The show is live, so to get the full impact of the musical event, you need to watch it live! Watch as Maddie Baillio, 20, Ariana Grande, 23, Jennifer Hudson, 35, Dove Cameron, 20, and more stars hit the Hairspray Live! stage to perform what they’ve been rehearsing for months. Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Before that came the dodgeball game, which was either confusing choreography or bad improv.Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu In a later scene when Link comes to rescue Tracy from prison, the show couldn’t seem to find an angle on the actors’ faces: Clayton gave half his lines with his face obscured by prison bars, and the other half with the camera pointed at the (extremely handsome) back of his head. And sometimes all 58 cameras seemed to be pointing in the wrong direction. (Grande played Penny as an actor, she sure can sing.) Garrett Clayton had the right look for Link Larkin - he and Alden Ehrenreich must’ve crawled out of the same Old Hollywood time capsule - but he couldn’t quite find the character’s anxious desperation.
Ephraim Sykes, late of Hamilton, brought some real energy to the production as Seaweed - but so much of Seaweed’s arc depends on sparkly chemistry with Penny. As a dancer, Ariana Grande sure can sing.
There was a sense that the performers weren’t quite all on the same page. With Hairspray Live !, more was never more enough.īut the first half of Hairspray dragged a bit. Coincidentally, during one commercial break, there was a perfume ad with three Ariana Grandes. Technically, there were three Tracy Turnblads: Ricki Lake (from the original film) and Marissa Jaret Winokur (from the original Broadway show) swung by for a cameo. The cast featured Tony winners, plural, and Disney stars, plural.
Several major numbers followed Maddie Baillio’s Tracy Turnblad through “Baltimore,” played by the Universal backlot and a small civilization of dancing extras. Hairspray brought the Wiz band back together - directed by Kenny Leon, adapted into teleplay from Harvey Fierstein - and it upped the ambition further. Peter Pan Live! had the garish production value. Credit them for magical thinking - and for their steady improvements. Meanwhile, Zadan and Meron have made the NBC musical an annual tradition. There’s too much good TV for the average human to love - and too much real hate for the average human to watch. Three years later, I’m not quite sure people hatewatch anymore.
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