You Can't Stop The Beat - Hairspray (Australian Cast)

The Australian cast of Hairspray perform You Can't Stop The Beat for media at the Regent Theatre in Melbourne's East End Theatre District.
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[@timgoodall737]

This song and cast have so much power and energy it's intoxicating! They should put this Australian cast show on DVD - it would fly out the door especially with our Australian spin on it and those cast members. One of the best casts I've ever seen, which is why I went to the live show. Get to it if you can, absolutely amazing. Mind blowing. Well done, director, choreographer and all associated with this version. Amazing. Totally 5 stars! Bring out a DVD of this show with this cast.

[@kristystichter5511]

I agree i'd love to hear this version with this cast on dvd. as I didn't get to see this production live.

[@mollsyxo0]

I remember watching the first night as a bday present. Best present I got that year.

[@mlbrooks4066]

The most upbeat song ever written.

[@timgoodall737]

This Australian cast do the musical proud. Thankyou for making this available online - the magic continues at home, and really want to watch it constantly it's SO GOOD!

[@angiewraight6001]

I absolutely loved this cast and the show. Wonderful.

[@mikayla6474]

I WENT FOR MY BIRTHDAY IT WAS THE BEST!!! I WOULD COME BACK TO SEE IT AGAIN. At the end when you guys sung this song again and to get the audience. I was dancing along doing all the actions. :)

[@hannahchallinor338]

9euiwowiierueioeieie9eeisisid9did

[@anna_disney1707]

This video makes me smile everytime I watch it 🥰I’m so grateful it’s on KZbin saw it Live In Melbourne everyone killed it i could have easily seen it again an again❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Satanna.avemaria]

This is a beautiful production. All the outfits are so different from past ones 💖🌸

[@cinamoroll5771]

I saw this live and it was amazing!

[@justro998]

The full show show should be recorded for them!

[@dadslyfe1267]

Fantastic!!!! I was blown away

[@GuddzGonzales]

I just watched the show earlier - still can't get over!! Such an amazing cast! I love the show! Highly recommended. Better than the movie :)

[@eljordinio7647]

Best song in Hairspray. No contest 👍

[@micahsauvageau4683]

SO MUCH LOVE TO JAMONTE, GABBY, AND MIKE FROM YOUR AMERICAN HAIRSPRAY FAMILY

[@lwclark96]

Eeeee!!! Love love love it❤

[@darby.traverss]

Shane is so good!!!

[@sallyoconnor9975]

Rewatched a 100 times because every single cast member is so damn captivating and I don't want to MISS a beat!!!

[@tasha3757]

So good! I’d love to see it live

[@97jsng]

thank you so much for posting this, I've been wanting to watch the show but sadly I can't. Love this !!

[@sarah.grynberg]

I love❤ this

[@s1llyshark15]

Ive seen this with my mum it was so awsome and the man dressed as the mum was so funny😂

[@luisaaddydillon6672]

🧡

[@Totaldramaislandgames]

i’m so excited for it!!!! i get to go there as a school excursion because i’m a drama student!!!!

[@zubinsedghibassguitar]

TRACY TURNBLAD SAW ME IN THE CROWD AT SOMEPOINT! I STARTED CRYING

[@robloxsetdesigner9627]

oh i absolutely love the cast, the set and the energy!! Please post more I want to see the show but I am in America and cannot come see the show =( Please please please post more of the hairspray videos!!

[@lwclark96]

It will be touring America starting again next month!!

[@robloxsetdesigner9627]

@@lwclark96 I saw it lolz, no I just wanna see this production since I am obsessed wth the sets and costumes and everything

[@connorhanneken3244]

@@robloxsetdesigner9627 the sets here definitely look much higher quality lol

[@robloxsetdesigner9627]

@@connorhanneken3244 yesss lolz and I’m obsessed wth them haha

[@connorhanneken3244]

@@robloxsetdesigner9627 I feel like this is the set built for the London revival. And some of the ensemble members here I think did the US tour that just ended

[@miketiongson7409]

“Sees both white and black” love the line change 😍

[@justinm2697]

It's odd how we've gone from skin colour doesn't matter.... to being convinced that in fact it does matter.

[@BriannaGibbsLovatictaylorcyrus]

@@justinm2697 lol cause it does and always did

[@KLK1618]

Me too

[@justinm2697]

@@BriannaGibbsLovatictaylorcyrus It does to some. We have a word for those people.

[@12345678abracadabra]

You were never supposed to not see colour. That erases the differences instead of celebrating it. Not seeing colour is what happens like stolen generation when you raise a black child as white and the kid loses all connection to theor family

[@Trinity-gs6uk]

I wanna see, It Takes Two, I Can Hear the Bells, and Without Love.

[@Banjo_Tails]

It’s a media event preview. They usually only do two - three songs. The two songs are posted.

[@Trinity-gs6uk]

@@Banjo_Tails bummer, thanks for explaining ☺

[@Jervisdude]

Motormouth Maybell was well cast here.

[@justro998]

Do you guys have mama im a big girl now plus the playoff

[@Banjo_Tails]

Its a press preview. They don't do the whole show.

[@theatremattersau]

No sorry, we've posted all the songs performed at the media call. But I can say that 'Mama I'm A Big Girl Now' was sensational live on opening night!

[@SighMN]

Where's Penny Pingleton? Did they cut her out of this performance?

[@theatremattersau]

She's there. She's in a blue and silver dress.

[@DanielDiaz-um1xd]

She's right behind Wilbur when he says "officer, assistance please"

[@amazingauthorsonline3937]

Amber is soooooooooo much like Gahlinda played by Lucy Durack that if she doesn’t not do her in wicked I will be disappointed. If Lucy Durack can not do it anymore then that woman HAS TO

[@markbaxter8748]

How refreshing not to have the usual suspects playing Edna Turnblad -genius casting :)

[@suave-rider]

You're happy with Shane "EVERYWHERE" Jacobs?

[@riverebec1]

Still a fun number, but I hate the lyric change from "and it DON'T see white FROM black" to "it sees BOTH white and black". The latter puts an emphasis on seeing color, while the former says color doesn't matter, because we are all members of the same human race. I thought that was the message of Hairspray.

[@grishamlocke1428]

they changed the lyrics because the creators felt the lyrics didn’t hold up. when the show was transferred to the stage from the movie, it was enough to say “we’re all human” because that was the necessary message then. now, it’s necessary for us to realize that as a society it IS important to realize the differences in our cultures because that’s what makes us so beautiful as a human race. We DO have different experiences and cultures across race, ethnicity, religion, or whatever metric you choose-but that’s beautiful. by seeing both “white AND black” we can acknowledge our equality while maintaining our beautiful and unique identities.

[@riverebec1]

@@grishamlocke1428 As individual human beings, we ALL have different and unique CULTURAL experiences. But the challenges we face as HUMAN BEINGS is what makes us all the same. That's what the Civil Rights Movement, which I lived thru, was all about. "It don't see white from black"! Or any other color or ethnicity. If aliens from another planet came after us none of that would matter because they'd see us all as being from the same team. Because WE ARE ALL FROM THE SAME TEAM! "And it don't see white from black".

[@justinm2697]

We've gone from not seeing colour to seeing skin colour is a requirement.

[@garrywallace1007]

@@justinm2697 Colour is something to be proud of, not something not to be seen and colour is important to see. It is all rather semantic, I think we know what is meant.

[@riverebec1]

@@garrywallace1007 Why is color something to be "proud" of when it is determinative of nothing. Your color doesn't determine your character or your values or generally anything about you as a human being. The lyric change is nothing but woke virtue signaling that only undermines the true meaning of Hairspray. "It don't see white from black!"

[@mikefairbank2998]

It always pains me to hear this cast refer to the 2007 film as the original source material. Man I thought these people were professionals, try John Waters 1988 film, the original and best version.

[@LantanaLiz]

Having seen this in Sydney, a great cast was let down by technical difficulties with unintelligible sound mixing, mics not being turned on, weak dance choreography, an overly large number of sex jokes, an ensemble cast that felt half the size of other shows and non-existent set design, to the point where one can wonder why they needed such a large stage for such a small show. If you saw the 2011 show, then seeing this one will leave you pining for the good old days, because all this how has going for it is the cast... when you can actually hear them.

[@jerryhilario9787]

Absolutely agree Liz. The 2010/2011 production with the LED lights and the more intensive dance chorey was insanely good and underrated. It was a production that I wish was successful and used around the world. Too bad it fell flat with sales and ended abruptly in Sydney

[@Banjo_Tails]

This was a carbon copy of the original Broadway production. This was suppose to come to Australia way back in the late 2000s. The “hold” on the show by this very company that produced this version expired and that’s how David atkins was able to swoop in and produce the 2011 production with the LED screens. I saw the show twice in Melbourne and flew to Sydney when I heard it was closing early and it was a fantastic production.

[@thisishowirespond6524]

I gotta say, these people look like their just phoning it in. The 2 min mark - Edna, she's thinking of what she's gonna be eating for dinner that nite. So not really that into it.