HAIRSPRAY Returns to the DuPont Theatre 2/19-21

It's the perfect Valentine piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance. It's HAIRSPRAY, Broadway's musical comedy phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture, coming live on stage to the DuPont Theatre one weekend only Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21. Back by popular demand, audiences in Wilmington will once again be swept away to 1960s Baltimore in this international smash-hit musical. It's time again to let your hair down and dance the night away!

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 program, "The Corny Collins Show" and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. But can a plus-size trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program'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!

HAIRSPRAY is based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters, who served as a creative consultant on the musical comedy. It features a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan. HAIRSPRAY features an original score by Academy Award-nominated Marc Shaiman (who co-wrote the music and lyrics for the acclaimed animated musical, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. This production of HAIRSPRAY is based on Jack O'Brien's original direction and Jerry Mitchell's original choreography. Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed DuPont Theatre's December presentation of LEGALLY BLONDE. HAIRSPRAY is produced by NETworks Presentations.

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