York Stage Musicals

Named as best Grand Opera House production of 2014* for Sister Act, York Stage Musicals are back to present the Tony award winning, world wide smash hit Hairspray this Easter.

Hairspray follows the plight of loveable teen-dreamer Tracy Turnblad who is a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart who becomes the unexpected star of local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show, much to the frustration of the TV station’s villainous producer, Velma Von Tussle.

The back drop for Hairspray is 1960s Baltimore, US where black is black and white is white and ‘pleasantly plump’ girls certainly don’t dance on TV. Never shy of standing up for what she believes in, Tracy launches a riotous campaign to integrate The Corny Collins Show. As she dances her way into the nation’s hearts and helps her mother turn from 50s frumpy house wife to 60s swinging chick, Tracy falls for fellow TV star and teen-idol Link Larkin while her gawky, ever-loyal best-friend Penny Pingleton catches the eye of a guy from the ‘wrong side’ of town.

With an original soundtrack of swinging-sixties-style tunes, such as Good Morning Baltimore,Welcome to the 60s and You Can’t Stop The Beat Hairspray will be sure to have audiences mashpotato-ing all the way home.

(*by Charles Hutchinson of the York Press)