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THEATERCALENDAR: Already running | September | October | November | December | Venues P-I Picks for Fall 2004 HAIRSPRAY: If you didn't see this delightful musical comedy when it premiered at the 5th Avenue Musical Theatre two years ago, here's your second chance to catch it. "Hairspray" is back at the 5th Avenue and plays there until Sept. 26. The show is a unique satire and celebration of 1960s music and mores as experienced by a plucky and chubby teen and her portly extra-stout mom. After its Seattle debut, the show went on to a sensational triumph on Broadway, where it is still running. WAXWINGS: Book-It Repertory Theatre has adapted Jonathan Raban's satire of the American dream and its dot-com component. A Hungarian-born British expatriate professor and a dashing Chinese immigrant alternately are dazzled and distressed by the joys of 1990s Seattle. "Waxwings" plays at the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Leo K Theatre Oct. 8-31. THE LION KING: As a visual spectacle, this musical stage adaptation of a popular Disney animated feature has been astonishing Broadway audiences for nearly seven years. Masks, puppets, live actors, scenery, costumes and lights combine to evoke an African savanna rife with animal pageantry. Then, also, there's a family values and good-vs.-evil fable element in the show. It plays the Paramount Theatre Dec. 3-Jan. 16. ON THE EDGEELECTION SHOW 2004: For all we know, people on Mars think that our electoral campaigns are hilarious. For us American Earthlings, however, the stakes in our presidential elections are too high to allow for much hilarity, the best efforts of Jon Stewart and "Saturday Night Live" not withstanding. But what if the stakes were zero, zilch? The answer to that question can be found at the Historic University Theatre, 5510 University Way, where improv comics stage bogus campaigns featuring bogus parties and bogus candidates. Platforms are selected by the audience. If one candidate promises a dog for every American while the other declares that every American will have help moving, the people's will rules. The audience also dictates attack ads, debate topics and scandals and eventually chooses the winning candidate. "Election Show 2004" opened last week and runs Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 through the end of October. Tickets: $10, $8 for students, $1 off with valid voter registration card; 206-325-6500 or www.wingitproductions.org -- Joe Adcock INSIDE SEATTLEPI.COM
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