Hairplay Tour 2022 

@@brendanamorris you were amazing

Congratulations on an incredible show. 👏🏾 Hairspray is one of my favourite musicals and this was an amazing production

Hi! I got to see the show at this theater but it was the day before this performance. The theater space is a bit small so there was no space for the curtains as u can see. Also the third dynamite was an understudy!

Loved the State Theater!! Such a beautiful theater! I was so fortunate to see the show there! I’m trying to go back to see another show there 😊 also don’t mind me looking at your RU-vid page, you put you grew up in Old Bridge! I have family there so I’ve been there many times!!

@@krystalkade3249 I heard stories about that audtions

@@tomwest5068 callbacks were fun!! But that first day was insane. Singers were the day before and got told to sing a 8 bar cut because there were so many ppl lol

@@parrislewis3858 No problem

And to think it was a non equity production!

@@gerbil_is_typing thank you

EXACTLY! It's only a few extra moments, and the cast, plus the 7 piece band under them are sweating their heads off to give the audience nothing but the best night ever. Really annoys me that audiences still treat curtain calls like it's a movie end credit roll. Well said (they really ought to wait for Tracy to give the crown to Inez, then wave - THEN it's over!)

@@dukeofrodtown1705 I know right!! It’s still a part of the show. I’m so glad somebody else agrees with me because it drives me INSANE. Plus the curtain call in Hairspray is so much fun!

@@broadwaylover3105 As a musician and conductor myself, I completely agree! The rest of the show is a barrel of fun as well

@@dukeofrodtown1705 100% I’ve actually done the show professionally, not on the tour lol but at a regional theatre and I would kill to do the show again!!

The traffic is always terrible cuz everyone is leaving at the same time

@@laurenroupe2321 so sorry to hear that

@@lwclark96 no problem

@@dukeofrodtown1705 it came to Canada in the fall

@@tomwest5068 But not to my city. That's what makes me disappointed...

Me too!! I was there on April 30th at the matinee!!

@@Jazmanryan unfortunately not at the moment

Hmmm maybe you might just be lucky

@@tomwest5068 I would really appreciate it if you could upload a full show but don’t worry if you can’t.

@@FlyBoyMT I thought they could. The music was played in the show right????

@@robloxsetdesigner9627 ⁠ ⁠​​⁠That’s not the point I was trying to make. When I said “they couldn’t get away with it” means that the music sounds hollow and empty. Show was written for 15 musicians and it’s missing a lot of the orchestration. It’s cut by more than half the musicians. I saw this touring production live and it was even worse in person. Playbill states only 7 musicians. They attempted to compensate by mic’ing the instruments so loud that it would blast through the speakers to try to sound full. The worse part is, they didn’t even bother tracking the rest of the missing parts to the click so that at least the audience could hear it. They’d rather leave it out. At least in London they had 8 or 10 musicians but the rest were tracked. Sad. A little note for you about Broadway “bands” (the typical 12 to 15-piece orchestra pit) for these modern-score shows. They usually only have one of each instrument and the rest is filled out by keyboards or click tracks. The live musicians’ parts are usually doubled in the keyboard scores to provide fullness, and the musicians are there to provide the “human” aspect of the attack and decay of notes being played (since synth horns, synth strings, etc. on a keyboard sounds robotic). When you blend the two together just right, it’s like a clever way of tricking the human ear into thinking that there are more musicians than there actually are. But the extreme inverse happens, when you remove crucial human players or one or more of the keyboards, you leave big holes in the music; which is exactly what is happening here. And every player is crucial in a typical Broadway band these days, since, like I stated above, there’s only one player of each instrument. 7 players…. Keyboard 1, Drums, Bass already make up 3. Sounds like they at least got the horns and 1 reed: Trumpet, Trombone, Reed 1 (or 2), and possibly a 2nd Keyboard (there’s some weird-sounding Clav EP in the background that’s always squeaking along). So you basically don’t have any of the string players, no guitars, no Keyboard 3, and no Percussion. Even most of the amateur/community theatres I’ve seen do this show with the most reduced pits at least have the guitars, a lot of the groove in this 60’s music is provided by them. This is just sad, it’s a national tour for goodness sake.

@@FlyBoyMT and your point is…??? This whole essay did not make one point. This was a non equity national tour. How they gonna travel around America in small venues with a large band. Most of these tours don’t have large orchestras. The music was played amazingly. The music was there. The beat was made. That’s the mortal of this story. You need to understand that in their perspective. This was a “ NON EQUITY NATIONAL TOUR” ohhhhh for goodness saakkkeeee blahhh. They did an amazing job at doing the music. I don’t see you doing it. So if you don’t see their perspective, keep ya comments to ya self 🫶 End of discussion

@@FlyBoyMTblah blah blah. I bet you get that a lot

@@MBOYTWO34 The tour stop was New Brunswick Nj the cast

Who was in the cast?

@@MBOYTWO34 it’s under description

@@tomwest5068oh thanks! I should have checked first 😅

@@MBOYTWO34 share this with people 😊

@@MrNonsenseSr unfortunately not the moment

@@tomwest5068 aw dang, what about the last non-replica UK tour?

@@MrNonsenseSr no unfortunately not hopefully soon

@@pinah196 it’s a non union tour so the sets are little bit cheaper than the Broadway production/ union tour

@@tomwest5068 Yes I realise that, but they still need to have some level of maintenance.

@@pinah196 the stage crew is moving most of sets onstage and then also the tech booth

@@tomwest5068Again..I realise that. But the sets still need to be maintained and looked after.

@@pinah196These are the same set pieces from the 2nd National Tour that ended in 2012 (Brooklynn Pulver and Danielle Arci era). They’re olddddd.

@@josephcollins6033 ?

I think the size of the theater and stage didn't allow for a lot of the backdrops

This tour came through Indianapolis back in early 2023. The theatre was definitely big enough, they just didn’t have any sets. Honestly it felt cheap as a result.

@@KatMusic2009 Nina west is a man

Clearly this person doesn’t get it. @KatMusic2009 They named the video “Hairplay” because the cast members would call it “The Hairplay” as a joke. Nina West is a drag queen. She goes by Nina West. But Andrew Levitt plays Edna as well as being Nina West. Also no Niki Metcalf ate singing Good Morning Baltimore. That is a very hard song and I get chills every time she sings it 😊😊

@@robloxsetdesigner9627 I agree she's such a good Tracy!!!

@@broadwaylover3105 it was just her birthday yesterday!

Let’s see you do better!