“Good Morning, Baltimore”- Niki Metcalf as “Tracy Turnblad” in Hairspray.
Photo Credit — Jeremy Daniel
“You Can’t Stop The Beat” - (center) Niki Metcalf as “Tracy Turnblad” and Company in Hairspray.
Photo Credit — Jeremy Daniel
“Run and Tell That” – Charlie Bryant III as “Seaweed J. Stubbs” and Company in Hairspray.
Photo Credit — Jeremy Daniel
“I Know Where I’ve Been” (center) Sandie Lee as “Motormouth Maybelle” and the Company of Hairspray.
Photo Credit — Jeremy Daniel
SCRANTON – HAIRSPRAY, Broadway’s Tony Award®-winning musical comedy phenomenon, comes to the Scranton Cultural Center for four performances January 12 through 14, 2024.
HAIRSPRAY is the story of 16-year-old Tracy Turnblad in 1960s Baltimore as she sets out to dance her way onto TV’s most popular show. Can a girl with big dreams (and even bigger hair) change the world?
Performance times are Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 1 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday, November 17 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available online at BroadwayInScranton.com and in person at the Scranton Cultural Center box office.
“It’s a brand-new world we find ourselves in today, and HAIRSPRAY is even more relevant than twenty years ago when it first burst onto the scene. With a whole new generation of wildly talented kids across the board, we cannot wait to raise the various roofs once more with dance, joy, music, and that glorious, famous, energy-packed score!” shared Director Jack O’Brien.
Choreographer Jerry Mitchell added, “HAIRSPRAY has always been about all of us dancing together! I am thrilled to welcome this NEW company of amazing #FULLOUT talents to lead the way as we dance across America with a message of inclusion and hope because ‘You really Can’t Stop the Beat!’”
Featuring the beloved score of hit songs including “Welcome to the ’60s,” “Good Morning Baltimore,” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat,” HAIRSPRAY is “fresh, winning, and deliriously tuneful!” (The New York Times).
Additional creative team for HAIRSPRAY includes Tour Director Matt Lenz, Tour Choreographer Robbie Roby, Set Designer David Rockwell, Lighting Designer Kenneth Posner, Tour Lighting Designer Paul Miller, Costume Designer William Ivey Long, Hair and Wig Designers Paul Huntley and Bernie Ardia, Sound Designer Shannon Slaton, Music Supervisor Keith Thompson, and Casting by Prather Productions.
This new touring production reunites Broadway’s award-winning creative team, led by Director Jack O’Brien and Choreographer Jerry Mitchell, to bring HAIRSPRAY to a new generation of theater audiences.
HAIRSPRAY premiered at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater in June 2002. The show was a smash hit when it transferred to Broadway, winning eight 2003 Tony Awards including Best Musical, and became the longest-running musical to play the Neil Simon Theater, running 2,642 performances from July 18, 2002, until January 4, 2009.
HAIRSPRAY is based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, who served as a creative consultant on the musical comedy. It features a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan. HAIRSPRAY features an original score by Academy Award-nominated Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
See this vibrant show come to life again on the Scranton Cultural Center stage in Winter 2024 when 60s Baltimore comes to modern NEPA.
