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Photo by Christine Ehren

The company of Hairspray takes an impromptu bow at the May 8 press preview for the upcoming, Broadway-bound show. Hairspray's first preview is in Seattle May 30 with performances at the Neil Simon Theatre to follow in July.

Hairspray, based on John Waters' most popular film, is set in 1962 Baltimore, where the girl with the biggest hair and the best moves can obtain fame on the city's number one dance revue, "The Corny Collins Show." Plain Jane Tracy Turnblad (Marissa Jaret Winokur) defeats the show's reigning queen, Amber Von Tussle (Laura Bell Bundy), and goes after the most popular boy, Link Larkin (Matthew Morrison). But the girl's evil parents want revenge. Turnblad's own parents (played by Dick Latessa and Harvey Fierstein in the Divine role), however, are there to make sure Tracy stays on top. Marc Shaiman ("South Park") and Scott Wittman wrote the score with a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan (The Producers). Jack O'Brien (The Full Monty) directs with choreography by Jerry Mitchell.

 
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