According to ShowBizData, Hairspray is the third most successful movie musical in 30 years. The film rose just over $113 million in domestic sales yesterday, surpassing the 1975 cult classic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Nikki Blonsky - who earned rave reviews for her exuberant turn as Tracy Turnblad in the smash Hairspray film - would love to reprise the role on Broadway in the future.
Michael Ball, Mel Smith and newcomer Leanne Jones will star in the multi-award winning musical Hairspray, which will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre on Tuesday, October 30, following previews from October 11.
The 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Awards, presented by Starz, have announced that this year's festival will honor the cast of New Line Cinema's Hairspray with the 'Hollywood Ensemble Acting of the Year Award -- Musical/Comedy.'
The film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Hairspray is now a $100 million dollar hit
HAIRSPRAY celebrated its 5th Anniversary on Broadway at the Neil Simon Theatre.
Lance Bass, a member of the boy band phenomenon 'N Sync, will join Hairspray's cast Tuesday, August 14 through Sunday, January 6, in the role of Corny Collins, at Broadway's Neil Simon Theatre.
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.
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.
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!'
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!'
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.
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.
New Line Cinema will release a special edition print of Hairspray with sing-along tracks for audience participation.
Hairspray star Nikki Blonsky, who has won acclaim for her exuberant turn as Tracy Turnblad in the film version of the Broadway smash, has found another film role.
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Although Lee Mead won the title role of London's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat through the UK reality talent search 'Any Dream Will Do,' third runner-up Ben Ellis will play Link in the upcoming West End transfer production of Hairspray
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.
