"Hairspray" Pro Premiere Coming to Muhlenberg
Muhlenberg's 32nd Summer Music Theater season will feature "Hairspray" and "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Muhlenberg's Summer Music Theater (MSMT) schedule in Allentown will feature the regional professional premiere of "Hairspray: The Broadway Musical" that opens the season, June 13 – July 1. Adapted from the John Waters movie that was partially filmed right here in the Lehigh Valley, "Hairspray" will feature Angela DeAngelo as Tracy Turnblad and SMT mainstay Bill Mutimer as her mother, Edna. MSMT co-founder Charles Richter directs. Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore," the duo's first commercial hit (way back in 1878), and a precursor to the Broadway blockbusters of today will run July 11-29. Muhlenberg Theatre & Dance Department chair James Peck directs. This season's production for young audiences, "Harold and the Purple Crayon," accounts …
