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Czech born tennis star Hana Mandikova becomes an Australian Citizen

Jan 1 Year of the Reader begins

Ashland Oil storage tank spills 3.8 million gallons, Penn

Jan 2 Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique's western border, killing at least 22 people and injuring 71.

Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut

9th largest NBA crowd 38,873-Chicago at Detroit

Jan 8 Dow Jones down 140.58 points

ABC premiere of fact-based "Evil in Clear River"

Jan 11 USSR announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics

Jan 13 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities

19-year-old Indian cricket leg-spinner Narenda Hirwani records best bowling figures on debut in Test history; captures 16-136 in 255 run 4th Test win v West Indies in Madras; Hirwani takes 8 wickets in each innings

Jan 15 Indian cricket wicketkeeper Kiran More stumps 5 West Indian batsman in 4th Test at Madras; world Test record

Jan 15 Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 & 8-75) v WI on Test debut

Jan 15 NFL analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS' NFL Today; fired the next day

Jan 16 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks

Jan 16 NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix

Leslie Manigay elected President of Haiti

Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board

"48 Hours" premieres on CBS-TV

Jan 19 Disabled writer Christopher Nolan wins the Whitbread Book of the Year prize

Jan 20 Andre Hoffman skates world record 1,500m (1:52.06)

Jan 20 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham

US accepts immigration of 30,000 US-Vietnamese children

Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match

Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $21 million

Jan 24 NBC premiere of fact based "The Murder of Mary Phagan"

Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games)

Jan 25 Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname

Australian 200th anniversary parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbour

Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional

Jan 28 Denver Nuggets point guard Michael Adams takes record streak to 79 consecutive games with at least one 3-point field goal in 117-102 loss against Indiana at Market Square Arena; streak ends next game

Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15

Jan 29 Detroit Pistons draw a then record NBA regular season crowd of 61,983 fans to the Pontiac Silverdome for a 125-108 win over the Boston Celtics

Jan 29 Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers

Jan 29 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s

Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS v N Tvl)

Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil

Super Bowl XXII, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego, CA: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10; MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, QB

Nurses across the UK strike over pay and funding for the NHS

Feb 3 US Senate confirms Anthony Kennedy to seat on US Supreme Court by a 97-0 vote

Despite union calls to end the strike, rank-and-file seamen at major British ports refuse to return to work

Feb 5 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham

USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

NASA launches DOD-2

NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)

3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)

Feb 10 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails

US Navy frigate USS Yorktown bumped by Russian frigate Bezzavetny in the Black Sea in dispute over right of innocent passage

Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40)

Feb 13 European Community plans removal of internal boundaries on Jan 1, 1992

Feb 13 Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m)

Feb 13 Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41)

Feb 13 XV Winter Olympic Games open in Calgary, Canada

US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador

US Lt Col William Higgins kidnapped in south Lebanon by Lebanese terrorists & later killed

Anthony Kennedy, sworn in as 106th US Supreme Court Justice

Feb 18 Federal Road Safety Corps is established in Nigeria

Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55)

500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Feb 20 Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)

Feb 20 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)

Feb 20 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0

Feb 20 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2)

Feb 20 Stefka Kostadinova of Bulgaria sets high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)

Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)

Feb 21 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation

Chicago gives Cubs right to install lights & play up to 18 night games

Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykanen wins his 3rd gold medal of the Calgary Winter Olympics as part of the winning large hill team; normal and large hill individual champion

Feb 24 South African apartheid regime bans the UDF

Feb 24 US Supreme Court votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody

Feb 25 South Korea adopts constitution

Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65)

Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1

Feb 27 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34

Feb 27 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating

Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed

Feb 28 British television programme "That's Life!" surprises guest Nicholas Winton with an audience full of grown-up children that he saved from German-occupied Czechoslovakia, bringing them to safety in the UK

Feb 28 Pat Verbeek becomes 1st NJ Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game

Feb 28 XV Winter Olympic Games close in Calgary, Canada

Feb 28 Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13)

KWK-FM in St Louis Missouri changes call letters to WKBG

Feb 29 New Zealand cricket batsman Mark Greatbatch scores an unbeaten 107 on debut to rescue a draw in 2nd Test v England at Eden Park, Auckland

Feb 29 NYC Mayor Koch calls Reagan a "WIMP" in the war on drugs

Mar 1 Iraq says it launched 16 missiles into Tehran

Mar 1 Pontiac announces the end of the Fiero automobile

Mar 2 The flaming basketball is adopted as NBA franchise Miami Heat's official logo from over 13,000 entries; Mark Henderson submits the winning entry

Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.

18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000

Mar 6 3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers

Mar 6 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)

Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty

Mar 7 Jim Abbott, 1-handed pitcher, wins 58th James E Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the US, becoming 1st baseball player to win the award

Mar 9 US President Ronald Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp

British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin

Mar 11 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire

Japan's Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest tunnel with an underwater segment (53.90 km in total) opens, connecting Honshu-Hokkaido by rail. The Channel Tunnel remains the longest underwater tunnel.

Eugene Marino of Atlanta appointed 1st African American archbishop

Mar 15 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK

Mar 15 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix

Chemical attack on Kurdish town of Halabja by Iraqi forces kills 5000 civilians - largest ever chemical weapons attack

Mar 16 Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair

Mar 16 North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed

Mar 16 US sends 3,000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras

Iran says Iraq uses poison gas

Mar 17 Then highest scoring NCAA basketball game to date; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115

Two British Army corporals are attacked during a funeral procession, beaten and shot dead by the Provisional IRA in Belfast, North Ireland

Mar 19 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official world record 10 km (15:25.25)

David Henry Hwang's "M. Butterfly," premieres in NYC

Mar 20 Defending champion Mike Tyson beats Tony Tubbs by TKO in round 2 at the Tokyo Dome, Tokyo for the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title

Mar 20 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

US Congress overrides President Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

San Diego Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts announces his retirement after 15 seasons

Mar 25 NASA launches space vehicle S-206

Mar 25 Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money

American Janet Evans swims 1,500m freestyle female world record 15:52.10 in the USA Spring Nationals in Orlando, Florida

Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)

Mar 27 Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)

Mar 27 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)

Mar 27 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament

US Congress discontinues aid to Nicaraguan contras

Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy

Last East Limburg coal mine closes in Gent Belgium

Apr 3 NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time

Apr 3 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert

Apr 3 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

Eddie Hill becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds

Apr 4 Largest crowd (55,438) at an MLB Opening Day game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium; Reds win over St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4 in 12 innings

Apr 4 Last broadcast of British soap opera "Crossroads" on ITV

Apr 4 MLB New York Mets set Opening Day record with 6 HRs, in a 10-6 win over Expos at Montreal

African American polar explorer Matthew Henson buried next to Robert Peary in Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia

Apr 6 NJ Devils' 1st playoff game; lose to NY Islanders 4-3 (OT) in 1st round

Murderer of Gerrit Jan Heijns, Ferdi Elsas, arrested in the Netherlands

Apr 7 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

Apr 7 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

NHL New Jersey Devils win 3-0 over New York Islanders; Devils lead 2-1 in playoff 1st round

Apr 9 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama

Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet

Apr 10 Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2

Apr 11 Royal Concert building in Amsterdam reopens

Devils 4-2 over Islanders-Devils lead 3-2 in 1st round

Apr 12 Harvard University patents a genetically engineered mouse (1st for animal life)

Italian government of Ciriaco De Mita forms

NHL playoffs: New Jersey Devils win 6-5 over NY Islanders to take 1st round 4-2

Apr 14 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty

Meteorite explode above Indonesia

Ethiopian Belayneh Densimo runs world record marathon (2:06:50)

Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)

Apr 20 NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten

Apr 20 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians

Apr 20 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)

Barbra Streisand records "You'll Never Know"

NJ Devil Patrik Sundstrom sets NHL playoff record of 8 pts in a playoff game (hat trick & 5 assists) in 10-4 rout over the Capitals

Apr 22 Women are allowed to compete in Little 500 bicycle race (Indiana)

A Greek pedals self-powered aircraft, 74 miles

Apr 23 Federal smoking ban during domestic airline flights of 2 hrs or less

Apr 23 Karolina Szabo runs female world record 25k (1:29:30)/30k (1:47;06)

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Historical events from year 1988. Learn about 854 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1988 or search by date or keyword.

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Duckula, one of the best 80's cartoons burst onto our screens. Duckula was originally a villain on the Dangermouse cartoon but came into his own on this show.

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Seaweed is a talented dancer, like his younger sister, Inez. However, as he is black, he is discriminated due to his race and faces a lot of hardships. He is also a prominent dancer on an  event on the Corny Collins Show, which is hosted by his mother, "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs.

Despite the hardships he faces as a black American, in both films he is shown to be a kind and friendly person, who is quick to become pals with lead character Tracy Turnblad, whom he teaches how to dance. In both films, he becomes smitten with Tracy's best friend penny pingleton, who also reciprocates his feelings.

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Make up students done my make up inspired by 1960s Makeup picture

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Penny is a ditzy, socially-awkward teenage girl whose best friend is Tracy Turnblad. Both girls share a deep interest in the Corny Collins show, where they are seen rushing over to Tracy's house to watch in both films.

In the 1988 film, she tries to audition for the Corny Collins Show, but it denied due to her social-awkwardness. In the 2007 remake, she attends the record hop with Tracy, and in both films, she is seen rushing over to the Turnblad residence to show Tracy's parents their daughter's debut on the Corny Collins Show.

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Hairspray was based in 1960s but most of the clothing inspiration is from 1950s

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It's 1962 and teenagers Tracy Turnblad and her friend Penny Pingleton are avid Corny Collins fans. When the chance to dance on the show is publicized, Tracy jumps on the opportunity. Not only does her dancing skills attract Corny Collins, but also the attention of teen heartthrob Link Larkin. But not everyone is happy with Tracy's joining the show. The show's manager, Velma von Tussle, will do anything to oust Tracy, even if it has to include Tracy's friends Seaweed and Motormouth Maybelle.

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Hairspray - Broadway Musical - Original | IBDB

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Hairspray (Musical, Original) opened in New York City Aug 15, 2002 and played through Jan 4, 2009.

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BOOK Written my Thomas Meehan ,  Mark o’Donnell

MUSIC Writen by Marc shaiman

CATEGORY

Musical

GENRES
Comedy

TIME & PLACE

Baltimore, 1962

CAST SIZE

Medium

DANCING

Heavy

Casting Notes

Mostly Female Cast
Includes Early Teen, Late Teen, Adult, Young Adult Characters

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Hairspray lyrics. Soundtrack for musical, 2002. Complete OST song list, videos, music, description