HAIRSPRAY marks the professional debut of seventeen-year-old NIKKI BLONSKY (Tracy Turnbald).

Nikki was born and raised in Great Neck, Long Island, New York. Although she graduated from the Great Neck Village School in January 2006, she received all her dramatic and musical training at the Great Neck SOuth High School, which is a four-time Grammy Foundation Signature School, with its most recent honor bestowed in 2005.

Nikki's high school performing credits include "Madame Tanardeau' in Les Miserables, 'Mrs. Lovett' in Sweeny Todd, 'Kate' in Kiss Me, Kate, 'Rebecca Hillicker' in The Laramie Project, and the title role in Bizet's Carmen, which was performed entirely in French.