Vocal Coach Reacts to HAIRSPRAY 

Hairspray and hsm 2 were both released in 2007! Zac worked his ass off for those movies

@@Delaney.N I am aware. But he's said it before that he had to fight to sing in the second movie because at first they just wanted to keep his vocals as Drew Sealy. I'm not saying he didn't work hard, but he auditioned and worked hard on Hairspray to prove his voice was good enough for him to have a lead that didn't need dubbed over by another singer.

I had no clue this situation happened! I’m glad he was finally able to prove himself!

I thought Zac said he didn't sing in the first HSM because he was shy or something. Maybe my memory isn't working or something but I somehow remember something along those lines.

@aznmochibunny they had all of the songs recorded with Drew Sealy and Disney didn't want to spend anymore budget re-recording the songs.

To be fair, in this they both have blue eyes and black hair and are extremely handsome hahaha they are like the same person at different ages. I STILL have a crush on both of them to this day though 🤣

Tbf seaweed and James were it for me as a young kid lmao

Zac did get WAAAAY better with age.

@@CallMeKes lol you're being sarcastic right?

Excuse me, I've always been on Team Marsden since he walked into my life as Fox's X-men Cyclops in full leather

The latter title is so accurate! Lol!

"The actress" aka Amanda Bynes....

The actress… lmao

That's actually crazy! I mean you'd surely assume she was going to dance in some form if she was in the final musical number. Poor Amanda

I was SO mad in high school because my choir teacher cast a skinny girl who was frequently flat-toned, to boot, and put her in a fat suit to play Tracey. I was almost always in the ensemble or a non speaking role. I hated it.

This! I played the sheriff in the crucible and background characters in every other production. I was a good enough singer to be part of auditioned choirs and a 9 woman group. I was never good enough for even a singing supporting role in the eyes of directors. I think me being fat really was the reason. Always the same skinny girls got the leads. It really made me doubt my ability. I can't believe I didn't see that if I wasn't a good singer or at theatre in general, why was I tasked multiple times to help others learn their lines and songs? Fatphobia sucks.

@@katielouwho888 same with me, I got solos in choir. I just never got roles in theater. I would have liked to have played in Wicked, as either Elphaba or Glenda, but the same girl got one of those. I don't remember who got the other. She got Annie. I think we did Cinderella and she got the title role there. But in choir I was the (same) teacher's clincher, because I had an ear for music and usually learned both the soprano and the alto part, and if the altos were struggling for a line or a verse, I'd drop down to help them before returning to the soprano part. I generally stood in between the two sections so I'd blend either way.

we don't want to put unhealthiness on a pedestal though, even though we want to encourage people to like whatever they look like. You can always make someone look bigger if needed. Thing is most younger characters dance and dance is more aesthetic with an athlete and dancers are generally athletic because they dance.

@@MsJubjubbird okay, but that has nothing to do with a high school level play where there's already a fat kid available, and *also* where the character is written as being fat. I was able, if not so willing, to dance around. And I was fat because of a health issue, not because... well not entirely because I couldn't keep out of the snack food.

John Travolta and Christopher Walken were so great together!!

Elijah Kelley not Wood 😂 Elijah Wood was Frodo. But it’s fun to imagine him in this movie.

Fun fact: Inez is played by songer-songwriter Taylor Parx. She wrote for artists like Panoc! At The Disco.

I was just thinking she should react to the Star Trek musical episode too!

omg yes!

so real

I would love to see her react to that episode!!!!

Omg I thought it was just me 💀

SAME. Elijah Kelley's voice gives me chills every time

Thank you for explaining for those who don’t know!! My dad has some 45s and they’re so cool to look at and listen to.

This is what I came to say. Glad someone had.

She's also upset because earlier in the scene Link said "I think knowin' you's the start of a pretty big adventure.", so since he said that in reference to Tracy not long before Edna showed up, she assumed "I just think this adventure's... a little... too big for me.", was about her cause it's a lot of the same wording.

Listen listen I had a crush on most men in this musical, but seaweed takes the cake😭💕🌷

I believe queen latifa was the only one who didn't say anything because she's from a rap background

I love that little factoid!

I think this was an actual line in the Broadway show from Edna when she did her verse toward the end of the song. ‘You can’t stop to breath…Wilber be a dear, fetch some oxygen…NOOOW!!’ Then motormouth sings her verse. Listen to the Broadway version of it haha.

yeah it's freaking insane to try to actually perform.

Agreed! And I think it’s a shame that we missed out on The Big Dollhouse, Tracy’s verse in Without Love and the Good Morning Baltimore reprise, which I think is such a sweet song that shows how she’s grown as a person through the show

I like the choice in the movie to have Edna step in to protect her daughter. It's quick but it's there. She tells Tracy to run and then links arms with Maybelle so Tracy can escape. It's sweet.

yup, i'm glad they kept it like in the stage version for the live adaptation

i think the director did this because it would be way less realistic in a movie to have link sneak into an adult prison and break tracey out. in a musical it is a cute little duet and in a movie i’d just be weird

@@ninabickell5776 There's a director's commentary on the DVD and the director says that exact thing they couldn't figure out a realistic way to do it and it would add too much time to the movie.

she was FABULOUS in hairspray

Me too

Me too

THIS THIS THIS THIS!!!!

Yeah. I adored when Tracy inspired her mother to get on stage in the end

This made me tear up.

Can confirm. I've played Tracy a few years ago, and the finale number nearly killed us all! ;P

“You can’t stop to breathe” is a joke I’ve heard people say about this song 😂

Played Link in high school... SO MUCH EXERCISE

@@PrincessMeggala0913😂😂😂😂

THE ACCURACY!! that became our group hashtag lmao @@PrincessMeggala0913

That sounds kinda rough- my high school is doing this (second time, hairspray is a repeat) and auditions are on Monday, apparently the school’s first show was a huge success so I have a lot to live up to 😅

Oof😳 That ain’t good haha

I watched her again in Chicago last night. Love her rack in "when you're good to momma"

I really loved her in chicago 2002

Her performance in Big, Blonde, and Beautiful was the song that made me feel like I could be confident and sexy and beautiful even though I’m a little bigger. Now whenever I start hating my body I put this song on repeat until those thoughts go away. And with the catchy beat it doesn’t take too long!

@@ashleighmodglin It's an amazing number, for sure

She also has a terrific Grammy-nominated album of jazz and R&B songs called The Dana Owens Album (2004).

I remember he said when he was asked he wouldn't perform it campy, he wanted Edna to be beautiful, which honestly I find so respectful, and he absolutely gave his one hundred percent. That dance number at the end, and his kindness and sadness in the movie really was quite good.

@@harvestmoon_autumnsky i totally feel that. welcome to the sixties - and the following confrontation with the evil mom - ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY!! you can just see the utter joy turn to devastation in the blink of an eye. just a genuinely heartfelt performance 😭

I love John Travolta, nobody moves like this man.

Especially in You Can’t Stop the Beat it, but in the whole move he just seems like he’s having so much fun with the roll in general it makes it that much better.

From what I heard he really enjoyed playing Edna and liked the way her character was portrayed. You can tell he worked hard in this movie

Omg it's like butter I love his voice

1000% he has such stunning vocals.

He recently did Oz with Queen Latifah so a nice reunion for them!

As her agent it would have been difficult to advise what to do next in terms of finding her a role and her health issues. She could have hit the gym, hired a dietician and dropped the kilos quick, and she might have got ahead, but then she's be competing against the other singing teen actresses of the time- Anne Hathaway comes to mind. But then on the flipside, if the kept the weight the main roles are comedic ones, and she is not a comedic actress. Plus is it eithcal to tell a 16 year old she has to not watch her weight.

I second that!

Definitely would love to see Chicago as well!

i would kill to see him as dan in a next to normal movie

That riff he does is so smooth for no reason

Oooh Jennifer Hudsons vocals gives me chillllls I would love her to review it too!!!

speaking of Jennifer Hudson, her "I Know Where I've Been" in the Hairspray LIVE broadcast was !!!!!!!!!!

Ya I was like "she best not skip Inez's part in that song!"

That's my favorite part too!!

And the line 'tryin to make a dollar out of 15 cents' is still so true today!

so true! the crush started in HSM but Hairspray is where we all fell in love

@@avajanzen5877 yessss

Hairspray is the only movie I've ever been into Zac Efron

@@kiraalldredge48 what about 17 again??

@@avajanzen5877 I actually can't stand that movie.

YES boosting this so she sees! Need both of these!!!

yesss i love dove !

Yeah I wasn't the biggest fan of the Hairspray with Ariana Grande. She tans so much (her natural skin tone is very pale and people have argued that she's blackfishing, although she seems to have moved onto Asia-fishing recently) that having her play Penny makes no sense. You have all these moments between Penny and Seaweed talking about them being an interracial couple and yet she doesn't look white because of how much she tanned back then. When I watched it I legit thought she wasn't white so I was confused, so I looked it up and saw what her natural skin tone is.

@@Marzi29I see your point, but I’m a black person and I never thought Ariana was doing anything wrong, she’s half Italian which means she can get quite tan and lighting can also make a person look darker, so there are many pictures of her where she looks darker but the light was just awful and made it seem that way when in reality she wasn’t that dark. It never bothered me in any way. And I haven’t heard anything about her trying to look Asian or anything like that so I can’t comment. But the problems I had with Hairspray Live were minor, I didn’t like that they cut You Can’t Stop The Beat short, it was half the original size of the song, but they did the full song on a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade which also annoyed me cause it should’ve been on the show and not on a parade. And they also didn’t do The New Girl In Town in favor of doing Cooties which I thought was a weird choice. But I loved everyone’s acting and their voices were amazing, albeit they had some technical issues with the lighting.

@@biasampaio5899 Literally Ariana’s recent appearance makes her look Asian. And then awhile ago she was tanning entirely too dark for her natural shade and using a blaccent. Comparing now Ariana to pre 2013 Ariana, her features are completely different

Ok that makes more sense, bc I always thought it was a gun. Like a .45 caliber and I was soooo confused! And also kinda side eyeing Penny bc GIRL why are you trying to buy a gun?! 👀

Thank you! I've always wondered what she was referring to!

Omg thank you! I've always wondered what that meant

@@52pickuplimes96 haha! To be fair, given Penny's upbringing, she might be unhinged enough to try!

I always thought the lyrics referred to a record, but the beer idea could work. Colt 45 malt liquor was brewed in South Baltimore starting in 1963.

Moulin rouge 100% I've never looked at Ewan the same since

YES TO MOULIN ROUGE

Yes to Ella enchanted!

PLEASE CHICAGO

Second all of these!

I disagree I thought everyone carried themselves fr this cast was great. My jaw was on the floor during the blacker the berry song

Queen Latifah was SO much better than the scientolocultist.

@@Jackjumper_ant i agree but John Travolta and Christopher Walken ....they just added something so much to it.

​@@Jackjumper_antYes!

South Pacific is a musical that where the racism went over my head, but was so apparent when I watched it as an adult.

The soundtrack for the movie does have Mama I’m A Big Girl Now but the three girls are instead voiced by Ricki Lake (Tracy in the original John Waters movie), Marissa Jaret Winokur (the original Broadway Tracy) and Nikki Blonsky(this movies Tracy)

I’ve watched videos about the making of Hairspray and they wanted to put the song in, but it would have meant splitting the screen into three segments and just would have been very awkward.

If my memory is correct, they had it playing during the credits. It was one of my favorite songs