Ricki Lake is thinking about one of her most iconic roles, as Hairspray’s Tracy Turnblad. In a TikTok video posted April 28, Lake, 56, shed some light on what she thinks Tracy — the plus-size, ...

Hairspray,” the musical version of John Waters’ 1988 cult comedy about segregation in the early 1960s, opened last week at the Scherr Forum Theatre in Thousand Oaks with a special surprise— the ...

Over the course of his filmmaking career, shock auteur John Waters has set and shot all his movies in his hometown of Baltimore. But he made an exception back in 1987 when he and cast members from ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The 2011 musical Hairspray, based on the 1988 film, tells the story of teen Tracy ...

Zac Efron didn't know it, but he had to rely on the popularity of Amanda Bynes in order to land his major role in this 2007 ...

Caroline Eiseman was just a toddler when “Hairspray” had its Broadway debut in 2002, becoming one of the biggest hit musicals of that decade. “I grew up watching the John Travolta and Zach Efron movie ...