Big Stars, Small Flubs, and a Tracy Turnblad Reunion

Although, he met the people behind it. Waters also said he is actually surprised with how much interest there has been over the years in remaking his movie. “And now we finally get to work together!” So when I was asked to be a part of it, I said yes immediately.

“I go online, and I have a lot of kids who look at my page every day”, Grande explains. “It’s just so exciting”. It starred Marissa Jaret Winokur, “Glee’s” Matthew Morrison, and, as Edna, Harvey Fierstein, who plays the role in the NBC Live production as well.

“And so to kind of get back into musical theater is a attractive, handsome thing, and I’m very excited about it and also just so excited to be among such incredible artists and human beings and people to, sort of, elevate and to reignite that sort of musical passion”. What I want to do is get out of this alive without falling in a hole, tripping over a wire or falling on my hair. But you know what they say about live television: Anything can happen.

NBC’s latest musical brought us back to 1962 Baltimore, and anticipation for “Hairspray Live!” was higher than Tracy Turnblad’s hair. Eastern, follows prior NBC live broadcasts including: The Sound of Music Live! Whatever’s on your mind, drop it in a comment below. Previously, 2014’s “Peter Pan Live!” held the dubious ratings low with 9.2 million viewers. Fox has climbed on the musical bandwagon too, and ABC is rumored to be working on an adaptation of one of the Disney musicals for TV, which makes sense.

On the bright side, a majority of those who did watch “Hairspray Live!” didn’t hate what they were seeing and hearing. In 2007, the musical became a movie with added songs and John Travolta as Edna. “This isn’t any of the movies”.

“It won’t just be inside on a stage”.

Ariana, who played Penny Pingleton, didn’t have any problems belting out other songs in the show, like “Without Love” and the finale, “We Can’t Stop the Beat”.

In Hairspray, Tracy Turnblad is given a hard time about her weight when she goes in to audition to dance on the Corny Collins Show.

“Consistently I wake up and I can hardly imagine how I’m really here”, she said.

According to Nielsen’s metered market overnight ratings, “Hairspray Live!” earned a 5.9 household rating, which is down almost 25% from the household overnights for last year’s “The Wiz Live!”.