hairspray

But he also did theater, including turns on Broadway as Edna Turnblad in “Hairspray,” as Yvan in Yasmina Reza’s “Art” and as Santa in the musical adaptation of “Elf.”

One title that has cut through to the mainstream in a big way, and has never been censored, despite having some pretty outrageous themes, is 1988’s “Hairspray,” which was adapted into a Broadway musical in 2002.

Waters calls “Hairspray” a “Trojan horse.”

Even musical theater-wise, it’s like, we gotta do “Dreamgirls,” we gotta be the Dynamites in “Hairspray” or Becky in “Waitress.”

The actor wrote in a post on Instagram that as he was returning home after starring in West End musical Hairspray on 4 September, he was sprayed with an incapacitating liquid, thrown to the ground and kicked by officers who had mistaken him for a suspect.