Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (producers of all of NBC's live musicals and the upcoming A Few Good Men Live) serve as executive producers of Hairspray Live! Live television director Alex Rudzinski will join director Kenny Leon (The Wiz Live!) for Hairspray Live!.
Snow White appears in the 2015 Disney Channel original movie, played by Stephanie Bennett. She appears at the coronation of Prince Ben as a reporter for the Auradon news network. She is surprised to learn that her stepmother's daughter, Evie, designed Mal's coronation gown.
By all rights, a global debut on ABC's telecast of the 61st Academy Awards should have been an auspicious launching pad. Instead, playing Snow White alongside Rob Lowe in a musical debacle, she instantly found a place in Oscar infamy. The campy live number, arranged and conducted by Marvin Hamlisch, was as over-the-top as the man who masterminded it, Grease producer Allan Carr, a bombastic Hollywood oddball famed for wearing caftans and hosting debauched parties at his disco-equipped house in Benedict Canyon.