Hairspray Live!

About Hairspray Live!

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

Hairspray Live! (2016) is a comedy music film directed by Alex Rudzinski and Kenny Leon. Its themes are dreams, dance, live performance, and filmed theater.

Maddie Baillio appears as Tracy Turnblad, Dove Cameron as Amber Von Tussle, Kristin Chenoweth as Velma Von Tussle, and Ariana Grande as Penny Pingleton. It runs 120 minutes and was released in December 2016.

It was produced by NBC Productions and Warner Bros. Television. It streams on BroadwayHD and Broadway HD Amazon Channel in the United States.

Hairspray, Billy Elliot: The Musical Live, and Hidden Figures make useful companions to Hairspray Live!, all filed under 1960s. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 172 votes and it carries a PG-13 rating.