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The guy who made the shoes for ‘Hairspray’ said putting shoes on me was like putting a pump on a ham. I found out that if I ever was to dress like a woman, I would not be buying off the rack.
My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, ‘Now you know why I spent six years in a square.’
I looked at the photos at the VMAs and my hair was the most. That was a time when we were the most extreme – like, I totally looked like Cher. And it always took, like, two bottles of hairspray every morning. Yeah, we’ve definitely changed a lot. But I love that we have that history, and I enjoy looking back.
When you realize that the uncut ‘Porgy and Bess’ started me off, that I’d have the opportunity to do a ton of ‘Stoppard,’ ‘Hairspray,’ that I’m able to do ‘Il Trittico’ at the Met – how do I top that?
Okay, I’ll say I would go back in time and bring scientists with me and create a hairspray that would not cause global warming. But it would still give us ’80s hair.
It rests in the hands of ‘Dreamgirls’ and ‘Hairspray.’ If they’re successful, we’ll be back on track – people will continue to greenlight musicals. If they don’t work, then you’re going to see everyone go back to the way it was before ‘Chicago.’
Some filmmakers set out to re-create the theater experience they got on Broadway. They kept everything the same. They shot the original casts. We reinvent the whole thing, look at it solely as a movie. We pretend that nobody saw ‘Chicago’ or ‘Hairspray.’
I’m a drama kid at heart. That is definitely where my heart and soul is. I did ‘Hairspray’ in high school – I was Seaweed.
Little Zac had it easy – but he didn’t realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through ‘Hairspray’ and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
‘Hairspray’ was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ‘Lion King’ circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.
My hairstylist uses the Bumble & Bumble hairspray, which is the best smelling hairspray there is!
I really love ‘Hairspray.’ I love the idea of this teenage dance show where you have to go through all these competitions to get to the next level.
We couldn’t even contemplate doing ‘Hairspray’ without a live audience.
I try to avoid hairspray, gel, and heat as much as I can – I will use a pomade or a very heavy conditioner to style it the way that I want it.
‘Hairspray’ maybe did change people’s minds, and that’s how you get your political enemies to change their minds – by making them laugh and making them look at something in a way they haven’t seen it. Not by preaching and cutting them off and being a separatist.
Neil and I had the greatest experience of our lives doing ‘Chicago’ with Latifah. Then we had the second best experience of our lives doing ‘Hairspray.’
I’d love to do Broadway. It’s funny. I love it, but I’ve never actually seen an actual Broadway show, not even ‘Hairspray.’
You’d be surprised at how many times I’d hit the ball, and the hair would go straight into my eyes. That’s why, even when I play indoors, I wear a visor, because it stops that, and I’ll apply a lot of gel and hairspray to keep it tight.
I saw ‘Hairspray’ in New York and had one of the best nights I’ve ever had in the theatre.
Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming ‘Hairspray.’ It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.
I had the poster of ‘Hairspray’ right above my bed. And I had the biggest crush on Zac Efron, of course.
‘Hairspray’ has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.
I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like ‘Hairspray’ and ‘John Tucker Must Die.’ But I think it’s all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
I saw ‘Hairspray’ at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I’m like, ‘I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.’
‘Hairspray’ was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, ‘Hairspray’, was one of my favorite movies growing up.
My career, definitely, the early years were a little scattershot, in terms of – it was a little regional theater, it was a lot of voiceovers, it was a lot of random day jobs. I mean, it was hard. It was hard to scrap around, and once ‘Hairspray’ happened, then it all kind of clicked into place.
I didn’t have an agent until I got ‘Hairspray.’ I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.
My band and I, we cover our bodies in hairspray and glitter. We use the hairspray to make sure the glitter sticks.
I did ‘Eubie!’ on Broadway with the Hines brothers, ‘Comin’ Uptown’ with Gregory Hines, and then ‘Hairspray.’
I experimented as a teen, and had some hellish hairstyles – way too many perms and cheap hairspray!
In cities like Miami, my hair can get so frizzy, it looks crazy. I use TRESemm Extra Hold hairspray. I use a lot of it.
The secret of my success is my hairspray.