Hairspray Cast Photos: Then And Now

Link Larkin

Matthew Morrison/Zac Efron/Garrett Clayton

Broadway’s original Link Larkin, the show’s teenage heartthrob, was a young actor named Matthew Morrison, who after major roles in Broadway’s “The Light in the Piazza” and “South Pacific” went on to play glee club director Will Schuester in six seasons of “Glee.” (In 2015 he returned to Broadway in “Finding Neverland.”) The movie musical cast real-life teen heartthrob Zac Efron, fresh off his breakout in the “High School Musical” franchise, to play Link, while Garrett Clayton, the dreamboat lead of another Disney Channel franchise, “Teen Beach Movie,” plays Link for NBC.

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