Hairspray

…cross-dressing performance in the hit stage musical version of John Waters’s camp film Hairspray. For his role as teen heroine Tracy Turnblad’s doting mother, Edna, Fierstein won his fourth Tony Award. He later appeared in Broadway revivals of Fiddler on the Roof, in 2005–06, and La Cage aux folles, in…

…live production of the musical Hairspray (2016), in which she played the part of Penny Pingleton. In 2021, however, she became a coach on the televised singing competition The Voice. That same year she acted in the film Don’t Look Up, a satiric science-fiction comedy costarring Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep,…

…into a wildly successful Broadway musical, starring Harvey Fierstein in Divine’s role. Waters told The New York Times that the only time his parents were not “mortified” by his work was at the musical’s opening night. “Harvey Fierstein’s mother came to them and said, ‘Didn’t we raise terrific sons?’ And…