Hairspray, Live: Musical Analysis

I saw NBC Live’s Production of Hairspray, Live! On TV at 8pm on December 7, 2016. The Musical was very stylish 1960 era musical. The main theme of this Musical is that everyone should be treated the same no matter what race, gender, or religion that they are. The costumes insisted of long 60’s dresses with very vibrant colors, and the men wore dressy pants and button up like shirts or polo’s. The set’s were 60’s style and took place mainly on the streets of “baltimore”. I noticed mainly in the sets that for the houses they used the very old mossy green or yellow like wallpaper that they used to put on their walls back in those times. The streets had cars that lined the edge of the streets with the regular stores and houses that really set the theme of baltimore a lot. The studio had a color of color that gave off a very joyful mood to the whole entire scene. I love the jail cell that Tracey Turnblad was placed and thought that was the best set. The bars that broke off of the jail cell were really cool to me and showed that she truly had broke away. If I were the set designer I would have actually built the store for Mr.Pinky, because I feel that it is a main part in the movie that …show more content…
The streets had a very low dim lighting to bring out the contrast of each building. I seemed to notice that in the Turnblad's house they had a yellow like lighting to really bring out that green wallpaper. I thought they did really good with the Conrie Collin's show lighting and sound because you really felt like you were almost at a dance club and that’s the whole purpose of the scene. If I were to fix anything I would add in a spotlight to Tracey right in the beginning of the performance when she is dancing on the streets to bring more of her costume colors out and her face because I couldn’t see much of