Hairspray: Original Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2002 musical Hairspray

Hairspray (musical)

Hairspray is a musical with music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman and a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray. The songs include 1960s-style dance music and "downtown" rhythm and blues...

. The show is an adaptation of the 1988 film of the same name. It features performances from the show's cast, which includes Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...

, Linda Hart

Linda Hart

Linda Hart is an American singer, musician, and actress, mainly appearing in musical theatre.- Biography :As a child, Hart sang in her church choir; at age seven, she joined her father and the rest of the family in The Harts, a weekly gospel television series. Hart attended Los Angeles City...

, Dick Latessa

Dick Latessa

Richard Robert "Dick" Latessa is an American actor.Latessa was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a mother who was an automotive upholstery maker. Latessa made his Broadway debut in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N in 1968...

, Kerry Butler

Kerry Butler

Kerry Marie Butler is an American actress known primarily for her work in theatre.-Early life and career:...

, Clarke Thorell, Mary Bond Davis

Mary Bond Davis

-Biography:Davis began her career at the age of fifteen singing with various bands. She was a member of The Young Americans from 1974 to 1976, and appeared with them on The Bing Crosby Christmas Show....

, Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Ashley Bell Bundy is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical...

, Matthew Morrison

Matthew Morrison

Matthew James "Matt" Morrison is an American actor, director, musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway, and most notably for his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated...

, Corey Reynolds

Corey Reynolds

Corey Reynolds is an American musical theatre, television, and film actor known for originating the role of Seaweed in the Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, and for the TNT crime show The Closer.-Early life and career:...

, and Marissa Jaret Winokur

Marissa Jaret Winokur

Marissa Jaret Winokur , sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, as well as her work on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked...

 as the lead character of Tracy Turnblad.

Album information

The cast recording contains seventeen songs from the musical, with music by Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre. He is perhaps best known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the cult John Waters film Hairspray, for which Shaiman won Tony and Grammy...

 and lyrics by Scott Wittman

Scott Wittman

Scott Wittman is an American director, lyricist, and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York graduated high Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in...

. The book for the musical is by Thomas Meehan

Thomas Meehan (writer)

Thomas Meehan is an American writer, best known for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray.-Life and career:Meehan grew up in Suffern, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College...

 and Mark O'Donnell. Hairspray's music is written and performed to conform to the story's 1962 setting, with influences spanning the genres of doo-wop

Doo-wop

The name Doo-wop is given to a style of vocal-based rhythm and blues music that developed in African American communities in the 1940s and achieved mainstream popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. It emerged from New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and...

, rock and roll

Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

, soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, and pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

.

Sony released the recording on August 13, 2002 (ASIN: B00006AALQ).

Track listing

All songs written by Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman

Marc Shaiman is an American composer, lyricist, arranger, and performer for films, television, and theatre. He is perhaps best known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics for the Broadway musical version of the cult John Waters film Hairspray, for which Shaiman won Tony and Grammy...

 and Scott Wittman

Scott Wittman

Scott Wittman is an American director, lyricist, and writer for Broadway, concerts, and television.Wittman was raised in Nanuet, New York graduated high Nanuet Senior High School in 1972 and attended Emerson College in Boston for two years before leaving to pursue a career in musical theatre in...

.

1. "Good Morning Baltimore" – Tracy and Company (3:40)
2. "The Nicest Kids in Town" – Corny and Council Members (2:36)
3. "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now" – Edna, Tracy, Velma, Amber, Prudy, and Penny (3:18)
4. "I Can Hear the Bells" – Tracy and Company (4:04)
5. "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" – Velma and Council Members with Tracy, Penny, and Little Inez (2:53)
6. "It Takes Two" – Link, Tracy, and Men (3:06)
7. "Welcome to the 60's" – Tracy, Edna, The Dynamites, and Company (3:57)
8. "Run and Tell That!" – Seaweed, Little Inez, and Detention Kids (3:49)
9. "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" – Motormouth, Little Inez, Tracy, Edna, Wilbur, and Company (4:36)
10. "The Big Dollhouse" – Matron, Edna, Velma, Tracy, Amber, Penny, Motormouth, Little Inez, Female Ensemble (3:15)
11. "Good Morning Baltimore (Reprise)" – Tracy (1:34)
12. "(You're) Timeless to Me" – Wilbur and Edna (4:09)
13. "Without Love" – Link, Tracy, Seaweed, and Penny (4:26)
14. "I Know Where I've Been" – Motormouth and Company (4:01)
15. "(It's) Hairspray" – Corny and Council Members (2:11)
16. "Cooties" – Amber and Council Members (1:31)
17. "You Can't Stop the Beat" – Tracy, Link, Penny, Seaweed, Edna, Wilbur, Motormouth, Amber, Velma, and Company (5:17)
18. "Blood on the Pavement" (attached with "You Can't Stop the Beat") – Amber, Link, Velma, and Council Members (0:32)*

*Cut song, but it is included as a hidden song, playing after "You Can't Stop the Beat

Additional songs and score changes

During the recording process and development of the show, many lyrics were switched around, parts added and/or cut, as the play was finalized after this soundtrack was recorded. Some songs in the stage show now differ from their respective recordings on the cast recording, more notably "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" and "Cooties".

For the cast recording of the show, some songs that were present in the stage show were not included on the recording. "The Madison", one of these numbers, occurs after "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs" and is sung by Corny and Company. The song, however, was included on the 2-Disc Collector's Soundtrack

Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)

-2-disc Collector's edition:A limited edition two-disc version of the Hairspray soundtrack was released on November 20, 2007, the same day as the film's DVD/Blu-Ray release...

 titled "Boink-Boink". Another such song, "The Nicest Kids in Town (Reprise)", sung by Corny and Council Members, appears in the show before "It Takes Two". An additional song not included on the album is "Velma's Revenge", sung by Velma after "It Takes Two", which serves as a short reprise of "(The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs".

Main vocalists

• Marissa Jaret Winokur
  Marissa Jaret Winokur
  Marissa Jaret Winokur , sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, as well as her work on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked...
  
   as Tracy Turnblad
• Clarke Thorell as Corny Collins
• Laura Bell Bundy
  Laura Bell Bundy
  Laura Ashley Bell Bundy is an American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Her best known Broadway roles are the original Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray and the original Elle Woods in the musical...
  
   as Amber Von Tussle
• Kerry Butler
  Kerry Butler
  Kerry Marie Butler is an American actress known primarily for her work in theatre.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Penny Pingleton
• Harvey Fierstein
  Harvey Fierstein
  Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...
  
   as Edna Turnblad
• Linda Hart
  Linda Hart
  Linda Hart is an American singer, musician, and actress, mainly appearing in musical theatre.- Biography :As a child, Hart sang in her church choir; at age seven, she joined her father and the rest of the family in The Harts, a weekly gospel television series. Hart attended Los Angeles City...
  
   as Velma Von Tussle
• Jackie Hoffman
  Jackie Hoffman
  Jacqueline Laura Hoffman , known as Jackie Hoffman, is an American actress and stand-up comedian known for her facially-contorting expressions, and one-woman shows of Jewish-themed original songs and monologues...
  
   as Prudy Pingleton/Matron
• Matthew Morrison
  Matthew Morrison
  Matthew James "Matt" Morrison is an American actor, director, musician, and singer-songwriter. He is best known for starring in multiple Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, including his portrayal of Link Larkin in Hairspray on Broadway, and most notably for his Emmy and Golden Globe nominated...
  
   as Link Larkin
• Corey Reynolds
  Corey Reynolds
  Corey Reynolds is an American musical theatre, television, and film actor known for originating the role of Seaweed in the Broadway adaptation of Hairspray, and for the TNT crime show The Closer.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Seaweed J. Stubbs
• Danelle Eugenia Wilson as Little Inez
• Mary Bond Davis
  Mary Bond Davis
  -Biography:Davis began her career at the age of fifteen singing with various bands. She was a member of The Young Americans from 1974 to 1976, and appeared with them on The Bing Crosby Christmas Show....
  
   as Motormouth Maybelle
• Dick Latessa
  Dick Latessa
  Richard Robert "Dick" Latessa is an American actor.Latessa was born in Cleveland, Ohio to a mother who was an automotive upholstery maker. Latessa made his Broadway debut in The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N in 1968...
  
   as Wilbur Turnblad
• Joel Vig as Mr. Pinky

The Dynamites

• Shayna Steele (Welcome to the 60's, I Know Where I've Been)
• Kamilah Martin (Welcome to the 60's)
• Judine Richárd (Welcome to the 60's)

Council Members

(The Nicest Kids in Town, (The Legend of) Miss Baltimore Crabs, (It's) Hairspray, You Can't Stop the Beat)

• Peter Matthew Smith as Brad
• Hollie Howard as Tammy
• John Hill
  John Hill (actor)
  John Hill is an American Musical Theater actor who is most well known for his role of Jason McConnell in the Off-Broadway run of Bare, a Pop Opera. He also developed a following on his former website "John Hill Online" with his videos entitled "Johnny and Kooks." Which were comedic videos he made...
  
   as Fender
• Jennifer Gambatese
  Jennifer Gambatese
  Jennifer "Gamby" Gambatese is an American actress and singer. She is gaining recognition by performing on stage, and even starring in Broadway productions. Gambatese has performed in the popular musical production of Disney's Tarzan.-Early life:...
  
   as Brenda
• Adam Fleming as Sketch
• Shoshana Bean
  Shoshana Bean
  Shoshana Elise Bean is an American stage actress and singer known for her roles in Broadway musicals. She is best known for playing Elphaba on Broadway in the musical Wicked.-Early life and education:...
  
   as Shelley
• Todd Michel Smith as IQ
• Katharine Leonard as Lou Ann

See also

• Hairspray: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988)
• Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture (2007)
  Hairspray (2007 soundtrack)
  -2-disc Collector's edition:A limited edition two-disc version of the Hairspray soundtrack was released on November 20, 2007, the same day as the film's DVD/Blu-Ray release...