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John Waters' engaging 1988 film Hairspray received a musical comedy makeover in 2002 that became a bona fide Broadway hit. The original cast album immediately reveals the foundation of the show's success through its winning combination of clever lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, a bouncy rock & roll sound courtesy of composer Marc Shaiman, and dynamic performances by the entire cast. Composer Shaiman, who also composed the music for another genuinely funny (movie) musical, South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, gives his music a boundless energy that works both as knowing '60s pastiche and solidly effective musical comedy scoring. As heroine Tracy Turnblad, Marissa Jaret Winokur's bubbly vocals light up numbers like the opening 'Good Morning, Baltimore' and 'I Can Hear the Bells,' while Linda Hart gives a sneeringly funny performance of 'Miss Baltimore Crabs.' Other standout numbers include the Dick Latessa and Harvey Fierstein duet '(You're) Timeless to Me' and the penultimate number, 'Cooties' (which boasts lyrics like: 'Grew up in a cootie zoo/I bet her two-ton mama's/Got 'em too!'). It's fun, it's catchy, it's funny -- it's one of the best comic musical albums since Little Shop of Horrors
1. Good Morning Baltimore
2. The Nicest Kids In Town
3. Mama Im A Big Girl Now
4. I Can Hear The Bells
5. The Legend Of Miss Baltimore Crabs
6. It Takes Two
7. Welcome To The 60s
8. Run And Tell That!
9. Big Blonde And Beautiful
10. The Big Dollhouse
11. Good Morning Baltimore Reprise
12. Youre Timeless To Me
13. Without Love
14. I Know Where Ive Been
15. Its Hairspray
16. Cooties
17. You Cant Stop The Beat