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You can’t stop OUR beat- HAIRSPRAY is BACK ON TOUR - so run and tell that!
Hairspray The Musical
Mon 2 Aug - Sat 14 Aug 2021
Tickets available from £13.00
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The international musical phenomenon Hairspray returns to Manchester this year! After breaking box office records and delighting audiences in the West-End, on Broadway and on the big screen since 1988, this smash hit musical-comedy has quite the legacy, and now we’re heading back out on tour around the UK and Ireland in 2021.
97 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 6FT, UK
Mon - Sat at 19:30
Thu and Sat at 14:30 and 19:30
Welcome to the 60s, where everyone’s grooving to a brand-new sound! Enter our vivacious heroine Tracy Turnblad, who has big hair, a big heart, and big dreams to dance her way onto national TV, and into the heart of teen idol Link Larkin. When Tracy becomes a local star, she is able to use her newfound fame to fight for liberation, tolerance, and interracial unity in Baltimore. But can she win equality – and Link’s heart – without denting her ’do?
Starring Brenda Edwards as Motormouth Maybelle and Norman Pace as Wilbur Turnblad.
Wonderfully fresh and vivid- The Stage
This fun-filled, feel good show is bursting with show-stopping numbers, dazzling costumes, and dizzying dance-routines that you can’t help but shimmy too! Featuring some of musical theatre’s biggest and best hit songs, including Welcome To The 60s, You Can’t Stop The Beat, Good Morning Baltimore and so many more, Hairspray is the hilarious, joyous, and uplifting musical that everyone needs right now!
Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan; Music by Marc Shaiman; Lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.
What the critics say
- The Observer
- WhatsOnStage
Palace Theatre Manchester
97 Oxford St, Manchester, M1 6FT, UK
Oxford Road
Monday to Saturday 12:00 until 16:00. Sundays 2 hours prior to the performance.
On performance days, the box office closes 15 minutes after the performance starts.
Bars are situated on all levels of the Palace Theatre Manchester.
Hospitality packages are available for all shows.
There is a cloakroom in the foyer.
The Palace Theatre of Varieties opened on Whit Monday 1891 and cost its owners the then colossal sum of £40,500. In the late 1970’s the Palace Theatre underwent a major refurbishment and re-opened in 1981 with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar and has since then retained its position as the premier provincial touring venue.