Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

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Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/4/05 at 11:46pm

https://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=4691

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/4/05 at 11:55pm

The tour Edna is going to replace him. Do we know who is going to play the role on the road now?

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:06am

**cries** i wasnt there

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:14am

As per the Hairspray website:

On September 6, the new tour cast members are:

Amber - Tara Macri (from the Toronto cast)
Link - Aaron Tveit
Penny - Caissie Levy
Inez - Naturi Naughton
Shelley - Amy Hillner
Tracy standby - Christine Danelson

The new Edna and Wilbur are J.P. Dougherty (who filled in for John for a few months this summer and was Harvey's understudy) and Jim J. Bullock (who's was recently playing Mr. Pinky on Broadway)

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:22am

i couldnt make it, but i saw the tour cast yesterday and saw JP as enda

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:24am

Jim J. Bullock as Wilbur? Are you certain he's not Edna? My head hurts thinking about this one...

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Updated On: 9/5/05 at 12:24 AM

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:25am

jim j is wilbur. he was actually really good.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:38am

Mr. Wittman looks great!

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 12:39am

how was inez, i think that its really funny its not a little girl on tour.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 4:04am

when i saw the tour in Los Angeles it was a little girl playing Little Inez... then a year later i saw it with an older (but younger) woman playin INez... it looked REALLY odd... but meh... whatever

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 10:29am

Scott Wittman's shirt is awesome.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 2:50pm

The tour "Inez" is a little girl, but when she is unavialable (sickness etc.) the role is sometimes played by an adult. This only occurs in rare emergency situations.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/5/05 at 3:03pm

no actually the girl who plays Inez on tour is an adult. it cost too much money to have a child on tour. i saw the tour sunday. in run and tell that seaweed introduces her as " my little sister, Inez" where on Broadway they say " my little sister, Lil Inez"

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 6:37am

That must be a recent change. Sorry, Peeps.

Updated On: 9/8/05 at 06:37 AM

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 10:50am

Aw! I loved him as Edna. Really, really funny. Not gto mention all the other things he's done, or written for.

What was that Tic-Tac-Toe show he was on?

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Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 12:20pm

the change took place maybe a year ago. he was on hollywood squares.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 2:00pm

Hollywood Squares, yes! I couldn't think of it for some reason.

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Well, I'm glad he got away with it.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 4:43pm

He made a name for himself as "the new paul lind". Truly funny, I hope he goes back to that show soon.

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re: Photo Coverage: Bruce Vilanch Exits 'Hairspray'

Posted: 9/6/05 at 7:27pm

I got to see Hairspray the week that Marissa was back back in July. I loved Bruce in it. His ad-libs were classic. He is one strange looking man and an even stranger looking woman.

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