Learn All About 'Hairspray Live!' Star Maddie Baillio With 10 Fun Facts!

Her First Ever Theater Role Was…

“I was first bit by the theatre bug when I was about ten years old. My mom enrolled me in children’s theatre, and we did The Wizard of Oz, and I wanted so badly to be Dorothy!” Maddie shares.

“They ended up casting me as Miss Gulch, who is [the woman in Kansas] before she [becomes] the Wicked Witch. But that’s when I first fell in love with theatre.”