“I found myself backstage like, ‘OK, snap into it. “I didn’t even know exactly what she was going to be or who she was until that cue to walk out into the record shop,” she added. And although Queen Latifah paved the road for the character of Motormouth in the 2007 film “Hairspray,” Hudson said she didn’t know who her iteration of the character would be until she walked out on stage.Īlso Read: Jennifer Hudson Joins 'The Voice' as Season 13 Coach
Hudson starred as Motormouth Maybelle in the production alongside Kristin Chenoweth, Ariana Grande, Harvey Fierstein, Andrea Martin and Dove Cameron. “With a live production on television, it didn’t dawn on me until I literally was getting ready to step out on stage, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, this is the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my career - and the scariest,'” the Oscar winner for “Dreamgirls” told TheWrap. “It’s amazing to be able to be out here and choreograph in 360 degrees as opposed to one proscenium,” choreographer Jerry Mitchell said.Jennifer Hudson has appeared on the big screen and performed live on a Broadway stage and on “American Idol” - but none of that compared to her experience doing NBC’s musical event, “Hairspray Live!” The cast will be shuttled around in golf carts and passenger vans to get to their next scenes, according to our sister site Variety. Hairspray Live! is going to be a musical production unlike anything you’ve ever seen. “We’re jumping in between interior spaces and exteriors on a scale that no other live musical has done before,” director Alex Rudzinski told our sister site Gold Derby.Īlmost half of the show will take place outside on the faux Baltimore streets. They’ll be performing the hits we know so well from the Broadway musical and 2007 movie.
The show is live, so to get the full impact of the musical event, you need to watch it live! Watch as Maddie Baillio, 20, Ariana Grande, 23, Jennifer Hudson, 35, Dove Cameron, 20, and more stars hit the Hairspray Live! stage to perform what they’ve been rehearsing for months.
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