
At the party, Maybelle informs everyone that Velma has canceled "Negro Day" and Tracy suggests that they march for integration. Edna finds Tracy there and tries taking her home, but Maybelle convinces her to stay and tells her to take pride in herself ("Big, Blonde and Beautiful"). One afternoon when Tracy and Link are in detention, Seaweed invites the girls and Link to follow him and his sister Little Inez ( Taylor Parks) to a party at Maybelle's store ("Run and Tell That"). Tracy introduces Seaweed to Penny, and the two are smitten. Tracy persuades her agoraphobic mother, Edna, to accompany her to the boutique as her agent ("Welcome to the '60s"). Pinky suggests that Tracy be the spokesgirl for his Hefty Hideaway boutique. Tracy becomes one of Corny's most popular dancers, threatening Amber's chances of winning the show's yearly "Miss Teenage Hairspray" pageant ("The New Girl in Town") and her relationship with Link, as he grows fonder of Tracy. At a record hop, Tracy’s moves attract the attention of Corny Collins ("Ladies' Choice") and he chooses her to join the show ("The Nicest Kids in Town (Reprise)"). As Tracy leaves detention, she inadvertently bumps into Link and dreams of a life with him ("I Can Hear the Bells"). Tracy befriends Seaweed ( Elijah Kelley), the students' best dancer and Motormouth Maybelle's son, who teaches Tracy several dance moves. Tracy is sent to detention for skipping school and discovers the "Negro Day" kids practicing in the detention room. Tracy attends, but is rejected by Velma for being overweight and for supporting integration ("The Legend of Miss Baltimore Crabs"). One of the dancers on the show takes a leave of absence and auditions for a replacement are held. Corny Collins and the dancers on the show are white, and Velma only allows African-American kids on the show once a month on "Negro Day", hosted by R&B disc jockey Motormouth Maybelle. Amber’s mother, Velma, manages WYZT and makes sure Amber is prominently featured. The teenagers featured on the show attend Tracy and Penny's school, among them Amber von Tussle and her boyfriend Link Larkin, the lead male dancer. She and her classmate Penny Pingleton watch the The Corny Collins Show, a local teen dance television show, together ("The Nicest Kids in Town"). Tracy Turnblad is an overweight high school student living in Baltimore, Maryland ("Good Morning Baltimore"). 5.3 Washington Blade boycott controversy.4.2 (Screen to) stage to screen changes.USA Network purchased the broadcast rights to Hairspray and was scheduled to debut the film on cable television in February 2010, but in the end it did not broadcast that month, instead the film was pushed back and premiered on USA on July 24, 2010, with sister channel Bravo also showing it multiple times, and in February 2011 aired on ABC for over-the-air broadcasts. Available in a variety of formats, Hairspray 's Region 1 home video release took place on November 20, 2007. Hairspray went on to become the sixth highest grossing musical film in US cinema history, behind the film adaptations of Grease, Chicago, and Mamma Mia!, and stands as one of the most critically and commercially successful musical films of the last decade.
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Opening to critical acclaim, Hairspray met with financial success, breaking the record for biggest sales at opening weekend for a movie musical, which the film held until July 2008 when it was surpassed by Mamma Mia! and later High School Musical 3: Senior Year in October. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, as well as four new Shaiman/Wittman compositions not present in the original Broadway version.
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Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.Īdapted from both Waters' 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book for the stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the 2007 film version of Hairspray is directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman. Hairspray is a 2007 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name.
