This may be the big hair state, but does Broadway in Austin’s Hairspray go too big?
The huffing of fluorocarbons – breathing deep into a brown paper bag filled with Freon or leaning into the aerosol stream from a can of Aqua Net hairspray – was actually a thing those crazy kids in the 1960s did to get high. The result: An adrenaline rush, short-term euphoria, and then an onset of drowsiness.will likely have the same effect.
The film’s subversive satire addressing racism, body-conformism, big hair, and bullying is dipped in a candy coating for the musical, courtesy of a funny, uplifting script by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, and catchy, upbeat Tony Award-winning songs by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. All this is wrapped in wildly colorful and kitschy scenic , costume , and lighting design and period-specific choreography .
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