Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs ...

In 2012, the filmmaker John Waters, behaving as eccentrically as a character in one of his cult movies ("Hairspray," etc ... by phone about the resulting book: "Carsick" (Farrar, Straus Giroux ...

Hairspray (adapted from the 1988 John Waters ... Despite the love-me-please quality of the score and book - its high is more sugar rush than drug-induced - there was a slightly flat quality ...

Hairspray told the story of Tracy Turnblad, a “pleasantly plump” teenager in 1962 Baltimore who dreams of dancing on The Corny Collins Show. But she soon aims for the nobler goal of ...

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"It is women in jail—if you're doing John Waters you want to go to one of his favorite places," Mark O'Donnell, who co-wrote the Hairspray book with Thomas Meehan, laughed. "But we don't need it ...