Liberation was the theme - musical, racial and personal - in a story set in Baltimore 1962 and led by the pleasingly plump Tracy Turnblad. There was a town riot, real rain, mechanized rats, swooping cameras, a real audience and golf carts racing between scenes. You have to think big to be big," one character says in the show, and this broadcast thought mighty big. Actors dodged real cars and buses, they dodged real dodge balls and some dancers dodged other dancers doing somersaults.
It was shot with many outside scenes and with complex moving parts. It was light and fun and soon had you stuck.įittingly for a musical about pushing the boundaries, this was not a safe telecast in any way. NEW YORK - There may have been enough aerosol spray to burn off the rest of our ozone layer, but Wednesday's ambitious live version of the musical "Hairspray" on NBC was worth the environmental damage.
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