Picture This: Hairspray (2007)

Program Type:

Films, Summer Reading Program

Age Group:

Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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Event Details

This Summer's Reading Theme is Find Your Voice, so you can watch two musicals on the PB Library's big screen that feature characters forging their identities.

Hairspray:  This film version of the Tony Award-winning Broadway smash is based on John Waters' original cult classic 1988 musical-comedy film. Set in Waters' beloved native Baltimore during the 1960s TV dance-show craze, Hairspray tells the story of zaftig high school "hairhopper" Tracy Turnblad as she graduates from outsider to celebrity trendsetter. She stars on "The Corny Collins Show," wins the heart of resident hunk Link Larkin and kicks down the barriers to racial integration on local television--all without messing up her hair!  Starring: John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Michelle Pfeiffer, Queen Latifah, Christopher Walken.

 

Friday, July 14: Singin' in the Rain (1952, R, 103 min)
Tuesday, July 18: Hairspray (2007, PG, 117 min)

Accessibility

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