Hairspray (musical) End cast. The first amateur MTI production was produced at the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in the summer of 2008. The Junior version released by MTI excludes the musical numbers "I Can Hear the Bells", "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs", "Velma's Revenge", "You're Timeless to Me", and "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful". "Hairspray" was the next live musical to be produced by NBC, and was broadcast on December 7, 2016. Newcomer Maddie Baillio was chosen to play Tracy Turnblad. Jennifer Hudson and Harvey Fierstein starred as Motormouth Maybelle and Edna Turnblad, respectively. Martin Short portrayed Wilbur Turnblad
Happy End (musical) "Scene 2: The Mission, later that night" The phrase "robbing a bank's no crime compared to owning one" comes from this play, and Brecht subsequently added it to publication revisions of the earlier "Threepenny Opera", although it did not originally appear in the first production. Conductor/Lilian/Dame in Grau/Bill/Sam: Happy End (musical) Happy End is a three-act musical comedy by Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Bertolt Brecht which first opened in Berlin at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm on September 2, 1929. It closed after seven performances. In 1977 it premiered on Broadway, where it ran for 75 performances. After the success