Hairplay Tour 2022
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Open to trades email me hairsprayvontussle123@gmail.comTour stop New Brunswick
Cast: Niki Metcalf as Tracy
Nina West as Edna
Toneshia Harris as Motormouth Maybelle
Billy Dawson as Corny Collins
Will Savarese as Link Larkin
Emery Henderson as penny Pinlgton
Jamontee bruten a seaweed
Cristopher swan as Wilbur turnblad
Kalee Albrition as amber Von Tussle
Addsion garner as Velma von tussle
Henlee Britany as Shelly
Kelly barbito as Tammy
Ryan Evers as Lou ane
Nichelle Lewis dyemite
Gabriel Thomas Lorraine
Faith northchut as Brenda
Emmanuel zeesman female authority figure
Gabriel kerns sketch
Adam Blake iq
Brendan Morris as Thad
Tanner Calicut as fender
Greg kalfitas as male authority figure
Michael Corey Gilbert
Cara Ansste as peaches
Kaleb jerkins as Brad
I was Thad and this just brought genuine tears to my eyes, thank you for sharing! ❤
@@brendanamorris you were amazing
Congratulations on an incredible show. 👏🏾 Hairspray is one of my favourite musicals and this was an amazing production
The audition for this tour was insane! We waited outside for HOURS in freezing temperatures, only to get upstairs and they say…. Not everyone will be seen, we apologize! The combination was taught so fast so they could fit in as many dancers as possible. A crazy crazy day but it’s a memory I’ll never forget.
@@krystalkade3249 I heard stories about that audtions
@@tomwest5068 callbacks were fun!! But that first day was insane. Singers were the day before and got told to sing a 8 bar cut because there were so many ppl lol
Did you make it??
Makes me so happy to see the original staging back!!! And the NJ State Theater where I grew up doing dance recitals!!
Loved the State Theater!! Such a beautiful theater! I was so fortunate to see the show there! I’m trying to go back to see another show there 😊 also don’t mind me looking at your RUclips page, you put you grew up in Old Bridge! I have family there so I’ve been there many times!!
Will Sav (Link) is a dear family friend of mine !! I've been looking for this slime for YEARS !!!!!!!! Bless your sweet soul !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How I love tours with the original sets, costumes, choreography, etc... ❤
I love the song you can’t stop the beat me and my dad listen to it all the time but my dad died 8 years ago to cancer when I listen to the song it cheers me up knowing that my dad is looking down on me from heaven
In my opinion this is the best national tour cast
And to think it was a non equity production!
@@tomwest5068 check out Carly Jibson with the 2003 Equity tour, she’s probably one of the best Tracy’s if not THE best
What are with these comments complaining about everything? I thought this was an excellent show - the heart put into it is so obvious! The cast is phenomenal and I like the lyrical changes. Folks who are so critical might want to reevaluate what they actually appreciate about live musical theatre. I love that every show is a wholly unique experience - oftentimes I am as impressed with the understudies as the primary actors! And mistakes are opportunities to do something creative.
Musical theatre brings together tons of artists who get to play and build a connection with other people that transcends any single performance, set piece, or costuming. It's sad that folks become so jaded and stuck in their expectations for how they believe theatre should be. I loved the energy and dedication of every person on and off that stage. Bravoooo 👏😊
@@gerbil_is_typing thank you
Thank you for this! My Grandaddy was in the hospital when I had tickets to go and I didn’t have anyone to take me 😕 I was looking forward to it because I love Nikki Metcalf but now I can see it so thank you 🩵
@@laurenroupe2321 so sorry to hear that
Thank you so much for this! Seems like they had problems with their third dynamite as well as drops not flying in but it was so cool seeing how they dealt with that!
Hi! I got to see the show at this theater but it was the day before this performance. The theater space is a bit small so there was no space for the curtains as u can see. Also the third dynamite was an understudy!
I thourght it was A Michael Jackson lookalike😅
Ughhh the people leaving during the curtain call always gets on my last nerve, wait til the performers are done!!! Unless you have a life or death emergency, you can wait to leave with everybody else at the end of the show when the lights come up
EXACTLY! It's only a few extra moments, and the cast, plus the 7 piece band under them are sweating their heads off to give the audience nothing but the best night ever. Really annoys me that audiences still treat curtain calls like it's a movie end credit roll. Well said (they really ought to wait for Tracy to give the crown to Inez, then wave - THEN it's over!)
@@dukeofrodtown1705 I know right!! It’s still a part of the show. I’m so glad somebody else agrees with me because it drives me INSANE. Plus the curtain call in Hairspray is so much fun!
@@broadwaylover3105 As a musician and conductor myself, I completely agree! The rest of the show is a barrel of fun as well
@@dukeofrodtown1705 100% I’ve actually done the show professionally, not on the tour lol but at a regional theatre and I would kill to do the show again!!
The traffic is always terrible cuz everyone is leaving at the same time
Thanks for sharing! Some cast members listed above are not in this video.
The record shop cast in this video are:
Sandie G. Lee - Motor Mouth Maybelle
Kalea Leverette- little Inez
Jamonté Bruton- Seaweed J Stubbs
Parris Lewis - Pearl
Nichelle Lewis- Cindy Watkins
Micheal Corey Hassel - Peaches (male dynamite)
Gabrielle Thomas - Lorraine
Brandan Morris - Thad
Kobe Brown- Duane
Micheal Harmon- Gilbert
@@parrislewis3858 No problem
Thank you SO much for uploading this!!! Wish this tour came up north of the border - most of the good Broadway national tours almost never come here to Canada (and we have to settle with a downscaled Shrek now)
@@dukeofrodtown1705 it came to Canada in the fall
@@tomwest5068 But not to my city. That's what makes me disappointed...
I saw this cast in New Haven in June 2022!!! I took pictures with Tracey, Penny, and Link!!! They were so good 👌🏽
The Australian production closed in April 2023, so this is great to see one of the North American casts to see if there were any differences and see another amazing cast ❤
Awww takes me back 20 years to when I saw the OBC!
That was a nice reference of the movie during the last seconds of the roll call🥹
Omg! This is the tour I was on! Lmao I was the Deck Carpenter. You literally see me pushing the can out. At 1:50:00 Onstage right not wearing the costume properly. Lmao
Damn, I almost went to see this one when it toured near me. Bank of America and tickets master stole like $300 and I was not able to afford the tickets anymore
Yeass
Omg I saw the show at the state theater! I wonder if this was the show I went to
Me too!! I was there on April 30th at the matinee!!
Just wanted to let you know that I appreciate you and I am super thankful and happy that you posted this!❤🎉
@@lwclark96 no problem
This verison of haispray has one of the best versions of link larken
Kaléa Leverette as Little Inez 😘
Nina west 👏😍
Do you have a full show of the the London Coliseum production of hairspray that you could upload please?
@@Jazmanryan unfortunately not at the moment
Hmmm maybe you might just be lucky
@@tomwest5068 I would really appreciate it if you could upload a full show but don’t worry if you can’t.
OMG THE DYNAMITES?!?!?!?!??!?!?!
Would you happen to have a video of the most recent tour?
@@MrNonsenseSr unfortunately not the moment
@@tomwest5068 aw dang, what about the last non-replica UK tour?
@@MrNonsenseSr no unfortunately not hopefully soon
Thanks for this upload Hairspray Universe but do you know the cast and where exactly this tour stop was?
@@MBOYTWO34 The tour stop was New Brunswick Nj the cast
Who was in the cast?
@@MBOYTWO34 it’s under description
@@tomwest5068oh thanks! I should have checked first 😅
@@MBOYTWO34 share this with people 😊
1:25:59 who is sniffing away with so much force LOL
😂😂😂
Amber
that’s me! thank you ❤️🔥
Where is this?
@@johnnary New Brunswick nj state theatre
Those set pieces really need a touch up! Is no one maintaining them?
@@pinah196 it’s a non union tour so the sets are little bit cheaper than the Broadway production/ union tour
@@tomwest5068 Yes I realise that, but they still need to have some level of maintenance.
@@pinah196 the stage crew is moving most of sets onstage and then also the tech booth
@@tomwest5068Again..I realise that. But the sets still need to be maintained and looked after.
@@pinah196These are the same set pieces from the 2nd National Tour that ended in 2012 (Brooklynn Pulver and Danielle Arci era). They’re olddddd.
Saw this in early 2023 and I hate to say it, but it was bad. It was included in the Broadway series and it paled in comparison to all the others. The cast was great! They absolutely gave it their all, but we could barely hear them. It’s as if they did everything in their power to prevent the audience from hearing Corny Collins. The lighting, sound, music, and ESPECIALLY the sets, were all terrible. Clearly it hasn’t been improved. I know it’s a non-union tour, but yikes did I feel ripped off. My high school could’ve mounted a better show with half the budget.
I hope all the cast members can get into an equity tour one day, as they were without a doubt the only saving grace for this show.
great cast - why no sets ??
I think the size of the theater and stage didn't allow for a lot of the backdrops
This tour came through Indianapolis back in early 2023. The theatre was definitely big enough, they just didn’t have any sets. Honestly it felt cheap as a result.
Most tours often have smaller scaled “sets” from their broadway counterpart due to stage sizes more often than not being smaller than the shows home theater, regulations, and or budget. The 1st national tour of this show years ago had sets so this is more likely a budget matter.
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WTF, you go dark at a sock in pants and a knocked-up teen?!
@@josephcollins6033 ?
I love how they thought they could get away with 7 musicians. They clearly couldn’t.
@@FlyBoyMT I thought they could. The music was played in the show right????
@@robloxsetdesigner9627 That’s not the point I was trying to make. When I said “they couldn’t get away with it” means that the music sounds hollow and empty. Show was written for 15 musicians and it’s missing a lot of the orchestration. It’s cut by more than half the musicians. I saw this touring production live and it was even worse in person. Playbill states only 7 musicians. They attempted to compensate by mic’ing the instruments so loud that it would blast through the speakers to try to sound full. The worse part is, they didn’t even bother tracking the rest of the missing parts to the click so that at least the audience could hear it. They’d rather leave it out. At least in London they had 8 or 10 musicians but the rest were tracked. Sad.
A little note for you about Broadway “bands” (the typical 12 to 15-piece orchestra pit) for these modern-score shows. They usually only have one of each instrument and the rest is filled out by keyboards or click tracks. The live musicians’ parts are usually doubled in the keyboard scores to provide fullness, and the musicians are there to provide the “human” aspect of the attack and decay of notes being played (since synth horns, synth strings, etc. on a keyboard sounds robotic). When you blend the two together just right, it’s like a clever way of tricking the human ear into thinking that there are more musicians than there actually are. But the extreme inverse happens, when you remove crucial human players or one or more of the keyboards, you leave big holes in the music; which is exactly what is happening here. And every player is crucial in a typical Broadway band these days, since, like I stated above, there’s only one player of each instrument. 7 players…. Keyboard 1, Drums, Bass already make up 3. Sounds like they at least got the horns and 1 reed: Trumpet, Trombone, Reed 1 (or 2), and possibly a 2nd Keyboard (there’s some weird-sounding Clav EP in the background that’s always squeaking along). So you basically don’t have any of the string players, no guitars, no Keyboard 3, and no Percussion. Even most of the amateur/community theatres I’ve seen do this show with the most reduced pits at least have the guitars, a lot of the groove in this 60’s music is provided by them. This is just sad, it’s a national tour for goodness sake.
@@FlyBoyMT and your point is…??? This whole essay did not make one point. This was a non equity national tour. How they gonna travel around America in small venues with a large band. Most of these tours don’t have large orchestras. The music was played amazingly. The music was there. The beat was made. That’s the mortal of this story. You need to understand that in their perspective. This was a “ NON EQUITY NATIONAL TOUR” ohhhhh for goodness saakkkeeee blahhh. They did an amazing job at doing the music. I don’t see you doing it. So if you don’t see their perspective, keep ya comments to ya self 🫶
End of discussion
@@FlyBoyMTblah blah blah. I bet you get that a lot
Hairplay??
Nina West as Edna? Isn't Edna played by a man?
This Tracy was awful singing Good Morning Baltimore.
@@KatMusic2009 Nina west is a man
Clearly this person doesn’t get it. @KatMusic2009 They named the video “Hairplay” because the cast members would call it “The Hairplay” as a joke. Nina West is a drag queen. She goes by Nina West. But Andrew Levitt plays Edna as well as being Nina West. Also no Niki Metcalf ate singing Good Morning Baltimore. That is a very hard song and I get chills every time she sings it 😊😊
@@robloxsetdesigner9627 I agree she's such a good Tracy!!!
@@broadwaylover3105 it was just her birthday yesterday!
O my….. this is really terrible
Let’s see you do better!
Amber
Amber here! Thank you!!