Another blast of ‘Hairspray’
“Hairspray” is coming full circle. The hit Broadway musical that sprang from John Waters’ 1988 movie will be reincarnated in a new film, New Line Cinema confirmed Friday.
New Line does not have a starting date for production, but a representative for the company confirmed a Variety report that the project was targeted for release in 2006.
No decisions have been made about casting, but it’s possible that Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur from the original Broadway cast could return, respectively, as Edna Turnblatt and her daughter Tracy. In the original film that skewered racial prejudice in 1960s Baltimore, the late drag diva Divine and Rickie Lake had those roles.
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R. Kinsey Lowe
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