The Hairspray soundtrack is produced by Marc Shaiman and features music by Shaiman and lyrics by Scott Wittman and Shaiman. It features tracks mixed by Ed Cherney (Rolling Stones, Bette Midler) and Peter Mokran (Pussycat Dolls, Christina Aguilera).
Sixteen years after the release of the original film, New Line Cinema is bringing a feature film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hairspray to life. Featuring new and original material based on John Waters' 1988 cult classic about star-struck teenagers on a local Baltimore dance show, the comedy features a remarkable collection of talent including John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, Allison Janney, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron (Chicago), and director Adam Shankman (Bringing Down The House). The new screenplay for Hairspray was written by Leslie Dixon (Freaky Friday, Outrageous Fortune).
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58 of 61 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Hairspray (Soundtrack to the Motion Picture) (Audio CD) This is an outstanding CD from an outstanding musical film!
I totally loved the movie. "Hairspray" makes a seamless, wonderful transfer from the Broadway stage to the silver screen. The soundtrack perfectly captures the film, including all the music and snippets of dialogue, creating a complete satisfying experience. It is impossible to overstate what a find Nikki Blonsky is. Watching her is like shaking a bottle of Pepsi, and waiting for it to fizz. Bubbly is an understatement. Her vocal performance matches her screen performance beat for beat. "Good Morning Baltimore" launches us into this very specific (60's, working-class, Baltimore) era, using hysterical lyrics and time-capsule-like music. The music of "Hairspray" sounds like every single early 60's pop song you can name off the top of your head dumped into a blender, and then poured over a CD. Motown, Brill Building, surf, Spector, Stax, Sinatra, girl groups,...Read more 32 of 37 people found the following review helpful: By Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: Hairspray (Soundtrack to the Motion Picture) (Audio CD) I refuse to compare the Broadway Cast with the Soundtrack Cast because they each stand on their own dancing feet and each makes you feel as high as Tracy Turnblads hair-do. And who could have known that John Travolta would make his 3rd or fourth movie comeback playing a two-ton woman named Edna Turnblad. The photos make it look like he swallowed a volkswagon but I can't wait to see him in the movie.
The CD starts with the jubilant "Good Morning Baltimore" and the finale is the driving.pulsing "You Can't Stop The Beat" and sandwiched in-between is a raft of tasty morsels like Blonskys(Tracey) "I Can Hear The Bells' "Welcome to The Sixties" "Without Love" and the afore-mentioned "Good Morning Baltimore" and "You Can'tstop The Beat" Zac Efron playing Traceys love interest Link Larkin shines on "It takes Two" and a new rocker written for the film "Ladies Choice" and Queen Latifah soars on her big number "I Know Where I'm Going" Although John...Read more 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: This review is from: Hairspray (Soundtrack to the Motion Picture) (Audio CD) I just got this soundtrack today and right away in my mind i was comparing it to the original cast, and i also flashed back to the stage performance and I knew i had to stop that because no matter who redid it will never match them. I am disappointed many of the songs from the musical didn't make it onto the soundtrack, and i could do without the new songs they added in. Overall to me the whole soundtrack is very good. ONly real complaint i have is how they butchered the song "without love" that's one of my favorites out of the whole show and the rendition of it is terrible! in my opinion. Either way i really do like this sountrack and can't wait to see it in theaters this Friday (opening day first showing.. lol). Either way Hairspray is just a fun expereince and i'm glad they did it in movie form to bring it to alot more people who aren't really into musicals as i am. Hairpsray is like my top fav. So yea... good buy.
p.s: i also love the fact they let Ricki Lake onto the...Read more |