Hairspray License

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:49pm

When is it going to go out for anyone?

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 4:51pm

Producer's office has stated that it will be availble for amateur production some time in 2008.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:29pm

my highschool wants to do it-we've got ALOT of money and want to put it to a good show-we want to do it in spring of 08

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:33pm

You can tell your drama teacher to submit an early application with Music Theatre International. When the rights become available, they will contact you.

My guess is they will become available in the first quarter of 2008 because I imagine they will want to be able to ride the publicity from the film version this summer.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:41pm

yeah-i didnt think of the movie factor-but yeah-usually we budget 10,000 for a show but if we do hairspray we are gonng budget 50,000.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:51pm

How are they going to budget 5 times the normal for HAIRSPRAY? That's a pretty big increase... I hope you guys are planning on doing some major bake sales to off set the cost...

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:53pm

We'll we do a "Tiger Idol"...so that brings in alot-We just did HSM-which sold out every night-and we hve some very wealthy generous people in our town.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 5:55pm

Thats great. HAIRSRPAY won't sell as well as HSM though...

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:14pm

Yeah-our biggest thing is-we live in a small country town-so they arent use to interaccial relationships. so itll be fun to see the reviews

[catstagestud]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:18pm

You don't think so MB? Granted I personally couldn't sit through HSM; I found it to be not good and of course my younger cousins think the world of it. But Hairspray seems to be a large enough name to sell really well at a high school, community theatre or any other amateur theatre. The music, when I was a senior in high school, (the year after it won the Tony) was big in show-choir ciruits etc. and people recognized it as a fun show that would be extremely popular when the rights became available. I guess we'll see though. I'm excited to see the show get amateur productions.

Cheers,

Christopher

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:24pm

Oh I think it will sell well cat, but HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL is a phenom - The only musical that could possibly sell better in a school setting at the moment is WICKED.

[desiree armfeldt]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:24pm

YES!

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:28pm

lol-we wont do wicked-but if we can HAIRSPRAY By janurary of next year-we are doing that-if not we are doing BATB

[ABSteel]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:37pm

What high school has $50K to do one musical? I don't think my high school spent $50K in one year.

That's crazy.

I think you're lying.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 6:38pm

believe what you want-trust me-our drama department is wealthy-every heard of pritchett trucking in florida-its worth alot and mr.pritchett himself give alot of money being an alumni in schools theatre

[Parks]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 7:13pm

My school is offering 60k for Hairspray next year!

Maybe they'll give it to us first...

We have even RICHER people in my city.

[raphael06]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 7:15pm

What kind of schools do you people go to?!?! Good for you though! You are so lucky to have the money and the support of your school for theatre.

[Candleshoe2]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 7:18pm

I just hope it's a while before high schools start getting the rights to "Hairspray". Because I'm sure once they can, there will be some high school who won't get enough people to try out and end up having a white Seaweed or something like that, and end up changing the whole context of the show! Hopefully that won't happen...!

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 7:55pm

you would be surprised how much a high school production can cost. My old high school theatre seats 1500, so that alone caused the royalties to be sky high. We probably paid 10,000 just for the royalties each year. We were also only a middle sized school. I can only imagine what schools larger than us would pay, after royalties and sets and costume and such. Musicals are expensive!

[rgaywrites]

Posted: 4/25/07 at 8:13pm

My high school spent approx. $20-$40K per show and did 3 shows a year, and that was in 1992. Its not as far fetched as you might think. It was, I will add, a private school, but I don't think that range was significantly different from many schools with strong musical theatre programs.