Hairspray As a performing arts major‚ you have to have a large repertoire of shows you have seen or have listened to. I have never seen any shows live‚ only on television or video cassettes. In New York‚ I finally got to lose my broadway virginity and was able to watch what a real broadway show looks like‚ and I couldn’t have picked a better musical than Hairspray. This musical has one of the most imaginative set design‚ incredible and catchy music‚ and important messages. When entering the
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Hairspray The movie‚ Hairspray‚ is set back in the 1960s during the 20th century. It is a musical set in Baltimore‚ Maryland. The music is very lively and presents a happy mood. The music and dancing gets the audience interested in the musical and makes them feel a part of the experience. The musical is very uplifting and inspires you to follow your dreams. The musical demand upon the performers was hard because they could not sing and perform together. The experience was new to me because
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Hairspray Essay Introduction In Hairspray‚ directed by Adam Shankman‚ an important relationship is the mother-daughter relationship of Edna and Tracy Turnblad. The relationship between these characters can be seen to develop from the beginning‚ in which Edna and Tracy lack any understanding for one another‚ through Tracy’s convincing Edna to leave the family home and regain her confidence and in the final scene where the pair dance together on the Corny Collins Show. Paragraph 1 As the relationship
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Tracy Turnblad from Hairspray is a beloved character who is not afraid to stand up for what she believes. She is the main character in the story Hairspray‚ which is about an oversized girl wanting to be on her favorite dance show. While trying to earn her spot‚ she has to face entitled‚ traditionally pretty girls who constantly make fun of her size and she has to help beat the oppression of racism because she believes that everyone is equal. This character is different than me because I have never
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Hairspray is an upbeat musical that is set in the 1960’s Baltimore. Teenager‚ Tracy Turnblad‚ is in love with music and dancing. Every day after school she and her best friend Penny Pingleton go home to watch their local TV dance show‚ The Corny Collins Show. Tracy finds out that The Corny Collins Show is holding auditions. She tries out for the spot and wins. Tracy becomes a trendsetter of fashion‚ fun‚ and dance. Tracy decides that The Corny Collins Show should change Negro Day to everyday
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important aspect of the community. This is exactly what happened in the hit musical‚ Hairspray. I was able to attend this amazing musical at Washington Lee High School on April 25‚ 2015. Directed by Keith Cassidy‚ outstanding performers showed off their collaboration and effort‚ transporting the audience to Baltimore in 1962. Through acts of violence‚ progression in the fight towards equality‚ and some ridiculous hair‚ Hairspray was able to speak to audiences both of the 1960’s and of the decades beyond that
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Segregation‚ intolerance‚ and prejudice are all tackled in Vincennes University’s fall musical Hairspray. While both celebrating and critiquing aspects of American culture in the 1960’s‚ the overall message is the beauty of acceptance and freedom. Despite a few minor weaknesses‚ likely due to limitations on time and resources‚ the play was very impressive and a definite success. Generally‚ the acting was superb. However‚ Amber’s lines seemed tremendously loud and exaggerated compared to the rest
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During the 1960’s in the United States of America there was very little acceptance of people with different backgrounds or races. The only way to be accepted was to be a conformist and to prove you were just like everyone else around you. This would hold impossible for any one that was not white. Any sign of unconformity or differences would be used against you and any place you hoped to hold in society. The United States‚ during this time period‚ was not the land of equality that President Lincoln
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believed that an individual’s interaction with others and the world around them can either enrich or even limit their experience of belonging. Both of Peter Skrzynecki’s poems “10 Mary Street” and “St Patricks College” along with the 2007 film “Hairspray” explores this concept. 10 Mary street refers to the story of the house that Peter and his family lived in after moving to Australia from Germany. A recurring theme throughout the whole poem is time‚ this is shown through the repetition of the
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Historical and Cultural context of the Musical Hairspray The Buddy Dean Show which was a teen dance show in Baltimore is memorialized in the musical and film by John Waters‚ Hairspray. The plot of this story revolves around an attempt in which teens from both backgrounds in Baltimore integrate successfully in a teen dance show called The Corny Collins show. There was a massive cultural revolution in musical taste in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was signalled by teens from the big band sound of rock and
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