REDDAM HOUSE CONSTANTIA | SOUND & LIGHTING HIRE
This week the much-anticipated College musical, Hairspray, has its opening night starting at 7:00pm on Tuesday 13 May at Reddam House Constantia. Performances will take place on the evenings of the 13th, 14th and 15th so be sure to get your tickets soon!
Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray.
The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues. In 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, plump teenager Tracy Turnblad's dream is to dance on The Corny Collins Show, a local TV dance program based on the real-life Buddy Deane Show.[1] When Tracy wins a role on the show, she becomes a celebrity overnight, and meets a colorful array of characters, such as Corny Collins (The show's singing host who shares Tracy's liberal political views) and Velma Von Tussle (The villainous producer of the show who does everything in her power to further her daughter's career and destroy Tracy's and Corny's). She then launches a campaign to integrate the show. Hairspray is a social commentary on the injustices of parts of American society in the 1960s.
Soundworks Music Store provided the sound and lighting hire for this school stage-production. The gear was operated by a third-party service provider, GNT productions.
