The cast will also include Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short and “Dancing With the Stars” dancer Derek Hough. Maddie Baillio has performed at the President's Medal Dinner 2015 and our recent Scholarship Gala 2016 as well as our Annual Donor Dinner at the Lotos Club.Maddie’s on-screen mom will be played by original Broadway cast member and Tony-winner Harvey Fierstein. International Business Times: Who Is Maddie Baillio? ‘Hairspray Live!’ Casts Newcomer As Tracy Turnblad TODAY: Check out this video of Maddie finding out she got the role.Į! News: Maddie Baillio Is Tracy Turnblad in NBC’s Hairspray Live TheaterMania: Hairspray Live! Discovers Its Tracy Turnblad at an Open Call Playbill: Newcomer Maddie Baillio beat 1,000 competitors in an open call audition.īroadwayWorld: Meet Maddie! Watch HAIRSPRAY LIVE!’s Tracy Turnblad in Action! Playbill: What College Has Turned Out Stars of Hairspray Live!, The Book of Mormon, Shuffle Along and More? This rising junior at MMC was selected through an open casting call, beating out hopefuls at every round elimination, ultimately being chosen to don the big hair and 60’s fashion of Tracy Turnblad. The Marymount Manhattan College community has cheered on Maddie for her starring roles in Theatre Arts productions of Once Upon a Mattress and Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula, but now she’s dancing her way onto the big (small) screen for NBC’s Hairspray Live! The production will air live on NBC on December 7.

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