{"id":16708,"date":"2018-09-26T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=16708"},"modified":"2018-09-26T10:01:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T09:01:02","slug":"uplift-performing-arts-students-to-tease-up-their-hair-and-twist-and-shout-in-hairspray-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/09\/uplift-performing-arts-students-to-tease-up-their-hair-and-twist-and-shout-in-hairspray-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Uplift Performing Arts Students to Tease up Their Hair and Twist and Shout in Hairspray Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em>What Gives a Girl Power and Punch?\u00a0 Is it Charm? Is it Poise? No, it&#8217;s Hairspray! \u00a0<\/em>Join us<em> at <\/em>Theatre at The Mill on 4 &amp; 5 October<strong>, <\/strong>Hairdos and excitement will be on the rise with a lot of shaking and shimmying as local students from Uplift Performing Arts present their production of <em>Hairspray JR.<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16709 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/press2-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"640\" \/>The family-friendly show captures the spirit and turmoil of 1962 Baltimore through laughter, dance, romance and deliriously tuneful songs. The story follows Tracy Turnblad, a full-figured girl with full-figured hair and a big heart, who has only one passion \u2013 to dance.<\/p>\n<p>When her determination and rock \u2018n roll moves land her a spot on a local television dance program, &#8220;The Corny Collins Show,&#8221; she is transformed from an outsider to an irrepressible teen celebrity.<\/p>\n<p>This trendsetter in dance and fashion uses her fame to win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, challenge the program&#8217;s reigning princess Amber and rally against racial segregation\u2026 all without denting her &#8216;do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<em>Hairspray JR.<\/em> is a dynamic musical with an important message, that acceptance comes in all shapes, sizes and nationalities,\u201d<\/strong> Freddie Gershon, CEO of Music Theatre International (MTI).<\/p>\n<p>Uplift Performing Arts will present <em>Hairspray JR. <\/em>on 4 &amp; 5 October at 7.45pm at Theatre at The Mill.\u00a0 Tickets \u00a315 &amp; \u00a312 (Concessions) available from Box Office T: 028 9034 0202 or online @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatreatthemill.com\">theatreatthemill.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Gives a Girl Power and Punch?\u00a0 Is it Charm? Is it Poise? No, it&#8217;s Hairspray! \u00a0Join us at Theatre at The Mill on 4 &amp; 5 October, Hairdos and excitement will be on the rise with a lot of shaking and shimmying as local students from Uplift Performing Arts present their production of Hairspray &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2018\/09\/uplift-performing-arts-students-to-tease-up-their-hair-and-twist-and-shout-in-hairspray-jr\/\">Continued<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16711,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16708\/revisions\/16711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}