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NBC started the live Broadway musical fad with The Sound of Music Live! 3 years ago. How can you watch Hairspray Live! online?

NBC has once again brought back the live Broadway musical for a special to help fill its holiday calendar.

Grande was a pint-size vision in plaid, low-key working it in every scene - until she was carried into the finale wearing a shimmery emerald-green minidress and knee-high white patent-leather stiletto boots (!).By Cheryl Wassenaar 6 years ago Follow Tweet If she seemed tentative at times, it worked for her spazy character, whose head is always in the clouds. The "Break Free" singer played Tracy Turnblad's dweeby sidekick Penny Pingleton with wide eyes and breathy wonder. Here were the 10 biggest highlights from the live show.Īriana Grande's ponytail cloned itself into pigtails, and she became an endearing nerd for the ages. To a fan-favorite score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, Tracy finds a way to bring her whole community together when their divides seem insurmountable. Spoiler alert: She succeeds, and the results are pretty damn magical. Newcomer Maddie Baillio starred as Tracy Turnblad, a chubby, sunny teenager in Baltimore who just wants to dance on TV, and bring everyone of all walks on stage with her. And director Kenny Leon (a Tony-winning Broadway vet) made those resonances clear throughout, shedding light and casting shadows to show how much and how little has changed since the '60s.

Its themes of healing racial divisions and of underdogs banding together couldn't be more relevant after this roller coaster of a year. Harvey Fierstein's 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray (adapted from John Waters' 1988 film, and later made into the 2007 Zac Efron vehicle) feels even timelier in 2016 than producers may have expected. (The third time was the charm with last year's dynamite broadcast of The Wiz.) Unlike its first two outings - the equally underwhelming Sound of Music and Peter Pan (remember Allison Williams dangling from a wire?) - Hairspray Live! proved that the network has found its theater legs. NBC piped another hit Broadway musical onto small screens across America tonight with Hairspray Live!