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Hairspray Live!
Appearing on the Corny Collins Show is the dream of a plus-sized Tracy Tumblad, a Baltimore teenager.
26 March 1950, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
21 March 1962, Commack, Long Island, New York, USA
26 June 1993, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1998, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 May 1985, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
15 February 1996, League City, Texas, USA
December 09, 2016
Well! That was something. NBC's Hairspray Live! didn't just raise the bar for live TV musicals -- it bedazzled it, twirled it around and threw it up in the air while doing cartwheels.
December 08, 2016
Hairspray Live! worked best of NBC's recent live musicals because the show captured the excitement of live performance.
December 08, 2016
Credit the show for its timeliness -- and for getting more clever, or maybe just less abashedly decadent, as it went along.
December 08, 2016
Hairspray Live! was a snappy, happy, candy-colored and newly relevant delight.
December 09, 2016
This is an impressive, jubilant production of a story that's rich in messages about diversity, inclusion, and loving yourself.
December 08, 2016
In the end, it was more on the good side in terms of the story and performances. But the bad network business surrounding the songs was almost too much to bear at times.
December 09, 2016
Listen: Any day we get to see Harvey Fierstein performing in full drag on network television is a good goddamn day in America.
December 09, 2016
A lot of people tune into live musicals to hate watch (ahem, looking at you Sound of Music), but Hairspray Live! totally nailed it thanks to Hudson and Grande.
December 08, 2016
In throwing back to the 1960s, Hairspray Live! offered a glimpse of a better future.
December 08, 2016
There was a lot to enjoy, but also so many wrong-headed choices as to make viewers sometimes wonder exactly why we were bothering.
December 14, 2016
There may have been enough aerosol spray to burn off the rest of our ozone layer, but Wednesday's ambitious live version of the musical Hairspray on NBC was worth the environmental damage. It was light and fun and soon had you stuck.
December 08, 2016
The problem with delivering that timely message here was the absence of a star capable of selling Tracy's irrepressible spirit.