Saturday, October 7, 2017

Emmy-nominated Hairspray Live! costumes on display...

In December 2013 NBC started the trend for live TV musical events with The Sound of Music Live!, which they followed in subsequent years with Peter Pan Live!, The Wiz! and in December 2016 they adapted Hairspray Live! This live broadcast event based on the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, tackling issues about body image and racial integration, starred Maddie Baillio as 1960s Baltimore teenager 'Tracy Turnblad', Harvey Fierstein as her mother 'Edna Turnblad', Jennifer Hudson as 'Motormouth Maybelle', Dove Cameron as 'Amber Von Tussle' and Sean Hayes as 'Mr. Pinky'.

Original costumes from Hairspray Live!
Hairspray Live TV costumes
Harvey Fierstein Hairspray Live Edna Turnblad costume
Hairspray Live Edna Turnblad costume
Hairspray Live Edna Turnblad costume shoes
Sean Hayes Hairspray Live Mr Pinky costume
Maddie Baillio Hairspray Live Tracy Turnblad costume
Hairspray Live Tracy Turnblad costume
Jennifer Hudson Hairspray Live Motormouth Maybelle costume
Jennifer Hudson Hairspray Live Motormouth Maybelle costume
Hairspray Live Motormouth Maybelle costume
Dove Cameron Hairspray Live Amber Von Tussle costume
Dove Cameron Hairspray Live Amber costume
Hairspray Live Amber Von Tussle costume
Hairspray Live costumes
Mary E. Vogt was Costume Designer and Carolyn Dessert-Lauterio was Costume Supervisor on this televised musical spectacular and these Emmy-nominated 1960s-inspired costumes were photographed on display at Downtown L.A.'s FIDM Museum on August 23, 2017.

You can also admire more of Mary E. Vogt's design work in these Hocus Pocus movie costumes and these Batman Returns movie costumes.

Hairspray Live! Emmy consideration billboard
Hairspray Live Emmy billboard

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