TM A FIELD GUIDE FOR TEACHERS A FIELD GUIDE FOR TEACHERS NOTES Stage StageNOTES A tool for using the theater across the curriculum to meet National Standards for Education ■ Production Overview ■ Lesson Guides ■ Student Activities HAIRSPRAY ■ At-Home Projects ■ Reproducibles 1 TM © 2003, Camp Broadway LLC All rights reserved This publication is based on the work of Hairspray with book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Whittman and Marc Shaiman. The content of the Hairspray edition of StageNOTES™: A Field Guide for Teachers is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America and all other countries with A FIELD GUIDE FOR TEACHERS NOTES which the United States has reciprocal copyright relations. All rights regarding publishing, reprint permissions, public readings, and mechanical or electronic reproduction, including but not limited to, CD-ROM, information storage and retrieval systems and photocopying, and the rights of translation into foreign languages are strictly reserved. Printed in the United States of America First printing, April 2003 ISBN: 1-930504-09-8 Look for the Original Broadway Cast Recording on Sony Classical For more information on StageNOTES™ and other theater arts related programs for students, contact: Camp Broadway LLC 145 West 45th Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10036 Telephone: (212) 575-2929 Facsimile: (212) 575-3125 Email: [email protected] www.campbroadway.com Stage CAMP BROADWAY LLC NEW YORK 2 Stage ™ NOTES NOTES Contents ™ Stage Field Guide Using the Field Guide . .3 the Hairspray edition Opening Night . .4 Camp Broadway is pleased to bring you of StageNOTES™, the tenth in our series. We are proud to be affiliated with this Producer’s Note . .5 joyous musical celebrating individuality, tolerance, and the spirit of youth. Synopsis . .6 This guide has been developed as a teaching tool to assist educators in the Characters . .7 classroom who are introducing their students to the story in conjunction with Musical Numbers . .7 the Broadway production. Good Morning, Baltimore . .8 About John Waters . .9 By using StageNOTES™, you will understand how Hairspray exposes the past Table of Table Using the Lessons . .10 (History), expands our visual and verbal vocabulary (Language Arts), illuminates Overture to HISTORY . .11 the human condition (Behavioral Studies), aids in our own self-exploration (Life Discussion . .14 Using the Skills), and encourages creative thinking and expression (The Arts). Writing . .15 Experiential . .16 History to Go . .17 The Camp Broadway creative team, consisting of theater educators, scholars, researchers, and theater professionals, has developed a series of lesson plans Overture to LANGUAGE ARTS . .18 that, although inspired by and themed around the musical Hairspray, can also Discussion . .20 accompany class study of the period and other related literary works. To Writing . .21 Experiential . .22 assist you in preparing your presentation of each lesson, we have included: an Language Arts to Go . .23 objective; an excerpt from the script of Hairspray; a discussion topic; a writing assignment; and an interactive class activity. A reproducible handout accompanies Overture to BEHAVIORAL STUDIES . .24 Discussion . .25 each lesson unit, which contains: an essay question; a creative exercise; and an Writing . .26 “after hours activity” that encourages students to interact with family, friends, or Experiential . .27 the community at large. Behavioral Studies to Go . .28 Overture to LIFE SKILLS . .29 The curriculum categories offered in the Hairspray study guide have been Discussion . .31 informed by the basic standards of education detailed in Content Knowledge: Writing . .32 A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K–12 Education, 2nd Experiential . .33 Edition, written by John S. Kendall and Robert J. Marzano (1997). This Life Skills to Go . .34 definitive compilation was published by Mid-Continent Regional Education Overture to THE ARTS . .35 Laboratory, Inc. (McREL) and the Association for Supervision and Curricular Discussion . .36 Development (ASCD) after a systematic collection, review, and analysis of Writing . .37 Experiential . .38 noteworthy national and state curricular documents in all subjects. The Arts to Go . .39 The Hairspray study guide is for you, the educator, in response to your need Hairspray Resources . .40 for standards-compliant curriculum. We hope this study guide will help you incorporate Hairspray into your classroom activities. Jodi Simon Stewart Director of Education Camp Broadway 4 5 StageNOTES ™ hen I optioned the rights to John Waters’ movie Hairspray, I never ™ StageNOTES W imagined what a thrilling journey lay ahead. I did believe that the film would make a successful Broadway musical because of its Cinderella storyline, its larger-than-life heroine, and, of course, its many possibilities for rousing song and dance. But the show that arrived in New York in the summer of 2002 exceeded my wildest expectations. Along with the financing and management of a production, commissioning producers choose the creative team: book writer, composer, lyricist, choreographer, designers, and director. The Hairspray writers began working in the winter of 2000. Between that date and December 2001 (by which time our complete artistic Producer’s Note Producer’s team was assembled), we held four Margo Lion Adam Epstein The Baruch ∑ Viertel ∑ Routh ∑ Frankel Group James D. Stern/Douglas L. Meyer Rick Steiner/Frederic H. Mayerson SEL & GFO New Line Cinema readings where the actors performed with In Association With Clear Channel Entertainment A. Gordon/E. McAllister scripts in hand and sang to the D. Harris/M. Swinsky J. & B. Osher Present accompaniment of three musicians. In May 2002, two months before coming to HAIRSPRAY New York, the production had a successful Book By Music By Lyrics By Mark O’Donnell Marc Shaiman Scott Wittman three-week tryout run in Seattle. On August Thomas Meehan Marc Shaiman 15th, Hairspray opened on Broadway. Based upon the New Line Cinema film written and directed by John Waters Starring My partners and I are thrilled to be part of Marissa Jaret Winokur Harvey Fierstein an event that brings so much joy to Also Starring Laura Bell Bundy Mary Bond Davis Kerry Butler Linda Hart audiences eight times a week. Along with Jackie Hoffman Matthew Morrison Corey Reynoldsand Dick Clarke Latessa Thorell Joel Vig Danelle Eugenia Wilson the satisfaction of having a hit show, we With feel especially happy that Hairspray Eric Anthony Shoshana Bean Denosh Bennett Joshua Bergasse J.P. Dougherty Eric Dysart Adam Fleming Greg Graham Danielle Lee Greaves Katy Grenfell John Hill Hollie Howard Katharine Leonard Kamilah Martin celebrates the uniqueness of a country that Alli Mauzey Rashad Naylor Judine Richard Peter Matthew SmithCostumes Todd Designed Michel by Smith Lighting Shayna Designed Steele by Brooke Tansley is inclusive and diverse and where one Scenery Designed by David Rockwell William Ivey Long Kenneth Posner person really can make a difference. Tracy Sound Designed by Casting by Wigs & Hair Designed by Steve C. Kennedy Bernard Telsey Casting Paul Huntley Turnblad and her friends are determined to Production Stage Manager Associate Director Associate Choreographer Frank Lombardi Matt Lenz Michele Lynch make the world a better place; we hope Orchestrations by Music Direction by Arrangements by Music Coordinator that message will be an inspiration to your Harold Wheeler Lon Hoyt Marc Shaiman John Miller General Management Technical Supervisor Press Representative Associate Producers Daniel C. Staton students as they think about their Richard Frankel Productions Tech Production Richard Kornberg Rhoda Mayerson Laura Green Services, Inc. Don Summa The Aspen GroupChoreography by experience at Hairspray and work through Jerry Mitchell Direction by these study guide materials. Jack O’Brien — Margo Lion The world premiere of “HAIRSPRAY” was produced with the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Washington David Armstrong, Producing Artistic Director; Marilynn Sheldon, Managing Director SONY CLASSICAL The producers wish to express theirORIGINAL appreciation BROADWAY CAST RECORDINGto Theatre ON Development Fund for its support of this production. 6 7 Stage ™ NOTES NOTES A Synopsis of Hairspray ™ Stage airspray opens in June 1962, as plus-sized During a rough scatter dodgeball game, Amber Characters Musical Numbers teenager Tracy Turnblad wakes up ready for knocks out her rival, Tracy. To cheer her up, Seaweed H another day (“Good Morning, Baltimore”). invites Tracy, Link, and Penny (who has an — teenager from Baltimore, wants Act One After school, she and her best friend, Penny immediate crush on him) to his mother’s record shop Tracy Turnblad Pingleton, watch The Corny Collins Show, starring (“Run and Tell That”). Motormouth Maybelle to be a dancer on The Corny Collins Show “The Nicest Kids in Town.” While Tracy and Penny welcomes them warmly; Tracy wonders why they Corny Collins — host of The Corny Collins Show “Good Morning, Baltimore” . .Tracy & Company sigh over handsome Link Larkin, Tracy’s mother, can’t all dance together on the show and plans to Amber Von Tussle — female star of The Corny “The Nicest Kids in Town” . .Corny Collins & Council Members Edna, slaves away at her ironing board. Penny’s lead a protest during “Mother-Daughter Day.” Link Collins Show “Mama, I’m a Big Girl Now” .Edna & Tracy, Velma & Amber, Penny & Prudy mother, Prudy Pingleton, expresses her disapproval rejects