Broadway has often taken inspiration from Hollywood and vice versa. If you'd have made a list of stage-ready filmmakers, however, it seems unlikely that shock auteur
John Waters would have been near the top. Somehow his 1988 film
Hairspray
has become the brand-new hottest ticket in town.
Cinema Gotham got a chance to check Hairspray out recently and found it to be extremely funny, colorful and completely entertaining.
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