![]() ![]() It captures the hope of the civil rights movement but also, depressingly, the stalled progress since, especially in light of the BLM protests last year. This works better for its uplifting message on female self-worth, but the upbeat mood on racial unity strikes a more dissonant note. It becomes unstoppably joyous, placing its politics (on conventional femininity and on size, as well as race and protest) alongside its joy. The show – literally – threatens to take off like a fizzing musical rocket in a scene featuring her skidding across the stage on a cloud of dry ice.īut then it reels back and recalibrates its energy to a different setting, no less turbo-charged but not so high-pitched. Characters are just a little too flat, speaking in an adenoidal high-school squeak and Velma von Tussle (Rita Simons), intent on racial segregation, is a Disney villain. ![]() The production has an over-bright, caricatured aesthetic that feels garish at times and becomes wearing. Comedy Drama Musical Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show. You wonder how the cast will sustain the demon energy and excess as it hurtles from one number to another, with Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan’s book kept minimal. Movie/TV Soundtracks from around the first decade of the 2000s -Eleven (11) CD Bundle a nice mix of genres/styles Starsky Hutch (2004) 15trks Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 18trks Hairspray (2007) 19trks Coyote Ugly (200. ![]()
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