TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.
 

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Houston, TX …Get ready for big hair and big heart from this beautiful, bubbly Broadway hit! Theatre Under The Stars will open their 43nd Sensational Season of musical theatre with the TUTS’ debut of Hairspray, October, 5 - 17, 2010 at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts in Downtown Houston. This new classic will have your family singing and dancing to hits like “Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now,” “You Can't Stop the Beat” and “Good Morning, Baltimore.”

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

Hairspray, which opened on Broadway in 2002 and ran until 2009, takes place in 1962 Baltimore, where the dreams of a teenage girl play themselves out in equal parts social commentary and lively dance numbers. Made all the more popular by the recent film starring John Travolta and Zac Efron, this is a show your family will love. The 50s are out, and Baltimore is ready for change!  Trendsetting teenager Tracy Turnblad has big hair, a big heart and an even bigger dream – to dance on “The Corny Collins Show.”  When her once-in-a-lifetime opportunity arrives, she grooves her way from outsider to instant teen celebrity. Can she dethrone the program’s reigning princess, integrate the show’s dance floor and win the love of the dream-boat Link Larkin, without denting her ’do? Find out if a toe-tapping beat and a whole lot of aerosol attitude is enough to make a dream come true.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

TUTS’ presentation of Hairspray is made possible by the generosity of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell and Sterling Bank.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

Theatre Under The Stars 2010-11 Sensational Season is generously sponsored by St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System. For all of Theatre Under The Stars’ 2010-2011 shows, air transportation is provided by Continental Airlines, the official airline of Theatre Under The Stars. Media sponsors include ABC-13 and Houston Chronicle.  Season support is funded in part by grants from the City of Houston through the Theater District Association and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

Founded in 1968, Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) is Houston’s acclaimed non-profit musical theatre company under the direction of President and CEO John C. Breckenridge.  TUTS was the first theatrical organization in Houston to perform free to the public in 1968 at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park, and is the only Houston arts organization that has performed there free to the public every year since the building opened.  Since its founding by Frank M. Young, TUTS has produced more than 300 musicals including many local, national and world premieres such as Kopit and Yeston’s Phantom,  Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jekyll & Hyde, and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas  as well as critically acclaimed re-inventions of classics Cabaret and Les Miserables.  Through its membership in the Independent Presenters Network, TUTS has helped bring Bombay Dreams, 9 to 5, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Ragtime, Curtains and The Color Purple to Broadway.
 

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

As a way to continue the tradition of musical theatre, TUTS' Education provides instruction and stage experience for more than 1,700 students annually, allowing students to flourish in a year-round schedule of classes. With a common goal - to expand arts access to children of all abilities - The River Performing and Visual Arts Center (The River) merged with Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) in 2010, creating a unique, barrier free, arts education model for non-profit musical theatre performing arts organizations. With the merger, TUTS Education now provides extended on-site programming as well as off-site programming for children in schools, hospitals and other community-based sites. Housed in the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, TUTS also annually presents the Tommy Tune Awards, honoring the best and brightest in Houston's high school musical theatre programs.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.

TUTS presents HAIRSPRAY at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from October 5th through the 17th, 2010.  The Hobby Center is located at 800 Bagby & Walker, Houston Texas.  Photo by Squid Ink Creative, Courtesy of Music Theatre of Wichita.