"You don’t have to go back into the '60s era to find out what that was like, now you just have to turn on the news." "I think the timing is right to be able to deliver a message like this," Jennifer Hudson, who plays Motormouth Maybelle, said in an interview on the Universal set of the musical. While America has come a long way since the tumultuous decade, the NBC telecast airs just over a month after the nation elected a reality TV personality/ businessman who has insulted almost every minority group in the U.S. The uplifting musical comedy, which follows plus-size dreamer Tracy Turnblad (played by newcomer Maddie Baillio) and delves into the issues of racial segregation in Baltimore in the 1960s. That's the political and timely message that the cast behind NBC's Hairspray Live! wants viewers to takeaway when they tune in on Dec. BURBANK, CALIFORNIA - President Elect Donald Trump can't stop the beat.
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