The project was revealed by NBC's entertainment head Bob Greenblatt during a Television Critics Association press tour in January 2016. As with its predecessors, it was executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron.

Hairspray Live! served as NBC's fourth entry in its series of made-for-TV musical telecasts, behind The Wiz Live!, Peter Pan Live!, and The Sound of Music Live!. Harvey Fierstein, Baillio, Andrea Martin, Ariana Grande, Kristin Chenoweth, Dove Cameron, and Ensembleīaillio, Feirstein, The Dynamites, Sean Hayes, and EnsembleĮphraim Sykes, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Ensembleīaillio, Clayton, Grande, Sykes, and Ensembleīaillio, Clayton, Grande, Sykes, Fierstein, Short, Hudson, Chenoweth, Cameron, and Company Īll tracks are written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. The musical numbers from the track list of the soundtrack. Allie Feder, Baraka May, Jackie Seiden, Dorian Holley, Fred White, Arnold McCuller – backing vocals.Kim Hutchcroft, Larry Williams – saxophones, flutes.

Jenny Scheming, Moses Holland – violins.Ricki Lake (Tracy Turnblad in the original 1988 film) and Marissa Jaret Winokur (original Tracy Turnblad on Broadway) as Mr.Zack Everhart, Annie Gratton, Thomasina Gross, Allie Meixner, Eliotte Nicole, Tyler Parks, Andrew Pirozzi, Joy Marie Thomas, Keenan Washington, and Jason Williams.

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