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http://www.playbill.com/article/how-hairsprays-live-audience-will-function-and-how-to-get-in
 
December 7th: How appropriate. Another bastardization of a musical that will live in infamy.
Will Al Roker take Divine's role?
And Brian Williams as Wilbur?
 
Screener/Zap2it says Hairspray Live! is ending early, around 10:50/9:50c, much like The Wiz Live! did last year. Wonder what each station will do with those 10 minutes?
 
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