The equity tour ends early this summer. After that, there will undoubtedly be a Non-Equity tour. The HAIRSPRAY Franchise will probably wind down slowly over the course of a few years, until finally the performance rights are available- just like Hello Dolly or Bye Bye Birdie.
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Yeah, I was curious about that myself (I saw that post from the person who said they'll be playing Seaweed in the "non-Eq tour of Hairspray.")
I just looked it up on the Equity website, and it still lists Hairspray as an Equity tour, but I checked out the poster's MySpace page that has all the tour dates, and it looks legit, so I guess there will be a non-union tour very soon...
One thing that hasn't been covered in all this talk is that the Regional Theatre Premiere of Hairspray will be presented at the North Shore Musical Theatre outside Boston this Fall. Hairspray at the NSMT
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It definitely is going non-equity. I have a friend who auditioned and got an ensemble spot and she has her final call back in may sometime. And someone else got link already i guess...
yeah what is happening to Hairspray?? I guess it is not going to be one of those shows that sticks around for a while....even after all the broadway hype...marissa who??? I saw the tour this fall and it was amazing...I saw the Broadway production this winter and it was horrible...every joke was dropped...cast totally walked throug the show...
I know a boy from NYU got cast as Sketch.. the show is basically already cast.. the seaweed posts on this board. It seems to me most of the cast are either in college, right out of high school or just graduated college.
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The tour has been announced as coming to Iowa City in April 2007, and the season program lists it as a "Broadway Show" and has the link for the current equity tour (www.hairsprayontour.com). Hmmm....
I'm pretty sure that the tour is going to be non-Equity...a have quite a few friends that auditioned.
I really don't get it either. I mean, Hairspray is doing really well. Their numbers are good, and I believe that the tour did pretty well also, and with the movie coming out I think it's really going to boost interest in the show. But people are always saying that when a show's tour goes non-Eq, and also when it goes regional, that's kind of like the beginning of the end for a show. I'm confused too, wwasser!
Has an Equity show ever went non-Equity then back again to Equity?
CHICAGO. the recent revival version. played as eq for a few years, went non-eq, movie was a huge hit, back to an eq tour (currently plays eq I believe).
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