Welcome to the 60's Welcome to the 60's "Welcome to the 60's" is a song from the musical "Hairspray". it is performed by Tracy Turnblad, Edna Turnblad, Mr. Pinky, and a Greek chorus consisting of three African-American stylists entitled the Dynamites. DVD Talk wrote "A number of Shaiman and Wittman's songs come from specific lines of dialog, like "Welcome to the 60's" and "Big, Blonde and Beautiful," a nice way of simply expanding on what Waters' characters were already saying". Edna Turnblad is encouraged to go outside for the first time in a while, and she takes in the surroundings. It is a changing
Michael Ball (singer) Cameron Mackintosh asked Ball to play Raoul in the second casting of "The Phantom of the Opera" in London, which was necessary after Michael Crawford (who played the Phantom) and Steve Barton (who played Raoul) left the London show to appear in the Broadway staging in New York City. Mackintosh thought that Ball would not be under too much pressure as Raoul, and that the part was right for him. Ball played Alex in "Aspects of Love", both in London and New York, and Giorgio in the London production of Stephen Sondheim's "Passion". "Alone Together" was his one-man show first