Will ?Kinky Boots? Be The Next ?Hairspray??

I saw Kinky Boots�at the Al Hirschfeld Theater on Broadway the other night, and by intermission, I was convinced that it could be another�Hairspray: a movie that finds success as a Broadway musical and then returns to the big screen as a movie musical.

You may recall that�Hairspray started out as a modestly budgeted 1988 film by John Waters that starred Ricki Lake as Tracy Turnblad, the late, great drag queen Divine, in his last movie performance, as Tracy's mother, and Blondie's Deborah Harry. �The film did okay at the box office but became a cult favorite when it was released to the home video market. �

But that was just the beginning of its journey through American popular culture.

In 2002, producer Margo Lion, composer Marc Shaiman and writer Thomas Meehan adapted Hairspray for the stage. They cast Marissa Jane Winokur in the role of Tracy and Harvey Fierstein in the part that Divine played, Tracy's mother, and ended up with a Broadway hit. Re-enter New Line, which distributed the original film, and became involved in re-adapting the stage version as a movie musical. This time, John Travolta played Tracy's mother, and, once again, audiences bought tickets.

Like Hairspray, Kinky Boots began as a modest 2005 comedy film that was written by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls) and Geoff Deane, directed by Julian Jerrold and starred a baby-faced Joel Edgerton, who's about to look a whole lot more manly in The Great Gatsby. �The film has only grossed a little over $10 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo, but it enjoys cult status among the trendsetting fashion crowd ? as does Waters, by the way ? because it involves two favorite topics: shoes and…

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