By Mark O'Donnell, Thomas Meehan, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Based on the New line cinema movie by John Waters.
Australian impresario John Frost needs no convincing about the influence of Stage Whispers. He graciously bought me a house seat. Don't we all love freebees. Especially when the show is such a treat.
What makes Hairspray so fun is the most adorable characters are a fat girl Tracy Turnblad who wants to be a star on the Corny Collins TV show and her mother who is played by a drag Queen.
(Already the writers are salivating at the prospect that when it is one day staged in schools to play the best roles you will have to be overweight or like cross dressing.)
The pretty girl on the TV show is a spoilt brat. Tracy wins a spot on the show and wins the heart of the prettiest boy.
She gets there not by looks but by talent and with a lot of help from her black friends.
They teach her how to move and for her trouble she ends up in prison.
The music is very sweet, the dancing and hairstyles very cute.
They'll be singing Good Morning Baltimore for many years to come.