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...chubby teenager who dreams of winning a spot on an American Bandstand- like TV dance show, Hairspray takes us back to the era everyone loves to make fun of, the early 1960s. In theater-coiffure terms, we're in the sweet spot between Grease and Hair. Movie composer Marc Shaiman (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) makes his Broadway debut with a score that skillfully mimics the era's perky pop ditties, and director Jack O'Brien has put together a slick, high-spirited production. Add to that a politically correct story line about a girl who fights to integrate...
...post-Mamma Mia! world, and the theater has fallen in love with rock--so long as it's retro. Opening next month on Broadway, accompanied by fervent buzz, is Hairspray, based on the campy John Waters movie and featuring ersatz '50s music by Marc Shaiman. Meanwhile, there's hardly a rock star or group from the '60s, '70s or '80s not about to be celebrated in a songbook musical reprising the greatest hits. We Will Rock You, a sell-out hit in London that boasts Robert De Niro among its backers, sets more than 30 songs of the '70s rock...
...Little Mermaid, he wants to be Up There. There's a dexterous quartet of musical themes, a la Les Miz. And though a song whose refrain is, more or less, "Shut your flicking face, Uncle Flicka" would seem to have little room for musical wit, ace arranger Marc Shaiman turns it into an Oklahoma hoedown, with kids chirping like obscene Chipmunks...
Members of the PBH cabinet say that the membership of Shaiman in the all-male Phoenix final club had no significant effect on the outcome of the election...
Outgoing PBH President Sanjiv N. Singh '92 said Shaiman's club membership had not affected the election...