Hairspray rights

[bwayboi0101]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 5:16pm

how do you get them for the show?

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 5:16pm

Networks

[jv92]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 5:17pm

When the show's Broadway run ends and the tour ends, within a year, they'll be available. The only way to do the show now is illegally, which will get you in a lot of trouble.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 5:17pm

MTI has the rights....

good luck though. ha ha

[Ourtime992]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 6:01pm

my friends who direct and have connections at MTI told me the other day that it will be available in just over a year. Not great sources, but for what it's worth, that's what I've been told.

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 6:50pm

I was just on the International Thespian's website and they will be staging the first non-equity production of "Hairspray" in summer 2008. Here is the link:

http://www.edta.org/our_season/hairspray.asp

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 7:05pm

MTI themselves says it's coming, and they are compiling information, making librettos (libretti?) and such, so it's comin!

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 7:09pm

They are available but it is on a case by case basis. The show was done at North Shore Music Theatre in Massachussetts but they paid big money for it (250k is the rumor) and I think that there was a cut of the door given to MTI. NMT is also rumored to get Les Mis for next summer, this is the full version not the School version that has been out there. Again this is going to be prohibitively expensive for small theatres
I think that NMT was an advantageous venue for the rights house because the theatre is in the round so it presents a design challenge. This makes it easy for the rights houses to advertise the show as being able to be done in many different types of venues, and therefore it will be more lucrative for them.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 7:12pm

i think North Shore is doing Les Mis for their "mystery" show because when you look at their season schedule, they have the font and that for every show with their title, and where it says "You will find out soon what the Broadway Blockbuster" thingy, something like that, the font they used was "Les Mis".

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 7:14pm

The current NETworks show is Non-equity, so the info on the International thespian site is incorrect.

[Trekkie2]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:43pm

"When the show's Broadway run ends and the tour ends, within a year, they'll be available." And with the movie coming out this summer, that won't be happening anytime soon.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:50pm

"When the show's Broadway run ends and the tour ends, within a year, they'll be available."

^and what makes you think the show is ending on Broadway within a year! cause i doubt it is...

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:51pm

Trekkie, I disagree, I think that they are doing something akin to what they are doing with Beauty and the Beast. They are letting people do it to build an interest in the show on Broadway, rather than being afraid of losing box office to productions done "Out in the Regions"

[Yero]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:57pm

"When the show's Broadway run ends and the tour ends, within a year, they'll be available."

^and what makes you think the show is ending on Broadway within a year! cause i doubt it is...
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The poster never said Hairspray was ending in a year. S/he said that after a shows major runs end, the rights are usually available a year or so later.

[Jon]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:57pm

Didn't North Shore actually say in their press release "You won't have to wait ONE DAY MORE to see this Broadway blockbuster"?

[Yero]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 8:59pm

^Yeah, they did.
I'm so excited for it.. I'm sure it will be fabulous.

[Neverandy]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 9:02pm

I imagine you are yero, with NMT's Jesus as your avatar!

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 9:09pm

is still think it's "Les Mis"...

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 9:11pm

and they said "When the Broadway show and tour ends, within a year"<---correct me if i'm wrong, but he's saying within a year they're both ending...

[Yero]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 9:21pm

No... because as I understand it, usually the rights for a show are released about a year after the major productions of the show close. The original poster NEVER said that Hairspray was ever closing in a year, if you read the rest of the post it should be obvious.

Updated On: 11/22/06 at 09:21 PM

[Boq101]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 9:30pm

Well this summer is worked with a division of MTI called iTheatrics that does kids versions of shows. And we talked about many of these things.

For High School I just did the second reading of RENT which will come up pretty soon unless they decide to make more changes. Same with Thoroughly Modern Millie.

As to licensing for actual shows they told us that they had the Hairspray rights but will probably not take them out any time soon because of the movie and the fact that the show will run a bit longer. They said that if the show run for a LONG time they might come out with a kid's version before the show closes but they doubt it'll actually happen.

As for RENT I can tell you they cut out contact and the only people that kiss are Mimi and Roger. They cut bit's of Light My Candle, Christmas Bells, and i think they trimmed two other songs.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:18pm

Rent JR. ???????!

I can't WAIT to see that. It's going to be sidesplittingly funny.

Akiva

[Chitty]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:22pm

Oh Rent Jr..cool!

[Boq101]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:24pm

There are some words changed in La Vie Boheme. When we started we kept in Mucho Masturbation because of this conversation that the company had with Larson's parents.

Mrs.Larson heard the new lyric (mucho medication) and she flet that she'd rather have kids mastrubating than medicating. The lyric did get changed by the end of the workshop.

dildo was changed to latex, mainly cause it just fit, and the Bag Lady (who the !@#$ do you think u r) got a major rewrite.

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 11/22/06 at 10:30pm

I can't wait for an 8 year old Roger to scream MiMEEEEEEEEE as a 7 year old Mimi (almost) dies from AIDS. There had better be a lot of these productions posted on The Site That Shall Not Be Named so I can stay entertained. Also....Angel will be amazing.

Akiva