NEWS: Smash-hit musical Hairspray to play Lighthouse, Poole.

Mark Goucher Productions present 
HAIRSPRAY 
The Musical 

Monday 28 February – Saturday 5 March 2022  
7.45pm, Wed, Sat mats 2.30pm (Theatre) 

Tickets & information 01202 280000  
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk  

You can’t stop our beat… Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts, is delighted to announce the international musical phenomenon Hairspray will play a week-long run from Monday 28 February to Saturday 5 March 2022 as part of a national tour. 

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 it’s heading to Poole starring Brenda Edwards as Motormouth Maybelle and Norman Pace as Wilbur Turnblad. 

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 new-found fame to fight for liberation, tolerance, and interracial unity in Baltimore. But can she win equality – and Link’s heart – without denting her ’do? 

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 to! 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. 

Tickets go on sale to Lighthouse Friends from today, Wednesday 3 November, and on general sale from Friday 12 November. 

For details of Lighthouse Friends visit https://www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/support-lighthouse/.