hairspray

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.

Then he got hired by Craig Zaden and Neil Marin to work on the 1999 remake of “Annie,” which led to “Chicago,” “Hairspray” and “Hairspray Live.”