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Hairspray "You can't stop the Beat"

bwayboi0101
#0Hairspray "You can't stop the Beat"
Posted: 1/2/06 at 7:09pm

I really need help finding a video online of "You cant stop the beat". I really need to see the video for a school project. I have seen the Kerry Butler online one, but that's it. Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!

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Candleshoe2
#1re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/2/06 at 7:24pm

This isn't the best quality, but here's a video of the Toronto performing "You Can't Stop the Beat". Hope that helps!

http://www.truveo.com/rd.php?i=643314

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Link Larkin Wanabe
#2re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/2/06 at 7:35pm

Man does that clip ever make me miss the show in Toronto. It's like my drug. Never fails to give me chills when I see that number. I love how so many people know the choreography and can dance along in the audience.

Akiva

bwayboi0101
#3re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 2:58pm

OH Thank you!!! That is great. I have been trying to find this video for like ever!

Thank You Candleshoe2

BwayTheatre11
#4re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:03pm

Does it take a little while to load or am I doing something wrong?


CCM '10!

bwayboi0101
#5re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:06pm

it took me sometime, but after like 2 minutes it was fine

BwayTheatre11
#6re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:19pm

Any ideas on why it is not working for me? Just click on the link, right?


CCM '10!

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#7re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:21pm

Akiva, I have to admit, I'm guilty of dancing along in the audience during "You Can't Stop The Beat". Good to know I'm not the only one!


"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

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YankeeGal#24
#8re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:21pm

Hmmmm....I just clicked on the link (no pun intended LOL) and it opened right up. Maybe try typing the URL into your browser?


"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

bwayboi0101
#9re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:29pm

this may sound a litte weird, but the end of the song after Velma and Amber do their singing, that jump they do to "But you cannot stop the rythym of two hearts in love to staaay" I love it, for some reason it just looks cool to me.

Oh yea I cannot spell

bwayboi0101
#10re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:42pm

Another quick question, I saw Hairspray about 2 1/2 years ago. How does the ending of the show go, do they finish with "Cant stop the Beat" and then do the Curtain Call and then do they sing "Cant stop the beat" again?

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#11re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 3:47pm

To answer your question bwayboi:

"You Can't Stop The Beat" ends with the streamers flying from the big Ultra Clutch can and then the lights go out. After several seconds, the lights come back on, there is a curtain call for all the performers, and then they all stand in a line and sing the "Good Morning Baltimore" reprise which ends with Tracy saying "Everybody, let's dance!" They then perform the final verse of "You Can't Stop The Beat" with slightly different choreography. Finally, Amber is seen giving the Miss Teenage Hairspray crown to Tracy, and they hug. The end!

If I'm off on any of this, someone please correct me!


"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

NJgirl
#12re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:03pm

I've got a question about the ending...has it been reworked in the last year or so?? I remember seeing it for the first time back in March....and I remember them dancing in the aisles to YCSTB and I remember there being a big fuss here on BWW about this version of the ending and the mics having to be turned off to do this, etc. and someone (I wanna say Marc Shaiman) posted they were going to rework the ending and take this dancing in the aisles bit out...
Am I crazy? or has the ending been reworked since I first saw it?

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YankeeGal#24
#13re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:47pm

I've seen the show ALOT in the past two years and haven't ever seen them dancing in the aisles during YCSTB. I mean, Tracy and Penny and some of the others start off in the aisle, but they run up on the stage.


"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

Cenoern
#14re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 4:55pm

I saw it way back when it opened, and clearly remember people dancing in the aisles.

I saw it again last year in early november, and there was no dancing in the aisles and the song was followed by a curtain call and nothing else. *shrug*

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SirLiir
#15re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 6:02pm

Who doesn't love this song. Such a fun, energetic number!
Updated On: 1/4/06 at 06:02 PM

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Radioactiveduck
#16re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 8:37pm

It's so fun to watch, but I bet it's a bitch and a half to actually perform.

bwayboi0101
#17re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:09pm

I would actually have a lot of fun doing this number, for some reason Tracy is my favorite in this number then she is in the whole show. I just love her facial expressions and everything else she does (at leat when I saw Carly Jibson and Leslie Kritzer do it)

Also, I heard Michelle Kittrell is the new Tracy understudy, can this be confirmed by anybody, or is it just another rumor. I actually can see her in the role, hell I can see Michelle in any role :)

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SNLMedia
#18re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:22pm

The current Tracy understudy on Broadway is Michelle Dowdy. I saw her on 12/3 and she was great.


"The world is a better place because of hairspray." - Michael Ball

Updated On: 1/3/06 at 10:22 PM

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YankeeGal#24
#19re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:52pm

I think Michelle Kittrell is the swing and Michelle Dowdy is the understudy, unless something changed in the past few weeks.


"You ask four guys, you get four different versions" ~ Tommy DeVito, Jersey Boys

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jeremykushnier1fan
#20re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 10:55pm

What a catchy song. It has always been my favorite.

Swiftynifty15
#21re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/3/06 at 11:31pm

There are several Hairspray Legal Clips on My Hairsrpay Message Board, "Welcome To The Sixties."




Welcome To The Sixties: A Hairspray Message Board Updated On: 1/3/06 at 11:31 PM

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Copeman63
#22re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/4/06 at 4:42am

Cenoern- I saw the show a couple times during it's first year and Broadway and didn't see them dancing in the aisles... Odd...


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Copeman63
#23re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:04am

Wow, that Toronto clip was better than the tony's performance!


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Link Larkin Wanabe
#24re: Hairspray 'You can't stop the Beat'
Posted: 1/4/06 at 5:13am

The Toronto cast was vibrant and full of the exact exuberant energy needed to pull off this peice. Although the singing in this clip isn't the greatest example of their abilities. I have heard them sing a LOT better.

Akiva


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