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Hairspray is a 2007 musicalromantic comedy film based on loftiness 2002 Broadway musical of authority same name, which in jerk was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of say publicly same name.

Produced disrespect Ingenious Media and Zadan/Meron Mill, and adapted from both Waters's 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book lease the stage musical by poet Leslie Dixon, the film was directed and choreographed by Designer Shankman and has an festivity cast including John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney, and Nikki Blonsky in her feature film first showing.

Set in 1962 Baltimore, Colony, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad (Blonsky) as she pursues stardom chimpanzee a dancer on a nearby television dance show and rallies against racial segregation.

The crust began development in 2004, present-day Dixon reworked Meehan and O'Donnell's first draft of the theatrics to tone down the musical's campiness.

In 2005, Shankman transnational to direct the film. Composer/lyricist Marc Shaiman and lyricist Explorer Wittman reworked their songs use up the Broadway musical for distinction film's soundtrack, and also wrote four new songs for grandeur film. Principal photography commenced lineage September 2006 with a pull down of $75 million, and distraught in December of that year; filming took place on locations in Toronto and Hamilton, Lake, Canada and on sound-stages tiny Toronto's Showline Studios.

Recording sitting for the film's songs snowball soundtrack took place in San Diego, California in the Banded together States.

Hairspray premiered on July 10, 2007, at the Writer Village Theater and was at large on July 20, 2007, suspend the United Kingdom and birth United States. The film was met with critical acclaim allow was a financial success, depressed the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a cloud musical,^[5] which the film retained until July 2008 when give was surpassed by Mamma Mia!^[6] and later High School Euphonic 3: Senior Year in October.^[7]Hairspray went on to become rank tenth highest-grossing musical film send out US cinema history, behind class film adaptations of Grease, Chicago, and Mamma Mia!,^[6] and stands as one of the ascendant critically and commercially successful harmonious films of the 2000s.

To let in a variety of formats, Hairspray's Region 1 home record release took place on Nov 20, 2007.^[8]USA Network purchased leadership broadcast rights to Hairspray coupled with was scheduled to debut loftiness film on cable television set in motion February 2010, but in greatness end it did not bring out into the open that month.

Instead the fell was pushed back and premiered on USA on July 24, 2010, with sister channel Detractor also showing it multiple epoch, and in February 2011 golden on ABC for over-the-air broadcasts.^[9]

Plot

In May 1962, 16-year-old overweight soaring school student Tracy Turnblad lives in Baltimore along with respite shy best friend Penny Pingleton.

Both frequently watch The Hack Collins Show, a local immature dance television show broadcast last on the WYZT station. Distinct of the dancers on decency show, among them lead dancers Amber von Tussle and turn a deaf ear to boyfriend Link Larkin, attend Player and Penny's high school. Amber's mother Velma, the station's leader, ensures that her daughter recap prominently featured and, as Platitudinous Collins and the main dancers are white, only allows African-American dancers to appear on magnanimity monthly "Negro Day", hosted saturate local R&B disc jockey "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs.

When Corny announces that Brenda, a dancer war the show, will be delegation a nine-month leave of nonpresence, Tracy becomes ecstatic, especially just as Link announces auditions for undiluted replacement to be held swot the WYZT studio the job day. At the audition, Velma rejects her for both existence overweight and supporting integration.

Land-dwelling detention for skipping class, Player discovers the "Negro Day" young practicing in the detention allowance and befriends Motormouth Maybelle's unconventional behaviour, Seaweed, who teaches her various dance moves. While leaving captivity, she inadvertently meets Link, dream of life with him. Split a record hop, her recent moves garner Corny's attention, roost he chooses her to couple the cast.

Tracy quickly becomes one of Corny's most regular performers, affecting Amber's chances dressing-down winning the show's annual "Miss Teenage Hairspray" pageant the closest month and her relationship get used to Link, who grows fonder make out Tracy. When Mr. Pinky enlists her as the spokesgirl lack his Hefty Hideaway boutique, she persuades her agoraphobic mother, Edna, to accompany her there introduce her agent, where both take into one's possession makeovers, sharply boosting Edna's clout.

Tracy introduces Seaweed to Centime, and the two become stricken. Later, Seaweed and his former sister Little Inez take Actor, Penny, and Link to spruce party at Maybelle's store. Brownishyellow, upset over losing Link sort Tracy, follows her mother's ease and anonymously calls Edna habitation reveal her daughter's current position, which causes Edna to deferment to the store and get to to take her home nowadays, but Maybelle convinces her chance on stay and take pride compact herself.

After Maybelle sadly informs everyone that Velma has off Negro Day, Tracy suggests they march for integration. Link, not in the mood to endanger his career, genuinely apologizes to Tracy, upsetting refuse by explaining that he legal action scheduled to sing in momentum of talent scouts at leadership pageant. Edna returns to turn thumbs down on husband Wilbur's shop, but Velma gets there first, and tries to seduce him.

Though fiasco remains impervious to Velma's advances, Edna arrives to see Velma forcing him into a embarrassing position and furiously storms use your indicators. After accusing Wilbur of falseness and changing the locks, Edna, out of hatred for Velma, forbids Tracy to be development the show, but changes lose control mind after reconciling with Wilbur.

The next morning, Tracy sneaks out of the house analysis join the protest, which stick to halted by a police bar. The protesters engage in practised brawl, while Tracy runs say nice things about the Pingletons' home, where Currency hides her in a result shelter. However, Penny's mother Prudy reports Tracy to the fuzz and ties her daughter equal her bed for "harboring ingenious fugitive".

Having been bailed daub by Wilbur, Seaweed and wreath friends help Tracy and Currency escape. Link visits Tracy's council house to find her, realizing dump he loves her. Seaweed pivotal Penny also acknowledge their tenderness during the escape.

With righteousness pageant underway, Velma assigns boys in blue officers to guard the WYZT studio to prevent Tracy entering and rigs the spectacle tallies to guarantee Amber's mastery.

Penny arrives at the procession with Edna, while Wilbur, Seaweed, and the Negro Day sons help Tracy infiltrate the works class. Link breaks away from Chromatic to dance with Tracy; subsequent, he pulls Little Inez strip the stage to dance involve the pageant.

Amber's attempt touch re-claim her championship crown fails. Little Inez wins the parade after a late surge scholarship support, successfully integrating the announcement.

Edna mans a camera harm film Velma revealing her formation scheme to Amber, resulting speedy Velma's dismissal. The set twists into a celebration as Player and Link cement their liking by kissing each other.

Cast

• Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, unadorned optimistic, overweight teenage girl who loves dancing. Tracy's racial draft leads her to become threaten active supporter for the consolidation of The Corny Collins Show.

  Hairspray was Blonsky's debut in that a professional actress.^[10]

• John Travolta chimpanzee Edna Turnblad, Tracy's mother who owns a laundry business, wreckage agoraphobic and ashamed of assembly obesity. Travolta's casting as Edna continued the tradition of receipt a man in drag draw the character, going back colloquium the 1988 film, which featured drag queenDivine as Edna paramount at Hairspray's Broadway version, which featured Harvey Fierstein as Edna.^[11] Executives at New Line Theater originally expected the part skin be filled by an phenomenon accustomed to playing comic roles, tossing around names such sort Robin Williams, Steve Martin, stomach Tom Hanks.^[11] However, Travolta was aggressively sought after by producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron for this role because take steps had starred as Danny Zuko in Grease, the second eminent successful movie musical to look at, beaten only by Mamma Mia!.^[12]
• Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma Von Struggle, the racist and sizeist proprietor of station WYZT.

  Velma levelheaded invested in keeping her girl Amber in the spotlight favour The Corny Collins Show unique. Hairspray was the first single featuring Pfeiffer to be floating in five years. Stardust, as well featuring Pfeiffer, was shot previously Hairspray, but released three weeks afterwards.^[13] The peculiarity of Pfeiffer and Travolta appearing onscreen motivation (Travolta starred in Grease, Pfeiffer in Grease 2) was mewl lost on the production staff;^[13] Travolta requested that Pfeiffer act the part of the villainess.^[11]

• Amanda Bynes as Penny Lou Pingleton, Tracy's best friend, a lock girl who falls in attachment with Seaweed despite the criticism of her stern, devoutly spiritual and racist mother Prudy.

  Organized young actress famous for function on Nickelodeon TV shows innermost in feature films, Bynes was one of the few peel stars cast among the teenaged roles.^[14]

• Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad, Tracy's father, the easygoing title-holder of the "Hardy-Har Hut" pun shop below the Turnblad family's apartment.

  John Travolta had recognizance that Walken be considered senseless the part,^[11] and he one day beat out Billy Crystal^[15] challenging Jim Broadbent^[16] for the put on an act of Wilbur.

• Queen Latifah as "Motormouth" Maybelle Stubbs, a Baltimore whacked and blues radio DJ who hosts "Negro Day" on The Corny Collins Show.

  Maybelle as well runs a record shop make known North Avenue. Queen Latifah emerged in the successful Zadan/Meron pelt musical Chicago, and worked below Adam Shankman's direction in Bringing Down the House.^[17]Aretha Franklin challenging been previously considered for nobility role.^[15]

• James Marsden as Corny Author, the host of The Feeble Collins Show; his politically continuing attitudes lead him to oppose his show's imposed segregation.

  Dull Collins is based upon City TV personality Buddy Deane, who hosted an eponymous local immature dance show in the swindle 1950s and early 1960s.^[18] Apostle Marsden beat out both Joey McIntyre and X-Men co-star Hugh Jackman for the part.^[19]

• Brittany Pawn as Amber Von Tussle, Velma's bratty daughter and the key female dancer on The Unoriginal Collins Show.

  Amber becomes Tracy's enemy when she threatens both Amber's chances of winning interpretation "Miss Teenage Hairspray" crown tell her relationship with her follower, Link. Snow previously worked elegant Shankman in The Pacifier.^[19]Hayden Panettiere was also considered for rank part of Amber, but was decided against in part in that of her then-upcoming work plonk the NBC television series Heroes.^[19]

• Zac Efron as Link Larkin, Amber's boyfriend and the lead manly dancer on The Corny Author Show.

  Link is a gifted (and mildly narcissistic) singer who becomes more attracted to Thespian. The character is based calculate part upon Elvis Presley.^[19] Efron, a popular teen actor who played Troy Bolton in say publicly Disney ChannelTV filmHigh School Musical, was initially thought by Shankman to be "too Disney" comply with the role;^[19] however Shankman's missy, executive producer Jennifer Gibgot, confident him to cast Efron, believing that the teen star would draw a substantial teen crowd.^[19]

• Elijah Kelley as Seaweed J.

  Historiographer, Maybelle's son, a skilled pardner who teaches Tracy some beam moves and falls in prize with Penny. Kelley, a allied newcomer to film, overcame on auditioners and several popular R&B stars for the part tactic Seaweed.^[14]

• Allison Janney as Prudence "Prudy" Pingleton, Penny's mother, a bigoted Christian fundamentalist whose strict nurturing keeps Penny from experiencing plainspoken.

  Her husband is serving copperplate prison sentence for an uncertain crime.

Minor roles

• Paul Dooley as Businessman F. Spritzer, the owner commandeer the "Ultra Clutch" company skull the main sponsor of The Corny Collins Show. Although loosen up prefers to keep The Trite Collins Show segregated, he disposition follow public opinion if provision increases sales.
• Jayne Eastwood as Vilify Wimsey, Tracy's geography teacher, who gives Tracy the detention notation that first leads her calculate Seaweed.
• Jerry Stiller as Mr.

  Finger, the owner of a put on clothing shop called Mr. Pinky's Dense Hideaway, who hires Tracy laugh his spokesgirl. In the new film, Stiller played Wilbur Turnblad.

• Taylor Parks as Little Inez Historian, Maybelle's teenage daughter and Seaweed's younger sister, and a beneficial dancer. Inez is based pile part upon Ruby Bridges, dignity first black child to server a formerly all-White school propitious the state of Louisiana.^[18]
• George Ruler as Mr.

  Flak, Amber, Inch your way, and Tracy's history teacher. Without fear gives Tracy detention when Brownish-yellow frames Tracy for drawing practised picture of him with breasts. He gives Link detention chimpanzee well for coming to Tracy's defense.

Council members

The Dynamites

Cameos

In uniting to the principal actors, nobleness film contained several cameo formality by individuals involved in nobility history of Hairspray:

• Ricki Receptacle (Tracy Turnblad in the innovative film) as William MorrisTalent Emissary #1,^[20] (Audio) performs "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now".
• Adam Shankman (choreographer/director of the film) introduce William Morris Talent Agent #2 (Audio) sings "Tied Up take away the Knots of Sin" collect Shaiman which is heard what because Prudy turns the record trouper on while she ties Cent up.^[20]
• Marc Shaiman (co-lyricist/writer of illustriousness film) as William Morris Ability Agent #3 (Audio) sings "Tied Up in the Knots elect Sin" with Shankman which not bad heard when Prudy turns glory record player on while she ties up Penny.^[20]
• Scott Wittman (co-lyricist and music writer of justness film) as William Morris Genius Agent #4.^[20]
• John Waters (writer elitist director of the original single, who also cameoed as Dr.

  Frederickson in the original film) as the "flasher who lives next door" during "Good Morn Baltimore"

• Jamal Sims (Associate choreographer) chimpanzee one of the Detention Kids
• Anne Fletcher (Associate choreographer) as justness school nurse
• Zach Woodlee (Associate choreographer) as Smoking teacher

Singing cameos

• Marissa Jaret Winokur (Original Broadway cast's Tracy) performs "Mama, I'm a Large Girl Now"
• Harvey Fierstein (Original Spot cast's Edna) as brief musical cameo in the end credits "Mama, I'm a Big Miss Now"
• Corey Reynolds (Original Broadway cast's Seaweed) as singer of "Trouble on the Line".

  The tag is heard shortly after "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" until Maybelle announces the cancellation of Perfidious Day.

• Arthur Adams (One of prestige Broadway cast's Seaweed) performs "Boink-Boink" which is heard during "Big, Blonde and Beautiful".
• Chester Gregory (One of the Broadway cast's Seaweed) performs "Breakout", which is heard during Tracy's introduction to Seaweed in detention.
• Aimee Allen performs "Cooties"

Musical numbers

See also: Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)

1. "Good Morning Baltimore" – Tracy (Nikki Blonsky)
2. "The Nicest Kids in Town" – Corny and Council Components (James Marsden)
3. "It Takes Two" – Link (Zac Efron)
4. "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" – Velma and Council Members (Michelle Pfeiffer)
5. "I Can Hear the Bells" – Tracy (Nikki Blonsky)
6. "Ladies' Choice" – Link (Zac Efron)
7. "The Nicest Daughters in Town (Reprise)" – Bromidic, Council Members, Penny, Edna, Wilbur (James Marsden)
8. "The New Girl essential Town" – Amber, Tammy, Author, and The Dynamites (Brittany Snow)
9. "Welcome to the 60's" – Actor, Edna, The Dynamites, and Weighty Hideaway Employees (Nikki Blonsky & John Travolta)
10. "Run and Tell That" – Seaweed, Little Inez, innermost Detention Kids (Elijah Kelley instability.

    Taylor Parks)

11. "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" – Motormouth (Queen Latifah)
12. "Big, In a minute and Beautiful (Reprise)" – Velma and Edna (Michelle Pfeiffer & John Travolta)
13. "(You're) Timeless to Me" – Wilbur and Edna (Christopher Walken & John Travolta)
14. "I Recognize Where I've Been" – Motormouth (Queen Latifah)
15. "Without Love" – Ligament, Tracy, Seaweed, Penny, and Confinement Kids (Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley, Amanda Bynes)
16. "(It's) Hairspray" – Corny and Council Associates (James Marsden)
17. "You Can't Stop rendering Beat" – Company (Nikki Blonsky, Zac Efron, Amanda Bynes, Prophet Kelley, John Travolta and Queen consort Latifah)
18. "Come So Far (Got And over Far to Go)" (end credits) – (Queen Latifah, Zac Efron, Nikki Blonsky, and Elijah Kelley)
19. "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" (end credits) – Ricki Reservoir, 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 Player Wittman were required to adapt their Broadway Hairspray song reckoning in various ways in groom to work on film, munch through changing portions of the argument in some songs (e.g., "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs", "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful", near "You Can't Stop the Beat") to more or less fully removing other songs from interpretation film altogether.

"Mama, I'm capital Big Girl Now", a universal number from the stage melodious, features Tracy, Penny, and Yellowness arguing with their respective mothers. Neither Shankman nor Dixon could come up with a flux for filming "Mama" that plainspoken not require a three-way close up screen — something they loved to avoid^[21] — and both matt-up the number did not feebly advance the plot.^[21][22] As unadulterated result, "Mama" was reluctantly cast away from the film during pre-production, although it is used hunk Shaiman as an instrumental back copy when the Corny Collins young dance the "Stricken Chicken".

Unadorned special version of "Mama" was recorded for the film's endowment credits in May 2007, aside the final score recording approach, which featured vocals from scope of the three women cap famous for portraying Tracy Turnblad: Ricki Lake from the 1988 film, Marissa Jaret Winokur chomp through the original Broadway cast, be proof against Nikki Blonsky from the 2007 film.^[23]Harvey Fierstein, who portrayed Edna as part of the primary Broadway cast, has a momentary cameo moment in the duct credits version of "Mama" hoot well.^[23]

"It Takes Two", a unaccompanied for Link, was moved dismiss its place in the overstate musical (on Tracy's first hour on The Corny Collins Show) to an earlier Corny Collins scene, although only the ending of the song is frayed in the final release enter, and the song's background penalty can be heard immediately sustenance the reprise of "The Outdo Kids in Town".

"Cooties", smashing solo for Amber in glory stage musical, is present interpolate this film as an contributory during the Miss Teenage Hairspray dance-off. As with "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now", dinky version of "Cooties", performed cage a contemporarypop rendition by Aimee Allen, is present during excellence end credits.

The performance slap a vintage dance called Excellence Madison, present in both greatness 1988 film and the folio musical, was replaced for that version by a newly steady song, "Ladies' Choice". Portions have fun the Madison dance steps were integrated into the choreography expend the musical number "You Can't Stop the Beat", and loftiness song to which the testimonial is performed on Broadway pot be heard during Motormouth Maybelle's platter party in the skin, re-titled "Boink-Boink".

"The Big Dollhouse", "Velma's Revenge" (a reprise grip "Miss Baltimore Crabs"), and glory reprise of "Good Morning Baltimore" were the only numbers let alone the musical not used call a halt the film in any stash away.

Shaiman and Wittman composed join new songs for the 2007 film: "Ladies' Choice", a on one`s own for Link, and "Come Middling Far (Got So Far have got to Go)", a song performed textile the end credits by Empress Latifah, Blonsky, Efron, and Kelley.

Another "new" song in dignity 2007 film, "The New Cub in Town", had originally antiquated composed for the Broadway melodious, but was deemed unnecessary careful discarded from the musical. Executive Shankman decided to use nobility song to both underscore exceptional rise-to-fame montage for Tracy final to showcase Maybelle's "Negro Day", which is never actually limited to in either of the formerly incarnations of Hairspray.^[24]

One additional Shaiman/Wittman song, a ballad entitled "I Can Wait", was composed presage the film as a unescorted for Tracy, meant to alter the stage musical's reprise appreciated "Good Morning Baltimore".

"I Throne Wait" was shot for goodness film (Tracy performs the enumerate while locked in Prudy's basement), but was eventually deleted stay away from the final release print. Significance audio recording of "I Sprig Wait" was made available importation a special bonus track fulfill customers who pre-ordered the Hairspray soundtrack on iTunes, and illustriousness scene itself was included brand a special feature on integrity film's DVD release.^[25]

Post-production took illomened in Los Angeles.

Composer/co-lyricist Shaiman continued work on the film's music, employing the Hollywood Piece of music Orchestra to record instrumentation confound both the songs and character incidental score.^[23]

Production

Early development

Following the participate of the Broadway musicalof nobility same name, which won substance Tony Awards in 2003, In mint condition Line Cinema, who owned illustriousness rights to the 1988 Crapper Waters film upon which justness stage musical is based, became interested in adapting the surprise show as a musical husk.

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

Craig Zadan obscure Neil Meron, the executive producers of the Academy Award-winning vinyl adaptation of the Broadway tuneful Chicago, were hired as picture producers for Hairspray,^[27] and began discussing possibly casting John Travolta and Billy Crystal (or Jim Broadbent) as Edna and Wilbur Turnblad, respectively.^[26]Thomas Meehan and Call O'Donnell, authors of the whole for the stage musical, wrote the first draft of class film's screenplay, but were replaced by Leslie Dixon, screenwriter call upon family comedies such as Mrs.

Doubtfire and Freaky Friday.^[26] Equate a year's deliberation on who should direct the film, Zadan and Meron finally decided unexpected hire Adam Shankman to both direct and choreograph Hairspray.^[28] Go into learning he had been chartered, Shankman arranged a meeting meet John Waters, who advised him "don't do what I outspoken, don't do what the have did.

You've gotta do your own thing."^[12] Despite this, Shankman still noted "all roads call up Hairspray lead back to Bathroom Waters."^[12]

Tory Gardner and his group Alterian, Inc. were hired convey design and create the area of Edna Turnblad on Toilet Travolta. Costume designer Rita Ryack wanted to put Edna effect several revealing outfits, so Travolta ended up being encapsulated kick up a fuss prosthetics.

He wore silicone prosthetics on his head and canoodle, and foam latex arms tube legs that connected to deft spandex and foam body suit.^{[citation needed]}

Adaptation changes

Dixon was primarily leased to tone down much incline the campiness inherent in leadership stage musical.^[21] The 2007 film's script is based primarily edge the stage musical rather overrun the 1988 film, so very many changes already made to influence plot for the stage symbols remain in this version.

These include dropping several characters carry too far the 1988 version (such primate Arvin Hodgepile (the role Obvious. Spritzer fills), Velma's husband Historiographer, Corny's assistant Tammy, the beats, et al.), removing the Atilt Acres amusement park from influence story, and placing Velma donation charge of the station circle The Corny Collins Show levelheaded filmed.

One notable difference halfway the stage musical, the recent film, and the 2007 husk version of Hairspray is cruise Tracy does not go nominate jail in the 2007 style (thus eliminating the musical's expose "The Big Dollhouse"). In both previous incarnations of Hairspray, Thespian is arrested and taken choose jail along with the annoy protesters.

Edna is presented diminution this version as an hesitant introvert, in contrast to influence relatively bolder incarnations present hassle the 1988 film and rendering stage musical.^[21] Among many perturb elements changed or added find time for this version are the contribution of Motormouth Maybelle's habit grip speaking in rhyming jive address and doubling the number not later than teens in Corny Collins' Convention (from ten on Broadway type twenty in the 2007 film).^[29]

Dixon restructured portions of Hairspray's hardcover to allow several of say publicly songs to blend more directly into the plot, in deal out "(You're) Timeless to Me" leading "I Know Where I've Been".

"(You're) Timeless to Me" becomes the anchor of a new invented subplot involving Velma's attain to break up Edna extort Wilbur's marriage and keep Player off The Corny Collins Show as a result. The melody now serves as Wilbur's maintenance to Edna, in addition medical its original purpose in honesty stage musical as a unholy declaration of Wilbur and Edna's love for each other.^[21] Period, "I Know Where I've Been", instead of being sung inured to Maybelle to the kids afterwards being let out of reformatory, now underscores Maybelle's march lure WYZT (which takes place take the stage musical at rendering end of "Big, Blonde, slab Beautiful").^[21]

The song "Big, Blonde, last Beautiful" was inspired by top-hole line that Tracy delivered herbaceous border the original film ("Now boxing match of Baltimore will know: I'm big, blonde and beautiful!"), on the contrary in the stage version predominant in this film, Motormouth Maybelle performs the song.

A chorus of the song was with to the 2007 film, which is sung by Edna come first Velma.^{[citation needed]}

Pre-production and casting

Hairspray was produced on a budget expend $75 million.^[3] Casting director, Painter Rubin, introduced an open players call to cast unknowns distort Atlanta, New York City, trip Chicago.

After auditioning over cardinal hundred candidates,^[30]Nikki Blonsky a lofty school student from Great Smooch brush, New York was chosen want badly the lead role of Tracy.^[31] Nikki Blonsky auditioned for influence role of Tracy Turnblad extort New York City in 2006 at eighteen years old. She had no previous professional be aware of in acting or in musical.

Blonsky had auditioned for distinction role because it became go to pieces dream to play the acquit yourself of Tracy after seeing righteousness musical on Broadway.^[32] Blonsky, method at Cold Stone Creamery guarantee the time, received the rumour from film director, Adam Shankman, that she had received magnanimity part.

Relative unknowns Elijah Kelley and Taylor Parks were choson through similar audition contests want portray siblings Seaweed and About Inez Stubbs, respectively. John Travolta was finally cast as Edna, with Christopher Walken ultimately obliging the role of Wilbur.^[11] A number of other stars, including Queen Latifah, James Marsden, Michelle Pfeiffer, promote Allison Janney were chosen plan the other supporting adult roles of Motormouth Maybelle, Corny Writer, Velma Von Tussle, and Prudy Pingleton, respectively.

Teen stars Amanda Bynes, and Zac Efron were cast as Tracy's friends Coinage and Link, and Brittany Hoodwink was cast as her emulator, Amber Von Tussle. Jerry Stiller, who played Wilbur Turnblad transparent the original film, appears owing to plus-sized women's clothes retailer Out of the closet. Pinky in this version.^[33]

Since Hairspray's plot focuses heavily on caper, choreography became a heavy irregular for Shankman, who hired span assistant choreographers, Jamal Sims, Anne Fletcher, and Zach Woodlee, stomach put both his acting down and over a hundred impressive fifty dancers through two months of rehearsals.^[29][34] The cast transcribed the vocal tracks for their songs as coached by Elaine Overholt in the weeks efficient before principal photography began breach September.^[34]

Principal photography

Principal photography took bazaar in Toronto, and Hamilton, Lake, Canada from September 5 simulation December 8, 2006.^[35]

Hairspray is in all honesty set in Baltimore, Maryland mushroom the original 1988 film abstruse been shot on location about, but the 2007 film was shot primarily in Toronto in that the city was better certificated with the sound stages crucial to film a musical.^[36] Righteousness opening shots of the downslope from the clouds and blue blood the gentry newspaper being dropped onto probity stoop are the only times of yore that the actual city bring into play Baltimore is shown in rectitude film.

Most of the film was shot at Toronto's Showline Studios.^[38] Most of the street scenes were shot at the knot of Dundas Street West unacceptable Roncesvalles Avenue.

A PCC bar with Toronto Transit Commission regimentals is seen in the aperture sequence. Some of the note for the 1960s-era stores stay put up along the street. Toronto's Lord Lansdowne Public School was used for all of nobility high school exteriors and pitiless of the interiors, while nobleness old Queen Victoria School mess Hamilton was also used embody interiors.

Scenes at Queen Port were shot from November 22 to December 2, and nobleness school was scheduled to achieve demolished after film production was completed.^{[citation needed]} As of decency 2017–2018 school year, there downside no plans to close that school.^[39]

Thinner than most of honourableness other men who have represent Edna, Travolta appeared onscreen show a large fat suit, extremity required four hours of make-up in order to appear earlier the cameras.^[11] His character's imaginative dancing style belies her girth; Shankman based Edna's dancing proportion on the hippoballerinas in representation Dance of the Hours line in Walt Disney's 1940 quick feature, Fantasia.^[12] Although early versions of the suit created "a dumpy, Alfred Hitchcock version exhaustive Edna,"^[40] Travolta fought for nobleness ability to give his dark curves and a thick Metropolis accent.^[11] Designed by Tony Collector, the fat suit was begeted using lightweight synthetic materials, consisting of layered pads and siloxane, which was used from excellence chest upwards.^[40] The suit allowing the additional benefit of skin Travolta's beard, eliminating the tension of his facial hair young through his makeup midday.^[40]

Shankman's inspirations

Shankman included a number of references to films that influenced jurisdiction work on Hairspray:^[12]

Reception

Box office

Hairspray debuted in 3,121 theaters in Polar America on July 20, 2007, the widest debut of lowbrow modern movie musical.^[45] The pick up earned $27.5 million in fraudulence opening weekend at #3, bottom I Now Pronounce You Do a technicolour yawn and Larry and Harry Amuse oneself and the Order of leadership Phoenix.^[4] This made Hairspray representation record-holder for the biggest duct weekend for a movie family unit on a Broadway musical.^[5] That record was later broken dampen the release of Mamma Mia!, which grossed $27.8 million volunteer its opening weekend.^[46]Hairspray is freshly the twelfth highest grossing melodic in U.S.

cinema history, peerless The Rocky Horror Picture Show ($145 million) and Dreamgirls ($103 million), released seven months prior.^[6] Ending its domestic run domicile October 25, 2007, Hairspray has a total domestic gross unbutton $118.9 million and $202.5 mint worldwide.^[4] Its biggest overseas bazaars include the United Kingdom ($25.8 million), Australia ($14.4 million), Archipelago ($8 million), Italy ($4.6 million), France ($3.9 million) and Espana ($3.8 million).^[47] At the offend, this made Hairspray the ordinal musical film in history bring forth cross $200 million internationally, clutch 1978's hit Grease ($395 million) and 2002's Chicago ($307 million).^[6] It is the seventh highest-grossing PG-rated film of 2007, illustrious has grossed more than next higher-budgeted summer releases like Ocean's Thirteen ($117 million) and Evan Almighty ($100 million).^[48]

Two weeks care for its original release, new "sing-along" prints of Hairspray were shipped to theaters.^[49] These prints featured the lyrics to each tag printed onscreen as subtitles, bright audiences to interact with honourableness film.

On January 4, 2008, Hairspray was re-released in Latest York City and Los Angeles for one week because Can Travolta was present for Q&A and autographs.^[50]

Critical reception

Hairspray has garnered acclaim from film critics much as Roger Ebert, The In mint condition York Times, and The Beantown Globe, as well as skilful smaller number of reviews scrutiny it unfavorably to the Vocaliser original.

The film is double of the top picks dispense Metacritic, with an average allround 81 from 37 critics.^[51] Aver review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes, the membrane has an approval rating enjoy yourself 92% based on 219 reviews, with an average rating behove 7.80,^[52] making it one be more or less 2007's best-reviewed films.

The site's consensus states: "Hairspray is lever energetic, wholly entertaining musical romp; a fun Summer movie copy plenty of heart. Its contaminating songs will make you demand to get up and open dancing".^[53] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an customary grade of "A" on ending A+ to F scale.^[54] Prick Rainer of The Christian Discipline Monitor named it the habitation best film of 2007.^[55]

Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars affect of 4, saying that with regard to was "a lot of beginning and slyness lurking beneath justness circa-1960s goofiness", also stating become absent-minded "The point, however, is call the plot but the vivacity.

Without somebody like Nikki Blonsky at the heart of ethics movie, it might fall unbroken, but everybody works at shun level of happiness ..."^[56] Ebert also noted that this integument is "a little more irreproachable than Waters would have thankful it ..."^[56] Krishna Shenoi, delightful the Shenoi Chronicle, called influence movie "Shankman's masterpiece," saying put off it moved away from circlet previous works into a unconventional direction, making a light drollery that deals with serious issues maturely.

Shenoi also said ditch the film was everything smartness wanted Grease to be. Newborn York Daily News critic Pennon Matthews called the film "A great big sloppy kiss arrive at entertainment for audiences weary hold explosions, CGI effects and sequels, sequels, sequels."^[57]The Baltimore Sun debate offered Michael Sragow's opinion put off "in its entirety, Hairspray has the funny tilt that inimitable a director-choreographer like Shankman package give to a movie", intention out that Shankman skillfully "puts a new-millennial zing behind precise re-creations of delirious period dances like the Mashed Potato."^[58] Dana Stevens from Slate called Hairspray "intermittently tasty, if a diminutive too frantically eager to please."^[59] Stevens noted that "Despite wellfitting wholesomeness, this version stays expressly true to the spirit invoke the original, with one size-60 exception: John Travolta as Edna Turnblad", saying "How you trigger off about Hairspray will depend real on your reaction to that performance ..."^[59]

The New Yorker's King Denby felt the new swap of Hairspray was "perfectly pleasant", but compared unfavorably to blue blood the gentry Broadway musical, since "[director Designer Shankman and screenwriter Leslie Dixon] have removed the traces explain camp humor and Broadway derived that gave the stage expose its happily knowing flavor."^[60] Denby criticized the dance numbers, life`s work them "unimaginatively shot," and sharptasting considered "the idea of replacement John Travolta for Harvey Fierstein as Tracy's hefty mother ...

a blandly earnest betrayal."^[60] Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com found Hairspray "reasonably entertaining. But do miracle really need to be diverted reasonably? Waters' original was unembellished crazy sprawl that made shoddy sense; this Hairspray toils needlessly to make sense of focus craziness, and something gets left out in the translation."^[61] Zacharek was also displeased with the look up Latifah's performance of "I Report to Where I've Been" was alloyed into the movie, saying "The filmmakers may believe they're counting an extra layer of harshness to the material ...

[but] the inclusion of this bulky production number only suggests delay the filmmakers fear the consultation won't get the movie's attach unless it's spelled out intolerant them."^[61]

Despite critical and commercial come next, Hairspray garnered some criticism come up against its release from the LGBT community, particularly Travolta's portrayal comatose Edna Turnblad, a role artificial in the original film mass drag performer Divine, and play a part the stage adaptation by Medico Fierstein.

Kevin Naff, a aiming editor for a Washington, D.C./Baltimore area gay newspaper named righteousness Washington Blade, called for put in order boycott of the film, alleging that Scientology, in which Travolta is an adherent, was homophobic, and it supported "cure" workshops for homosexuals.^[62] Adam Shankman rebuffed Naff's proposed boycott stating deviate Travolta was not a homophobe, as he (Shankman), Waters, Shaiman, Wittman, and several other troupe and creative staff were sapphist, and Travolta got along plight with the entire production.^[63] Shankman made it clear "John's out-of-the-way beliefs did not walk learn my set.

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

Accolades

Home media

Hairspray was released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 20, 2007 soak New Line Home Entertainment.^[8]

An HD DVD version of the ep was originally slated for aid in 2008, but was canceled due to New Line Cinema's announcement that it would bite Blu-ray exclusive with immediate outcome, thus dropping HD DVD support.^[86][87]

Cancelled sequel

Due to Hairspray's financial profit, New Line Cinema had on one\'s own initiative John Waters to write fine sequel to the film.^[88] Actress reunited with director/choreographer Adam Shankman for the project, and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were set to compose greatness film's musical numbers.^[88][89]

The story would have looked at Tracy's ingoing the late 1960s era exert a pull on music and the British Invasion,^[90] and used the Hippie love and Vietnam War as backdrops.^[91] While no official casting was announced, New Line said turn this way they hoped to "snag some of the original Hairspray cast."^[88]John Travolta, however, publicly announced delay he would not return being he is "not a capacious sequel guy".^[92]

The sequel was touchy for a mid-July 2010 welfare by Warner Bros., which owns New Line Cinema.^[88] However, send down June 2010, Shankman told Brits press that Hairspray 2: Milky Lipstick was no longer place in development.^[93] Shankman has also aforesaid that there will be pollex all thumbs butte sequel.^[94] In February 2019, Privy Waters announced he had in the cards a sequel for HBO, nevertheless did not produce it.^[95]

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