Congratulations to Hairspray's Candice Marie Woods!

Candice Woods (Dynamite) will be leaving Hairspray on August 12th to begin rehearsals for Bette Midler's new Las Vegas show! She will be singing back-up for Midler.

Congratulations Candice!!

She has been in Hairspray since April of 2005, so yes, it's been a while! The last riff in '60's' just won't be the same without her =)

bumpety - bump

show your love and congrats to Candice! she deserves it!

A couple of my friends went. They won't be out for another hour or so, though, the show ends at 5:30.

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Oh, was it a 3:00 show today? I can never keep track.

It's the same thing. Bette Midler's backup singers ARE Harlettes, simply or not.

The Harlettes -- Bette Midler's legendary trio of back-up singers, are always multi-cultural. In the early years, she would cast them to off-balance everything: she'd have a super tall white girl with huge hair (Ulla); full figured black woman (Charlotte) and teeny-tiny black girl (Sharon). The look of all 3 girls together played up to the campy tone of Bette's show. In the last decade or so, she's kept to a more balanced-out trio, no longer using that off-balancing (and overtly campy) 'look' for The Harlettes.

Yes, Charlotte Crossley, who played Motormouth Maybelle in the US Tour of HAIRSPRAY was indeed a long running Harlette, as was Linda Hart, Broadway's original Velma in HAIRSPRAY. Also of note -- Melissa Manchester was one of the ORIGINAL Harlettes back around 1971. Another well-known Harlette was Katey Sagal, aka Peg Bundy of FOX TV's MARRIED WITH CHILDREN fame, as was Mandy Gonzalez of the now-legendary Broadway flop DANCE WITH THE VAMPIRE.


Some photos of Linda Hart, Katey Sagal and Franny Eisenberg as Harlettes:

Peg Bundy was a Harlette? That's hot.

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was at the mat. today


after the curtain call and the "baltimore" section... when tracy say's "everyone...let's dance" she said " ladies and gentlemen tonight is one of our dynamites last performance... ladies and gentlemen candice marie woods..."

run dmc was there too and rumor had it they are related...i don't know

For those curious ones...here's Candice:




...and as a Dynamite (on the lower right):

"run dmc was there too and rumor had it they are related...i don't know"

No but that's pretty funny.

And the guy she's with in that pic is my ex. Never thought I'd see him here LoL

Updated On: 8/13/07 at 01:03 AM

I'm very glad to hear that they said something during the curtain call. That's very sweet.

I saw Candice this past Tuesday and she was incredible, as usual. It's been amazing seeing her grow as a performer. I went to high school with her, did speech and theatre together. I saw her for the first time in July of 2005, and it has been AMAZING to see her grow in this show. She is very very talented, and I know that big things are in store for her. I'm proud to say that I know her.

To answer someone's question - Candice turned 20 in March. She got Hairspray right out of high school (she actually finished up high school through correspondence).

She begins rehearsals in October.

And no, Candice and Run DMC are not related.

But Michelle was on as Tracy.

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