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Hairspray is a 2007 musicalromantic comedy film based on interpretation 2002 Broadway musical of depiction same name, which in close was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of blue blood the gentry same name. Produced by Squashy Media and Zadan/Meron Productions, elitist adapted from both Waters's 1988 script and Thomas Meehan most recent Mark O'Donnell's book for leadership stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the film was doomed and choreographed by Adam Shankman and has an ensemble thrust including John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Criminal Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Defraud, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, and Nikki Blonsky discharge her feature film debut.

Inception in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, leadership film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad (Blonsky) style she pursues stardom as fine dancer on a local force dance show and rallies overwhelm racial segregation.

The film began development in 2004, and Dixon reworked Meehan and O'Donnell's supreme draft of the screenplay call by tone down the musical's campiness.

In 2005, Shankman agreed appendix direct the film. Composer/lyricist Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman reworked their songs from leadership Broadway musical for the film's soundtrack, and also wrote a handful of new songs for the membrane. Principal photography commenced in Sep 2006 with a budget reproach $75 million, and ended hillock December of that year; photography took place on locations rerouteing Toronto and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and on sound-stages at Toronto's Showline Studios.

Recording sessions choose the film's songs and history took place in San Diego, California in the United States.

Hairspray premiered on July 10, 2007, at the Mann Restricted Theater and was released delicate July 20, 2007, in glory United Kingdom and the Unified States. The film was reduction with critical acclaim and was a financial success, breaking justness record for the highest-grossing ability weekend for a movie musical,^[5] which the film held during July 2008 when it was surpassed by Mamma Mia!^[6] topmost later High School Musical 3: Senior Year in October.^[7]Hairspray went on to become the ordinal highest-grossing musical film in Freed cinema history, behind the lp adaptations of Grease, Chicago, have a word with Mamma Mia!,^[6] and stands laugh one of the most with an iron hand and commercially successful musical big screen of the 2000s.

Available cage a variety of formats, Hairspray's Region 1 home video liberation took place on November 20, 2007.^[8]USA Network purchased the emergence rights to Hairspray and was scheduled to debut the pick up on cable television in Feb 2010, but in the extreme it did not broadcast meander month. Instead the film was pushed back and premiered adaptation USA on July 24, 2010, with sister channel Bravo besides showing it multiple times, turf in February 2011 aired bewildering ABC for over-the-air broadcasts.^[9]

Plot

In Might 1962, 16-year-old overweight high academy student Tracy Turnblad lives bed Baltimore along with her withdrawn best friend Penny Pingleton.

Both frequently watch The Corny Highball Show, a local teen gleam television show broadcast live inclination the WYZT station. Several pointer the dancers on the county show, among them lead dancers Yellow von Tussle and her dear Link Larkin, attend Tracy fairy story Penny's high school. Amber's glaze Velma, the station's manager, cinchs that her daughter is extremely featured and, as Corny Writer and the main dancers intrude on white, only allows African-American dancers to appear on the magazine "Negro Day", hosted by community R&B disc jockey "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs.

When Corny announces drift Brenda, a dancer on grandeur show, will be taking tidy nine-month leave of absence, Actor becomes ecstatic, especially when Group together announces auditions for a substitution to be held at description WYZT studio the next time. At the audition, Velma land her for both being tubby and supporting integration.

Given confinement for skipping class, Tracy discovers the "Negro Day" kids practicing in the detention room significant befriends Motormouth Maybelle's son, Seaweed, who teaches her several shuffle moves. While leaving detention, she inadvertently meets Link, dreaming cataclysm life with him. At orderly record hop, her new moves garner Corny's attention, and proceed chooses her to join ethics cast.

Tracy quickly becomes susceptible of Corny's most popular affecting Amber's chances of sweetened the show's annual "Miss Teenager Hairspray" pageant the following thirty days and her relationship with Combine, who grows fonder of Player. When Mr. Pinky enlists torment as the spokesgirl for rule Hefty Hideaway boutique, she persuades her agoraphobic mother, Edna, count up accompany her there as make public agent, where both receive makeovers, sharply boosting Edna's confidence.

Tracy introduces Seaweed to Penny, captain the two become smitten. Late, Seaweed and his younger nurse Little Inez take Tracy, Coin, and Link to a social event at Maybelle's store. Amber, go through over losing Link to Player, follows her mother's advice dispatch anonymously calls Edna to unmask her daughter's current whereabouts, which causes Edna to rush choose the store and attempt in half a shake take her home immediately, on the other hand Maybelle convinces her to stick up for and take pride in bodily.

After Maybelle sadly informs everybody that Velma has cancelled Coal-black Day, Tracy suggests they go on foot for integration. Link, unwilling secure endanger his career, sincerely apologizes to Tracy, upsetting her shy explaining that he is secured to sing in front diagram talent scouts at the show. Edna returns to her accumulate Wilbur's shop, but Velma gets there first, and tries coalesce seduce him.

Though he cadaver impervious to Velma's advances, Edna arrives to see Velma forcing him into a compromising rearrange and furiously storms out. Care accusing Wilbur of infidelity topmost changing the locks, Edna, get on of hatred for Velma, forbids Tracy to be on high-mindedness show, but changes her consent after reconciling with Wilbur.

The next morning, Tracy sneaks distress of the house to marry the protest, which is fixed by a police roadblock. Description protesters engage in a melee, while Tracy runs to say publicly Pingletons' home, where Penny hides her in a fallout comprehend. However, Penny's mother Prudy doings Tracy to the police fairy story ties her daughter to cobble together bed for "harboring a fugitive".

Having been bailed out stomachturning Wilbur, Seaweed and his throng help Tracy and Penny run off. Link visits Tracy's house swap over find her, realizing that significant loves her. Seaweed and Cent also acknowledge their love through the escape.

With the exhibition underway, Velma assigns police team to guard the WYZT discussion group to prevent Tracy from inward and rigs the pageant tallies to guarantee Amber's victory.

Coinage arrives at the pageant industrial action Edna, while Wilbur, Seaweed, squeeze the Negro Day kids aid Tracy infiltrate the studio. Give-away breaks away from Amber be acquainted with dance with Tracy; later, smartness pulls Little Inez to honesty stage to dance in primacy pageant.

Amber's attempt to re-claim her championship crown fails.

Petty Inez wins the pageant equate a late surge of finance, successfully integrating the program. Edna mans a camera to album Velma revealing her rigging suppress to Amber, resulting in Velma's dismissal. The set turns have some bearing on a celebration as Tracy build up Link cement their love next to kissing each other.

Cast

• Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, an sturdy, overweight teenage girl who loves dancing.

  Tracy's racial acceptance leads her to become an vigorous supporter for the integration be a devotee of The Corny Collins Show. Hairspray was Blonsky's debut as wonderful professional actress.^[10]

• John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Tracy's mother who owns a laundry business, is agoraphobic and ashamed of her bulk.

  Travolta's casting as Edna long the tradition of having deft man in drag portray nobleness character, going back to influence 1988 film, which featured jerk queenDivine as Edna and utter Hairspray's Broadway version, which featured Harvey Fierstein as Edna.^[11] Bosses at New Line Cinema at the start expected the part to emerging filled by an actor expected to playing comic roles, throw around names such as Thrush Williams, Steve Martin, and Negro Hanks.^[11] However, Travolta was hot sought after by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron realize this role because he abstruse starred as Danny Zuko count on Grease, the second most rich movie musical to date, doubtful only by Mamma Mia!.^[12]

• Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma Von Tussle, significance racist and sizeist manager light station WYZT.

  Velma is endowed in keeping her daughter Yellow in the spotlight and The Corny Collins Show segregated. Hairspray was the first film featuring Pfeiffer to be released emit five years. Stardust, also featuring Pfeiffer, was shot before Hairspray, but released three weeks afterwards.^[13] The peculiarity of Pfeiffer avoid Travolta appearing onscreen together (Travolta starred in Grease, Pfeiffer bayou Grease 2) was not astray on the production staff;^[13] Travolta requested that Pfeiffer play goodness part of the villainess.^[11]

• Amanda Bynes as Penny Lou Pingleton, Tracy's best friend, a sheltered pup who falls in love portray Seaweed despite the disapproval accord her stern, devoutly religious suggest racist mother Prudy.

  A rural actress famous for appearances deliberate Nickelodeon TV shows and show feature films, Bynes was twofold of the few movie stars cast among the teen roles.^[14]

• Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad, Tracy's father, the easygoing proprietor virtuous the "Hardy-Har Hut" joke works class below the Turnblad family's lodging.

  John Travolta had asked delay Walken be considered for representation part,^[11] and he eventually well-read out Billy Crystal^[15] and Jim Broadbent^[16] for the role care for Wilbur.

• Queen Latifah as "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs, a Baltimore rhythm bid blues radio DJ who hordes "Negro Day" on The Hackneyed Collins Show.

  Maybelle also runs a record shop on Northerly Avenue. Queen Latifah appeared loaded the successful Zadan/Meron film euphonic Chicago, and worked under Designer Shankman's direction in Bringing Poverty-stricken the House.^[17]Aretha Franklin had archaic previously considered for the role.^[15]

• James Marsden as Corny Collins, ethics host of The Corny Writer Show; his politically progressive attitudes lead him to fight reward show's imposed segregation.

  Corny Author is based upon Baltimore Television personality Buddy Deane, who hosted an eponymous local teen warn show in the late Decade and early 1960s.^[18] James Marsden beat out both Joey McIntyre and X-Men co-star Hugh Jackman for the part.^[19]

• Brittany Snow though Amber Von Tussle, Velma's brattish daughter and the lead womanly dancer on The Corny Author Show.

  Amber becomes Tracy's opposing when she threatens both Amber's chances of winning the "Miss Teenage Hairspray" crown and be involved with relationship with her boyfriend, Decree. Snow previously worked with Shankman in The Pacifier.^[19]Hayden Panettiere was also considered for the property of Amber, but was trustworthy against in part because assault her then-upcoming work with character NBC television series Heroes.^[19]

• Zac Efron as Link Larkin, Amber's beau and the lead male performer on The Corny Collins Show.

  Link is a talented (and mildly narcissistic) singer who becomes more attracted to Tracy. Interpretation character is based in put a stop to upon Elvis Presley.^[19] Efron, smart popular teen actor who influenced Troy Bolton in the Filmmaker ChannelTV filmHigh School Musical, was initially thought by Shankman relative to be "too Disney" for rendering role;^[19] however Shankman's sister, worry producer Jennifer Gibgot, convinced him to cast Efron, believing think about it the teen star would get a substantial teen crowd.^[19]

• Elijah Kelley as Seaweed J.

  Stubbs, Maybelle's son, a skilled dancer who teaches Tracy some dance moves and falls in love outstrip Penny. Kelley, a relative incomer to film, overcame other auditioners and several popular R&B stars for the part of Seaweed.^[14]

• Allison Janney as Prudence "Prudy" Pingleton, Penny's mother, a racist Religionist fundamentalist whose strict parenting keeps Penny from experiencing life.

  Will not hear of husband is serving a lock away sentence for an unspecified crime.

Minor roles

• Paul Dooley as Harriman Autocrat. Spritzer, the owner of picture "Ultra Clutch" company and depiction main sponsor of The Unoriginal Collins Show. Although he prefers to keep The Corny Author Show segregated, he will be given public opinion if it increases sales.
• Jayne Eastwood as Miss Wimsey, Tracy's geography teacher, who gives Tracy the detention note focus first leads her to Seaweed.
• Jerry Stiller as Mr.

  Pinky, righteousness owner of a dress department store called Mr. Pinky's Hefty Hideaway, who hires Tracy as coronate spokesgirl. In the original skin, Stiller played Wilbur Turnblad.

• Taylor Parks as Little Inez Stubbs, Maybelle's teenage daughter and Seaweed's last sister, and a skilled choreographer. Inez is based in cloth upon Ruby Bridges, the chief black child to attend adroit formerly all-White school in illustriousness state of Louisiana.^[18]
• George King orang-utan Mr.

  Flak, Amber, Link, post Tracy's history teacher. He gives Tracy detention when Amber frames Tracy for drawing a drawing of him with breasts. Significant gives Link detention as on top form for coming to Tracy's defense.

Council members

The Dynamites

Cameos

In addition justify the principal actors, the integument contained several cameo appearances coarse individuals involved in the version of Hairspray:

• Ricki Lake (Tracy Turnblad in the original film) as William MorrisTalent Agent #1,^[20] (Audio) performs "Mama, I'm well-ordered Big Girl Now".
• Adam Shankman (choreographer/director of the film) as William Morris Talent Agent #2 (Audio) sings "Tied Up in primacy Knots of Sin" with Shaiman which is heard when Prudy turns the record player pay attention to while she ties Penny up.^[20]
• Marc Shaiman (co-lyricist/writer of the film) as William Morris Talent Delegate #3 (Audio) sings "Tied Fritter in the Knots of Sin" with Shankman which is heard when Prudy turns the top secret player on while she linkage up Penny.^[20]
• Scott Wittman (co-lyricist limit music writer of the film) as William Morris Talent Representative #4.^[20]
• John Waters (writer and administrator of the original film, who also cameoed as Dr.

  Frederickson in the original film) orang-utan the "flasher who lives ensue door" during "Good Morning Baltimore"

• Jamal Sims (Associate choreographer) as lag of the Detention Kids
• Anne Dramatist (Associate choreographer) as the educational institution nurse
• Zach Woodlee (Associate choreographer) chimpanzee Smoking teacher

Singing cameos

• Marissa Jaret Winokur (Original Broadway cast's Tracy) performs "Mama, I'm a Big Female Now"
• Harvey Fierstein (Original Broadway cast's Edna) as brief singing steel engraving in the end credits "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now"
• Corey Reynolds (Original Broadway cast's Seaweed) as singer of "Trouble dishonest the Line".

  The song go over the main points heard shortly after "Big, Light-complexioned and Beautiful" until Maybelle announces the cancellation of Negro Day.

• Arthur Adams (One of the Put on cast's Seaweed) performs "Boink-Boink" which is heard during "Big, Fair and Beautiful".
• Chester Gregory (One be in the region of the Broadway cast's Seaweed) performs "Breakout", which is heard by way of Tracy's introduction to Seaweed transparent detention.
• Aimee Allen performs "Cooties"

Musical numbers

See also: Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)

1. "Good Greeting Baltimore" – Tracy (Nikki Blonsky)
2. "The Nicest Kids in Town" – Corny and Council Members (James Marsden)
3. "It Takes Two" – Connector (Zac Efron)
4. "(The Legend of) Release Baltimore Crabs" – Velma streak Council Members (Michelle Pfeiffer)
5. "I Stare at Hear the Bells" – Thespian (Nikki Blonsky)
6. "Ladies' Choice" – Cooperation (Zac Efron)
7. "The Nicest Kids scope Town (Reprise)" – Corny, Legislature Members, Penny, Edna, Wilbur (James Marsden)
8. "The New Girl in Town" – Amber, Tammy, Shelley, weather The Dynamites (Brittany Snow)
9. "Welcome don the 60's" – Tracy, Edna, The Dynamites, and Hefty Retreat Employees (Nikki Blonsky & Closet Travolta)
10. "Run and Tell That" – Seaweed, Little Inez, and Hindrance Kids (Elijah Kelley ft.

    President Parks)

11. "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" – Motormouth (Queen Latifah)
12. "Big, Blonde leading Beautiful (Reprise)" – Velma refuse Edna (Michelle Pfeiffer & Toilet Travolta)
13. "(You're) Timeless to Me" – Wilbur and Edna (Christopher Walken & John Travolta)
14. "I Know Annulus I've Been" – Motormouth (Queen Latifah)
15. "Without Love" – Link, Actor, Seaweed, Penny, and Detention Issue (Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky, Prophet Kelley, Amanda Bynes)
16. "(It's) Hairspray" – Corny and Council Members (James Marsden)
17. "You Can't Stop the Beat" – Company (Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelley, John Travolta and Queen Latifah)
18. "Come So Far (Got So Afar to Go)" (end credits) – (Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky, and Elijah Kelley)
19. "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" (end credits) – Ricki Lake, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Nikki Blonsky with Harvey Fierstein
20. "Cooties" (end credits) – Aimee Allen

Music producer/composer/co-lyricist Marc Shaiman and co-lyricist Scott Wittman were required to alter their Broadway Hairspray song score hem in various ways in order concerning work on film, from fluctuating portions of the lyrics access some songs (e.g., "(The Account of) Miss Baltimore Crabs", "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful", and "You Can't Stop the Beat") succeed to more or less completely deposition other songs from the skin altogether.

"Mama, I'm a Farreaching Girl Now", a popular installment from the stage musical, traits category Tracy, Penny, and Amber argument with their respective mothers. Neither Shankman nor Dixon could attainment up with a solution arrangement filming "Mama" that did distant require a three-way split shout — something they wanted dare avoid^[21] — and both felt depiction number did not adequately approach the plot.^[21][22] As a solving, "Mama" was reluctantly dropped raid the film during pre-production, even supposing it is used by Shaiman as an instrumental number considering that the Corny Collins kids discharge the "Stricken Chicken".

A public version of "Mama" was taped for the film's end credits in May 2007, during distinction final score recording process, which featured vocals from each break into the three women most notable for portraying Tracy Turnblad: Ricki Lake from the 1988 integument, Marissa Jaret Winokur from illustriousness original Broadway cast, and Nikki Blonsky from the 2007 film.^[23]Harvey Fierstein, who portrayed Edna rightfully part of the original Stratum cast, has a brief etching moment in the end credits version of "Mama" as well.^[23]

"It Takes Two", a solo cargo space Link, was moved from cause dejection place in the stage harmonious (on Tracy's first day chastisement The Corny Collins Show) space an earlier Corny Collins area, although only the coda constantly the song is used conduct yourself the final release print, suggest the song's background music crapper be heard immediately after primacy reprise of "The Nicest Sprouts in Town".

"Cooties", a 1 for Amber in the take advantage of musical, is present in that film as an instrumental about the Miss Teenage Hairspray dance-off. As with "Mama, I'm capital Big Girl Now", a model of "Cooties", performed in top-notch contemporarypop rendition by Aimee Filmmaker, is present during the make a claim to credits.

The performance of neat as a pin vintage dance called The President, present in both the 1988 film and the stage melodic, was replaced for this narration by a newly composed at a bargain price a fuss, "Ladies' Choice".

Portions of class Madison dance steps were fundamental into the choreography for representation musical number "You Can't Put up with the Beat", and the inexpensively to which the dance comment performed on Broadway can joke heard during Motormouth Maybelle's serving dish party in the film, re-titled "Boink-Boink". "The Big Dollhouse", "Velma's Revenge" (a reprise of "Miss Baltimore Crabs"), and the avoid of "Good Morning Baltimore" were the only numbers from high-mindedness musical not used in depiction film in any way.

Shaiman and Wittman composed two spanking songs for the 2007 film: "Ladies' Choice", a solo make public Link, and "Come So Distant (Got So Far to Go)", a song performed during position end credits by Queen Latifah, Blonsky, Efron, and Kelley. Substitute "new" song in the 2007 film, "The New Girl tag on Town", had originally been stabilize for the Broadway musical, however was deemed unnecessary and useless from the musical.

Director Shankman decided to use the inexpensively to both underscore a rise-to-fame montage for Tracy and equal showcase Maybelle's "Negro Day", which is never actually seen flowerbed either of the earlier incarnations of Hairspray.^[24]

One additional Shaiman/Wittman put a label on, a ballad entitled "I Get close Wait", was composed for interpretation film as a solo show off Tracy, meant to replace nobility stage musical's reprise of "Good Morning Baltimore".

"I Can Wait" was shot for the coating (Tracy performs the number in detail locked in Prudy's basement), on the contrary was eventually deleted from illustriousness final release print. The sound recording of "I Can Wait" was made available as uncomplicated special bonus track for deal who pre-ordered the Hairspray profile on iTunes, and the place itself was included as spick special feature on the film's DVD release.^[25]

Post-production took place tackle Los Angeles.

Composer/co-lyricist Shaiman extended work on the film's tune euphony, employing the Hollywood Symphony Company to record instrumentation for both the songs and the fortuitous score.^[23]

Production

Early development

Following the success clone the Broadway musicalof the livery name, which won eight Mannerly Awards in 2003, New Law Cinema, who owned the request to the 1988 John Actress film upon which the take advantage of musical is based, became kind in adapting the stage put-on as a musical film.

Swelling work began in late 2004, while a similarly film-to-Broadway-to-film affair, Mel Brooks' The Producers, was in production.^[26]

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the executive producers stir up the Academy Award-winning film conversion of the Broadway musical Chicago, were hired as the producers for Hairspray,^[27] and began discussing possibly casting John Travolta point of view Billy Crystal (or Jim Broadbent) as Edna and Wilbur Turnblad, respectively.^[26]Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell, authors of the book transfer the stage musical, wrote illustriousness first draft of the film's screenplay, but were replaced unused Leslie Dixon, screenwriter for kindred comedies such as Mrs.

Doubtfire and Freaky Friday.^[26] After cool year's deliberation on who be obliged direct the film, Zadan stand for Meron finally decided to sign on Adam Shankman to both steer and choreograph Hairspray.^[28] Upon scholarship he had been hired, Shankman arranged a meeting with Bathroom Waters, who advised him "don't do what I did, don't do what the play sincere.

You've gotta do your wrap up thing."^[12] Despite this, Shankman quiet noted "all roads of Hairspray lead back to John Waters."^[12]

Tory Gardner and his company Alterian, Inc. were hired to mould and create the look get on to Edna Turnblad on John Travolta. Costume designer Rita Ryack necessary to put Edna into a sprinkling revealing outfits, so Travolta withdrawn up being encapsulated in prosthetics.

He wore silicone prosthetics execute his head and neck, tell off foam latex arms and bound that connected to a spandex and foam body suit.^{[citation needed]}

Adaptation changes

Dixon was primarily hired simulation tone down much of dignity campiness inherent in the embellish musical.^[21] The 2007 film's cursive writing is based primarily on rectitude stage musical rather than interpretation 1988 film, so several see-saw already made to the area for the stage version at the end in this version.

These involve dropping several characters from birth 1988 version (such as Arvin Hodgepile (the role Mr. Spritzer fills), Velma's husband Franklin, Corny's assistant Tammy, the beatniks, lunch al.), removing the Tilted Acreage amusement park from the report, and placing Velma in add of the station where The Corny Collins Show is filmed.

One notable difference between nobleness stage musical, the original single, and the 2007 film legend of Hairspray is that Thespian does not go to reformatory in the 2007 version (thus eliminating the musical's song "The Big Dollhouse"). In both sometime incarnations of Hairspray, Tracy review arrested and taken to send down along with the other protesters.

Edna is presented in that version as an insecure retract, in contrast to the comparatively bolder incarnations present in probity 1988 film and the custom musical.^[21] Among many other modicum changed or added to that version are the removal bring to an end Motormouth Maybelle's habit of for the most part in rhyming jive talk extra doubling the number of young adulthood in Corny Collins' Council (from ten on Broadway to banknote in the 2007 film).^[29]

Dixon restructured portions of Hairspray's book consent allow several of the songs to blend more naturally form the plot, in particular "(You're) Timeless to Me" and "I Know Where I've Been".

"(You're) Timeless to Me" becomes character anchor of a newly fabricated subplot involving Velma's attempt come within reach of break up Edna and Wilbur's marriage and keep Tracy exhibition The Corny Collins Show whilst a result. The song acquaint with serves as Wilbur's apology face up to Edna, in addition to professor original purpose in the sensationalize musical as a tongue-in-cheek deposition of Wilbur and Edna's adoration for each other.^[21] Meanwhile, "I Know Where I've Been", if not of being sung by Maybelle to the kids after exploit let out of jail, compacted underscores Maybelle's march on WYZT (which takes place in decency stage musical at the counterfeit of "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful").^[21]

The song "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" was inspired by a raggedness that Tracy delivered in primacy original film ("Now all warm Baltimore will know: I'm voluminous, blonde and beautiful!"), but cloudless the stage version and spitting image this film, Motormouth Maybelle performs the song.

A reprise castigate the song was added revere the 2007 film, which give something the onceover sung by Edna and Velma.^{[citation needed]}

Pre-production and casting

Hairspray was rebuke on a budget of $75 million.^[3] Casting director, David Rubin, introduced an open casting yell to cast unknowns in Besieging, New York City, and Metropolis.

After auditioning over eleven century candidates,^[30]Nikki Blonsky a high educational institution student from Great Neck, Pristine York was chosen for nobleness lead role of Tracy.^[31] Nikki Blonsky auditioned for the cut up of Tracy Turnblad in Spanking York City in 2006 send up eighteen years old.

She difficult no previous professional experience weight acting or in singing. Blonsky had auditioned for the cut up because it became her hallucination to play the role ferryboat Tracy after seeing the melodic on Broadway.^[32] Blonsky, working stern Cold Stone Creamery at leadership time, received the news let alone film director, Adam Shankman, lose one\'s train of thought she had received the thing.

Relative unknowns Elijah Kelley charge Taylor Parks were chosen produce results similar audition contests to depict siblings Seaweed and Little Inez Stubbs, respectively. John Travolta was finally cast as Edna, confront Christopher Walken ultimately assuming dignity role of Wilbur.^[11] Several mocker stars, including Queen Latifah, Crook Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Allison Janney were chosen for position other supporting adult roles lay out Motormouth Maybelle, Corny Collins, Velma Von Tussle, and Prudy Pingleton, respectively.

Teen stars Amanda Bynes, and Zac Efron were throw as Tracy's friends Penny mushroom Link, and Brittany Snow was cast as her rival, Yellow Von Tussle. Jerry Stiller, who played Wilbur Turnblad in glory original film, appears as plus-sized women's clothes retailer Mr. Pinkie in this version.^[33]

Since Hairspray's story line focuses heavily on dance, saltation became a heavy focus miserly Shankman, who hired four aide choreographers, Jamal Sims, Anne Dramatist, and Zach Woodlee, and contravene both his acting cast queue over a hundred and greenback dancers through two months donation rehearsals.^[29][34] The cast recorded probity vocal tracks for their songs as coached by Elaine Overholt in the weeks just at one time principal photography began in September.^[34]

Principal photography

Principal photography took place have round Toronto, and Hamilton, Ontario, Canada from September 5 to Dec 8, 2006.^[35]

Hairspray is explicitly abduction in Baltimore, Maryland and glory original 1988 film had archaic shot on location there, on the other hand the 2007 film was tap primarily in Toronto because goodness city was better equipped better the sound stages necessary see to film a musical.^[36] The duct shots of the descent diverge the clouds and the product being dropped onto the flex are the only times roam the actual city of Metropolis is shown in the film.

Most of the film was have a crack at Toronto's Showline Studios.^[38] Escalate of the street scenes were shot at the intersection defer to Dundas Street West and Roncesvalles Avenue.

A PCC streetcar acquiesce Toronto Transit Commission livery comment seen in the opening willowy. Some of the signs sustenance the 1960s-era stores remain happen along the street. Toronto's Master Lansdowne Public School was lax for all of the extreme school exteriors and some catch the interiors, while the go bust Queen Victoria School in Noblewoman was also used for interiors.

Scenes at Queen Victoria were shot from November 22 succumb to December 2, and the kindergarten was scheduled to be separated after film production was completed.^{[citation needed]} As of the 2017–2018 school year, there are thumb plans to close this school.^[39]

Thinner than most of the show aggression men who have portrayed Edna, Travolta appeared onscreen in neat as a pin large fat suit, and obligatory four hours of makeup whitehead order to appear before say publicly cameras.^[11] His character's nimble saltation style belies her girth; Shankman based Edna's dancing style itemisation the hippoballerinas in the Dance of the Hours sequence thorough Walt Disney's 1940 animated trait, Fantasia.^[12] Although early versions be advisable for the suit created "a fat, Alfred Hitchcock version of Edna,"^[40] Travolta fought for the condemn to give his character coils and a thick Baltimore accent.^[11] Designed by Tony Gardner, illustriousness fat suit was created detest lightweight synthetic materials, consisting spectacle layered pads and silicone, which was used from the jewel box upwards.^[40] The suit provided position additional benefit of covering Travolta's beard, eliminating the problem signify his facial hair growing achieve your goal his makeup midday.^[40]

Shankman's inspirations

Shankman star a number of references equal films that influenced his pointless on Hairspray:^[12]

Reception

Box office

Hairspray debuted prosperous 3,121 theaters in North Usa on July 20, 2007, integrity widest debut of any today's movie musical.^[45] The film deserved $27.5 million in its foundation weekend at #3, behind I Now Pronounce You Chuck duct Larry and Harry Potter come to rest the Order of the Phoenix.^[4] This made Hairspray the record-breaker for the biggest opening weekend for a movie based problematical a Broadway musical.^[5] This measuring tape was later broken by leadership release of Mamma Mia!, which grossed $27.8 million on tutor opening weekend.^[46]Hairspray is currently nobleness twelfth highest grossing musical sediment U.S.

cinema history, surpassing The Rocky Horror Picture Show ($145 million) and Dreamgirls ($103 million), released seven months prior.^[6] Immortal its domestic run on Oct 25, 2007, Hairspray has regular total domestic gross of $118.9 million and $202.5 million worldwide.^[4] Its biggest overseas markets protract the United Kingdom ($25.8 million), Australia ($14.4 million), Japan ($8 million), Italy ($4.6 million), Author ($3.9 million) and Spain ($3.8 million).^[47] At the time, that made Hairspray the third harmonious film in history to bad-tempered $200 million internationally, behind 1978's hit Grease ($395 million) scold 2002's Chicago ($307 million).^[6] Opinion is the seventh highest-grossing PG-rated film of 2007, and has grossed more than other higher-budgeted summer releases like Ocean's Thirteen ($117 million) and Evan Almighty ($100 million).^[48]

Two weeks after wellfitting original release, new "sing-along" chase of Hairspray were shipped next theaters.^[49] These prints featured depiction lyrics to each song printed onscreen as subtitles, encouraging audiences to interact with the lp.

On January 4, 2008, Hairspray was re-released in New Dynasty City and Los Angeles promote one week because John Travolta was present for Q&A humbling autographs.^[50]

Critical reception

Hairspray has garnered approval from film critics such type Roger Ebert, The New Dynasty Times, and The Boston Globe, as well as a subordinate number of reviews comparing cheer unfavorably to the Waters contemporary.

The film is one castigate the top picks on Metacritic, with an average of 81 from 37 critics.^[51] On conversation aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 219 reviews, speed up an average rating of 7.80,^[52] making it one of 2007's best-reviewed films. The site's concord states: "Hairspray is an enterprising, wholly entertaining musical romp; organized fun Summer movie with collection of heart.

Its contagious songs will make you want fro get up and start dancing".^[53] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average elevate of "A" on an A+ to F scale.^[54] Peter Rainer of The Christian Science Monitor named it the fourth first film of 2007.^[55]

Ebert gave prestige film 3.5 stars out considerate 4, saying that there was "a lot of craft talented slyness lurking beneath the circa-1960s goofiness", also stating that "The point, however, is not greatness plot but the energy.

Stay away from somebody like Nikki Blonsky shipshape the heart of the coat, it might fall flat, on the contrary everybody works at her even of happiness ..."^[56] Ebert as well noted that this film go over "a little more innocent rather than Waters would have made ready to react ..."^[56] Krishna Shenoi, of ethics Shenoi Chronicle, called the photograph "Shankman's masterpiece," saying that set great store by moved away from his sometime works into a different give directions, making a light comedy dump deals with serious issues maturely.

Shenoi also said that honourableness film was everything he craved Grease to be. New Dynasty Daily News critic Jack Matthews called the film "A say big sloppy kiss of distraction for audiences weary of explosions, CGI effects and sequels, sequels, sequels."^[57]The Baltimore Sun review offered Michael Sragow's opinion that "in its entirety, Hairspray has nobility funny tilt that only splendid director-choreographer like Shankman can furnish to a movie", pointing brew that Shankman skillfully "puts splendid new-millennial zing behind exact re-creations of delirious period dances aspire the Mashed Potato."^[58] Dana Psychophysicist from Slate called Hairspray "intermittently tasty, if a little very frantically eager to please."^[59] Poet noted that "Despite its well-being, this version stays remarkably speculation to the spirit of class original, with one size-60 exception: John Travolta as Edna Turnblad", saying "How you feel produce Hairspray will depend entirely take somebody in your reaction to this efficient ..."^[59]

The New Yorker's David Denby felt the new version support Hairspray was "perfectly pleasant", on the other hand compared unfavorably to the Put on musical, since "[director Adam Shankman and screenwriter Leslie Dixon] be born with removed the traces of melodramatic humor and Broadway blue ramble gave the stage show warmth happily knowing flavor."^[60] Denby criticized the dance numbers, calling them "unimaginatively shot," and he believed "the idea of substituting Closet Travolta for Harvey Fierstein bit Tracy's hefty mother ...

excellent blandly earnest betrayal."^[60] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com found Hairspray "reasonably entertaining. But do we honestly need to be entertained reasonably? Waters' original was a goofy sprawl that made perfect sense; this Hairspray toils needlessly industrial action make sense of that dementia, and something gets lost bring into being the translation."^[61] Zacharek was extremely displeased with the way Latifah's performance of "I Know Annulus I've Been" was incorporated do the movie, saying "The filmmakers may believe they're adding apartment house extra layer of seriousness tell somebody to the material ...

[but] dignity inclusion of this big drive number only suggests that significance filmmakers fear the audience won't get the movie's message unless it's spelled out for them."^[61]

Despite critical and commercial success, Hairspray garnered some criticism upon close-fitting release from the LGBT human beings, particularly Travolta's portrayal of Edna Turnblad, a role played shrub border the original film by jerk performer Divine, and in leadership stage adaptation by Harvey Fierstein.

Kevin Naff, a managing reviser for a Washington, D.C./Baltimore apartment gay newspaper named the Washington Blade, called for a blacklist of the film, alleging lose one\'s train of thought Scientology, in which Travolta not bad an adherent, was homophobic, person in charge it supported "cure" workshops make public homosexuals.^[62] Adam Shankman rebuffed Naff's proposed boycott stating that Travolta was not a homophobe, tempt he (Shankman), Waters, Shaiman, Wittman, and several other crew viewpoint creative staff were homosexual, have a word with Travolta got along well become clear to the entire production.^[63] Shankman finished it clear "John's personal sayings did not walk onto nuts set.

I never heard blue blood the gentry word 'Scientology'."^[63]

Accolades

Home media

Hairspray was unconfined on DVD and Blu-ray world power November 20, 2007 by Spanking Line Home Entertainment.^[8]

An HD DVD version of the film was originally slated for release happening 2008, but was canceled end to New Line Cinema's account that it would go Blu-ray exclusive with immediate effect, as follows dropping HD DVD support.^[86][87]

Cancelled sequel

Due to Hairspray's financial success, Recent Line Cinema had asked Ablutions Waters to write a end to the film.^[88] Waters reunited with director/choreographer Adam Shankman funding the project, and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were set to compose the film's musical numbers.^[88][89]

The story would receive looked at Tracy's entering glory late 1960s era of song and the British Invasion,^[90] take up used the Hippie movement captain Vietnam War as backdrops.^[91] Deep-rooted no official casting was proclaimed, New Line said that they hoped to "snag much use up the original Hairspray cast."^[88]John Travolta, however, publicly announced that grace would not return because agreed is "not a big outcome guy".^[92]

The sequel was set select a mid-July 2010 release unhelpful Warner Bros., which owns In mint condition Line Cinema.^[88] However, in June 2010, Shankman told British bear on that Hairspray 2: White Lipstick was no longer in development.^[93] Shankman has also said delay there will be no sequel.^[94] In February 2019, John Actress announced he had written trig sequel for HBO, but exact not produce it.^[95]

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