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The 2002 musical adaptation of the [[Film/{{Hairspray}} 1988 comedy film]]. The original film was for the most part not a musical ''per se'', just full of music, and its songs were all DanceSensation songs of one sort or another. The musical had songs tell the story more directly.
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The 2002 musical adaptation of the [[Film/{{Hairspray}} [[Film/Hairspray1988 1988 comedy film]]. The original film was for the most part not a musical ''per se'', just full of music, and its songs were all DanceSensation songs of one sort or another. The musical had songs tell the story more directly.
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* GagBoobs: Wilbur grabs and shakes Edna's breasts during "You're Timeless to Me" for no other apparent reason than comedy.
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It got a [[Film/Hairspray2007 film adaptation]] in 2007, introducing Creator/NikkiBlonsky as Tracy and co-starring Creator/JohnTravolta (as Edna) and Creator/ZacEfron (as Link).
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->''"Good morning Baltimore\\
And some day when I take to the floor\\
The world's gonna wake up and see\\
Baltimore and me!"''
-->-- '''Tracy''', "Good Morning Baltimore"
And some day when I take to the floor\\
The world's gonna wake up and see\\
Baltimore and me!"''
-->-- '''Tracy''', "Good Morning Baltimore"
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->''"Mama, welcome to the '60s!"''
-->-- '''Tracy Turnblad'''
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->''"Mama, welcome to the '60s!"''
-->-- '''Tracy Turnblad'''
The 2002 musical adaptation of the [[Film/{{Hairspray}} 1988 comedy film]]. The original film was for the most part not a musical ''per se'', just full of music, and its songs were all DanceSensation songs of one sort or another. The musical had songs tell the story more directly.
The storyline is similar to the original, with some changes (for example, Velma Von Tussle has a larger role). Overweight teenager Tracy Turnblad and her best friend Penny want to audition for ''The Nicest Kids in Town''. Though Tracy's mother Edna disagrees, her father Wilbur is supportive, and so Tracy goes to audition and meets Link Larkin, one of the show's heartthrobs. Producer Velma Von Tussle rejects her for her weight, but a run-in with a black dancer, Seaweed J. Stubbs, starts a chain of events that transforms the show.
The musical premiered in Seattle before making the move to Broadway later in 2002. It introduced the world to Marissa Jaret Winokur (who previously was more known as the fast-food girl with Kevin Spacey in ''Film/AmericanBeauty'').
Creator/{{NBC}} also aired a live version in 2016, starring Maddie Baillio as Tracy, Creator/HarveyFierstein (Broadway's original Edna) reprising his role (and writing the teleplay), Creator/JenniferHudson as Motormouth Maybelle, Creator/KristinChenoweth and Creator/DoveCameron as the Von Tussles, Music/ArianaGrande as Penny, Creator/GarrettClayton as Link, Creator/EphraimSykes as Seaweed, and Creator/DavidHough as Corny Collins.
Not to be confused with ''Theatre/{{Hair}}''.
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!!Tropes in the stage version:
* AdaptationalDyeJob: Originally a blonde in the 1988 film, Penny becomes a redhead for the stage musical. In the second film, her hair is dirty blonde bordering on light brown, and the 2016 telecast, she's a brunette.
%% * AerosolFlamethrower: Link breaks Tracy out of prison with this method.
* BaitAndSwitch: Wilbur interrupts the program to suspiciously wheel in a giant can of hairspray, which Velma suspects is a TrojanHorse to sneak Tracy into the show, and she has it kept shut. [[spoiler:Turns out, Tracy shows up by walking into the studio, and ''Edna'' was in the can for her television debut.]] This doesn't occur in the 2007 movie.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Edna warns Tracy this after discussing her failed dreams to design fashion, and become "the biggest thing in brassieres".
%% * BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Mentioned in the song "(It's) Hairspray."
* BrokenSmile: [[spoiler:Velma Von Tussle displays a perfect example when the show is finally integrated in the play. In the second movie, she stays pissy throughout, probably due to losing her job.]]
* CavalierCompetitor: Amber after losing; quickly in the 2007 film, gradually as "You Can't Stop The Beat" goes on in the musical. Also counts as GracefulLoser.
* ClimacticMusic: "You Can't Stop the Beat", the climactic number that coincides with the climactic dance showdown.
* CurtainCall: The play and the telecast both have one. This marks NBC's first time ending a live musical with a curtain call.
* DarkReprise: In the Broadway musical, Tracy sings a reprise of "Good Morning Baltimore" after she finds out she won't be granted any bail. And while "[[VillainSong Miss Baltimore Crabs]]" was already dark, "Velma's Revenge" is much darker.
%% * FoodPorn: "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" is this trope in song form. Then we see Maybelle's soul food spread in the movie...
* GagBoobs: Wilbur grabs and shakes Edna's breasts during "You're Timeless to Me" for no other apparent reason than comedy.
* GracefulLoser: In the second movie, Amber was surprisingly mature about her defeat, indicating CharacterDevelopment. She and her mother ''both'' become graceful losers in the stage show as well, after much sulking, they give in and realize that they "can't stop the beat". See HeelFaceTurn in the first folder.
* HamToHamCombat: "(You're) Timeless to Me", especially on Broadway where the actors playing Edna and Wilbur seemed to be in a contest over who will corpse first.
* HiddenTrack: The Original Broadway Cast Recording follows up "You Can't Stop the Beat" with a few seconds of silence, then another song titled, "Blood on the Pavement", in which Link, Amber, and Velma use LyricalDissonance to warn against {{drunk driv|er}}ing.
* HistoricalInJoke: When Penny rushes to show the Turnblads Tracy's TV debut, Edna misunderstands and thinks she's trying to show them the footage of John Glenn's space trip. She chastises her, saying "Oh, I've seen it! It's all some studio out in Hollywood. Do they really expect me to believe he's up there?" In the stage version, it's "Oh no, don't tell me Khrushchev has his shoes off again!"
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
-->'''Link Larkin:''' I shoulda been there, beside her. I can't sleep. I can't eat...\\
'''Edna Turnblad:''' You can't eat? Well, come on in and worry with us. I'll make you some pork.
** Or, in the stage version,
-->'''Link:''' I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, I couldn't even concentrate!\\
'''Tracy:''' You couldn't eat?
%% * IWantSong: "Good Morning Baltimore" and "I Can Hear The Bells".
* ImplausibleDeniability: Edna refuses to believe that First Lady Jackie Kennedy's hairstyle has anything to do with hairspray.
-->"I believe it is just naturally stiff."
* LeanAndMean:
** "[[VillainSong I never drank one chocolate malt / No desserts for Miss Baltimore Crabs]]..."
** "[[HoneyTrap I bet you're tired of heavy lifting / Get your hands on something small]]."
* TheMakeover: Tracy and Edna get one in "Welcome to the Sixties"; Tracy gets another [[spoiler:when she crashes the beauty contest.]] Penny gets one in the finale as well, and Edna [[spoiler:comes out of the Hairspray Can in the musical with clothing she made herself.]]
%% * MorningRoutine: The 2007 movie starts with one. The musical too, but in less detail.
%% * ThePlan: How the main characters get Tracy into the Miss Teenage Hairspray pageant.
* PopularIsDumb: The openly embraced creed of the Nicest Kids in Town:
-->''Who cares about sleep, when you can snooze in school?''\\
''they'll never get to college but they sure look cool!''\\
''Don't need a cap or a gown''\\
''When you're the Nicest Kids in Town!''
* SextraCredit: PlayedForLaughs in some performances, where, after the dodgeball scene, the gym coach (usually a DirtyOldMan if not a ButchLesbian) asks the girls to follow the coach into the showers for some "extra credit". Velma also makes reference to the [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop competitive variation]] in "Miss Baltimore Crabs".
-->'''Velma:''' ''Those poor runners up might still hold some grudges/they padded their cups, but I screwed the judges!''
* ShoutOut: The stage musical contains a few references to ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}''. In the beginning, these references were quite timely, as ''Hairspray'' premiered on Broadway in the same season as a revival of ''Gypsy'' starring Bernadette Peters. By the time ''Hairspray'' closed, these references would again become timely, as a new revival starring Patti [=LuPone=] had just started its run.
%% * SidekickSong: "Run and Tell That" and "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" Depending on whether or not you think of Wilbur and Edna as leads, "Timeless To Me", as well.
* StigmaticPregnancyEuphemism: Dancer Brenda must take time off from Corny's show, thus prompting the audition. How long will she be gone? "[[TeenPregnancy Just nine months...]]"
* SmallStartBigFinish: "I Know Where I've Been" stands out from the rest of the upbeat soundtrack by being a slow-building power ballad about racism. Maybelle begins singing to Tracy, but as the march she's in progresses it morphs into a loud and powerful CrowdSong as she's backed up by the other protesters.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: In the stage show, when Tracy makes her grand entrance to the "Miss Hairspray" competition, Corny has a lovely throwaway line: "I had nothing to do with this complex conspiracy!" What complex conspiracy is ''that'', Corny?
* TeenPregnancy: The reason The Corny Collins Show needs a new dancer in the first place.
-->'''Corny:''' And speaking of the unexpected, our own fun-loving, freewheeling Brenda will be taking a leave of absence from the show. How long will you be gone, Brenda?
-->'''Brenda:''' ''(giant smile unwavering)'' Just nine months.
-->'''Corny:''' ...So, it seems we have an opening for a girl who's just as fun-loving, [[DeadpanSnarker but maybe not quite as freewheeling.]]
* TheyveComeSoFarSong:
** "I Know Where I've Been," which is about the continuing fight against prejudice as much as it is about the progress of the characters and plot.
** And another song called "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" was written for the 2007 film adaptation. However, unlike "I Know Where I've Been," it lacks the narrative significance typically associated with this trope, as it is played over the credits rather than as part of the film. (Some productions of the play, including NBC's telecast, have the cast sing it during the curtain call.)
* TookALevelInKindness: Tracy and Edna could be pretty surly and offputting on several occasions in the original film (Edna in particular due to being played by Divine, the inspiration for [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]], and it shows), but are very nice people in the musical.
* VillainSong: In addition to Velma's "Miss Baltimore Crabs" above, Amber gets "Cooties" or "New Girl in Town". The other members of the Corny Collins Show council contribute to all of these, as well.
%% * WeightWoe: Edna has to work through this.
* WhiteDwarfStarlet: Velma Von Tussle, who never lets anyone forget that she was once [[VillainSong Miss Baltimore Crabs]].
!!Tropes in the 2016 live version:
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* ActorAllusion: Penny being carried out in the finale might be a reference to the rumor that Music/ArianaGrande demands she be carried everywhere.
* AudienceParticipation: Members of the live studio audience became extras in crowd scenes.
* CardboardPrison: Due to recent budget cuts, [[spoiler:the jail has no guards, and the bars can be removed by vigorous shaking.]]
* CastingGag: [[Film/{{Descendants}} This isn't the first time Kristen Chenowith and Dove Cameron have played a villainous mother-daughter duo.]] Nor is this the first time that [[Series/{{Victorious}} Ariana Grande played the role of a friendly but ditzy teenage girl.]]
* CharacterCelebrityEndorsement: Corny Collins delivers one for Oreo cookies after "Ladies' Choice", to segue into an actual commercial break.
* TheHost: Creator/DarrenCriss appeared during commercial breaks of the premiere broadcast, interacting with the audience.
* LogoJoke: During the opening credits, the camera pans past an "NBC Studios" sign with a vintage-looking Peacock, while the NBC Chimes play.
* ProductPlacement: Tracy passes a Reddi-Wip truck during "Good Morning Baltimore", Wilbur drinks Coca-Cola in a different part, and the Turnblads' refrigerator has a jar of Oreo cookies on top of it.
* RemakeCameo: Two of Mr. Pinky's girls are played by Ricki Lake and Marissa Jaret Winokur, who played Tracy in the original 1988 film and the original Broadway production respectively.
* ShoutOut:
** In the opening scene alone, the storefronts include [[Creator/JohnWaters Waters]] Plumbing, Greenblatt's Baltimore Crabs (Bob Greenblatt is the NBC executive who spearheaded these musicals), and Divine Pet Food -- whose sign has a Film/{{pink flamingo|s}} on it. One wonders whether they [[{{Squick}} sell the bowel movements of dogs]].
** The grocery store Edie's advertises eggs and dairy, a reference to Dreamlander Edith Massey's character from ''Pink Flamingos'' and her infatuation with eggs.
* VanillaEdition: Unlike the [=DVDs=] of NBC's three previous musicals, ''Hairspray'' doesn't come with any bonus features.
* WardrobeMalfunction: A strap on Creator/KristinChenoweth (Velma)'s dress apparently came off during the curtain call. She managed to cover herself up, but the telecast still didn't show her taking her bow--with the camera instead focusing on Music/ArianaGrande (Penny). For the West Coast feed, NBC managed to put the focus back on Chenoweth.
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