Photo: Trae Patton/NBC. NBC piped another hit Broadway musical onto small screens across America tonight with Hairspray Live! Unlike its first two outings -- the equally underwhelming Sound of Music and Peter Pan (remember Allison Williams dangling from a wire?) -- Hairspray Live! proved that the network has found its theater legs. (The third time was the charm with last year's dynamite broadcast of The Wiz.) Harvey Fierstein's 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray (adapted from John Waters' 1988 film...
Photo: Trae Patton/NBC. NBC piped another hit Broadway musical onto small screens across America tonight with Hairspray Live! Unlike its first two outings -- the equally underwhelming Sound of Music and Peter Pan (remember Allison Williams dangling from a wire?) -- Hairspray Live! proved that the network has found its theater legs. (The third time was the charm with last year's dynamite broadcast of The Wiz.) Harvey Fierstein's 2002 Broadway musical Hairspray (adapted from John Waters' 1988 film...
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