Coming Attractions

Let your hair down and join in the fun when Hairspray – Broadway’s musical comedy phenomenon – comes to Tilles Center, Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Jan. 23, at 2 and 8 p.m. This fantastically fun musical, winner of eight 2003 Tony Awards including Best Musical, entertained audiences for over six record-breaking years during its Broadway run. For those who missed it, now’s the chance to be swept away to 1960s Baltimore, piled bouffant-high with laughter and romance – and enough deliriously tuneful songs to fill a nonstop platter party. It’s 1962: the ’50s are out and change is in the air. Baltimore’s Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion: to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, The Corny Collins Show, and, overnight, is transformed from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. Can a plus-size trendsetter in dance and fashion vanquish the program’s reigning princess, win the heart of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a television show without denting her ‘do? Only in Hairspray! Welcome to the ’60s! Tickets are $75, $60, $45; available at (516) 299-3100 or (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.tillescenter.org. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, C.W. Post Campus, Rte. 25A, Brookville.