Comedy about teen-age celebrities
John Waters’ “Hairspray,” which will start on Boxing Day at the Pantages, Hornby, is an eccentric comedy about star-struck teen-age celebrities, their stage mothers — and their
quest for mental health. It is set in Baltimore in 1962 — a time of teased hair, pegged pants and tab collars — society is changing radically. Youths are torn between dancing their lives away
to ridiculous gimmick dances, or throwing caution to the wind and joining the national fight for integration. “Hairspray” is their story,
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