Characters
Who is the main character in "Hairspray!"?
Tracy Turnblad
Who sings "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful"?
Motormouth Maybelle
What is a bandit?
A thief.
Tracey danced better than anyone else on the show! What part of speech is danced?
A verb, an action.
Was "Hairspray!" a musical or a movie first?
A movie first, from 1988!
Who is Tracy's best friend?
Penny
Who sings "Cooties"?
Amber Von Tussle
What does "unsuitable" mean?
Inappropriate.
Motormouth Maybelle is proud to be curvy. What part of speech is curvy?
Adjective, it describes how Motormouth Maybelle looks.
True of False: "Hairspray!" was filmed in front of a real audience.
True.
Who is Seaweed's Mom?
Motormouth Maybelle
Who sings "Run and Tell That" to Tracy, Penny, and Link?
Seaweed.
What equality mean?
Being equal, being fair.
Everyone in Baltimore loves watching The Corny Collins Show. What part of speech is Corny Collins Show?
Proper Noun- it is a noun, but since it's a specific name for the show, it makes it a proper noun.
True or False: Harvey Fierstein won an award for playing Edna Turnblad on Broadway.
Who plays Penny?
Arianna Grande
Who does Edna sing "You're Timeless to Me" to?
Edna's husband, Tracy's Dad, named Wilbur.
What does segregation mean?
Tracy and Link danced beautifully together. What part of speech is beautifullly?
An adverb- it describes how they danced (which is a verb!).
True or False: Dove Cameron (Amber Von Tussle) and Kristin Chenowith (Velma Von Tussle) have played daughter and mother before "Hairspray!"
True- they both starred in the Disney film "The Descendants" as Maleficient and Mal.
Tracy's Mom Edna is always played in Drag.
What is the name of the last song everyone sings at the end of the musical?
"You Can't Stop the Beat".
What does integration mean?
People of all colors can be together.
All the teenagers in "Hairspray!" love to use actual hairspray. What part of speech is hairspray?
hairspray is a noun. It is a thing you can use.
True or False: you enjoyed the musical?
No wrong answers :-)