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Hairspray could be the musical fix we ve all been waiting for.
Starring Michael Ball, Les Dennis and Lizzie Bea, it will be dismissed by some as 1960s escapism.
But the crowd s roar at the end of the show this week damn near blew the actors off stage.
Clearly moved, Ball s pantodame mum, Edna, thanked the audience. You ve no idea what it feels like to hear that after so long! , sighed the man who won an Olivier Award for the role in 2008.
The show s story is of plus-size school girl Tracy Turnblad (Bea) taking on racial inequality in suburban Maryland.