![]() ![]() On Broadway, the role of Edna was played by Harvey Fierstein, but in the film, it\'s John Travolta donning a fat-suit and enduring hours of make-up to play the portly matron. But will Hairspray suffer the same fate as the last film-to-broadway-to-film adaptation, The Producers? The answer is a resounding \"no\"! The film was adapted into a Tony-winning Broadway musical smash by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and now the musical has been reconverted into a film directed by Adam Shankman. But soon she\'s caught up in the civil rights movement, and tries to get the show integrated. Her mother Edna was played by the cross-dressing Waters regular Divine, and the story focused on Tracy\'s dream of dancing on The Corny Collins Show, a locally-broadcast dance show. ![]() John Waters\' 1988 Hairspray took place in 1962\'s Baltimore, and starred Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight hyperactive teenager who just wants to dance, and has a progressive view on integration. ![]()
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