West End - Hairspray - 2008-02-07e

West End Cast
Hairspray
Covers	Front	Back
		These covers are available from my: cover archive
Date	Evening 7th February 2008
Location	Shaftesbury Theatre, London, UK
Source	Audience
Rating	9/10
Taper	Mijucha
Lineage	unknown
Remastered	edbangor
Rating	9/10
Comments	Traded to me in the tapers original .wav file. These I re-mastered, increasing the treble, and dropping the bass a touch then I manually removed some of the overloud parts (mostly from the audience) The overall results are very good although it does become muffled during the curtain calls as the lap based recorder was covered up as the house lights were raised. There's quite a few understudies on stage for this show which makes for an interesting comparison to the other shows recorded during this week.
Cast	Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad Ian Talbot as Wilbur Turnblad Tracy Bennett as Velma Von Tussle Charlotte Riby as Tracy Turnblad (u/s) Neil Toon as Link Larkin (u/s) Elinor Collett as Penny Pingleton Gavin Alex as Corny Collins (u/s) Rachel Wooding as Amber Von Tussle Johnnie Fiori as Motormouth Maybelle Adrian Hansel as Seaweed J. Stubbs Natalie Best as Inez Dermot Canavan as Male Authority cover Wendy Somerville as Female Authority cover Fem Belling as Shelly Nicky Griffiths as Lou-Ann Jenii Hicks as Brenda Zara Warren as Tammy Sandra Marvin as Lorraine Philip Catchpole as IQ Terel Nugent as Duane ? as Sketch Lewis Davis as Gilbert Michael Peters as Thad Michael Vinsen as Brad ? as Fender The Dynamites Holly James as Peaches Kate Gillespie as Pearl Yaa as Cindy
Track Listing	CD1 Act 1 (73mins) 101 Theatre Announcements 102 Good Morning Baltimore 103 The Nicest Kids in Town 104 Scene Station WZZT 105 Scene Turnblad House 106 Mama I'm a Big Girl Now 107 Scene Station WZZT Auditions 108 I Can Hear The Bells 109 (The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs 110 Scene Detention 111 The Madison 112 The Nicest Kids in Town (reprise) 113 Scene Tracy on Cornie Collins Show 114 It Takes Two 115 Scene Station WZZT Power Struggle 116 Miss Baltimore Crabs (reprise) 117 Scene Tunblad House Telephone Offers 118 Welcome to the '60s 119 Scene Patterson Park Playground 120 Run and Tell That 121 Scene Motormouth's Record Shop 122 Big, Blonde and Beautiful	CD2 Act 2 (56mins) 201 Theater Announcements 202 The Big Dollhouse 203 Scene Baltimore Women's House of Detention 204 Good Morning Baltimore (Reprise) 205 Scene The Har-De-Har Hut 206 Timeless to Me 207 Scene Tracy in Jail 208 Without Love 209 Scene Motormouth's Record Shop 210 I Know Where I've Been 211 Hairspray 212 Scene The Baltimore Eventorium 213 Cooties 214 You Can't Stop the Beat 215 Scene Miss Teenage Hairspray 216 You Can't Stop the Beat (reprise) 217 Curtain Calls 218 Exit Music [muffled]