Special Features
Hairspray Dubai
Hairspray is based upon the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, with a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman.In Hairspray, it’s 1962, the ’50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion – to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance programme, ’The Corny Collins Show’ and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity.
But can a trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the programme’s reigning princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her ’do? Only in Hairspray! Welcome to the ’60s!
Characters
Brief notes on the main characters in HAIRSPRAY
TRACY TURNBLAD - A high-spirited, irrespressible, chubby teen girl; she loves to dance and is eager for her life to kick in.
EDNA TURNBLAD - Her hefty. loving, somewhat repressed mother, a laundress with deferred dreams
WILBUR TURNBLAD - Tracy’s father, a mischievous joke shop proprietor
PENNY PINGLETON - Tracy’s ditzy but devoted best friend
CORNY COLLINS - The smooth and smart adult host of Baltimore’s local TV teen dance show
LINK LARKIN - The show’s teen male dreamboat. ambitious but essentially good-hearted
AMBER VON TUSSLE - The show’s resident princess, conniving and selfish, but superficially perky
VELMA VON TUSSLE - The TV station manager; a rich, bigoted, bossy widow who’s pushing daughter Amber to the stardom she never had
MOTORMOUTH MAYBELLE - The big, brassy, all-embracing black radio DJ and once-a-month guest on Corny’s show; she wears blonde wigs as her trademark
SEAWEED J. STUBBS - Her sexy teen son, street smart but easygoing; his unique dance lessons give Tracy the edge she needs to catch Corny’s attention
LITTLE INEZ - Seaweed’s little sister, 12. She’s cute but angry, impatient for teh promised land of actual civil rights
THE DYNAMITES - A trio of ultra-glamorous black divas who emerge from a poster to be the magical hostesses of Tracy and Edna’s whirlwind visit to the Swinging Sixties
HAIRSPRAY Performances
There will be a total of 7 public performances over one week.
Tuesday 13 July
Performance 1 - 7.30pm (ends 9.40pm)
Wednesday 14 July
Performance 2 - 7.30pm (ends 9.40pm)
Thursday 15 July
Performance 3 - 7.30pm (ends 9.40pm)
Friday 16 July
Performance 4 - 2.30pm (ends 4.40pm)
Performance 5 - 7.30pm (ends 9.40pm)
Saturday 17 July
Performance 6 - 2.30pm (ends 4.40pm)
Performance 7 - 7.30pm (ends 9.40pm
Venue: DUCTAC, the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre can be found on the 2nd Floor of the Mall of the Emirates (the Ski Slope end).
Tickets are priced at:
Stalls Dhs 185
Balcony Dhs 150
Stalls Family Ticket Dhs 690
Balcony Family Ticket Dhs 550
VIP Box Dhs 1000
Book tickets in the following ways:
VIA THE DUCTAC BOX OFFICE
call 04 341 4777
or through these ticket agencies:
BOX OFFICE ME..COM
TIME OUT TICKETS
VIRGIN MEGASTORE
VIRGIN TICKETING BOX OFFICE
Website: http://www.hairspraydubai.com
