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 ...

BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Thomas Meehan, who is best known for his books of such classics as Annie, The Producers and Hairspray, has passed away, we have learned from a former ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Comedy Hairspray took centre stage at the 2003 Tony Awards on Broadway, winning in eight categories, while British actor Vanessa Redgrave won her first award. The musical comedy about growing up ...

Comedy Hairspray took centre stage at the 2003 Tony Awards on Broadway, winning in eight categories, while British actor Vanessa Redgrave won her first award. The musical comedy about growing up in ...