Hairspray Movie Set Picture

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:52pm

I was doing some searching and came across this picture of the "Hefty Hideaway" facade.

I added it to the Hairspray blog- but I will just post it here so you guys dont feel forced to go to it.



Pretty cool I think.

I also posted a rendering I did of a few months ago of the "Hefty Hideaway."

I find it ironic we both have them on street corners.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:55pm

Cool pictures. But it's coincidence not irony.

[tthomas76]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:56pm

Really cool.. Thanks for sharing...

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:56pm

hahaha, darn! See, I usually just say "weird" that way i dont get it worng.

Oh well. Ill leave it 'ironic' so everyone can get a good laugh. :)

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 2:58pm

Ooo Great Find!

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:08pm

any significance behind the number 618? I was thinking the date June 18th but it really just could be a number. :)

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:13pm

I wonder if Vincent Peranio is designing these?

[best12bars]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:15pm

I didn't laugh at all, mateo...

*he says with true irony*

Thanks for the new shot, and I LOVE your own rendering of the Hideaway! Very nice job.

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:26pm

hahaha, thanks best12bars!


I dont believe Vincent Peranio is working on this hairspray at all.

I know Gordon Sim is the set decorator but I am not sure who the designer is.

I read once it was Aleksandra Marinkovich and David Fremlin as a team, but I am not really sure.

[Tag]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:29pm

Any idea where the location is?

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:32pm

I could ask the guy who took this. I assume somewhere in TO.

I asked if he will take more photos, and he said "just as soon as more things are up...which should be a few more days."

Updated On: 8/24/06 at 03:32 PM

[Tag]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:39pm

If you found out where in Toronto that would be awesome. Then I can go take my own pictures!

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:41pm

I just asked, hopefully he responds. :)

[SNLMedia]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:49pm

Great photo! And the rendering is fab, mateo.

I love that they included the "Parking In Rear" directive on the sign just as it is in the stage production. Does anyone remember if that was also in the film?

[americanboy99]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:51pm

I LIKE YOURS!! It's very colorful. The other one I guess fits the oeriod, but I am going ot have to get used to everything not being big and colorful like onstage.

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:20pm

It will be big and colorful, just in a differnt way.



I dont think there was a "parking in the rear" sign in the original. But its cute that its there in this one. :)

Updated On: 8/24/06 at 05:20 PM

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:29pm

Ok, someone on IMDB posted that it was on or around the corner of Dundas West and Roncesvalle Avenue.

Tag, when can you get there?? :)

Updated On: 8/24/06 at 05:29 PM

[MrSweetNAwful]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:30pm

I like the lettering, very 60's. Thank's for sharing this!

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:36pm

I assume its this building here...



from google maps

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:51pm

Any idea how they're going to style this production? Is it going to be done still sort of cartoony and stylized - maybe like Pleasantville, but more cartoony and kooky? Or are they trying to set it in realism?

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:00pm

I think 'Hairspray' will be as close to realism as you can get for a musical. Less 'Producers' more 'Dreamgirls.'

I mention it a little on the blog. Like when Marc (bless his heart) put pictures of costumes here, some people said "ehhh, they arent as fun as the musicals." This upset the Costume Designer a little bit. Yet really most poeple did like them, and the pictures DID enhance peoples interest in the movie.

But the Costume Designer felt he had to defend his work (which is no fun) and I think he, (I assume he) said it best with, "Be assured that this movie will look real AND fabulous."

So, I think we can assume the sounds and fun of the stage production with the look and heart of the original film.

Updated On: 8/24/06 at 06:00 PM

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:01pm

The Costume Designer posts on BWW?

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:06pm

He posted a response to comments when Marc added costume pictures to a thread. Marc later removed them.

[mateo]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:15pm

bump incase people didnt see it.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 8/24/06 at 10:19pm

Thanks for the link! (Though I prefer your rendering to the actaul design- the movie version lacks "fabulosity".)