'Hairspray Live' Watch Online: How To View NBC Production Starring Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson & More [VIDEO]
NBC is set to air its latest live musical tonight, Hairspray Live!, and if you cannot watch it live on television, there are many ways to do so online.
Hairspray Live! is the latest NBC TV musical adaptation, following 2013's The Sound of Music Live!, 2014's Peter Pan Live! and 2015's The Wiz Live!
The musical, set in 1962, centers on a jolly teenager named Tracy Turnblad (newcomer Maddie Baillio), who dreams of dancing with her beautiful peers on The Corny Collins Show, a local variety show. After she nails her audition and lands a spot in the show, she becomes a hit with the local audience. She also gets to meet her dream boy Link (Garrett Clayton), as well as the villainous Amber (Dove Cameron) and her more villainous mother, Velma (Kristin Chenoweth).
Tracy also meets Seeweed (Ephraim Sykes), a talented black dancer with whom her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Ariana Grande) falls in love. Together, they make plans to integrate The Corny Collins Show at a time of great civil unrest.
Hairspray Live! also stars Harvey Fierstein as Tracy's mother, Edna Turnblad, Martin Short as her father, Wilbur Turnblad, Jennifer Hudson as record shop owner Motormouth Maybelle and Shahadi Wright Joseph as Little Inez. Additionally, Billy Eichner, Sean Hayes, Andrea Martin and Rosie O'Donnell have minor roles in the production.
Hairspray Live! is set to kick off tonight at 8/7c on NBC, and will last for three whole hours. If you are not able to watch the production on television, you're still in luck. NBC has its own live stream at NBC.com/Live - you'll just need to input your (or a helpful friend or family member's) cable subscription information.
If you are not able to watch it live, Hairspray Live! will be available on Hulu on Thursday.
To live tweet and follow along with others watching Hairspray Live!, use hashtag #HairsprayLive on Twitter.
