Several of the songs from the Broadway musical had their lyrics altered and/or verses removed for use in the film version. Harvey Fierstein, who played Edna in the Original Broadway production, also has a vocal cameo at the end of this track. "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now", is performed by each of the three women most famous portraying Hairspray's main character, Tracy Turnblad: the 1988 film's Ricki Lake, the Broadway production's Marissa Jaret Winokur, and this film's Nikki Blonsky. "Cooties" is performed on the soundtrack in a contemporary pop style by singer Aimee Allen. "Come So Far" is played over the film's end credits, as are renditions of two songs from the stage musical which were not included in the film proper: "Cooties" and "Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now". "The New Girl in Town", "Big, Blonde and Beautiful" (Reprise), and "Come So Far (Got So Far to Go)" are the three songs new to this version of Hairspray, although "The New Girl in Town" had originally been written for but dropped from the Broadway production. The soundtrack debuted on the Billboard 200 at number 20 and has since peaked at number 2. The iTunes version of the album includes bonus features such as the bonus track "I Can Wait" (a song written for the film but cut), the "Ladies' Choice" music video, an instructional dance video for "Ladies' Choice", and a digital version of the album booklet. "Ladies' Choice", a new song performed by Zac Efron, was the Hairspray soundtrack's first single. Hairspray's music is written and performed to conform to the story's 1962 setting, with influences spanning the genres of doo-wop, rock and roll, soul, and pop. Shaiman, who produced the original cast album for the Broadway musical, produced the songs for the film musical as well. Both Hairspray films are light-hearted and perhaps a little out there but if the viewer does not take them too seriously, they are pretty entertaining.The soundtrack contains 19 songs from the film written by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, three of which were not included in the stage musical version. That's worth singing about, no matter what your name is". It's also one of the few "event" movies this summer that doesn't outstay its welcome.
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In Tom Charity's review, he sums up the movie pretty well when he says "Bright, campy and wonderfully light, "Hairspray" reminds us that fun comes in all shapes and sizes. The male characters in the new version are still take a backseat to the female characters and are still pretty effeminate. Also, the characters in the first film are pretty similar to the ones in the 2007 version which makes the campy traits carry over to the newest version. People look at musicals as already being pretty cheesy and to add the camp attributes of the first film make it that much more unnatural. One thing which makes everything seem exaggerated is the fact that this is a musical. Maybe things are as "campy" as in the first one but there are still a lot of things that are exaggerated. Since other aspects of this film are so similar, I would argue that this is a part of the camp genre. These are two different ways to handle a situation like this and I think it is an interesting difference to look at. The first film reveals an unorganized type of riot to bring peoples attention to the matter but in the 2007 version they organize a walk through the streets. I think these differences put a different spin on how race is portrayed in the film. There was no need to go to the government in the second movie but in order to get Tracy out of jail they had to. Along with that, in the original film Tracy goes to jail and in the 2007 version she is a runaway the police are searching for. In the 2007 version it was a planned protest that people organized. In the 1988 version a fight breaks out at the carnival which was completely unplanned. One big difference is the conflict which addresses race and integration. The beginning of the movies are very similar but it is in the end where the differences show. For the most part, these two films are quite similar.
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