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Due to high demand for tickets, the Williamstown Theatre Festival has added an additional performance of Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden on Wednesday, August 22 at 3:00

Some three weeks after opening, the hit film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hairspray remains among the weekend box office top ten.

BroadwayWorld.com has an exclusive look into the making of the movie musical HAIRSPRAY with this special Director's Diary written by Adam Shankman.

BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive 'Upstairs at Sardi's' interview with Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who are among Hollywood's most successful producing teams and whose string of hits continues with the movie musical 'Hairspray!'

The Festival will premiere The Prophet Muhammad, an original work developed in the leapFROG program.

BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive 'Upstairs at Sardi's' interview with Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who are among Hollywood's most successful producing teams and whose string of hits continues with the movie musical 'Hairspray!'

The second Late-Night Cabaret of the season runs August 9-11

New Line Cinema's musical comedy Hairspray , which made history as the highest grossing opening day movie musical ever, continued a strong showing at the box office this weekend.

Adam Shankman is the director of one of Hollywood's biggest smashes - the star-studded screen adaptation of the Broadway hit Hairspray! Shankman talks to BroadwayWorld about his breakthrough film in this exclusive video interview!

On August 1st, New York Hairspray fans were given the first chance to sing along to the movie musical at AMC Loews Kips Bay Theatre. Nikki Blonsky and Elijah Kelly appeared to introduce the film and sing along.

Nikki Blonsky and Marc Shaiman, the respective star and composer of the hit movie musical Hairspray, will be featured as Sirius Radio presents an in depth, behind-the-scenes look at the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical.

New Line Cinema will release a special edition print of Hairspray with sing-along tracks for audience participation.

New Line Cinema's musical comedy Hairspray continues to draw big crowds in theaters on the heels of its strong opening weekend, with the film grossing $4.5 million on Monday, $4.3 million on Tuesday and $3.8 million on Wednesday to bring its cumulative domestic gross to $40.1 million since its July 20th debut.

New Line Records' soundtrack to the hit musical comedy Hairspray (now playing in theaters nationwide) sold 71, 625 units this week, boosting the album to #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, #1 on the Billboard Independent Label chart, #2 on the Billboard Soundtrack chart, and #2 on the Billboard Digital Album chart.

The film version of the Broadway musical hit Hairspray has become 'the best musical opening on record.'

On July 20th, the cast of the hit movie musical Hairspray, based on the Broadway smash, performing on the 'Today Show's Concert Series at Rockefeller Plaza.

The highly anticipated film version of the Broadway musical hit Hairspray placed at #3 on the weekend box office chart.

A star-studded and successful industry reading was recently held for Dolly Parton's upcoming Broadway musical Nine to Five, based on the 1980 office comedy.

On July 17th, Amanda Bynes, Nikki Blonsky, Elijah Kelley, Brittany Snow and Zac Efron of the Hairspray movie helped the raise the curtain on the film's new doll line at Toys 'R' Us in Times Square!

The New York premiere screening of the highly anticipated movie musical Hairspray, based on the Broadway smash, took place at the Ziegfeld Theatre on July 16th, and BroadwayWorld was there!