Hairspray Is NBC’s Next Live Musical So Let’s Suggest The New Cast

Besides its dramas, NBC also got a boost from the musical event “The Wiz Live” and its musical talent show “The Voice”. Like all of the network’s live broadcasts, the show will air this coming December.

NBC is hoping to put on a live performance of the musical Hairspray at the end of 2016.

A Tony-winning Broadway musical, which was based on the 1988 film by John Waters, Hairspray centers on young Tracy Turnblad, who earns a spot on a knock-off version of American Bandstand in Baltimore in the 1960s, and does her best to kickstart racial integration in the process.

If you just can’t wait until December, we recommend you watch the 2007 Hairspray flick.

“The Sound of Music was the right length, The Wiz was a little short, while Peter Pan felt like it should’ve have been shorter”, Greenblatt noted.

If the network never had guests who its executives disagreed with publicly, “we would be out of business”, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said.

The narrative reached an even wider mainstream audience in 2007, when the movie reboot – starring Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken and many more A-listers – earned more than $200 million worldwide. She decides to start a campaign to integrate the show.

But with lots of juicy roles for grown-ups (come back too, Queen Latifah!) as well as fresh-faced newcomers, plus no lack of energetic musical numbers, Hairspray is a terrific choice for a live musical-fresh, well-known enough to draw eyeballs, and amusing enough to draw in people who might not have heard of it. And, we’re just saying, if you bring Zac Efron back to do this, you can’t really go wrong from there.

Zadan and Meron have shepherded NBC’s past three live musicals, scoring last month with the staging of “The Wiz Live”.