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 ...

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 ...

What: "Hairspray," book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. Co-production of Syracuse Stage and Syracuse University Department 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 ...

Then it was Hairspray. And the final one was when my book became a New York Times bestseller. CN: There's no part of you that is ever annoyed by how mainstream it became? JW: No! I love it.