West End (Original) Cast

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Rating

10/10

Comments

Great recording of one of the previews before the show's official opening 

on 30th October 2007.

Good clean sound but does distort slightly during audience cheers.

Original version was split into just the songs with the dialogue included where it fitted

and there was some roll back (repeated lines) between those files

So I recombined all the files into acts. Edited out the roll back, 

and increased the over all volume slightly (plus some other minor adjustments) 

before re-splitting the tracks into what is listed below.

Cast

Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad

 Mel Smith as Wilbur Turnblad

Tracy Bennett as Velma Von Tussle

Leanne Jones as Tracy Turnblad

 Ben James-Ellis as Link Larkin
Elinor Collett as Penny Pingleton

 Paul Manuel as Corny Collins

 Rachel Wooding as Amber Von Tussle

 Johnnie Fiori as Motormouth Maybelle

Adrian Hansel as Seaweed J. Stubbs
Fem Belling as Shelly
Gavin Alex as Sketch
Jenii Hicjs as Brenda
Lewis Davis as Gilbert
Michael Peters as Thad
Michael Vinsen as Brad
Natalie Best as Inez
Neil Toon as Fender
Nicky Griffiths as Lou-Ann
Philip Catchpole as IQ
Sandra Marvin as Lorraine
Terel Nugent as Duane
Zara Warren as Tammy
The Dynamites
Holly James as Peaches
Kate Gillespie as Pearl
Yaa as Cindy

Track Listing

CD2 / Act 1(74mins)
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 Turnblad House Telephone Offers
118 Welcome to the '60s
119 Scene Patterson Park Playground
120 Run and Tell That
121 Scene Motormouth Maybelle's Record Store
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 Maybelle's Record Store
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