The side handles are wrong but they do resemble GE camera handles, which makes these a mashup of “period appropriate” cameras. With a dozen plus cameras in use, many of them handheld and Steadicams moving in and out of scenes, shows like this are hard to direct, and occasionally things get a bit frantic, but Atlanta’s Kenny Leon (director), and his all pro crew did a masterful job on the production.Īs for the cast…BRAVO! Perfect in every way! The period/prop cameras are mock up RCA TK 11s…sort of. Live TV is live TV, and that is part of the electric atmosphere for the performers and 750 crew members. The addition of the live audience was a new twist too, and like it or not, it did give a little extra time between scenes for actors to be ferried from set to set on golf carts. Perhaps taking a cue from Fox’s live broadcast of “Grease” last winter, NBC did this show from two sound stages at their Universal Studios in LA, rather than the huge Grumman Studios in Long Island. This was NBC’s fourth venture into holiday event live musicals, but their first go at a broadcast with an audience and studio sets as opposed to a more traditional proscenium-style approach. “Hairspray Live!”…Bravo Again For Live Television!

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