Theatre Review Of The Play Hairspray By Margo Lion
The live theatre production I decided to review was Hairspray by Margo Lion. The musical Hairspray is based off the film by John Waters. The play focus on a teenage girl, Tracy Turnblad. Tracy is a high schooler who love dancing and is obsessed with a popular local dance show called “The Corny Collins Show”. Tracy auditions and is soon given a spot on the popular show. Tracy is excited to be on the show and excited to inform everyone of her plans to integrate The Corny Collins Show. Though this comedy did have a happy ending, throughout the musical the world got a little turned upside down. The overall conflict I was say in this production was Tracy’s mission to integrate the Corny Collins show and the obstacles she faced. Her rivals in
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Each character had a different style and sense of dance. I would not consider the dances or dance moves incorporated in this production theatrical nor abstract dancing. The dances did not tell a story nor did they convey and idea, and they did not create any mood nor have an effect. However, the dancing in this musical could possibly pass as character dancing. The dancing could related to character dancing because the dance moves express a particular character and has a pattern relatable to its persona. When Tracy met Seaweed in detention he taught her some of his dance moves. “His” could mean dance moves he personally had come up or with him being African American, dance moves from his personal culture. Either way the dance moves Seaweed had introduced to Tracy expresses his particular character. Each dance move Seaweed performed had some type of similarity in them creating that pattern and relating one move to another. It seemed that as the play went on and the good guys of the story got closer and closer to victory, the force and tempo of the dancing increased. In the beginning, when Tracy first won the spot on the Corny Collins show, the tempo of the dance moves was not very fast and did not have much force at all. Once she met Seaweed and learned some new move, the force grow stronger and the tempo started to increase. At the end of the play when every is on set of The Corny Collins Show, the tempo of the dances are very fast and everyone joined together is dancing with much force. The dance moves incorporated in this production were put together in a way that made it easier for the viewers to
Each character had a different style and sense of dance. I would not consider the dances or dance moves incorporated in this production theatrical nor abstract dancing. The dances did not tell a story nor did they convey and idea, and they did not create any mood nor have an effect. However, the dancing in this musical could possibly pass as character dancing. The dancing could related to character dancing because the dance moves express a particular character and has a pattern relatable to its persona. When Tracy met Seaweed in detention he taught her some of his dance moves. “His” could mean dance moves he personally had come up or with him being African American, dance moves from his personal culture. Either way the dance moves Seaweed had introduced to Tracy expresses his particular character. Each dance move Seaweed performed had some type of similarity in them creating that pattern and relating one move to another. It seemed that as the play went on and the good guys of the story got closer and closer to victory, the force and tempo of the dancing increased. In the beginning, when Tracy first won the spot on the Corny Collins show, the tempo of the dance moves was not very fast and did not have much force at all. Once she met Seaweed and learned some new move, the force grow stronger and the tempo started to increase. At the end of the play when every is on set of The Corny Collins Show, the tempo of the dances are very fast and everyone joined together is dancing with much force. The dance moves incorporated in this production were put together in a way that made it easier for the viewers to