The annual tradition continued with a live take on the cult John Waters comedy turned hit Broadway musical
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand we’re done. Well it was an energetic and relatively smooth production. NBC gets points for choosing a musical with relevancy and, despite being a bit blunt at times, it got a number of powerful points across. I’m still not entirely sure if the format of a live TV musical works but, given the extortionate price of Broadway shows, I can see the appeal. Right, I’m going to sit in a room of silence for a few hours.
The very big, potentially endless cast are all now coming on one by one to bow for applause. Not a single one of them has fallen over so I am refusing to clap.
Not over! Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande are singing at each other. Every possible bet in the world is on Hudson for winning this.
The best acting of the entire night is Dove Cameron and Kristin Chenoweth pretending to be angry while JHud sings to them#HairsprayLive
— Blessedterns (@Blessedterns) December 8, 2016
Everyone is singing and dancing together and giving disapproving looks to the racists so surely this must be over soon!
Ariana Grande’s racist mom is now okay with her having a black boyfriend because he inspired her to take her glasses off and now looks better. So, ermmm okay?
Wait, someone just won a scholarship to a community college or something. I blacked out.
Ariana Grande has taken her gross ugly awful glasses off and everyone is feigning surprise that she doesn’t look like a witch underneath. Badly.
Billy Eichner is back so there’s a perfectly alright reason to watch this again:
But yeah here’s a teaser for that. Kill me if I’m liveblogging that next year please.
Jennifer Hudson singing a rather poignant number about waiting for change to come and making this whole silly thing seem rather important all of a sudden. Can’t quite see how Jennifer Lopez starring in Bye Bye Birdie will top this next year for topicality...
People STILL can’t forget Efron :(
I miss Zac Efron. That's my default state, but. I really miss Zac Efron. #HairsprayLive
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) December 8, 2016
He is hosting the news on a TV and has gone already and he didn’t scream at a single person so screw this.
Twitter is enjoying reminding us all that Garrett Clayton, aka living doll guy, recently played gay porn star Brent Corrigan in James Franco drama King Cobra. There are some NSFW gifs doing the rounds. You can find them if that’s your thing...
The magic of a musical somewhat tarnished by watching the cast maniacally running to a golf cart so they can get to the next scene.
The body-positive theme is being somewhat ruined by every other joke from Harvey Fierstein’s character being based around how uncontrollably greedy she is.
Just to prove how relevant it is, here’s a scene where the local kids protest against racism. NBC - really regretting ever getting into bed with Trump and really trying to make up for it.
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Martin Short is singing right now in a role that was played by Christopher Walken in the film version and let’s all thank every possible god that he’s not singing instead...
Darren Criss just said Jennifer Hudson is “bigger, blonder and more beautiful” than he could ever be.
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