Leah Hocking is the Next Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 18, 2005
The actress, who will begin performances tonight, will first step in for Barbara Walsh (who will be busy with the Transport Group's musical Normal). Hocking will stay with the exuberant musical through November 13th. After Walsh wraps up her run with the show (from November 15th through December 4th), Hocking will once again put on the teased wig on December 6th.
Hocking last appeared on Broadway in the Elvis musical All Shook Up. Prior to that, she was seen in Dance of the Vampires, the Broadway production of The Wild Party (in which she originated the role of Mae), Jekyll and Hyde, Grease and Guys and Dolls. Off-Broadway, she starred in the musical comedy The Thing About Men, as well as in Forbidden Broadway and Inside Out.
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