HAIRSPRAY THE BROADWAY MUSICAL Book by Music by Lyrics by Mark O’Donnell Thomas Meehan Marc Shaiman Scott Wittman Marc Shaiman BASED UPON THE NEW LINE CINEMA FILM WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN WATERS CASTING BREAKDOWN Seaweed J. Stubbs (Featured Singer/Tenor to A with strong falsetto) Male, African American, to play high school age. Penny’s boyfriend. Cool, sexy, street smart, goodhearted. Good actor with strong young masculine presence. Strong, soulful, tenor pop singer and great mover. AUDITION SIDES – SEAWEED ROYAL CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL HS 6.7.11 – R Kling -0- SEAWEED/PENNY [JAIL SCENE] (The lights dim on the jail and brighten on PENNY'S bedroom. ) (SEAWEED appears in the window.) SEAWEED Psst! Penny! PENNY Seaweed! Shhh! Don't let my mother hear you. She’s punishing me for going to a riot without her permission. SEAWEED I've come to rescue the fair maiden from her tower. PENNY Oh, Seaweed, you do care! SEAWEED From the first moment I saw you I knew that even the colors of our skin couldn't keep us apart. (struggling with the rope) But, damn, your mama sure can tie one on. PENNY Hurry, Seaweed. -1- TRACY/SEAWEED [SPECIAL ED] (Lights up on TRACY in SPECIAL ED. Around HER are SEAWEED, LORRAINE, GILBERT, NATALIE, and DUANE at their desks. GILBERT is chasing NATALIE around the room. TRACY enters from behind blackboard. TRACY Special Ed! Is there no pity for a teen just trying to fit in? SEAWEED Maybe you oughtn't try so hard? TRACY Excuse me. You get in as much trouble as I do. And I've never seen you complain. SEAWEED Oh but I do. This is my way of complaining. (SEAWEED turns on a small transistor radio. MUSIC starts and he does a soulful little dance.) TRACY Hey, that move's swift. SEAWEED (another step) Here's a little somethin-somethin signified to say, "Hello, my name's Sea-weed-J-Stubbs. What's yours baby?" TRACY That's unbelievable. Can I do that? SEAWEED I don't know. Can you? (TRACY & SEAWEED dance together.) TRACY Hello. My name is Tracy Turnblad. - 2 - Tracy/ Seaweed (p.2) GILBERT Not bad for a white girl. SEAWEED Ain't no black and white up in here. Special Ed. is a rainbow experience. (SEAWEED does another step) TRACY What's that step? SEAWEED Oh, this? I call this "Peyton Place After Midnight." I use it to attract the opposite sex. (TRACY jumps in with HIM) Fearless, girl. You really got it going on. TRACY Oh, my God! I just realized who you are. You dance on Negro Day. LORRAINE Of course he does. His mom hosts the show. TRACY Your mom is Motormouth Maybelle, the DJ? That makes you like royalty! Negro Day is the best. I wish every day was Negro Day. SEAWEED At our house it is. TRACY Corny Collins is hosting the sophomore hop tomorrow night. If he saw me dancing like this with you, maybe he'd put me on his show. GILBERT If you two danced together in public the only show you'll get on is the eleven o'clock news. SEAWEED So, how do you feel about Special Ed now? TRACY I’m a bad, bad girl, who needs to be punished. (The school bell rings.) - 3 - INEZ/SEAWEED [THE MADISON] INEZ Hurry, Seaweed, the dance has already started! SEAWEED Alright, but remember, you gotta dance with your crowd and I gotta dance with mine. INEZ Look, they're doing the Madison, my favorite! SEAWEED You keep your eye on Corny. This could be your big chance. INEZ Then you better keep an eye on me. CORNY Now when I say "Hit it," show me a big, bad Baltimore Box......... hit it! INEZ How come we always have to dance way over here? SEAWEED I don't know. There's them and there's us. That's just the way it is. LINK Hey, little darlin'. Haven't we met somewhere? INEZ Ohmigod, Link Larkin just spoke to me. I'll never wash this ear again. CORNY Hey, cupcake. What's your name? INEZ I'm Inez. CORNY What else you got hiding in those Buster Browns? INEZ Well, here’s one I picked up in Special Ed. 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