Their credits also include 2007 musical Hairspray, The Bucket List and the 2011 remake of Footloose.
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Bright, campy and wonderfully light, "Hairspray" reminds us that fun comes in all shapes and sizes.
Gaffney, who played Robbie Jackson in EastEnders, will be performing a dance routine from the musical Hairspray.
For a star-studded big-budget musical, Hairspray does a nice job of retaining the funky sweetness of the original.
Even the "Hairspray" soundtrack debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 20 before peaking at No. 2.
They co-produced with others the Tony Award-winning Broadway hits Hairspray and The Producers.
But by the time of Hairspray, the ironic appreciation of kitsch had moved from gay subculture to the mainstream.
In 13 feature films, including "Pink Flamingos" and "Hairspray, " he gleefully presents depraved characters undermining a society of squares.
With tubes of lipstick and hairspray making their final rounds around the room, longtime director Sherri Thompson gathered the squad.
But Hairspray, perhaps because it's all about being unashamed of who you are, makes no apologies about being a musical.
Now, Adam Shankman's movie of the Broadway Hairspray is getting rave reviews in newspapers that would once have applauded Waters' imprisonment.
It takes about a tenth of the time to find the relevant data as it does to put hairspray on Brian Williams.
In California in December, the former "Hairspray" star resolved a misdemeanor hit-and-run case after entering into a civil settlement with other drivers.
And by the time Hairspray was turned into a Broadway musical 15 years later, busloads of 60-ish suburbanites were in on the joke.
There's a lot of buzz in New York City about the play, the musical "Hairspray, " and so many people have raved about it.
They were also producers of 2007 films Hairspray and The Bucket List and are currently the executive producers of US TV series Smash.
There's something about the journey of John Waters' Hairspray to its current incarnation as a candy-colored, big-budget movie musical that I can't quite believe.
The Broadway musical "Hairspray" is set during the civil rights era.
In court on Friday, the former "Hairspray" star made no mention of the sexual assault allegations, though she did complain of illegal entry to her apartment.
It was Divine, as Tracy's overprotective mother Edna, who lifted Hairspray into camp heaven, and it's Divine and her splendid trashy baggage that are painfully missed.
Unlike "Glee, " which uses mostly existing songs, "Smash" showcases new songs by Broadway's "Hairspray" composer-lyricist team, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, along with some popular songs.
Both the revenge of the underdog and the triumph of the understudy, the original "Hairspray" was, as critic Brian Case pointed out, Waters' most hygienic movie.
There were pump and spritz sprays on the tables in the poodle grooming area, but none of the heavy-duty aerosol hairspray cans that are a no-no.
"This is the most magical world I've been asked to conjure up, " says Long, whose 60-plus show credits include costumes for "Chicago, " ''Hairspray" and "The Boy From Oz.
As Hairspray becomes more melodramatic, it also becomes more infectious.
The list includes dim-witted, power-crazed princes of the realm and witches, chief among them Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer, here, as in "Hairspray, " wonderfully full of rage about her lost youth).
Revamped and rescored via the Great White Way, "Hairspray" 2007 replaces Gene Pitney, The Five Du-Tones, the Roach and the Madison with Marc Shaiman's inflated Broadway version of bubblegum pop.
As chief financial officer Kelly had been one of the more buttoned-up senior managers, though he once shaved his legs to play the role of Hairspray's Edna Turnblatt for one of the company's over-the-top Halloween parties.
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