The project was revealed by NBC's entertainment head Bob Greenblatt during a Television Critics Association press tour in January 2016. As with its predecessors, it was executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Hairspray Live! served as NBC's fourth entry in its series of made-for-TV musical telecasts, behind The Wiz Live!, Peter Pan Live!, and The Sound of Music Live!. Harvey Fierstein, Baillio, Andrea Martin, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth, Dove Cameron, and Ensembleīaillio, Feirstein, The Dynamites, Sean Hayes, and EnsembleĮphraim Sykes, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Ensembleīaillio, Clayton, Grande, Sykes, and Ensembleīaillio, Clayton, Grande, Sykes, Fierstein, Short, Hudson, Chenoweth, Cameron, and Company Īll tracks are written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical numbers from the track list of the soundtrack.

Allie Feder, Baraka May, Jackie Seiden, Dorian Holley, Fred White, Arnold McCuller – backing vocals.Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams – saxophones, flutes.Jenny Scheming, Moses Holland – violins.Ricki Lake (Tracy Turnblad in the original 1988 film) and Marissa Jaret Winokur (original Tracy Turnblad on Broadway) as Mr.Zack Everhart, Annie Gratton, Thomasina Gross, Allie Meixner, Eliotte Nicole, Tyler Parks, Andrew Pirozzi, Joy Marie Thomas, Keenan Washington, and Jason Williams.Tracy's mother is the indomitable Edna Turnblad, and she eventually encourages Tracy on her campaign to integrate the all-White Corny Collins Show. When, against all odds, Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight and meets a colorful array of characters, including Link, the resident dreamboat Amber, the ambitious mean girl Seaweed, an African-American boy she meets in detention and his mother, Motormouth Maybelle, owner of a local record store.

Teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV program. Hairspray Live! takes place in 1962 Baltimore. Produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, and hosted by Darren Criss, it is a performance of a new adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray. Hairspray Live! is an American television special that aired live on the American television network NBC on December 7, 2016.

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