Finale and Speech at Hairspray's Last Broadway Show 1/4/09

[munchingonpuppies]

i love you.

[480Martinez]

That's gay that Hairspray closed down My Aunt was gonna take me when i graduate from HS

[silenthillmaster755]

Jerry Mitchell=YES!!

[jewey896]

This needs to become a revival. With the OBC :)

[p3fan09]

shoshana! lol

[thenight92]

I think I saw Laura Bell Bundy!

[silenthillmaster755]

@thenight92 YEA!!!! There she is at 3:36

[munchingonpuppies]

@thenight92 SHe's actually my aunt, no kidding(:

[bonenavond]

I still can't understand why Harvey is always wearing another dress then the other Edna's. And I think it's an honor to hairspray that harvey did played the first and the last show. I can cry when I see this video. Harvey and the rest of the Broadway cast...

THE FANS WILL MISS YOU AND THEY WILL NEVER NEVER NEVER FORGET YOU!

:'(

[powerstar09]

Such a shame it's closed on Broadway but i like how people who were in the show came back & onstage 2 sing You Cant Stop The Beat finishing the show off in style & im very suprised that they have decided 2 close Hairpsray in London's West End when it was doing so well cause most show's only last till 3 years in the West End with some exceptions example The Lion King which is now in it's 10th year woo hoo oh well at least they are goin on a UK Tour already got my ticket's yay

[Broadwayrus]

does anyone know why Harvey doesnt wear the usual costume for edna in you cant stop the beat

[thatnylesguy]

No idea, I wos wondering that earlier. He also wore it on the Tony awards.

[xoxomel18]

i agree, it was such a great show. i can't begin to imagine why they decided to close. :(

[hairspraydude1]

If you're referring to the person in the black turtleneck, that's a man, lol. He's Paul Huntley, who designed the wigs for the show.

[hairspraydude1]

What part of the video?

[Hairsprayxoxoful]

FRONT ROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????­? Luckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!­!!!! I would have given anything to be in that theatre in that night! It is such an awful shame that it had to close!!!!!!

[rshaw3188]

I think it's the producer Margo Lions!

[youcantstopthebeat02]

did linda forget the choreography at 2:46

[CBA1990]

This makes me sad all over again

[lasvegas0224]

For as amazingly uplifting as the show is this video is extreamly depressing! lol i was lucky enough to recently have seen the show on its tour... it was amazing and i so badly want to be a part of hairspray but its over on broadway :'(

[FriknBwyLuv]

The best musical everrrr!

[darreyl102]

cool you were in front of the Von Tussles- my favorite characters !!

[holdencaulfield79]

Did matthew morrison perform on the last show ??

[hairspraydude1]

No. He was finishing up his run in "South Pacific" that same day.

[greeeeeg2]

is the girl in the black skirt at 2:46 shoshana bean!!!! she was afterall the tracy standby in 2003! and then elphaba in 2006!

[that1reject]

it does look like her i was thinking the same thing

[hairsprayman111]

the one in the pink metallic top and black skirt is shoshana she also played shelley in 2002-2003

[falconbeach1]

shoshana as in Wicked's shosana?

[hairsprayman111]

Yup WICKED's Shoshana Bean

[greeeeeg2]

does anybody know why it closed???? it's so baffling!

[hairspraydude1]

Sadly, it wasn't getting enough money to keep running. =(

[KerryButlerRockz]

i think thats a lie! HAIRSPRAY is one of the most popular musicals in the blimmin world!!!!!

[darreyl102]

but with the economy being sooo bad....

[amazinglywicked]

i think they could have kept it afloat for a little bit longer and wait for the economy to get better but it was amazing that Harvey and Marissa returned to finish the show

[outdamnwench]

It really wasn't the economy that closed the show. It had been in a gradual decline and it was it's time to go. The show had become stale and was losing it's spark as well as it's audience. 6.5 years is a very respectable run for a broadway show.

[hairsprayman111]

Does anyone know if Alexa Vega, Diana DeGarmo, Jenifer Lewis, Darlene Love, Ashley Parker Angel, Haylie Duff, Kathy Brier, Matt Morrison, or Mary Bond Davis was in that huge crowd of alumni?

[BadmanRayne]

as one of the most successfull shows in recent years WHY did it close?

[samwhich55]

lol i love all the production peeps dancing :)

[diggoryjoshua]

i guess you CAN stop the beat after all, huh? :(

it's SOOOO sad it's over (for now)

there are so many good show closing lately... let's hope we can get quality new ones to fill the voids these ones left.

[tiggosaurus]

Fantastic video, you had an awesome view.

I've been lucky enough to see the show from the front row a couple of times, wish I could have been there on the 4th Jan.

Thanks for sharing this footage with those of us who couldn't make it.