With its celebration of uniqueness and community strength, Hairspray is not just a musical – it’s a high energy showstopper
With its celebration of uniqueness and community strength, Hairspray is not just a musical – it’s a high energy showstopper
To say the audience loved this show would be an understatement, they were on their feet roaring at the end of it, and it’s here that Hairspray gives it’s best, a wholesome, entertaining show, full of cartoon colour and Marc Shaiman’s luminous score (along with happy lyrics by Shaiman and Scott Wittman) stuffed full of jubilant songs such as Good Morning Baltimore and Welcome to the 60s are adored by the audience.
Star of Hairspray comes out as gay
Hairspray is a joyous candy-coloured confection which has a heart as big as its outsize heroine. It manages to combine a thrilling slickness of staging with something quite magically uplifting and the result might, quite possibly, be the most purely enjoyable show of the last few years.
