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lotto'd....won. everyone won today. matinee. had the time of my life. seat 1, left orch. A. i cant get enough of this cast/show/everything about it. lol. heres to the most unoraginized review, EVER.

sooo many understudies today. leslie mcdonel is my all time favorite cast member, EVER. shes just so friggin hilarious, i cant take it. hahaha. she was on as F.A.F today. added her own little touch to her costume. funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire life. added on a mole to the matron. with long wiskers coming out of it. ROFL. she also picked her nose, like full on, finger all the way up..and then licked it and let out a great scream. hahaha i loveee herr. shannon was on top like usual, her normal amazing self. van was link. i was more than pleased. i didnt mind APA being out, not @ all. didnt have a problem with any of the understudies. susie played velma. WOW, i love her as velma. shes sooo great. ashley was such an amazing amber. improved so much since i last saw her in september. shes so bratty and squealy, i love it. george wendt was hilarious! he has a great voice!!brooke was so right when she said i HAD to see him. gd, hes so amazing. speaking of brooke, shes hilarious as tammy. makes so many bratty faces @ tracy. puffs her cheeks and everything. so funny. in YCSTB she was so rude to amber, i LOVED it. haha. she kept sticking her tongue out and making weird faces towards her. kirsten and her in ITT, wow. hahahahhaha! kirsten like thrusts herself towards link then pulls back, she makes this noise...wont go into detail...HAHA!! same goes for brooke. lori jumping onto link always makes me giggle. but no offense to lori, it doesnt look like shes enjoying herself anymore in the show. shed be like..all happy..then a sec later put on a sad face. just an observation though. i could be wrong. kevin is an amazing wilbur and jim is such a spaz as spritzer. haha! hilarious. darlene love seemed sick. she had one of her lines backwards..instead of "we begged! we pleaded!" she said "we pleaded, we begged!" which sounded funny. lol. in IKWIB she skipped out on her last high note, which i was a little upset about, but its not aobut makig me happy, its about saving ehr voice. lol. her YCSTB was also not as energized as it usually is. todd michael smith is so cute. hes my favorite council guy. ryan chotto, is also SO CUTE. niki..where do i even begin with her. well, firstly, shes just..amazing. her penny is hilarious and her voice is just..wow. she gave me a backstage tour afterwards which ROCKED. it was so much fun hanging with her and seeing how everything works. we visited the wig room, wardrobe, orchestra pit/rooms, dressing rooms, and really backstage..like..behind the wall of lights. saw the can and other sets. her dressing room is soo small. its really cute though. i saw brooke puting curt into rehersal, she like stopped before they actually started and came over to me and was like HIIII! lol. and we talked until niki came out (well, on stage). it was a blast. niki's a hoot. anyting anyone wants to know, jsut ask! =)

ill put up pix when i get the chance! =)
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awesome review!
how come everyone won the lotto??

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bc only a few people entered =)
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ohhh. awesome!

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yupp! it was just so much funn.
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when you went backstage, did you get to see the big hairspray can?
one of my goals in life is to touch it. haha

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Just to chime in, having been around as well.

I LOVE Jim J Bullock, he is one of the stand out Hairspray men.. he has always been, and will always be, the most hilarious and most versatile man to do the show and he can wring a laugh out of anything. It is sad that he only returns in short spurts. To be perfectly honest, Kevin Meaney just isn't funny in any role and he isn't able to make any distinction between characters as Spritzer, the Princpial, Pinky, the Guard.. or Wilbur.. or even Edna. It's the same unfunny schitick in different suits and dresses, Besides, having such a rotund Wilbur completely murders the joke of Edna towering over Wilbur. In fact, it looks like diliberately tries to interfere in certain moments of the show for his own amusement (ie, in "Welcome to the 60s, he will linger as long as possible in the Hideaway doors, causing the Ednas transformation to be delayed.. it's a VERY tight change with no seconds to spare) and it's sad. He has never been great, but he was much better ealier in his run. The show would be much better served by bringing Jim J back or hiring someone new. A common arguement is that Jim J isn't large enough to understudy Edna, HOWEVER, as the Authority Figure, Kevin serves merely as an emergency understudy for the most and RARELY goes on when Edna or Wilbur is out. For the most part, that is due to having a stand-by, but when you see his performance, it is plainly obvious that Kevin is never put on because he just isn't good and having that weak of a person in a role so central causes the show to lose a bit of it's heart and soul.


Om a positive note, Curt is looking to be a stand out addition to the Hairspray family and it was moe than wonderful to see Van on as Link what with him leaving and all. Best wishes to Ashley Angel!
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i agree...kevin wasnt the best, but i did enjoy him. i thought @ first that jim was suppose to be wilbur (since hes wayyyy skinnier) and kevin was suppose to be spritzer...but then i looked @ my playbill and that wasnt the case. hhm. lol. ashley is out this week (well..now the broadway week is over..lol) but it said he was out everyday this week. brooke said he was sick and that he leaves in fall.
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Did you happen to raid the Broadway Cares booth after the show? The company is selling a great photo album for $20 and all money goes to a great cause.
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no..i so wanted to though! i didnt go out that way and dint want niki waiting for me.. they were selling the photo album, the wrist bands, the keychains, the poster, taking pix with shannon and van in costume, and cheers season 1 on dvd. i really wanted the wristbands.

some backstage tidbits if anyones interested...

when you first walk on stage..everything is really cramped. the can, the MIABGN vanitiy, teh turnblad living room is all on stage...left? being on stage, looking into the audience, its on the left. (not really sure if its called left or right..never was into drama and learning the proper names such as if you call left left or right right..haha). then behind the wall of lights is the joke shop, motormouths beaded door, and the corny colins thing (im sure there was more, but it was really dark..lol. we stopped to look @ the joke shop, in the dark..haha). then on the other side of the stage (left?? right?iidk..haha) was ambers chair. it was cool. then you go up (or down) the stairs. i think we went down first? idk..that place is so confusing. you could easily get lost..haha. but we went down to the wig room..and outside the wig room is wardrobe. there were tons of costumes hanging up. there are 156 wigs in that show! the wig lady was showing me tammys it's hairspray/YCSTB wig before the hair goes on. it was cool...a curled wire.

george wendts dressing room is the one with teh "star door". every performer who has stayed in that room signs their name and what show they performed when they leave. (i took a pic) but the names i remember were matthew broderick, harvey fierstein, paul vogt, kevin spacey, lucille ball, donny osmond, and liza minelli! outside his dressing room is the room they call "the nursery", pictures like you've never seen! hahha. its crazy. its filled with gazillions of pictures, and theres a couch. they hang out in there before they go on stage or whatever. i noticed pix of tracy jai edwards, jackie hoffman, harvey, marissa, shannon, michelle kittrell, kerry buttler, rusty mowery and many more. lol. it was AWESOME.

hmm..thas all i can really think about for now..if i rememebr more ill totally post about it! lol.
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