Get your tickets! Broadway in Portland -- "Hairspray" June 20 through 25

[Radio_Lady]

HAIRSPRAY
JUNE 20-25, 2006 at the Keller Auditorium
See: www.hairsprayontour.com

Broadway's Tony Award®-winning musical-comedy phenomenon takes you back to 1962 Baltimore, as 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad sets out to dance her way onto TV's most popular show. Can a big girl with big dreams -- and even bigger hair! -- change the world... and still have time to win the boy she loves? This mega-hit is piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance -- and enough deliriously tuneful new songs to fill a nonstop platter-party. It's the winner of eight 2003 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical. As The New York Times says, "If life were everything it should be, it would be more like HAIRSPRAY. It's irresistible!"

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Stage preview: 'Hairspray' is such a tease
Friday, June 16, 2006
KYLE O'BRIEN
The early '60s, during the Kennedy years, were still a time of innocence, when the most important things teens had to deal with were who to date and what hair spray held best. It's during this time that the musical "Hairspray" takes place.

"Hairspray" is all about dancing, gravity-defying bouffants and plenty of poppy music, brought together deftly by Tony award-winning director Jack O'Brien.

O'Brien, working with an infectious score by Marc Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, keeps the action moving, the pace quick and the staging inventive, all without letting it get too campy or over the top.

"You have to remember, you can't take yourself too seriously," O'Brien said in a phone interview.

"This was an extraordinary moment in 1962 before that shot rang out in Dallas -- people look to this time with a genuine nostalgia," he said. "The reason it's maintained its freshness is innocence."

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[Radio_Lady]

1. Anybody seen this play either on tour or on Broadway?

[snacker]

2. Saw it on tour last year....

and absolutely loved it. It is so upbeat and fun, yet with a good message and themes. I'd certainly see it again if I had the chance.

[Radio_Lady]

3. Thanks so much for your post, Snacker. Good to hear1

We're seeing it on Tuesday, 6/20. Portland appears to be the last stop on this particular tour.

In peace,

Radio_Lady