Why did The Buddy Deane Show Get Canceled?
The Buddy Deane Show was taken off the air because home station WJZ-TV was unwilling to integrate black and white dancers.
Is the Corny Collins show real?
According to Playbill.com, The Corny Collins Show is fictional. But, the program was reportedly based on a real Baltimore dance program, and Corny Collins himself was based on the show’s real host.
When did The Buddy Deane Show End?
Jan. 4, 1964
The one thing everyone seems to remember about “The Buddy Deane Show” is its ending: amid calls to integrate the almost all-white program (as in “Hairspray,” there was one day a month when African Americans could dance on the show), “Buddy Deane” was canceled. The final episode aired on Jan. 4, 1964.
What is the Corny Collins show based on?
The Buddy Deane Show
Waters based the main storyline and “The Corny Collins Show” on the real-life “The Buddy Deane Show” and racial events surrounding it. Theatre producer, Margo Lion, saw a television broadcast of the film in 1998 and started to conceive it as a stage musical.
Did they use real Hairspray in the movie Hairspray 2007?
According to the producers’ commentary, the “hairspray” in the Ultra Clutch cans was actually deodorant. Out of many possibilities, it was the only thing that would catch the light and show up on camera the way they wanted it to.
Why does Hairspray take place in Baltimore?
In 1962, the same year that Hairspray takes place, the Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that a group of high school and college students were rightfully arrested and convicted for staging a sit-in at the segregated Hooper’s Restaurant in downtown Baltimore.
Why is Hairspray called Hairspray?
The show title, “Grease”, was riffing on “Hair”, a Broadway hit about the 60s which had come out a few years before “Grease”. In the same way “Hairspray” was a riff on “Grease”.
Why did they choose John Travolta in Hairspray?
In 2007, the Chicago Tribune reported that Meron said Travolta was cast as Edna in order to continue the tradition of the musical, which has continued years later in the NBC live version of the musical.
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