Rebecca Mendoza is an impressive lead as Tracy, especially as this is her professional debut after only graduating from theatre school last year. The Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical follows Tracy and her friends as they try to break barriers and eliminate segregation on The Corny Collins Show forever, while taking audiences on a whirlwind of popular music from the era – from rock and roll and rhythm and blues, to Motown and soul. Owing to intense segregation at the time, only white teenagers were able to take part in the show except for twice a month when black dancers would be invited to perform, but would have to dance on the other side of the stage to the white teens. Set in the early 1960s in Baltimore, Maryland, Hairspray The Musical follows the life of teenager Tracy, an outsider who supposedly doesn’t fit the typical requirements to be on television, who is determined to become a star of a local dance show The Corny Collins Show.īased on the backdrop of the American Civil Rights era, Hairspray highlights the issues surrounding discrimination and racism, and was inspired by the popular Buddy Deane Show of the late 1950s/early 1960s in Baltimore, where local teens would show off the latest new dances moves and listen to rock and roll bands on a regular basis. It’s the new frontier!” – The honest words of wannabe celebrity Tracy Turnblad that send shivers down the spine of prejudiced dance show producer Velma Von Tussle with the idea of black and white teenagers dancing together on live television. Jessica Hope is transported to the swinging 1960s in Baltimore with Hairspray The Musical, on at Bristol Hippodrome from Monday 5 – Saturday 10 March
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