- Zac Efron
Zachary David Alexander Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American actor. He began acting in the early 2000s, and became known to young audiences after his roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie "High School Musical", the WB series "Summerland", and the film version of the Broadway musical "Hairspray". Speaking to "Newsweek" in June 2006, director Adam Shankman described Efron as "arguably the biggest teen star in America right now". - John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction". - Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and internationally known American actress. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Pfeiffer has appeared in films such as "Scarface", "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "Batman Returns". - Amanda Bynes
Amanda Laura Bynes (born April 3, 1986) is an American actress, former show host on Nickelodeon, and fashion designer. After appearing in several successful television series on Nickelodeon in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Bynes has moved into a film career, starring in several films aimed at teenage audiences, including her latest, "She's the Man", and her upcoming role in the remake of the John Waters film "Hairspray". - Nikki Blonsky
Nicole Margaret Blonsky (born November 9 1988) is an American actress and singer. She will portray Tracy Turnblad, the lead character, in the big-screen remake and adaptation of the musical "Hairspray", currently scheduled for a July 20, 2007 release date. She is known professionally as Nikki Blonsky. Blonsky hails from Great Neck, New York. She graduated from Great Neck Village School in June 2006, … - Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter. - Adam Shankman
Adam M. Shankman (born November 27, 1964) is an American film director, dancer, actor, and choreographer. He directed "A Walk to Remember", "Bringing Down the House", "The Pacifier", and "Cheaper by the Dozen 2". He also danced in videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman was born in Los Angeles, California to an upper middle class family. He had a "traditional Jewish upbringing" in Brentwood, … - Ricki Lake
Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an American actress and tabloid talk show host, best known for her long-running "Ricki Lake" talk show and starring in the original version of the film "Hairspray". - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Elijah Kelley
Elijah Kelley (born 1987) is an American actor, singer, and dancer. Kelley has appeared in films such as "Take the Lead" (2006) and "28 Days" (2000). He co-stars in the musical film re-adaptation of "Hairspray", in which he portrays the character Seaweed J. Stubbs. - Scott Wittman
Scott Wittman is director lyricist and writer for Broadway, concerts and t.v. He received a Tony, Grammy and Drama Desk Awards for co-writing the lyrics for the Broadway musical Hairspray. - Laura Bell Bundy
Laura Bell Bundy (b. April 10, 1981 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a Tony Award-nominated American actress who has been seen in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Bundy made her stage debut in regional theatre at age 9, originating the role of Tina Denmark in the Off-Broadway show "Ruthless! The Musical". For this part, she was nominated for a 1993 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. - Matthew Morrison
Matthew James Morrison (b. October 30, 1978 in California) is an accomplished musical theater actor. After attending theater camp in his youth, he decided that he wanted to be an actor. He was educated at New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Being a member of boy bands like LMNT and Fresh Step, he made his musical theater transition into similarly styled shows. He had minor roles in "Footloose" as well as the revival of the "Rocky Horror Show". - Marissa Jaret Winokur
Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2 1973, New York City) is a Tony Award Winner American actress best known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film, "Hairspray". She won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance in "Hairspray", as well as the Drama Desk, Theatre World and Outer Critics Circle awards. - Thomas Meehan
Thomas Meehan is a Tony award-winning writer, best known for "Annie" and "The Producers". Meehan graduated from Hamilton College in 1951. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book for "Annie", his Broadway debut, and subsequently won for "The Producers" (2001) and "Hairspray" (2002). Additional credits include the musical adaptation of "I Remember Mama", "Ain't Broadway Grand" and "Annie Warbucks", … - Leslie Dixon
Leslie Dixon is a Hollywood screenwriter. Dixon wrote screenplays for the films, "Outrageous Fortune", "Overboard", "Mrs. Doubtfire", "The Thomas Crown Affair", "Pay It Forward", and "Hairspray". She was nominated for a Saturn Award for her screenplay of "Freaky Friday". Dixon is the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and landscaper painter Maynard Dixon. She is married to fellow screenwriter Tom Ropelewski. - Diana DeGarmo
Diana Nicole DeGarmo (born June 16, 1987 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American singer and Broadway actress. She was the second place finalist to winner Fantasia Barrino on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series "American Idol", narrowly missing the win by about 2% (approximately 1.3 million votes) out of over 65 million votes. - Jack O'Brien
Jack O'Brien is a producer, writer, lyricist, and Tony Award-winning theater director who presently serves as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. O'Brien is equally at home with musicals ("The Full Monty", "Hairspray"), contemporary dramas ("The Piano Lesson"), the classics ("Hamlet", "Henry IV"), and operas ("Il trittico"). O'Brien has had his share of failure. - Nicole Blonsky
Nicole Margaret "Nikki" Blonsky (born November 9 1988) is an American actress and singer. She will portray Tracy Turnblad, the lead character, in the big-screen remake and adaptation of the musical "Hairspray", currently scheduled for a 2007 release date. Blonsky hails from Great Neck, New York. She is an alumna of the Village School, North High School and South High School. She has done local theatre at both Levels (youth center) and Great Neck South High School, … - Bruce Vilanch
Bruce Vilanch (born November 23, 1948) is an American comedy writer who caught the public eye when he became a wisecracking regular on the revamped "Hollywood Squares" with Whoopi Goldberg. Vilanch was born into a Jewish family and is a practicing Jew. Vilanch attended Ohio State University as a theater and journalism student and graduated with a BFA in theatre in 1970. His first television appearance was in 1988 on "Hollywood Today", … - William Ivey Long
William Ivey Long is an American 5-time Tony Award-winning costume designer for mainly Broadway plays and musicals including his most notable work on The Producers, Hairspray, Nine, Crazy for You and his newest Tony-winning work on Grey Gardens. He is also currently working on the newest Mel Brooks' musical Young Frankenstein. - Darlene Love
Darlene Love (born Darlene Wright, 26 July 1941, Los Angeles, California) is an American popular music singer. - Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman (born November 29, 1960) is an American Jewish actress and stand-up comedian best known for her facially-contorting expressions, one-woman shows and rancorous comedy that often focuses on Jewish themes. She is a veteran of Chicago's famed The Second City comedy improv group. - David Rockwell
David Rockwell is an American architect and the CEO and founder of Rockwell Group. He is responsible for numerous architectural and design projects, including many notable restaurants, such as several in the Nobu group. Rockwell is also a scenic designer, having done the sets for the theatrical productions Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, All Shook Up and Legally Blonde, among others such as Andrew Lloyd Webber's new 95-minute Phantom: The Las Vegas Spectacular. - Taylor Parks
Taylor Parks is an American actress who has played in many films in a minor role and television shows also in a minor role such as "Gilmore Girls" and "Everybody Hates Chris". Recently, she has appeared as Elijah Kelley's little sister, Little Inez, in the 2007 musical film version of "Hairspray". - Kenneth Posner
Kenneth Posner is an award winning American theatrical lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway and american regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals Wicked, and Hairspray, both currently running on Broadway. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The Coast of Utopia (2007), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005), Wicked (2004), Hairspray (2003), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001). - Dick Latessa
Dick Latessa (born 1930) is an American actor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Latessa made his Broadway debut in "The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N" in 1968. Additional theatre credits include "Follies", "Rags", "The Cherry Orchard", "Damn Yankees", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Awake and Sing!", "Cabaret", and "Hairspray", … - Jenn Gambatese
Jenn Gambatese is an American Theatre actress. On Broadway she originated Natalie in All Shook Up and Jane Porter in the musical version of Tarzan. She was also in the original cast of Hairspray in the ensemble as Brenda, serving as an understudy for Penny Pingleton. - Kathy Brier
Kathy Brier (born March 10, 1975 on Staten Island in New York) is an American actress. Brier has played the role of Marcie Walsh McBain on ABC soap opera "One Life to Live" since 2002. In 2004 her performance earned her a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series". "One Life to Live" marks her first major television role. - Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet (born July 28, 1962 in Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. She began recording country music in 1976, but with little success. Switching to rock and roll, she signed to the British Stiff Records label and released her first album, "Fool Around", in 1978. Rachel was backed by The Records on the Stiff Records tour in 1978. The album was a critical success, but sales were poor, although she did have some success with the single "B-A-B-Y". - 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", as well as in shows such as the TNT crime show "The Closer". Reynolds was born in Richmond, Virginia and left in 1996 to pursue an acting career, eventually moving to California. There, he was cast in a touring production of the revue "Smokey Joe's Cafe", … - Paul Miller
Paul Miller (born 1962) is an American theatrical lighting designer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Miller studied music and piano performance before attending the Theatre School (formerly known as the Goodman School of Drama) at DePaul University to study lighting design in 1982. He began his career in 1990 lighting for regional theatres and off-Broadway productions, including "Waiting for Godot" and Dan Goggin's "Nunsense II" and "Balancing Act". - Paul Vogt
Paul Vogt (born December 16 1964, in Buffalo, New York Graduated from "Kenmore East Senior High School" in 1982) was, from 2002 to 2005, one of the lead actors on the comedy sketch-show "MADtv". He left the show because he had an out in his contract after 3 years. He worked in several other theater and television productions; he has also guest starred on "Chicago Hope" and "The In-Laws", both with his twin brother. - Linda Hart
Linda Hart is an American singer, musician, and musical theatre actress best known for originating the role of Velma Von Tussel in the Broadway adaptation of "Hairspray". As a child, Hart sang in her church choir; at age seven, she joined her father (a preacher) and the rest of the family in "The Harts", a weekly gospel television series. Hart attended Los Angeles City College as a theatre major. - Austin Miller
Austin Miller is an American actor, dancer, and singer, known for television and stage performances. He played the part of Hawk in the soap opera "Days of Our Lives", performed as the lead in the "Hairspray" musical in both a national tour and a Las Vegas production, and in 2007 was a second place finalist on the televised competition "Grease: You're the One that I Want!". - Josh Charles
Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor. - Julie Halston
Julie Halston is an American actress and comedian. Halston's television credits include notable roles in "Sex and the City," where she played the character of "Bitsy von Muffling," "Law & Order," "My So-Called Life" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." She portrayed Tina Carmello on the CBS sitcom "The Class" between September 2006 and March 2007. - Harold Wheeler
Harold Wheeler is an orchestrator, composer, conductor, arranger, record producer, and music director. He has received numerous Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for orchestration, and won the 2003 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration for "Hairspray". Wheeler made history when he was named Music Conductor for the 76th Academy Awards, becoming the first African-American conductor in the Academy's history. - Naturi Naughton
Naturi Cora Maria Naughton (born May 20 1984) is an American R&B/soul contralto. Once a member of the girl group 3LW, Naughton was replaced in 2002 and is currently pursuing a solo career. Naturi is currently on Broadway in the musical "Hairspray" as Inez. She is also working on a solo album with the help of Nelly and Jermaine Dupri. - Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance.
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