Hairspray
June 15–21 You Can’t Stop the Beat.
Performance time 8:15 p.m. nightly
Tracy Turnblad is back at The Muny and ready to move to the beat of a changing world! It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show. When her wish comes true, Tracy rockets from social outcast to sudden star. But she’ll need more than great moves to dethrone the teen queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate the popular TV show once and for all. Based on John Waters’ cult classic 1988 film and winner of eight Tony Awards, Hairspray is a rockin’ dance-filled, joyous musical with big hair, big heart and big fun.
Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan • Music by Marc Shaiman • Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman • Based on the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters
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Seth Sklar-Heyn
Director
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Jesse Robb
Choreographer
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Evan Roider
Music Director/Conductor
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Christine Peters
Scenic Designer
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Tristan Raines
Costume Designer
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Rob Denton
Lighting Designer
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Joshua Hummel
Sound Designer
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To be announced
Video Designer
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To be announced
Wig Designer
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To be announced
Production Stage Manager
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The Telsey Office, Rashad Naylor, CSA
Casting
Creative Team
SETH SKLAR-HEYN
Director
Muny: Come From Away, Les Misérables. Seth is executive producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. across all Broadway and North American CMI productions, including The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon and Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends. Seth directed the current North American touring and London productions of Phantom (both based on Harold Prince’s original staging), the Australian premiere of Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Phantom at the Sydney Opera House and at the Raimund Theatre in Vienna (both based on Laurence Connor’s original staging), and US tours of Frost/Nixon and Evita (both based on Michael Grandage’s original staging). Additional Broadway: Phantom, Evita, A Little Night Music, Finian’s Rainbow, Mary Stuart, Rock ’n’ Roll, Frost/Nixon, The Coast of Utopia, Good Vibrations. Tour: Billy Elliot. Graduate of Vassar College.
JESSE ROBB
Choreographer
Muny: Come From Away, Les Misérables. Broadway: Co-choreographer of Water for Elephants (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations and the Chita Rivera Award), Miss Saigon (associate choreographer). Off-Broadway: Choreographer of Ginger Twinsies. Jesse is the movement director/associate choreographer of Les Misérables globally. Regional: Alliance Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Stratford Festival of Canada, Ogunquit Playhouse, The Ordway and others.
EVAN ROIDER
Music Director/Conductor
Muny: Come From Away, associate music supervisor (2025-2026). New York: The Great Gatsby, Old Friends, Wicked, Candide at Carnegie Hall, Encores! National tour: Wicked (music director), Les Misérables, Cats. Regional: Barrington Stage, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Tulane Summer Lyric. Evan is principal pops conductor of the Tucson Symphony and an active guest conductor across the US. He has collaborated with artists such as Michael Feinstein, The Manhattan Transfer, Pink Martini, Storm Large, The von Trapps, Big Freedia and more. Recent engagements include the National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Oregon Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Utah Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra and Philly Pops. MM in orchestral conducting from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Hairspray is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. mtishows.com