Hairspray is a 1988 John Waters film about a "pleasantly plump" 1960's teenage girl who dreams of being a dancer on a popular local dance TV show. In 2002 Waters adapted the film into a Tony Award winning Broadway musical; and in 2007, the musical was adapted back into a film starring Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta

While the role of Turnblad's mother Edna Turnblad has always been played by a man in drag. In the first film by the drag queen Divine, in the Broadway rendition Harvey Firestein, and in the 2008 revival John Travolta filled out the role.

1. "f we get any more white people in here, this is gonna be a suburb."' - Motormouth Maybelle, IMDb
2. "I'm a bad, bad girl who needs to be punished" - Tracy Turnblad - IMDb
3. "People who are different, their time is coming!" - Tracy Turnblad - IMDb