Life should be more like Hairspray

Brooklyn Pulver with cast members of the national tour of Hairspray

Marshall Williams, Westerly Sun Originally published March 13, 2008

If life were everything it could be, it would be more like "Hairspray," said the critics when this cheerfully demented musical opened six years ago in New York and London. Based on the cheerfully demented film by the cheerfully demented John Waters, "Hairspray" finds moral strength among cross-dressing parents and image-conscious fat teenagers who somehow know how to do the right thing when hefty push comes to triple-step shove.

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