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West End

Hairspray
"Muck up matinee"

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Date

matinee 25th July 2009

Location

Shaftesbury Theatre, London, UK

Source

Audience
Taper Mijucha
Remaster / Split edbangor
Lineage Wav Masters > Cool Edit Pro (remaster) > CD Wave (track split)

Rating

10/10

Comments

Traded to me in the tapers original .wav file.
Great sounding show, which just needed the slightest 

de-clipping, here and there but nothing drastic.
This was the penultimate show for the original three leading parts, 

so following tradition they mess around slightly, 

in what is known as a "muck up matinee". 

Some of that is missed in audio - such as all the Michael Ball 'product placement' - 

but there are references to Mr. Ball's replacement, 

and some other things that are fun to spot. 

Still nothing to distract from the show itself, and this wonderful cast. 

Cast

Michael Ball as Edna [final show]
Nigel Planer as Wilber
Leanne Jones as Tracy [final show]
Ben James-Ellis as Link [final show]
Verity Rushworth as Penny 
Adrian Hansel as Seaweed
Sandra Marvin as Motormouth Maybelle
Liz Robertson as Velma 
Zoe Rainey as Amber
Raquel Jones as Inez
Paul Manuel as Corney Collins
Wendy Somerville as Female Authority Figure
Dermot Canavan as Male Authority Figure
Corrie Mac as Shelly
Zara Warren as Tammy
Keisha Atwell as Pearl (Dynamite) 
Scarlette Douglas as Peaches (Dynamite)
Nadine Higgin as Cindy (Dynamite)
James Bennett as IQ
Michael Vinsen as Brad
Tim Frater as Gilbert 
Catherine Greeney as Lou-Ann 
Emma Dodd as Brenda ?
Stevie Hutchinson as Fender 
Michael Peters as Thad 
Curtis Lee Scott as Duane 
Michael Steedon as Sketch 

Track Listing

Act 1 (72mins)
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's Record Store
122 Big, Blonde and Beautiful

Act 2 (58mins)
201 Announcements / Entr'acte
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 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