HAIRSPRAY

Jo-Ann's Jottings

Yesterday I went to the musical "Hairspray" and enjoyed a totally delightful afternoon of upbeat song and dance. The show is set in Baltimore at a mythical TV dance club for high schoolers....(a la "Band Stand"). The time period was late '50s to 1962... and OH! what a memory jog it was.

I am always taken aback when I see things such as this, reflecting the time period of my gowing-up years... I had forgotten that I never saw a 'colored' person on Bandstand ... the days before desegregation...and that a teenage girl 'in the family way' was sent away to have her baby...the days before Roe v Wade.

How we have changed. For the good and the bad.