Tony Award Winners on Working In The Theatre

Production: Hairspray - December, 2002


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The creative team behind the Broadway musical Hairspray, producers Richard Frankel (Tony Award winner for the 2007 revival of Company) and Margo Lion (Tony Awards for Hairspray in 2003 and Elaine Stritch at Liberty in 2002), co-book writer Thomas Meehan (Tony Awards for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray), choreographer Jerry Mitchell (Tony winner for the 2005 revival of La Cage aux Folles), director Jack O'Brien (Tony Winner for Hairspray, Henry IV in 2004 and The Coast of Utopia), co-book writer Mark O'Donnell (Tony Award for Hairspray) andTony winning-composer/lyricist team Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (for Hairspray) outline the journey the piece took from being a John Waters and Divine cult movie to hitting the Broadway stage; offer a peek at the process that created this smash hit and discuss the social messages that the show sends, both in its content and it's non-traditional casting.
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Tony Award Winners on Working In The TheatreBy American Theatre Wing and CUNY

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