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DALLAS – You can’t stop the beat! And you can’t stop Morning Dose host Shane Allen in Hairspray: The Broadway Musical!

Shane plays TV host Corny Collins in the production, opening July 7 in the Winspear Opera House downtown. The show is a co-production between the AT&T Performing Arts Center the Dallas Theater Center.

The show is based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray and the 2007 remake of the same name. The story revolves around plus-size teen Tracy Turnblad (Michelle Dowdy has the role in this production) in 1962 Baltimore, where she goes from social outcast to TV star and racial integration activist after her dream of becoming part of The Corny Collins Show becomes a reality.

  • Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Cara Serber as Velma Von Tussle and cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad and Liz Mikel as Motormouth Mabel - by Karen Almond
  • Shane Allen as Corny Collins and the cast of Hairspray - by Karne Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - photo by Karen Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - by Karen Almond)
  • Cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Taylor O'Toole as Penny Pingleton and Anthony Chatmon II as Seaweed J. Stubbs and cast of Hairspray - photo by Karen Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • David Coffee as Edna Turnblad and Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad and cast - by Karen Almond
  • Cast of Hairspray - photo by Karen Almond
  • David Coffee as Edna Turnblad, Bob Reed as Wilbur Turnblad - by Karen Almond
  • Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad and cast of Hairspray - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Deanna Ott and cast of Hairspray - by Karen Almond
  • Shane Allen as Corny Collins and cast of Hairspray - by Karen Almond
  • Joel Ingram as Link Larkin and Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad - Photo by Karen Almond
  • Liz Mikel and cast of Hairspray - by Karen Almond
  • Michelle Dowdy as Tracy Turnblad and Gabrielle Reyes, Ayanna Edwards, Tanisha Moore as The Dynamites - by Karen Almond
  • Michelle Dowdy, Joel Ingram - photo by Karen Almond
  • Shane Allen as Corny Collins and cast of Hairspray - by Karen Almond

Hairspray is recommended for audiences 9 & up; performance time is 2 hours and 40 minutes.

The show runs July 7-15 at the Winspear Opera House. More info and ticket availability can be found here.