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Hairspray is a 2007 American musical romantic comedy film based on the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on John Waters's 1988 comedy film of the same name. Adapted from both Waters' 1988 script and Thomas Meehan and Mark O'Donnell's book for the stage musical by screenwriter Leslie Dixon, the 2007 film version of Hairspray is directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman and stars John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, Allison Janney and Nikki Blonsky. Hairspray features songs from the Broadway musical written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, as well as four new Shaiman/Wittman compositions not present in the original Broadway version. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, the film follows the "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad as she pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation.
Opening to positive reviews, Hairspray met with financial success, breaking the record for biggest sales at opening weekend for a movie musical, which the film held until July 2008 when it was surpassed by Mamma Mia! and later High School Musical 3: Senior Year in October.Hairspray went on to become the sixth highest grossing musical film in US cinema history, behind the film adaptations of Grease, Chicago, and Mamma Mia!, and stands as one of the most critically and commercially successful musical films of the last decade. Available in a variety of formats, Hairspray's Region 1 home video release took place on November 20, 2007.USA Network purchased the broadcast rights to Hairspray and was scheduled to debut the film on cable television in February 2010, but in the end it did not broadcast that month, instead the film was pushed back and premiered on USA on July 24, 2010, with sister channel Bravo also showing it multiple times, and in February 2011 aired on ABC for over-the-air broadcasts.
Actors: Peter Gallagher (actor), Alan Bates (actor), John Leguizamo (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Jason Biggs (actor), Marvin Hamlisch (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Billy Crudup (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), Hugh Jackman (actor), Mos Def (actor), Ralph Fiennes (actor), Harry Connick Jr. (actor), Liam Neeson (actor), Aasif Mandvi (actor),
Genres: ,(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
Hey look out for that moving van
Driving down our streets
You better lock up your man
Before he meets
The new girl in town
(AMBER)
Who just came on the scene
(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
The new girl in town
(AMBER)
Can't be more than sixteen
(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
And she's got a way of makin'
A boy act like a clown
Wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo
We don't know what to do
'Bout the new girl in town
The new girl in town
(SHELLY)
Seems to dance on air
(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
The new girl in town
(TAMMY)
She's got the coolest hair
(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
You better tell the homecoming queen
To hold on to her crown
Wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo
Or she's gonna lose it to
The new girl in town
(SHELLY,TAMMY)
She's hip, so cool
(AMBER)
I'm gonna get her after school!
(AMBER,TAMMY,SHELLY)
And yet we'd like to be like her
'Cause she's the kitten
That the cats prefer
(DYNAMITES)
The new girl in town
(DYNAMITE #1)
Has my guy on a string
(DYNAMITES)
The new girl in town
(DYNAMITE #3)
Hey look she's wearing his ring
(DYNAMITES)
I can't stop crying and so
In my own tears I'm gonna drown
Wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo
(DYNAMITE #1)
Cause he wants to rendezvous
(DYNAMITES)
With the new girl
(this is the part the new part at the end)
(DYNAMITE #2)
We kinda sad and blue
(DYNAMITES)
Yes it's true girl
We'd like to say...
To the new girl in town
The new girl in town
Wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo
From out of the blue girl
This town's in a stew girl
What a hullabaloo girl
She ain't just passing through girl
She's sticking like glue girl
To the man I though I knew girl
Wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo,wo-oo
Hey look out for that moving van
Look out, look out. Look out, look out