Back at school, Tracy is sent to detention for her "monumental hair-don't". There she meets black dancer Seaweed J. She uses the new dance steps at the Sophomore Hop the following day to introduce herself to Corny Collins " The Madison ". After the show, Mr. Spritzer, the show's worrisome sponsor, appeals to Velma over Tracy's appointment to the Council.
Velma, threatening to fire Corny from the show, is eventually left distraught and determines to ruin Tracy "Velma's Revenge". At the Turnblad house, Edna is receiving calls from fans who saw Tracy on the show. A call comes in from Mr. Pinky, the owner of a plus-size dress shop, for an endorsement. Tracy pleads with her mother to come with her and to act as her agent although Edna has not left their apartment in years. Finally making it outside, Edna is given a huge makeover " Welcome to the 60's " and Tracy becomes the spokes-girl for the shop.
At school, signs of Tracy's fame are evident in the schoolyard, with graffiti on the walls and Shelly, another Council Member sporting Tracy's signature hairdo. During a game of dodge ball, a jealous Amber knocks Tracy out, and Link rushes to her side. Penny and Seaweed, who have developed a liking for each other, rush to fetch the school nurse, only to find her out sick. Seaweed, suggesting that some fun would make Tracy feel better, invites all of them to his mother's record shop for a platter party " Run and Tell That ". At the shop, Tracy rallies everyone to march against the station on the following day's Mother-Daughter Day, as blacks are not allowed on the show except for the monthly Negro Day.
Before they start, Motormouth Maybelle convinces the initially reluctant Edna and Wilbur to march as well. Link declined to participate for the sake of his contract with the show. During the protest, led by Motormouth, Velma calls the police and fights break out. When the police arrive on the scene, almost everyone is arrested " Big, Blonde and Beautiful ". After the march, most of the women are locked up in a women's penitentiary "The Big Dollhouse".
Because of Velma's dirty tactics, the governor who, at the time of the plot, would have been J. Millard Tawes pardons and releases both her and Amber.
Wilbur bails out the remaining people, excluding Tracy who is forced to remain in jail through another one of Velma's manipulations. Back at the Har-De-Har Hut Wilbur's joke shop , Wilbur and Edna are left destitute because of the money it cost them to bail everyone out and with Tracy still in prison. Edna sympathizes with her daughter's dream — she had dreamt of making her "own line of queen-sized dress patterns".
Edna and Wilbur reminisce about their past and how they can never be parted from each other " You're Timeless to Me". During the night, Link sneaks into the jail where he finds Tracy in solitary confinement. As Link and Tracy reunite, Penny's mother, Prudy, punishes Penny for "going to jail without her permission" and ties her up in her bedroom where Seaweed comes to her rescue.
Both couples declare their love for one another " Without Love ". After escaping from their respective prisons, the couples seek refuge at Motormouth Maybelle's Record Shop. Tracy thinks that it is unfair that after all of their hard work, The Corny Collins Show is still segregated. They devise a plan to help integrate the show, and Motormouth remembers their long fight for equality " I Know Where I've Been ". Amber shows off her talents in a bid to get more votes from the viewers "Cooties".
Just as the results are about to be announced, Tracy stuns Amber as she makes her entrance in a magenta dress without any petticoat underneath, taking over the stage, and is joined by Link, Penny, Seaweed, Edna, Wilbur, Little Inez, Corny, and Motormouth. Tracy is declared the winner of the competition. Amber and Velma protest the results, claiming that it is all wrong.
Little Inez then tries to take the crown by force when Amber refuses to hand it over, but Tracy stops her, claiming that her heart is set on something more important, which is Link and her future. She then proclaims the Corny Collins show is "now and forevermore" racially integrated, to much applause. When all is announced, Mr.
Spritzer runs onstage thrilled with the public's response to the telecast and announces that the governor has pardoned Tracy and gave her a full college scholarship and he offers Link a recording contract and Velma the position of vice president of Ultra Glow — beauty products for women of color, much to the latter's chagrin. Prudy arrives at the station and, seeing how happy Penny is with Seaweed, accepts her daughter for who she is. At the height of the moment, the company invites Amber and Velma to join the celebration.
Hairspray went through several revisions before and during its pre-Broadway run in Seattle, in the process eliminating and replacing several musical numbers. In early revisions, various songs, including "The Status Quo" and "Velma's Cha-Cha" its short reprise replaced by "Rage," in turn dropped in favor of "Velma's Revenge" , were used during Tracy's audition and dismissal, but the team instead opted for " The Legend of Miss Baltimore Crabs", as the audience did not like seeing Tracy being verbally attacked after "I Can Hear the Bells".
Later replaced by the similar "Positivity", the scene was later cut early in the Seattle tryout as it was deemed emotionally redundant.
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After Tracy eventually made it on the show, there was a song "The New Girl in Town", which was sung first by the Council girls and later by the black Girls. Although later cut early during the Seattle tryout, it was included in the film and appears in the show's instrumental score. Later, the writers absorbed the protest rally and Mother-Daughter Day into the number, thus deleting the song and folding the sequence into a single scene.
For this competition, later revised due to the cost of cars onstage, there was a song called "Take a Spin" sung by Corny in the place where " It's Hairspray" is now. Hairspray's orchestration calls for fifteen musicians: The guitarists both double on acoustic and electric guitars, and the trumpet doubles on flugelhorn; the original production also featured a piccolo trumpet double during tryouts. The first woodwind player doubles on tenor and alto saxophones, flute and clarinet.
The second woodwind player doubles on tenor, alto and baritone saxophones, flute and clarinet. In the original Broadway production, a few of the actors mimed on musical instruments in order to fulfil a minimum musician requirement at the Neil Simon Theatre. Hairspray explores the themes of racial prejudice and freedom of expression. It highlights individuality, and the importance of everyone working together for something to become revolutionary. The musical is empowering, as although it touches on racial issues that were prevalent in s America, it focuses more on the attitudes that are associated with it, and the power that we have to change discrimination.
It is a musical that can be applied to any social context and time, as it highlights ongoing issues such as fat-shaming, racism and discrimination. Allowing a drag role for Edna adds a queerness to the musical as it does not include any gay characters. The body size of Edna also adds emphasis to the diva roles that are present in the show. It is empowering by acknowledging the challenges and limitations enforced on African Americans during this time, and also reminds audiences of the progress made as a result of the civil rights movement.
According to Variety , Hairspray received thirteen favorable and four mixed reviews. Arriving in an aerosol fog of advance hype, it more than lives up to its promise. Stocked with canny, deliriously tuneful songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and directed by Jack O'Brien with a common touch that stops short of vulgarity, 'Hairspray' is as sweet as a show can be without promoting tooth decay. And while the savvy arrangements It's music that builds its own self-contained, improbably symmetrical world Her dancing may not be as special as the plot suggests, but she wins your heart With this role, Fierstein places himself in the great line of Broadway divas.
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