Nothing puts the bop in big hair-do’s like a heaping helpin’ of hairspray. Central Piedmont Community College’s Summer Theatre department puts the product in its latest take-to-the-stage, Hairspray. Based off the hit Broadway musical and film set in ’60s Baltimore, the storyline zips through a turn of events involving Tracy Turnblad, an chuncky unpopular teen who becomes a TV sensation, heartthrob Link Larkin (see photo of the duo) and the truly talented trio of Dynamites. July 19, 7 p.m.; July 20-21, 7:30 p.m.; July 22-23, 8 p.m. CPCC (held in Pease Auditorium), 1200 Elizabeth Ave., Charlotte. 704-330-6534. arts.cpcc.edu/performing-arts/theatre.
This article appears in Jul 12-18, 2011.
